Wayne100 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) Hi all, can't seem to get Mariokart running in SNES. I am using Retroarch, with the bsnes accuracy core. I have had a look around on Google, and there seems to be some extra BIOS needed. Any ideas if this is correct? Cheers Edited February 3, 2017 by Wayne100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) Yes bsnes accuracy requires bios to run Mario Kart. If that is a issue then use snes9x, it doesn't need bios for Mario Kart. Edited February 3, 2017 by neil9000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 The BSnes Mercury Balanced / Accuarcy cores should be fine without bios files, I am fairly certain it emulates these bios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 1 minute ago, lordmonkus said: The BSnes Mercury Balanced should be fine without bios files, I am fairly certain it emulates these bios. OK, good to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne100 Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 Cheers for the replies - is Bsnes Mercury Balanced/Accuarcy a different core to plain Bsnes Accuracy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I don't think there is any difference other than the ability to emulate those special chip games HLE vs LLE without needing dumps of those chips. There is a core option to toggle it on and off if you have dumps of those chips though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Yes different core, if you go that route you will have to manage your emulator to point to the new core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Oh yeah, it's a different core so you will need to edit your command line in Launchbox to reflect that but the cores themselves are mostly identical. I misread the question Edit: Here is the wiki page with info on the Mercury versions of the BSnes cores. https://wiki.libretro.com/index.php?title=Bsnes-mercury 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne100 Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 Thanks for that - tried both of those cores, but still the same. All other games work fine, just MarioKart? I have 3 ROMs, USA, Europe and Japan, but all the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Did you try loading another game first and then bringing up the quick menu and then the options for the core ? In there you will see a setting for HLE and LLE for special chips, set this to HLE, then exit out. If it saved this setting correctly Mario Kart should now work. LLE is on by default. LLE is most accurate and requires dumps of the chips. HLE is less accurate but just fine in most cases but does not require chip dumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Well I just downloaded bsnes mercury accuracy to test, and it works fine for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne100 Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) Just tried that, I have set it to HLE, but still the same. I have bsnes-mercury (Balanced) loaded as well? Probably missing something stupid, pretty much learning as I go! Edited February 3, 2017 by Wayne100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 It might just be worth you getting the bios to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Those bios are such a pain in the ass to find. Of all the bios I have had to track down I think the SNES special chips were the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 @Wayne100 ill pm you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne100 Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 D'oh. Just got to grips searching and downloading ROMs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Hey @neil9000 I could do with the bios files too, if you could point me in the right direction please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, nikeymikey said: Hey @neil9000 I could do with the bios files too, if you could point me in the right direction please? If you google "snes bios" its the top result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 On 5/11/2019 at 1:48 PM, neil9000 said: If you google "snes bios" its the top result. Thanks for this, i already had most of those in this pack. I still had to change core to get MK working tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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