Famicom, Super Famicom, Hacks, etc... are these supported?

omn1slash

Hi, I recently have decided to try out Batocera after watching some heavily inspiring videos from mr. ETA Prime.
I also love how the OS just loads and so far everything has been just plug and play, with the exception of some minor scraping issues I've experienced.
My question is - I have some other systems like Famicom and Super Famicom as well as some Megadrive Japan and some general hacks that I'd like to implement if possible. Are the above systems supported and is there a way to add them? I do not see folders in the ROMS folder for them, and when I made my own they do not show up in the theme. If this is possible, is there a tutorial anywhere that I could take a look at?
I'm running the Computer - 64 bit build if that matters.

GameCast

omn1slash yes offcoarse they are just modified nes,snes,mega drive games, just create a new folder on roms folder for example nes hacks, folder need to call like NESH . and on es_systems.cfg you need to duplicate the nes emulator lines and change the roms folder from nes to nesh .

omn1slash

@GameCast awesome! Can do that... will the default theme pick up the new systems? or do I have to make edits in the theme as well? Also is there any cool themes you recommend that support all the consoles?

GameCast

omn1slash for the theme you can duplicate the nes and add neshacks icon .
try this theme
Next Level v2.3 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BwdT8QyFAHxdQ3Grlp9DMmjGn64hWYnm
or
Next Level neon batocera y recalbox = https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IZw0TAonXaYSgUpw8_sUCwoCgAwkfgcS

omn1slash

nadenislamarre Technically I would prefer to change the "Megadrive" to Sega Genesis icon (I live in the US and thats what we know it as)... and preferred to have another icon with the Megadrive logo for "Sega Megadrive Japan" if its possible. Is this the best way to handle this?

GameCast I do really like that theme. I'll give that a try. I just want something that supports virtually every system. I don't see an area in the shared folders to put the themes in, so I assume i'd have to WinSCP (SSH) in and find the directory? I'm a bit familiar with how RetroPie works and this so far has been pretty close.

nadenislamarre

in fact, if you put your megadrive game in megadrive, it works, but you would prefer a "Megadrive Japan" directory to dissociate from megadrive and have an other theme specially for it ?

GameCast

omn1slash are you using batocera on pc ? and where is your HDD ROMS on the same of boot or difrente ? cause on pc you dont need winscp ,.

omn1slash

GameCast Yes, the PC X64 booting from a thumb drive. the roms are on an external hard drive formatted in EXT4 (linux) and in their normal locations (/roms) there. I looked through all of the folders and I didnt see a place to put themes - just music, the roms, cheats, etc. I've tried pushing F1 to look through file manager but it doesn't seem to show that folder either. Should I be seeing it?

GameCast

omn1slash wich batocera version are you ussing ?
5.21 themes folder you find inside .Emulationstation/themes
beta 5.22 you can find themes folder on the main batocera folder ..

omn1slash

GameCast this would be 5.21. I downloaded it off the main batocera page on Sunday. Is there a way that I'm missing to get this newer version 5.22? I tried to go to "update" but it said none available.

GameCast

omn1slash on 5.21 themes folder you find on recalbox/system/.emulationstation/themes
5.22 batocera/themes --- 5.22 still on beta version not enable to update it from oficial updates ..
here download the last beta 5.22 --
https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/upgrades/x86_64/beta/last/
but remember this is just a beta with some bugs .. you can read about isues on this forum topic .
https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/forum/d/2371-5-22-beta-2/116