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John1971 said:
what i found weird its the first time its doing that after several use of Retroarch CE
may i ask you where i will find the theses .cfg files inside the system ? (path) please ?
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Yes, that's what is happening to most of us!

Navigate to retroarch's root dir with IRISMAN and there you will find those .cfg files

John1971 said:
what i found weird its the first time its doing that after several use of Retroarch CE
may i ask you where i will find the theses .cfg files inside the system ? (path) please ?

EDIT : I found the files , I erased couples of bios that was on my USB drive for the Television like the Dreamcast and a TOSC image and deleted both .cfg and.... IT WORK !!! :)

Thanks you so much Rock777
Now my only friend came home tonight (i see him 1 time per year!) and we will be able to have some funs with roms for the Holidays.

Thanks you for your quick reply/answer

I wish you a super nice holidays !

Best Regards
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You welcome mate, have a great time playing with your friend. And happy holidays to both of you!
 
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I can't make Netplay work. I tried joining games from the Netplay host list and it either closes the content after a long black screen or it freezes at it (RetroArch does not respond). Sometimes the webman shortcut to reboot/turn off works. Sometimes it doesn't. Often the web interface responds.

When hosting a game, I first load it, then start Netplay host (because it doesn't autostart the other way around), then Netplay says I've joined as player 1 then the game just freezes forever but RetroArch is responsive and I can just close it.

More info: I was first behind CGNAT and it wouldn't freeze. When connecting as a client it would directly close the core after attempting to join without notice. When hosting the game it would just show a notice that it's not reachable or something of the like (because of the port being unreachable due to the CGNAT) but it wouldn't freeze either.

It seems like a bug or does it work for you?

Edit: Imagine I requested being taken out of the CGNAT just for this very reason and it doesn't work :biggrin2: My luck. Anyways I would have requested it sooner or later for something else for sure.

Update: I have tried hosting Tetris in MAME and it didn't freeze. It's just the sound stopped working. I installed RetroArch on Android to try and connect and indeed the Netplay works. Audio does work on the Android side so it's just breaking at the PS3 side.
 
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Crystal said:
Only DosBox-svn works.
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@Crystal , Hi. If i want to play old PC game like Innocent Until Caught on Dosbox you suggert to get the SVN version or the Other one work as well ?

I plan to mainly use PS3 Controller if possible , mainly for point & click game like the one mentionned above.

PS3 Controller are supported on both core DOS (DOSBox) & DOS (DOSBos-SVN) ??
( I assume not , I will probably still need a wireless/dongle mouse & keyboad!

EDIT : it seem the DOS-Box Pure would be the best option for the PS3 Retroarch CE
....any chance to have it ported on your beloved CE ?
 
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Does anyone use an NTFS external drive to store ROMS and use it with Retroarch CE or FB NEO RL Plus? When I try to perform a manual scan in Retroarch CE the NTFS drive isn't visible.

Here's my testing so far:

  • Tried two different NTFS formatted drives and neither is visible when trying to perform a manual scan in Retroarch CE.
  • Reinstalled Retroarch CE(latest version) but that didn't alter the behaviour.
  • Added a line in to the retroarch.cfg to make the drive visible rgui_browser_directory = "/dev_ntfs0:/ROMS/" and while the directory does show up under Load Content, Retroarch doesn't actually display the contents of the folder.
  • To determine whether allocation unit size made a difference I tried a 500gb NTFS formatted drive with the default 4096 bytes and also a 2TB NTFS formatted drive with 32k sector allocation size. Neither was visible in Retroarch.
  • Both NTFS drives are working when mounting ISO games via Irishman or Managunz although I need to run PrepISO before the drives will be scanned by Webman Mod. I'm assuming the drives are not faulty, they scan OK on a pc with no bad sectors.
  • I've also tried both PS3 USB ports and the behaviour is the same in both. I am using a PS3 Slim CECH 25xx

If I can't get the NTFS option to work then I will move more internal ISO games to the external drive and store the ROMS internally or I could reformat the larger external drive with two partitions, a larger NTFS partition for ISO's and a smaller FAT32 for ROMS. Keen to hear from anyone who can perform a manual scan in Retroarch accessing ROMS on a NTFS drive to see if I'm missing a step somewhere, Thanks!
 
HighRustler said:
Does anyone use an NTFS external drive to store ROMS and use it with Retroarch CE or FB NEO RL Plus? When I try to perform a manual scan in Retroarch CE the NTFS drive isn't visible.

Here's my testing so far:

  • Tried two different NTFS formatted drives and neither is visible when trying to perform a manual scan in Retroarch CE.
  • Reinstalled Retroarch CE(latest version) but that didn't alter the behaviour.
  • Added a line in to the retroarch.cfg to make the drive visible rgui_browser_directory = "/dev_ntfs0:/ROMS/" and while the directory does show up under Load Content, Retroarch doesn't actually display the contents of the folder.
  • To determine whether allocation unit size made a difference I tried a 500gb NTFS formatted drive with the default 4096 bytes and also a 2TB NTFS formatted drive with 32k sector allocation size. Neither was visible in Retroarch.
  • Both NTFS drives are working when mounting ISO games via Irishman or Managunz although I need to run PrepISO before the drives will be scanned by Webman Mod. I'm assuming the drives are not faulty, they scan OK on a pc with no bad sectors.
  • I've also tried both PS3 USB ports and the behaviour is the same in both. I am using a PS3 Slim CECH 25xx

If I can't get the NTFS option to work then I will move more internal ISO games to the external drive and store the ROMS internally or I could reformat the larger external drive with two partitions, a larger NTFS partition for ISO's and a smaller FAT32 for ROMS. Keen to hear from anyone who can perform a manual scan in Retroarch accessing ROMS on a NTFS drive to see if I'm missing a step somewhere, Thanks!
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UPDATE
I went ahead and converted the 2TB external drive into two partitions
600GB FAT32 MBR Primary partition for ROMS
1.4TB NTFS MBR logical partition for ISO's.

This works for what I wanted to achieve. I still don't see the NTFS partition in Retroarch but the FAT32 partition shows up fine and I can scan ROMS no problem. I'd still be keen to hear if anyone can access an NTFS drive from within Retroarch CE but I thought I'd share my workaround solution in case anyone is in a similar position and this workaround might offer a possible solution.
 
Edit: SOLVED
Found it a few pages in the front. Greedy RA needs to be set to VGA-like theme to not overstrain PS3's small weewee. :biggrin2:

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Fresh PS3 CFW installation. Problems with FBNEO:

So, I have a freshly modded PS3 on which I have also installed the recent version of Retroarch. 8 and 16 Bit consoles are all running fine. But I have problems with Arcade and NeoGeo MVS games that I have picked out of a recent (Jan 24) FBNeo set from archive.

Some games are not opening up but get stuck in a black screen after launch. In fact, the whole PS3 seems to hang up then. I did some testing and it appears to me that the file size of the games zip-archive is related to the problem. The sweet spot seems to be around the 24-25 MB mark. For example: Real Bout Fatal Fury Special with 24,287MB opens fine but Last Blade 1 with 25.69MB leads to a crash. All games above are crashing as well. E.G Garou with 70.0xxMB. This is also not only related to NeoGeo games. Knights of Valour 2 with 24.38 crashes as well. The same goes for COM games like SNK vs. Capcom with a filesize of 81.XXXMB.

Is this a known problem? Is the PS3 incapable of opening larger archives? I have tried to use the games in unziped folders but then Retroarch does not recognize them when scanning the content.
 
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Sansati said:
Edit: SOLVED
Found it a few pages in the front. Greedy RA needs to be set to VGA-like theme to not overstrain PS3's small weewee. :biggrin2:

Old Post:
Fresh PS3 CFW installation. Problems with FBNEO:

So, I have a freshly modded PS3 on which I have also installed the recent version of Retroarch. 8 and 16 Bit consoles are all running fine. But I have problems with Arcade and NeoGeo MVS games that I have picked out of a recent (Jan 24) FBNeo set from archive.

Some games are not opening up but get stuck in a black screen after launch. In fact, the whole PS3 seems to hang up then. I did some testing and it appears to me that the file size of the games zip-archive is related to the problem. The sweet spot seems to be around the 24-25 MB mark. For example: Real Bout Fatal Fury Special with 24,287MB opens fine but Last Blade 1 with 25.69MB leads to a crash. All games above are crashing as well. E.G Garou with 70.0xxMB. This is also not only related to NeoGeo games. Knights of Valour 2 with 24.38 crashes as well. The same goes for COM games like SNK vs. Capcom with a filesize of 81.XXXMB.

Is this a known problem? Is the PS3 incapable of opening larger archives? I have tried to use the games in unziped folders but then Retroarch does not recognize them when scanning the content.
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Most likely this is a memory problem, bigger games (memory-wise, file size has nothing to do with this) won't run.
 
John1971 said:
@Crystal
EDIT : it seem the DOS-Box Pure would be the best option for the PS3 Retroarch CE
....any chance to have it ported on your beloved CE ?
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I want that too. DOS-Box seem to have compatibility issues on PS3 which is a shame. It's very slow at the moment.
The CE version of Retroarch for PS3 is wonderful however. Amiga games works great etc. Best version so far.
 
Crystal said:
Beta #4 is out: (Removed)
PKG contains only 2048 core. Other cores can be downloaded from Main Menu -> Online Updater -> Core Downloader
Missing core from Core Downloader is a work in progress.

For who install it on to a previous beta:
  • Install pkg
  • Start RetroArch PSX-Place CE
  • Load 2048 core (if it isn't already loaded)
  • Main Menu -> Configuration File -> Reset to Default
In this way .cfg files will be created from scratch.

Edit:
In attach i make a SND0.AT3 with Children (Dream Version) - Robert Miles, composed and played on the glorious SID chip of the Commodore 64, by Raik Picheta (Eco) [link prevented post so removed
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I just wanted to say Thank You! Robert Miles was my first album back in the good ol' days. To hear it in your release was a surprise but I went on a mad quest to find the whole thing and here it is. Thank you! And yes I realize how old this thread is and you've probably moved on to other projects.
 
Hi all

thank you for all this work ^^

i am little lost between the Beta 4 here and the versions i found on breology

can you please explain me what is the differences between this we have here on this topic RetroArch Community Edition (beta04) by Crystal = 227mb and those:

- Official RetroArch v1.9.0 = 582.1mb (CEX ? DEX ?... depend the CFW we download ?)
- Repack: RetroArch CE (unofficial beta updated 2022-03-15) (+71 cores) = 601mb

those are the ROMS ? :)
- RetroArch (CEX) - Part 1 v1.0.0.2 03/10/14 = 47.1mb
- RetroArch (CEX) - Part 2 v1.0.0.2 03/10/14 = 36mb

im always totaly lost when is about emulator on PC then on PS3.... ^^

what i have to choose to get the last stable and full version ? ^^
 
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Fraizer said:
Hi all

thank you for all this work ^^

i am little lost between the Beta 4 here and the versions i found on breology

can you please explain me what is the differences between this we have here on this topic RetroArch Community Edition (beta04) by Crystal = 227mb and those:

- Official RetroArch v1.9.0 = 582.1mb (CEX ? DEX ?... depend the CFW we download ?)
- Repack: RetroArch CE (unofficial beta updated 2022-03-15) (+71 cores) = 601mb

those are the ROMS ? :)
- RetroArch (CEX) - Part 1 v1.0.0.2 03/10/14 = 47.1mb
- RetroArch (CEX) - Part 2 v1.0.0.2 03/10/14 = 36mb

im always totaly lost when is about emulator on PC then on PS3.... ^^

what i have to choose to get the last stable and full version ? ^^
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Forget all of those above, download this repack that is the latest CE Beta 4 version with all updated cores:

https://github.com/aldostools/Resources/releases/download/RetroArch_CE/RetroArch_CE.pkg
 
Guys, Good evening everyone, I would like to see if you can help me. I'm trying to run the neo geo CD games on my PS3 and I haven't been successful, the retroarch I have doesn't allow me to run any of the games, regardless of the Bios I'm using, could anyone of you help me make this work, my ps3 has CFW 4.78. and I tried to emulate the games with RetroArch CE (PSX-Place Community Edition)
 
LUCIANO FERREIRA said:
Guys, Good evening everyone, I would like to see if you can help me. I'm trying to run the neo geo CD games on my PS3 and I haven't been successful, the retroarch I have doesn't allow me to run any of the games, regardless of the Bios I'm using, could anyone of you help me make this work, my ps3 has CFW 4.78. and I tried to emulate the games with RetroArch CE (PSX-Place Community Edition)
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Hello @LUCIANO FERREIRA!
I'll show you a little step by step:
1_Load the core 'FinalBurn Neo Light - Neo Geo & CPS System only'
2_In the 'MAIN MENU' choose 'Subsystems'
3_Inside 'SUBSYSTEMS' click on 'Load Neogeo CD'
4_After this, choose the path where is you game in format 'BIN/CUE' is and choose the file '.cue'
5_This will led you to 'MAIN MENU' again
6_This time choose 'Load Content' and one more time the same path where is you game in format 'BIN/CUE' is and choose the file '.cue'
7_Now you are in menu 'SUGGESTED CORES', so choose the very same core 'FinalBurn Neo Light - Neo Geo & CPS System only'
8_MAYBE THIS WILL PRODUCT A MESSAGE OF ERROR 'FBNEO ERROR - ROMSET IS UNKNOWM' - THIS IS "NORMAL" ON PS3
9_Enter on 'QUICK MENU' (default L3 + R3) and press (defaut O/Circle) to back for 'MAIN MENU'
10_Here go on 'Subsystems' and click on 'Load Neogeo CD' and this time the place of your game will open automaticaly
11_For last time choose the file '.cue' and you will send to 'MAIN MENU'
12_For the very last time - I SWEAR - choose 'Subsystems' and now click on 'Start Neogeo CD *'
 
Hi, Bro, thanks for your help, I tried the way you instructed me above, but when I enter the last step the PS3 freezes on the screen that initializes the Neo Geo CD bios
 
LUCIANO FERREIRA said:
Hi, Bro, thanks for your help, I tried the way you instructed me above, but when I enter the last step the PS3 freezes on the screen that initializes the Neo Geo CD bios
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I can think of one more option. Place the following files all inside a folder named 'NEOCD': the game BIN/CUE, the bios neocd.zip,
neocdz.zip and neogeo.zip. I have them both zipped and separately inside this folder.
 
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