Posts made by icefox

@substring I did try searching about it and found some promising info. Thanks for the hard work and hope there will be progress later!

https://forum.recalbox.com/tags/daphne

After playing with Recalbox I've been very impressed about it. It's not as flexible but does contain almost all prominent emulators out there. Almost all... except Daphne. I find myself missing Daphne particularly bad because Daphne games are so unique. You can't play such FMV games anywhere else. I don't want to "request" anything but in case any dev is reading, please consider including a Daphne emulator in future versions. I'm keeping 20GB on my SD card for it.

@substring Good point. I should point out even when the game is slowed, sound is perfectly smooth, thus my suspicion that it is simply matching 60fps games to 50hz refresh rates.

At least now I don't have Spanish Shenmue so the most pressing issue is resolved.

@voljega You know, when Reicast simply ignores emu.cfg, it drives people crazy and desperate.

Can you tell me the location of the INIT Reicast config file? Maybe editing that would work. Thanks in advance.

@voljega Thank you so much! (And for answering my other question as well)

Very simple question--does anyone know how to enable the All Games list including all systems? It is useful when I remember a game's name but not the system. Also useful in showing off the total # of games to friends. Thank you!

@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.

@paradadf said in How on earth can I configure Reicast??:

@icefox right after launching a game, you can press A+B+X+Y+START at the same time to configure some bios stuff.

Tried, not working for me. Thanks & sorry. Edit: I meant Reicast

Also... the date setting interface when startup is in Spanish. I didn't bother until I went into Shenmue... and found everything to be in Spanish and no where to change it. There is a region setting (=4) in emu.cfg but even if I disable configgen with the "dummy" command, this item is still being overwritten alongside cable type etc. This configgen thing is so confusing. Why not just let user change the cfg file freely...

I did go into the configgen python code but could't figure out where the real settings are stored. There seems to be an initial cfg file. Can you point me to it? If I change that cfg file and delete the current one, maybe I'll be able to change the settings?

@substring I was actually thinking the iPhone vs Android analogy first, expect that Apple doesn't allow anyone to fiddle with iPhone, not even with a terminal (unless jailbroken). Thus it's more like a Mac. I like Apple's approach though, thus I like Recalbox: normally you don't see even an ascii character.

Coming back to Reicast. By having that "dummy" code in Recalbox.conf, emu.cfg isn't overwritten anymore indeed. But after experimenting with it I'm convinced Reicast completely ignores the cfg file. No change of settings affected anything, including the obvious ones like frame rate limit and widescreen hack. So the question is, where are the REAL settings for Reicast? Let me check out the python script but it starts to get out of my comfort zone quickly...

Thank you so much Substring and woijega! This is exactly what I need.

I've used Retropie before and I see how Recalbox differs in philosophy. Retropie is like PC: it is designed to be "messed around" by amateurs, with not so nicely looking UI to do a lot of things directly in ES. Recalbox on the other hand is like Mac. It has a near perfect setup (no need to even setup controller buttons, comes with Kodi, consistent UI, etc.) but with little customization possibilities. It's meant for dummies, in a way. But advanced users can still do everything through terminal command lines. I just wish documentation and user community were a bit better developed. I swear I tried everything I could with Google and couldn't find out how to disable dreamcast auto config. I'll be coming here a lot. Thanks in advance for much help down the way.

Appreciate your comment very much. But still... can you tell me how to configure Reicast on Recalbox? I just want to play with it a bit, and editing emu.cfg doesn't work. I know Reicast can perform better than in the current Recalbox build because, like I said, I've seen it perform better (but with a graphical glitch) on a Batocera build.

Also, Reicast doesn't seem to be abandoned for years. On the official website the latest update was from two seeks ago. In any case I'd really appreciate any tips on just how to config it, if not for anything more than my curiosity:) Thank you.

I love Recalbox for my new XU4. It will emulate N64 and PSP perfectly. N64 default ratio is stretched at 16:9 but using Glide64 fixes it. I was also able to edit the PPSSPP config file to achieve a 2x output (and still at 100% speed). But Dreamcast games run at maybe 80% speed. I tried to see if Reicast will skip some frames to hit 100% speed, or if the 80% speed is a result of 50 vs 60hz. But despite digging for hours on the Internet, I just can't figure out how to config Reicast under Recalbox. The closest I got is to edit an emu.cfg file. However whenever I start Reicast the file gets regenerated and all changes are wiped out. Is there any way to config Reicast under Recalbox at all? I know Reicast can run at 100% speed because I tested another Batocera build (branch of Recalbox), and Reicast there runs a bit choppy but at 100% speed (plus some text glitches), so I assume frame skip was enabled.

So, anyone know how to config Reicast under Recalbox??? Please help! Also I strongly recommend XU4. Perfect N64 and PSP emulation plus 80-90% DC emulation is already awesome!