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  1. I'm pretty sure RetroPie will do both A5200 and A7800. Granted, the A5200 (A800) emulator is not nice and smooth until fully configured but I think the A7800 one is pretty straight forward. It's how I currently get my Bentley Bear fix! 😃

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  2. I will know a whole lot more after Christmas (as my 9 year old daughter really really wanted into this thing, Star Wars playsets/characters) but my understanding is this:

     

    There are two 'worlds' in the video game one can 'play' in. One is the 'toy box' mode which is something akin to Minecraft where one can build stuff and use characters to romp around in it. The second is something like a 'story' mode, where one purchase 'playsets' that set forth a world that one uses characters to accomplish the goals of the the particular playset. The figures each have some kind of NFC chip in them that, when placed upon the 'game platform' appear within the game (either mode) with whatever special characteristics that happen to have been programmed into the chip.

     

    This is my rough understanding of it. I've read up on it plenty but still a little bit fuzzy on the whole thing. All I know is that after my daughter saw the Star Wars starter set in a You Tube unboxing video, she's been craving it. She's already done the Lego Star Wars thing and has at least tried KotoR on the Xbox (but still a little young to fully undertand the best way to work on getting light side points rather than dark side points) but this Inifintiy 3.0 thing seems to be right in her wheel house.


  3. Great news, new jag carts make me excited! What's going on in the ST thread? It won't load and keeps crashing on my iPad.

    I had the same issue with my iPad Air 1, memory issues I suspect. Other embedded media intense sites /pages will do this as well, CNN being a notorious site for this behavior.


  4. So I can connect to the internet and retrieve ROMs. This is nice, but I'd rather just add ROMs with a USB key, if I can. I don't know anything about the RetroPi, I must admit. :)

    If you are familiar and comfortable with Linux, then you should be able to find which ever means best fits your situation to get you own ROMs on to it.

     

    (While what I initially wrote is true, check out the PDF in the OP. Looks like you should be all set.)


  5. Here's some pics of a McWill Upgraded Lynx - IOGear KVM - VGA.to.HDMI -28" 720p Insignia Flatscreen (no, I dont typically set this up but the discussion made me think to try it out. The screen actually looks a whole lot better than these pictures would suggest)

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  6. OK, found what I was looking for: But they seem to be in hidden folders, maybe? (I'm using WinSCP to transfer files and I found them by doing a search in WinSCP for *.xml files...then looking for gamelist.xml files. Then clicking on "Focus" to get to it in the WinSCP browser.) Anyway, the locations for the relevant folders are:

     

    gamelists: /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ (then it's by system)

    scraped images: /home/pi/emulationstation/downloaded_images/ (again, by system)

     

    The trouble was that when I looked in /home/pi/ there was no ".emulationstation" folder, so maybe it's hidden normally - that dot before the name probably means something. Like I said, I used WinSCP to find it, named my images, dropped them into the downloaded_images folder for the system I was working on, then added entries to the gamelist.xml file (typing carefully), and saved everything...worked!

    You are correct; the leading dot (.) indicates a hidden file/directory.

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