Help: X68000 emulator on Retropie

[greg]

A few months ago, my friend gave me one of his spare Raspberry Pi 3s. This weekend I put Retropie onto an SD card. I haven't tried out any of the standard emulators yet, because I'm primarily interested in the X68000 emulator.

I found this tutorial (it's in Japanese, but I can understand it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfNm71Mdgg
So I located the cgrom.dat and iplrom.dat files on a web forum somewhere. These go into the home/pi/retropie/bios/keropi folder.

The X68k emulator package is called lr-px68k and it's found in the experimental packages. I found a zip file of pretty much every X68k game. Each of the roms are in zip files, so I'll have to unzip them one by one. The roms are .dim files. I put them into the roms/x68000 directory.

The Retropie's menu now displays X68000 as a selectable emulator. But when I try to run a game, the screen goes black. The bootup sequence doesn't start. I'm pretty sure I followed the directions just like the video shows. What could I be doing wrong? The only thing different is that I put the files on with my regular computer instead of internally from Retropie's file manager.

The Retropie file manager shows the cgrom.dat and iplrom.dat files in red text for some reason. I'm not sure if that color has any significance.

Thanks in advance. I'm hoping to play some Chou Ren Sha at last.

[ldeveraux]

The official RetroPie git has different folder names, not sure if that's causing your issues. I've not tried the x68000 specifically, but this is the gold standard for information. Also, check RetroPie's specific forum as they will certainly know

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Se ... arp-X68000

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/

[greg]

Yes, github was the first page I obtained the information from. It lists the BIOS files which I mentioned, it says to put them in a "keropi" folder, I created an X68000 folder for the roms... I don't know what I am missing. I'll try that forum. Thanks.

[Pikkon]

I use recalbox but the emulator is the same but it can be a pain to get roms to work,especially ones with more than one disk.

You need to create a M3U file.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comme ... to_create/


As for the bios I'm running recalbox but it should be very similer.
In my bios folder I have a folder called keropi,that's where iplrom.dat and cgrom.dat goes.

Let me know if you get it working.

[greg]

I got it to work. I dunno why, but my friend gave me a set of the bios files and after I deleted the old ones on my Pi and replaced them with the ones he gave me, the emulator works just fine.

Gradius and Gradius II are arcade perfect as far as I can tell. It's great playing Chou Ren Sha after seeing this game mentioned a lot on this forum 20 years ago. So many other great games on the X68k.

[kitty666cats]

I got it to work. I dunno why, but my friend gave me a set of the bios files and after I deleted the old ones on my Pi and replaced them with the ones he gave me, the emulator works just fine.

Gradius and Gradius II are arcade perfect as far as I can tell. It's great playing Chou Ren Sha after seeing this game mentioned a lot on this forum 20 years ago. So many other great games on the X68k.

Could you perhaps link (if that's allowed here) those BIOS files, or PM them? I've had no luck with X68000 on mine... and sometimes good/sometimes bad luck with PC98!