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Beetle Saturn Retroarch core missing


Laser Razor

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Hi there. 

I followed a launchbox youtube tutorial from September:

 

In it, it says to download and update cores inside of retroarch.

Well, I am new to all this, so I have done some digging. As I am sure you already know, the cores have been changed since this video from mednafen to beetle. 

Following this tutorial, and using the most up-to-date retroarch, as well as going to online updates for cores... I cannot find a beetle core for Sega Saturn. 

The only one listed is Yabause. I see beetle for PSX, gameboy, etc... nothing for Saturn. Am I missing something? Attached is a screen shot. Thank you!

 

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Although I will say, uninstalling... reinstalling... starting a game import over again from scratch, using the

-L "cores\mednafen_saturn_libretro.dll"

under associated platforms... still comes up blank. I click the game and get a blue loading circle on my cursor for a moment, then.... nothing. Any other clues as to what it could be?

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I do have the BIOS. It may be the image. It was labeled Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and my OCD wanted it to read the Japanese title Akumajou Dracula X. I must have messed it up in the rename. 

 

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Yep, that was it. Works great now! Thank you again!

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It says "present, required" so I assume that means its in tact. 

I tried 2 Japanese games, and 1 US game. Castlevania loads the BIOS, but reads no CD. Sonic Jam US and Guardian Heros JP dont load the emulator at all. Not sure whats going on. All settings are the same across the board. 

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If you get to the time / date screen you will have to skip through that but you will only have to do that once per game, every time you load that game after that it will just load it.

If you are having problems getting to that screen and RA is saying you have the bios present then you most likely need proper disk images. Try the "organization of archives".

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So changing the organization fixed the games not going to BIOS, but now all games wont load after the BIOS, even in the CD loading screen. I have tried several BIN/CUE's from my personal collection downloaded others from sites. It seems to be always loading in the US BIOS, no matter the game I select. I checked the system folder of RetroArch and it is just the 2 BIOS in there now. Both are listed as well in the Core Information. But yeah, it wont load automatically, or even if I push the load button. Just takes me to system settings menu of the Saturn :/ 

I have gone over the file organization over and over again. Everything is in tact. Scratching my head on this one...

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