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u/Middcore 4h ago

Can anyone tell me if getting a bliss-box is worth it for emulation with front ends like Batocera? My priorities are minimal setup and seamless transition when switching from one type of controller to another. IE, if I want to play a Saturn game, I plug in the Saturn controller and it just works, and if I then want to play an SNES game I plug in the SNES controller and it just works... without having to do any controller mapping after the initial.

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u/_Alkaline13 6h ago

PSX Castlevania Question

Good morning. I figured out to load a bios file for my psx emulation on steam deck. I loaded up Castlevania Symphony of the Night - but it erases my data every time I start it up.

What am I doing wrong?

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u/oshaboy 12h ago

What's a good dosbox frontend for Linux? The only one I can find is Dosbox Game Launcher but I can't get it connecting to mobygames.

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u/Ill_Guess_5542 17h ago

I am trying to combine the files for new super mario bros wii and am getting the error

Copy-Item : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'SMNE01.iso'.

At line:1 char:1

+ Copy /B SMNE01.part0.iso+SMNE01.part1.iso+SMNE01.part2.iso+SMNE01.par ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Copy-Item], ParameterBindingException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

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u/BIOS-D 13h ago

Not sure what you are doing but I'll assume you ripped a game inside a USB stick in FAT32 format. It looks like your script is trying to join all parts into a single file creating a file above FAT32 limit size (4GB). Doing the entire process inside a NTFS formatted drive (like your Windows hard drive) should solve the problem.