MarioKart not working in SNES, with Retroarch

[Wayne100]

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

[neil9000]

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

[Lordmonkus]

The BSnes Mercury Balanced / Accuarcy cores should be fine without bios files, I am fairly certain it emulates these bios.

[neil9000]

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.

[Wayne100]

Cheers for the replies - is Bsnes Mercury Balanced/Accuarcy a different core to plain Bsnes Accuracy?

 

 

[Lordmonkus]

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.

[neil9000]

Yes different core, if you go that route you will have to manage your emulator to point to the new core.

[Lordmonkus]

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

[Wayne100]

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?

[Lordmonkus]

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.

[neil9000]

Well I just downloaded bsnes mercury accuracy to test, and it works fine for me.

 

[Wayne100]

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

[neil9000]

It might just be worth you getting the bios to be honest.

[Lordmonkus]

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.

[neil9000]

@Wayne100 ill pm you.

[Wayne100]

D'oh. Just got to grips searching and downloading ROMs!

 

[nikeymikey]

Hey @neil9000 I could do with the bios files too, if you could point me in the right direction please?

[neil9000]

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.

[nikeymikey]

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