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@dankcushions that might be the case for NeoGeo, but PS1 and Dreamcast for example (more intensive emulation tasks)?

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@floob is it possible that emulation performance is improved if you alter output settings to natural 240p settings with a lot of retro games and then let a Framemeister upscale things?

I’ve noticed some slowdown playing NeoGeo games in particular. If you output from the Pi at lower resolutions then this might improve performance? I haven’t a Framemeister to test this.

[coderkind]

Thanks @Floob.

Looking into buying second hand Megadrives; there’s quite a bit to factor in (model version, subsequent mods, regions, etc)! I’m still tempted by the Framemeister though because I own a fair number of old consoles and it’d probably do a better job than overlaid image scanlines.

If I used a Framemeister with the Pi then am I right in saying it’s best to edit the output settings of each emulator to match their original output resolutions (240p, etc) before letting the Framemeister do it’s upscaling and scanline job? From memory, I think each emulator outputs at an upscaled resolution to begin with?

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The PiCade looks similar to the iCade (which I did a Sanwa mod on a few years ago – linky). I’ve been keeping an eye on it but their blog suggested they were going to sell it with a 12” screen but haven’t yet AFAIK. I wouldn’t buy it otherwise and would probably do the parts mod once more.

I’ve a few retro consoles in storage but the advantage of RetroPie was you didn’t have to clutter the room up and occupy all the inputs of your TV, but I’m coming to the way of thinking that it’s perhaps easier to just use the original hardware.

The fact you’ve a Framemeister and the original consoles suggest you’re probably discerning regarding the video quality and experience too :)

I do appreciate the help and effort you put towards the project and the videos, but how far off would you say scanline overlay graphics are from using original hardware and a Framemeister?

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Thanks @Floob; the install option sorted the scanlines for me but still didn’t see the tv background. Will have to run through it again soon.

By the way, not sure if this has been asked elsewhere, but have you tried any scanline generators (external, like the XRGB-Mini Framemeister) with the Pi/Retropie? XRGB-Mini Framemeister link

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Me again Floob (sorry). Think you named the latest release “v.06” rather than previous convention of “v0.6”. The latest version isn’t erroring for me but I’m still not seeing the overlays and I’m not sure what the difference between overlays is between the different levels of config options in the tool.

I think I probably need to properly read through this thread and potentially install the latest RetroPie RC again from scratch.

[coderkind]

Floob; I think there’s errors in the v0.5 release; potentially had your text editor with the wrong type of line/carriage returns?

When attempting to run ./videomanager.sh

I get the following errors:

./videomanager.sh: line 1: $’\r’: command not found
./videomanager.sh: line 3: $’clear\r’: command not found
./videomanager.sh: line 9: $’\r’: command not found
./videomanager.sh: line 17: syntax error near unexpected token `$’do\r”
‘/videomanager.sh: line 17: ` do

[coderkind]

Yes; using the latest RC of RetroPie 3. Will download this latest version and try later, thanks a lot Floob. Was attempting to set this new version 3 up late last night and couldn’t investigate the source of the issue properly (but I’m 100% I followed the GitHub instructions to the letter).

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I’ve followed the GitHub instructions to the letter (downloading the v0.4 latest release) and despite quitting and restarting EmulationStation and also doing a ‘sudo reboot’ I’m not seeing any scanlines or tv overlays in SNES or MegaDrive (the ones I’ve tried so far).

What am I missing?

[coderkind]

Bump-shizzle.

Nobody? Does this work? https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/kodi-tab-in-emulationstation/

[coderkind]

I get the black screen too. While FTP and SSH’d into my Pi at the same time the FTP client disconnects but it seems I’m still connected via SSH.

This is a problem as essentially it means without keyboard access you’re faced with having to pull the power supply to get the system operational again.

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