Be Excellent To Each Other

Still topical.

Nah that was the sequel.

Now there's a game I haven't thought about for ages. I might have to have a go this evening.

About the only thing I remember from Supremacy was the sound when you got a message, which I still have set as my 'new mail' notification in Postbox.

It's always the fog level in Lotus 2 that does for me.

Look at Mr Level 5 over here.

The explosions were the most awe-inducing at the time, but i remember the levels being quite long with the most difficult parts at the end. Don't know if i would be into that thing of repeating everything all over again.

DP, many apologies if you already covered this upthread, but I'm thinking I might make a megabox for my brother, featuring a heady combination of Amiga games plus classics from the SNES and Megadrive, wotever else I can find.

However, if I follow your amiga instructions, does my megabox have to be Amiga-only?

Certainly not. The Retropie interface does dozens of systems. Popular consoles are much simpler to do than Amiga stuff. I reckon I've covered that upthread.

perfect, thank you very much.

Does anyone knows how to turn this into a fleshlight? (i'm asking for a friend)

no spectrum no fuckin' sale

Guy's working on a Spectrum one based on a +3, he showed it off on a Speccy facebook group earlier this week.

I took a disk image of my pie, put it on a second card and gave it to someone. I tried a few games on their pie and all was fine.

My Sensi Soccer works, but theirs does not. It just shows the hand holding disk amiga screen.

Any ideas?

Is the disk image the same size?

Yes. I tested 4 or 5 games and all good

Brace yourselves, idiot coming through.

I have embarked on this. I've got as far as getting the Retropie image onto the pi.

However, when I tried to add the Amiberry package I did so without it being connected to the internet.

It did a bunch of stuff, ran a load of script, and now I don't know if I can just try and repeat the process with it connected to the internet this time, or if I need to conduct some remedial work first (I'm imagining I've basically fucked the foundations before I start building the house.)

Is there any way to undo what I'd done with the Amiberry snafu, or is it unlikely to actually matter one jot and I should just manfully tussle with the machine and find out myself because that's we did before the internet.

It's probably just not been able to update itself. It can do that later. Crack on!

I honestly don't know why the copied image wouldn't work identically.

I've cracked on! And it seemed to work!

However, I'm now struggling to locate the Amiga Forever Essentials on my phone in my Windows browser. Watch this space.

Hold on, I hadn't bothered actually running AFE on my phone, had just blindly installed it then went rummaging in explorer for the files. Have run it now and all has become clear (he hopes).

Me, neither. Oh well. It is an odd thing. I will offer to reimage it.

Exciting updates!

I spent the evening turning the house upside down looking for thumb drives. Once upon a time we were swimming in thumb drives. Couldn't move for thumb drives. Where did they go? My son can't have eaten all of them. He must be shitting gigabytes.

I ended up borrowing a thumb drive from work.

Then I managed to transfer the kickstart roms to the bios folder.

The Amiga roms are on the downloadatron - I downloaded all, then went through the process of identifying the games that were worth playing/would be remembered by my brother, for actual inclusion on the retropie. Don't want him wading through shit for shit's sake.

Question: where there are two entries for an lha(sic?), do I need to include both? Or can I afford to pick and choose?

Do you mean that there are multiple lha files for each game?

Yes! I will try and grab a screenshot when I'm home, but there might multiple lha files for Crazy Cars 3 or something.

Might be disk images. Some were supremely tricky to get onto whdload (and some still haven't been) so a lot of different tricks have been used.

Might gift a RetroPie setup to my nephews for Christmas. Can anyone point me to a curated ROM list? I'm thinking it might be better to start with a few dozen classics than a thousand ROMs of questionable usefulness. The latter might overwhelm/bore them. If not, can anyone point me at a big ROMset, and I'll curate a few choices myself? They got a SNES mini last year and have really enjoyed it, so I'm not barking at the moon here.

Any requirements I should be aware of other than the obvious? I was thinking of the 8bitdo SNES-style pads. The ones with analogue sticks.

Is it just SNES Roms that you want or do you want a load of other stuff too?

Oh, not at all, other stuff is a given. For some value of "stuff". Dunno how interested they'd be in, say, Atari 2600.

I'd make them play nothing else but Atari games for the first 12 months. It's the only way they'll appreciate games on as many levels as we do.

But,if you'd rather be nice... curated lists are all down to personal preference I find but I use this site to download ROMs from. It has a top 10 section for each of the major consoles so I think that could be a good place to start.

https://vimm.net/vault/?system=SNES

I've just checked another site that I used to use but all the Nintendo ROMS have gone off there now. Pah.

New thread idea!

Quick reply as I'm out and about. Google Arcade punks for premade images

There are a few curated torrent sets around which you just dump onto an SD card and boot from - I'll see if i can find a link tonight (if i remember) - the general advantage for those is that everything is already setup (so controls and options) although they can still be a bit overwhelming just for shear numbers - at least you normally avoid the duplicates.

He uses Bing.

Which file have I ruined by trying to get a PS4 controller to work? Excuse pic my phone only really works in selfie mode.

Looks like it can't pair with the controller. Has it worked before?

It did, then I added the code in to make it pair when booting. Then something happened elsewhere in the house so I turned it all off and walked away now I don't know which file I need to change. Or how to.

Run through the connection wizard again from scatch

https://the-eye.eu/public/rom/

Nice collection of ROMs and other games for older systems if you have any gaps

Is there a nice "curated" version for those of us that don't gotta catch 'em all?

You can pick and choose on that website. Don't need to grab the lot

Yes but I want someone to have chosen for me

There’s no better curator for your own tastes than you

There are over 11,000 SNES games on the list! I can't go through them all

You could Google "best SNES games" or "best SNES RPGs". There are always people willing to share their opinions on the internet

Most of those 11,000 are at least tripled up as well, having US, Japan and European versions. Many have revisions and betas too. So there's probably only about 2,000

You'd think!

I hear Super Mario World is pretty good.

That and Super Mario Kart and you’re pretty much set.