@substring said in How on earth can I configure Reicast??:
@icefox I think you should try a different bios. My emu.cfg is read and overwritten by reicast (tip : Dreamcast.RTC
does change). It's also read as it's reading the pads configuration. So i really believe something is wrong on your side. As a reminder, the file is in /recalbox/share/system/configs/reicast
or \\RECALBOX\share\system\configs\reicast
for the Wiondows share
Ok I solved the language problem. I somehow had a nvmem file in the bios folder. Deleting it and language is back at English (and it's not being regenerated). I'm still unable to config Reicast. Even with the "dummy" command so emu.cfg is not being overwritten every time I start Reicast, change anything in there doesn't have any effect.
Can you test if you can for example enable widescreen hack or remove frame limit by editing emu.cfg? Also I'm not sure what command enables frameskip. I tried changing ta.skip = 0 to 5 to no avail.
I also have a theory... I was testing Reicast slowdown mainly in SoulCalibur. I noticed how 10s in game is precisely 12s in real life, regardless of rendering complexity. Could it mean the game is actually limiting a 60 fps game to 50 fps because of confused mode (NTSC vs PAL)? But again when the game ignores the config file I can't do any test to confirm it.