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Keith Krummel · 2018-11-01, 22:35

I found Game Providers. Everything is launching now except for the ones that require Bios? I'm going to PlayStation the most first before hitting up Nintendo's and Atari's and so. So what's the fastest to do this? Where do I put Bios? Do I create folders like other emulators, and where exactly in IAGL folder do I put them? I have PS4, 8Bitdo SNES30, and one XBox S Series controller in the house for Oculus Go with 0 hours in case you need a game pad. Can I use PS4 even though it doesn't have select and start, or do I have to get an older controller? I really need 2 controllers for everything more or less unless I play Sega, right?

zachmorris · (This post was last modified: 2018-11-02, 00:42 by zachmorris.)

(2018-11-01, 22:35)Keith Krummel Wrote: I found Game Providers. Everything is launching now except for the ones that require Bios? I'm going to PlayStation the most first before hitting up Nintendo's and Atari's and so. So what's the fastest to do this? Where do I put Bios? Do I create folders like other emulators, and where exactly in IAGL folder do I put them? I have PS4, 8Bitdo SNES30, and one XBox S Series controller in the house for Oculus Go with 0 hours in case you need a game pad. Can I use PS4 even though it doesn't have select and start, or do I have to get an older controller? I really need 2 controllers for everything more or less unless I play Sega, right?

The documentation for BIOS files in retroplayer I think is in work. I added a blurb in my wiki regarding it here.

In summary, each game addon has a system folder (rather than just one folder like retroarch). The BIOS files go in the userdata folder for the game addon.

The BIOS files required are the same BIOS files listed in the libretro wiki. The BIOS files need to be installed in the appropriate game addon userdata system folder.
For example(s):
Genesis Plus GX emulator (game.libretro.genplus) requires these files to be placed in

xml:
..path_to_userdata/addon_data/game.libretro.genplus/resources/system/

Reicast (Dreamcast/Naomi) emulator (game.libretro.reicast) requires these files to be placed in

xml:
..path_to_userdata/addon_data/game.libretro.reicast/resources/system/dc/

Keith Krummel · 2018-11-02, 21:14

Hey Zach, the only Bios I have so far is PS1 so I have to get the rest of them. I'm trying understand where to put it. I've been trying move it all around the directory, but nothing's working yet. There are no directories. The closest thing to Retro Arch on IAGL that I can find is resources then lib then all the games directory. I'll keep fiddling around until I find it. Is that the correct path though? You said that each game addon gets a BIOS file, but they don't download locally. Thanks for the help.

Wintermute0110 · (This post was last modified: 2018-11-03, 19:05 by Wintermute0110.)

(2018-11-02, 00:17)zachmorris Wrote:
(2018-11-01, 22:35)Keith Krummel Wrote: I found Game Providers. Everything is launching now except for the ones that require Bios? I'm going to PlayStation the most first before hitting up Nintendo's and Atari's and so. So what's the fastest to do this? Where do I put Bios? Do I create folders like other emulators, and where exactly in IAGL folder do I put them? I have PS4, 8Bitdo SNES30, and one XBox S Series controller in the house for Oculus Go with 0 hours in case you need a game pad. Can I use PS4 even though it doesn't have select and start, or do I have to get an older controller? I really need 2 controllers for everything more or less unless I play Sega, right?
The documentation for BIOS files in retroplayer I think is in work. I added a blurb in my wiki regarding it here.

In summary, each game addon has a system folder (rather than just one folder like retroarch). The BIOS files go in the userdata folder for the game addon.

The BIOS files required are the same BIOS files listed in the libretro wiki. The BIOS files need to be installed in the appropriate game addon userdata system folder.
For example(s):
Genesis Plus GX emulator (game.libretro.genplus) requires these files to be placed in
xml:
..path_to_userdata/addon_data/game.libretro.genplus/resources/system/
Reicast (Dreamcast/Naomi) emulator (game.libretro.reicast) requires these files to be placed in
xml:
..path_to_userdata/addon_data/game.libretro.reicast/resources/system/dc/

That's a terrible design flaw... The system directory is a property of the Libretro frontend, not the Libretro cores. BIOSes are shared among several cores. With this approach, users will end with lot of copies of the same BIOS.

A potential solution: create an empty addon, for example, game.libretro.bios. The purpose of game.libretros.bios is to create a folder in user_data to place the BIOSes.

**garbear** · (This post was last modified: 2018-11-03, 20:24 by garbear.)

(2018-11-03, 19:04)Wintermute0110 Wrote: That's a terrible design flaw... The system directory is a property of the Libretro frontend, not the Libretro cores.

This is correct. My solution is an overlay FS, which can merge two directories at the VFS layer. But this needs some Game API work. In the meantime, I'd accept a patch changing the system directory from per core to per frontend.

I started with your approach, "resource addons" for bioses, but never finished due to the overlay fs requirement.

Wintermute0110 · (This post was last modified: 2018-11-04, 17:02 by Wintermute0110.)

(2018-11-03, 20:23)garbear Wrote:
(2018-11-03, 19:04)Wintermute0110 Wrote: That's a terrible design flaw... The system directory is a property of the Libretro frontend, not the Libretro cores.

This is correct. My solution is an overlay FS, which can merge two directories at the VFS layer. But this needs some Game API work. In the meantime, I'd accept a patch changing the system directory from per core to per frontend.

I started with your approach, "resource addons" for bioses, but never finished due to the overlay fs requirement.

Why not to keep it simple? Kodi core creates a directory profile://user_data/libretro/. Then,

Code:
profile://user_data/libretro/system/ --> system directory

profile://user_data/libretro/cheats/ --> cheat directory

profile://user_data/libretro/savefiles/core_name/ROM_name

profile://user_data/libretro/savestates/core_name/ROM_name

profile://user_data/libretro/info/ --> core info files.

I would like to contribute to Retroplayer but I'm incredibly busy with the Advanced Launchers Smile

**garbear** · 2018-11-04, 18:41

(2018-11-04, 17:01)Wintermute0110 Wrote: Why not to keep it simple? Kodi core creates a directory profile://user_data/libretro/. Then,

Code:
profile://user_data/libretro/system/ --> system directory profile://user_data/libretro/cheats/ --> cheat directory profile://user_data/libretro/savefiles/core_name/ROM_name profile://user_data/libretro/savestates/core_name/ROM_name profile://user_data/libretro/info/ --> core info files.

aside from calling it "games" or something instead of libretro (we try to be generic), this could work.

Wintermute0110 · 2018-11-04, 21:05

(2018-11-04, 18:41)garbear Wrote:
(2018-11-04, 17:01)Wintermute0110 Wrote: Why not to keep it simple? Kodi core creates a directory profile://user_data/libretro/. Then,

Code:
profile://user_data/libretro/system/ --> system directory profile://user_data/libretro/cheats/ --> cheat directory profile://user_data/libretro/savefiles/core_name/ROM_name profile://user_data/libretro/savestates/core_name/ROM_name profile://user_data/libretro/info/ --> core info files.

aside from calling it "games" or something instead of libretro (we try to be generic), this could work.

Fair enough Smile

Keith Krummel · 2018-11-05, 20:26

I've been messing around putting Bios files in IAGL all weekend. Are are all you saying that the Bios files goes in Retro Arch system directory? All these links have nothing to with Kodi. My keyboard wasn't compatible with Retro Arch, or I would've set it up weeks ago.

Relic1882 · (This post was last modified: 2018-11-05, 23:20 by Relic1882.)

I have a quick question. When playing large games like for PS1, it takes time to download the file before launching. When I click Download instead, it shows it downloading, but then it wants to download again when trying to launch. Where do the downloads go and how do you keep the file so you don't have to download it again?

I tried to find out where on my own but I'm having trouble finding out how to set certain things up, like download locations and where to place BIOS files.

Thanks.

Edit: I'm not using RetroArrch… yet. I'm just using Kodi Retroplayer for everything so far. This is an amazing add on though!

yoshitslc · 2018-11-06, 23:28

Did you tried to enlarge the cache for downloaded games ?

zachmorris · 2018-11-06, 23:57

(2018-11-05, 23:18)Relic1882 Wrote: I have a quick question. When playing large games like for PS1, it takes time to download the file before launching. When I click Download instead, it shows it downloading, but then it wants to download again when trying to launch. Where do the downloads go and how do you keep the file so you don't have to download it again?

See this info

Emmanking · 2018-11-07, 08:39

I have a similar issue I am running Android /sheild tv. Other games load fine but playstaion games dl but wont launch after. Please help Not sure what im doing wrong .

bfalese · 2018-11-07, 17:33

Hi,

I have been using IARL in FireTv, it is excellent, thanks Zack for your hard work.
I'm using Kodi installed on sdcard1, external storage in AFTV, and Retroarch in sdcard0, internal storage at AFTV. On demand download works great to temp forlder, but if i change download folder to anything else, download complete in instant time and then IARL says that the game is not present on archive.org.
I suspect this problem is related to one app installed on sdcard0 and the other in sdcard1.

I moved kodi installation following this post: http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-partially...b-storage/

The relevant part is:

Create a blank Kodi configuration file by running the command:
touch /sdcard/xbmc_env.properties

xbmc_env.properties file contents:
xbmc.data=/storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files

Can this kodi redirection be affecting IAGL ability to download to any other directory than temp folder?
Thanks

zachmorris · 2018-11-07, 23:41

(2018-11-07, 08:39)Emmanking Wrote: I have a similar issue I am running Android /sheild tv. Other games load fine but playstaion games dl but wont launch after. Please help Not sure what im doing wrong .

Yes, I think we've found an issue with m3u file launching with the Retroplayer beta. See here. I'm not sure it will be fixed before v18 is released though, so I'll likely temporarily change the default launch commands for this (to launch a cue file instead of an m3u file) - the downside is that multidisk games wouldn't work quite right.