@Grimlock42G1 the german and european versions of ffviii and ix have copy protection. had the same problem but even without creating pbp files. it might have something to do with it tho. there are patches available online to remove the copy protection. you might wanna give it a try.
@Substring mhmm weird... maybe i'll give it another go. thanks for your feedback.
@Genaker thank you aswell, looking forward to hear how it turns out. best of luck. there is just nothing like playing some castelvania vi on halloween on an old crt tv 
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tim
tried that as well back then :). believe me i tried a lot of different things to get this working since i really wanted the old school crt experience i grew up with (alt. audio driver, different pal modes, even tried ntcs modes just out of desperation, etc, etc.) no such luck unfortunately with any configuration of cables, tvs or settings.
but then again it might just be the rca port on my pi (although i also tried it on my old pi1 with the same result... so idk)
now i just settled for a nice 1080p display with retro shader enabled and i'm still really happy with the experience.
i made sure. i knew that the pin layouts are often times different on most cables you get (for example video would be on the red respective rca connector instead of the conventional yellow one etc.). i tried three different cables in total and four different crt tvs. even opened up two of the cables and resoldered them to match the proper colours of the rca connectors.
same deal on all of them. there were slight differences between the tvs, but the image was never good on any of them and audio was always distorted.
it might just be that the trs port on my specific pi is broken or something but since then i read various reports online that the trs ports on any pi are basically s**t and you just can't get a good signal out of them.
let me know if you have better luck @Genaker
cheers
tim
just as a heads up. tried the same with several different cables and different tvs. and even tho it "works", the image quality is absolutley terrible. the composite signal (over the rca port) is distorted, flickers and all kind of other stuff is going on on screen. not the mention the audio over the rca which is terrible aswell (a lot of background noise etc.). really isn't the way to go imo. tried this on raspi 3 as well as on an raspi 1. same deal.
there are other solutions, even some which use component video (which works way better) but they require an additional board attached to the pi afaik.
i'd really like to go proper crt tv style but it seems that the rca jack is of really terrible quality unfortunately.
by the way, is there an easy way to update retroarch individually in recalbox? that way i might circumvent the problem until recalbox ships out a new version with an updated retroarch included.
ah ok thanks you for clearing that up. in the meantime i just copied the save file manually to match the new disc. thankfúlly final fantasy 7 creates a savegame right bevore swapping that you can load with the new disc.
hopefully the core gets an update soon via recalbox
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hey everybody,
i got a problem changing discs for psx games. in 4.0 it was possible to change discs using the retroarch menu in game. in 4.0 you went to "quick menu" -> "disc control" -> "Disc Image Append", from which you chose the right image in your rom folder. that way whenever you get prompted to change discs in game, you could just load the image file.
now in 4.1 whenever i do the same, the emulator completly restarts the game with the new disc. so it won't emulate the disc change but instead just restart the whole core und restart the system. this makes it impossible to change discs.
is there some new method of how to do that?
cheers
tim
I'm currently looking for old used TVs to use with my raspberry pi 3 recalbox and found an old panasonic plasma i could get for cheap.
the problem is, it states that it is "HDReady" but the screen has a resolution of 1024x720 (instead of the usual 1280x720). i wonder if this might cause issues with my recalbox and how good/bad the games might look on such a display with thad odd resolution. I thought i ask around if someone else had luck with such displays or has some knowledge on how it would perform.
Another thing that's quite irritating was what the manual had to say about the HDMI port on the TV. It says that connecting a PC to the HDMI port wouldn't work but i couldn't find out why it might not? Does someone know what exactly that means and if that is a problem for the raspberry?
TV Model is the Panasonic TH-37 PV 7 F btw.
If someone has some useful info on that, let me know.
thanks for your time and cheers
tim
what do you mean by "software"? there are official drivers but the controller works as is by just plugging it in (at least on windows 7 and up to windows 10)