Issue importing ZX Spectrum Games

[Gaz70]

I go to Import roms, point at the folder, change to "Sinclair ZX Spectrum", choose retroarch but then I get a message saying missing dependency files. There are 8 in total. 4 are for "Pentagon machines" and 4 are for "Scorpion machines".

I have checked retroarch and under spectrum it has "fuse_libretro".

I have no idea why it is asking for these files. Can anyone help?

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, Gaz70 said:

I have checked retroarch and under spectrum it has "fuse_libretro".

I have no idea why it is asking for these files. Can anyone help?

Listed here are what's required for the BIOS file(s).

Sinclair - ZX Spectrum (Fuse) - Libretro Docs

[Gaz70]

My understanding of the fuse emulator is that it is already complete, i.e. no BIOS or ROMS required, and that the pentagon and scorpion roms are Russian hardware clones.

So what I was really getting at is why is it bringing up this alert when probably in most cases they are not required? (Unless I have it all horribly wrong?)

This started because none of my games will work, so because it's complaining about these ROMs I assumed they had something to do with it ... but now I'm starting to doubt that and believe there may actually be some other issue.

[JoeViking245]

18 hours ago, Gaz70 said:

My understanding of the fuse emulator is that it is already complete, i.e. no BIOS or ROMS required

That may very well be, I don't know.  But using the Fuse standalone emulator is different than using the fuse_libretro core inside RetroArch.  Per the document I linked above, using the core in RA does require the [additional] BIOS file(s).

[Gaz70]

Thanks for that. A lot of learning required here lol