Beetle Saturn Retroarch core missing

[Laser Razor]

So the BIOS could be bad, even if it is loading and taking me to the CD player?

[SentaiBrad]

I believe so. I had it where I was never getting past that, and I replaced BIOS and disc images, then it worked. Look for the Darkwater, Trurip or Redump rom sets for Saturn. Grab a single game and see if that solves it, but bad rips of everything is everywhere.

[Lordmonkus]

If Retroarch is saying the bios are present and fine in the core information screen they should be fine.

From there when you load a game you should be taken to the time / date screen and then through that the game should load. Disk images are really important because of Mednafens accuracy compared to SSF you need good disk dumps.

[SentaiBrad]

Yea, I would be leaning towards Discs. Even if you got them from several sources, they could all be bad. The only best sources I have found are the rom sets, the ones I mentioned for Saturn. Does the info screen say if the BIOS are the correct version? Sure, it will tell you if they're present, but does it also say, or does that also mean that they're correct?

[Laser Razor]

So with those sites mentioned, they dont have the files per say, but rather a template for how the correct file would be structured if it was a clean rip? Just making sure I am understanding this correctly. 

[Lordmonkus]

The ReDump site does not have actual disk images but they have cue sheets but the archives site I mentioned does.

[Laser Razor]

I searched Organization of Archives and wasnt able to find anything pertaining to disk images (if that is the archives site you mentioned)

[Lordmonkus]

They are there but you need an account to sign in and get them.

[Laser Razor]

I guess I mean I search for the site, and I was unable to find the main site

[SentaiBrad]

If you search Darkwater Saturn set, Truripe saturn set, with various things on the end, you'll find something. Make sure to try and get the newest dates.