@Substring Hi Substring. Sorry for late response. I did finly do this, but I only have menpu64 (or something like that). There were no other cores to choose from when I did edit metadata. Do I have to enable them in a config file or something?

I'm on 4.0.0 on pi3

Would really love this feature as well. Trying to setup a box for my buddy and now i'm getting network issues trying to put this second recalbox on my LAN with the same hostname etc... would be much easier to just transfer the roms locally on my computer to the SD card.

Just to update as of 1/18/17

I've bought two recalbox kits from the suggested parts on the main page. I received this error each time.

Not sure if it's the card, or that it's pre-installed with noobs, but the solution in both cases was to choose

Format Size Adjustment = On

in te scandisk utility. You can still use quick format, but please turn this option on and it should bypass the error.

@Substring Thanks.

1. The roms are all supposed to be MAME 0.78. You're saying that even so, extra bios and parents (what is a parent?) are still necessary.

2. It's been 640x480 for most games so far, I don't know about 800 x 600. You're thinking some roms are trying to run at 800 x 600, which might be why I have sound but not picture?

3. Thanks I will try. I though n64 only had one core by default, but I'm probably misrembering. Is it possible to add more cores, just for my knowledge?

@paradadf Thanks. What does a plugin refer to in this context? Is it the same as a core?

Most of my roms work great with the default settings in recalbox, but I've had some trouble with a few N64 and Mame roms. They all fail one of 3 ways:

1. The rom loads, the screen goes black for 4 seconds or so, and then the emulator returns to the rom selection menu.

2. (This only happened on 64 games so far) the game is loaded and I can hear the sound, but the screen is black. I can hear the game responding to button presses, just missing video.

3. (Also an n64 problem) games like pokemon stadium and mario party have missing graphic elements. For example, icons on the minigame selection in pokemon or missing dice and board markers in 64.

My first idea would be to change the underlying emulator used on the 64, but how do I add new emulators to recalbox for n64? Can't seem to find a coherent guide for it. Any other ideas on best things to try first when debugging?

I'm going to comb through the logs the next time it happens as well, but they might not mean too much, as I'm a novice at this point.

Thanks

I'm going to try this on wednesday using the configuraiton sold on recalbox website (the Vilros 32gb kit) and report back. Glad to see others have been thinking about this.

@supernature2k Do you think state information like my network settings would screw up when flashed over? Or would recalbox OS simply wipe them when my buddy's wifi connects.

I will try it out and report my findings, thanks!

Let me first say that I LOVE recalbox and really appreciate your team! You've done such a great job with this project; it's what open source is all about.

I built a recalbox on a pi3, and my friends are super jealous. They are buying the kits now, and I promised I'd help them get setup. Rather than starting from scratch (flashing OS, uploading roms etc...) is it possible for me to simply flash an image of the current state of my system on their formatted cards? In that way, they'd have the OS and roms right away.

Wondered if this had been done successfully before, or if it's not so simple?