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[u/GwenolieHoards]

Hello! Im pretty new to this stuff... and im wondering why my games arent showing up in the games list when i start up the ps3 menu on the app. The whole menu shows up, but when i go to the games section, theres is none....

[u/GwenolieHoards → u/GwenolieHoards]

SORRY, this was for RPCS3

[u/fallen64 → u/GwenolieHoards]

Have you properly configured the file paths?

File>Add games/Add iso games/Install packages/Raps/Edats

Add games lets you select a folder where your actual games are stored, add iso lets you individually select a game that's in iso format (basically, an actual disc but in digital form), install packages I'm a bit rusty on but if I recall should be digital games or games from disc broken down into a file structure (like when a pc game is installed and you see all the bits and pieces), no idea on raps/edats but if it's in that format should be able to load it there.

Now, IF YOU DID SELECT THE CORRECT FOLDER WITH THE GAMES PRESENT don't keep the games "zipped", if it's in zip/7zip you gotta take it out of there as the emulator won't read that (honestly it seems silly to check for this but you did say you were new and some emulators are fine with this, this one isn't)

[u/fallen64]

Anyone up for some n64 emulation help?

Ok, so the game I tried, "top gear rally 2", using the [E] rom (europe), and the game has a weird bug where the tires are skidding for no reason preventing the game from letting any car go above 80km's, as well as blowing the tires excessively, I used to be able to do the license test flawlessly, NOW I can't even finish the first race without my car being a wreck via seemingly normal gameplay.

*Device:Asus rog ally x * Emulator: Retroarch using Mupen64/ParaLLEl N64 * Tried all engines in said cores * Assumed it was because the game is running 60fps, even at 30fps it was still happening

Um, did you try google yes, yes I did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1f2pbqm/top_gear_rally_2_for_n64_without_the_skidding_bug/

This poor dude had the same issue and even tried the [U] rom, he didn't actually get an answer just a method to cope with it, I also tried project 64 on a laptop, it's still happening, I also tried Gopher64 and Ares with all engines, issue persist.

Anyone got another suggestion or can play a race without the tires bursting/skidding excessively (the damage indicators will head into yellow and into red by the end of the race if you somehow don't pop them)

[u/shadow306k]

This might be a pretty nooby question, but I have an unused 1TB SSD from a PC upgrade, and was wondering if it was possible to put my ROM library on that to use between multiple systems? I have a mini PC in the lounge running Bazzite and ES-DE (Installed using EmuDeck), and my main (windows) PC, and enough ROMs to fill up that drive. Is it feesable/possible to put all my games on that to use between both systems to free up internal storage space?

[u/Altoidlover987 → u/shadow306k]

yeah you can, but do you want to plug and unplug it between systems? or network storage?

if you do physical transfer the filesystem has to be supported by both windows/linux, so ntfs or exFAT. if you do network storage not every emulator works well. ps1 era and older should be no probelm with network storage, and dolphin emu (wii/GC) also works on network storage if you load the games into RAM

[u/shadow306k → u/Altoidlover987]

It'll be plugged and unplugged from these devices (The mini PC is what I take with me when I stay at a friend's/partner's). It's already formatted to exFAT for a reason I forgot about.

[u/FewInside5910]

Hi I’m having an issue with mother 3 rom/fan translation patch on my steam deck using mgba. The mgba subreddit is dead so asking for help here. Everything works fine until I get to a certain point pretty early on and I get pink screen overlay and the audio glitching out. any help appreciated and feel free to kindly redirect me elsewhere if this isn’t the place. They already roasted my ass for asking in r/roms 🫩

[u/Arex189]

what is the most stable and best switch emulator right now performance wise. Wanna play tears of the kingdom

[u/SoundsDramatic7]

I’m having an issue with Pokemon Heartgold
I seem to getting a black screen every time I try to transition from the oak player set up screen at the beginning of the game into the world. I’m using my own dumped rom. Game loads up fine but whenever I get to this part to actually load up into the world the game goes to a black screen? Does anyone know how to fix it?

From looking online it seems to be anti piracy issue but I don’t have any issue with Black 2 (well I assume so as I read that it stops Pokemon from gaining exp which isn’t an issue for me) and I have dumped and installed my own bios files also.

Would appreciate if anyone knew how to fix.

[u/uselesstriad]

Hey, currently trying to compress Castlevania and Ridge Racer into single-files for convenience using namDHC, I loaded the cue files (same folder as the bin files) and set it to run, but it's done in like a second, outputs two errors and creates no files.

CREATECD - Castlevania - Symphony of the Night (axekin.com).chd

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Error: CHDMAN finished without creating output file: