#HOW TO USE RETROPIE PSX HOW TO#
#HOW TO USE RETROPIE PSX INSTALL#
#HOW TO USE RETROPIE PSX WINDOWS#

(Some of these locations will be available over the network share also, but not all of them.Retropie 3.6 Tutorial - A beginners Guide to Setting up RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi 3 10 RetroPie Setup TIPs in 20 minutes for your Raspberry Pi 4 - many applicable for Pi 2/3/3b+ RetroPie Run Roms / Games From Usb Stick Or Usb Hard Drive How to make a DIY Smart Mirror Come trasferire le roms dal computer al Raspberry con RetroPie. Just use ssh from a cmd window or in the search/run bar.) You can plug in a USB keyboard (press F4 to exit EmulationStation) or enable WiFi and SSH and connect remotely: (this talks about using an SSH client if you're on Win10, there's one built-in. I do all my editing from command-line in nano text editor. I don't use the file manager but it's called mc ('Midnight Commander') if you want to look up how to.

#HOW TO USE RETROPIE PSX INSTALL#

The second one gets written to automatically when you install or update an emulator this means it also gets overwritten automatically, so any custom edits must be made in the first location so they are not lost when this happens.Ĭopy the systems config file to the custom location if it does not exist, then make your edits there.ĭo I need to go to the generic file manager and hook a keyboard up to my RPi4 to edit it that way? The first one doesn't exist until you create it. If you'd still rather edit es_systems manually, or just for general knowledge, see below:ĮmulationStation checks two places for an es_systems.cfg file, using the first one that it finds: ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg Personally, I feel that since this is supposed to be a default setting, I wouldn't consider this a 'custom edit,' and would, myself, therefore fix the platforms.cfg and let it build the es_systems entry automatically. (Presuming your platforms.cfg is broken/custom), you could fix your platforms.cfg and re-install any PSX emulator to rebuild the es_systems.cfg entry, or you could edit the es_systems file directly. How, and when, did you install RetroPie, and what version is it currently?Įxts are normally read (when installing an emulator, to be written to es_systems.cfg where they are read by EmulationStation) from file platforms.cfg in your ~/RetroPie-Setup directory, but this can be overridden if there is another one in /opt/retropie/configs/all.ĭo you have a custom platforms.cfg in configs/all and if so what are the psx_exts listed there, and either way what are the exts from the default file in RetroPie-Setup? Pretty sure it was one of the default exts in my setup. m3u will be shown in the menu, and you won't have to click through any extra layers to launch it. You can have the games in separate sub-folders, but it means extra clicks through the menu to get to your games, and many people find this an unwelcome hinderance. CD1/2/3), and create a simple text file named Game XYZ.m3u with the following 3 lines: OR should I be creating a single folder for Game XYZ, include all. cues would be seen by ES.unless you 'hide' them from the menu by renaming them as. bins should never be shown in the menu, that's not one of the filetypes that is 'seen' by the PSX entry in EmulationStation's system config file es_systems.cfg. cues are for a single game and only display one game on the dashboard? CD1/2/3) and dropping them in the ROM folder? Will Retropie know that these 3. If I place the game folder in my Retropie ROM folder then it will show up as each disc inside the game and allow me to launch each disc separately. Each disc folder has multiple files such as.

#HOW TO USE RETROPIE PSX WINDOWS#

If you're on Windows (or Mac), make sure your program uses Unix line breaks (NP++ does, or can be configured so at least, if it's not set by default) and add them to your roms folder by whatever method you added the roms themselves (USB stick, network share, etc.).įor example, game XYZ folder has 3 folders for disc 1, 2, and 3. They are simple plain-text files so you can make them in a text editor like nano on Linux (RetroPie) or Notepad++ on Windows. m3u method but don't quite follow how to create the.

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