I love the work each of you have been doing on here and have been eagerly anticipating future releases. I’ve also been wanting to put together a “wish list” of features for what I’d consider the “perfect Flashback”. Whether or not you consider having these features, perhaps it will answer some questions about what ppl might desire.
1)
Must have better emulation than the stock emu. (Preferably one that also supports FM sound emulation for Master System).
2) Needs to work with wired controllers.
3) Really want to be able to dump my own carts and keep the rom.
4) Should really have boxarts. Especially since the stock dash does it... but preferably less clunky feel.
5) Would also like to be able to view descriptions, like the stock dash. This may not be the most important, but it’s certainly nice, and it also lets us list game codes if we like.
Ex: Description blah...
Infinite lives: press up, up, down, left, start.
6) Must be a responsive interface and not take long to load/boot.
7) Should look like it belongs. Like if someone sees it for the 1st time, they’d say “that’s an awesome Sega product”, not “looks like a hack job”.
8) Should have a “Genesis” logo option as well as “Mega Drive”.
9) Would be nice to have a catchy tune in the background (that could be disabled) that feels like “Sega”, the way the NES classic menu background tune feels “Nintendo,” (not a must have, but would be nice).
— The Generations dash has some of these features, but is missing some critical elements that currently would keep me from using it as “my” dash. (Although I have it installed for testing).
— So far, it looks like the retroshield project has most of these. I jut hope it doesn’t get so expansive that it becomes clunky or slow to load.
*** Please don’t take this as a list of demands, by any means, but I wanted to make my wish list known in case you guys are open to implementing them.
since i want to keep the current code base clean and organized i am making it go in 1 more folder. it feels neater to me to at the moment (though i may change my mind).
I used the folder structure from my (formerly) obb model. Inside the “Games” folder, I created the folders “Genesis”, “Sms”, and “Gg”. Those are the same folders as the obb. Because the Generations dash looks for SMS roms in the “Master System” folder, they do not show up in the launcher. Same with GameGear since it looks in “Game Gear”. I’d like to ask that the Sms and Gg folders be added locations that the Generations dash looks in.
A question to the community.. at moment i added REGION categoeries to sort things out:
...My question is would you like to have the same Style for the Master System or do we make an Multi folder like for ex. GG for those games?
I would like a way to distinguish to the
Emulator to run a game at 50Hz, but that it would be transparent to the user experience. In other words, I’d like to be able to tell the emu to run it in PAL mode, but not see any designation that it’s a certain region in the interface. I like a nice rom list with clean names. I don’t use (USA), (EUR), (JAP), etc. in my rom sets.
Having 50 Hz for some SMS games is pretty much essential though, since some of them run too fast or have glitches when run at 60 Hz.
If you can tell the emulator to “run roms in this folder at 60Hz” and “run this folder at 50Hz”, that seems like an ideal way to handle it. Much better than rom names or CRC32 databases etc.