possible ROM size issue

[PannaSalmone]

I have the Super mario world Central Vanilla design level contest 9 and my retroarch (on retropie) cannot run it, maybe because this ROM size is too big (6 MB)

actual can this emulator run ROM over 6MB?

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[meepingsnesroms]

If it doesn't have obscure special chips it should be able to run any SNES rom

[Alcaro]

Does SA-1 count as obscure?

[meepingsnesroms]

No I count superfx sa1 and the DSP series as regular add-on chips.

Obscure is like the super Gameboy and shogi arm chips.

[PannaSalmone]

then why this rom cannot run on my retropie? the windows version of snes9x run it perfectly if u want try, here is the link of the patch from smwc: https://dl.smwcentral.net/14756/VLDC9.zip

[andres-asm]

Snes9x or snes9x2010? Also bear in mind.... Different ABI different problems

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then why this rom cannot run on my retropie? the windows version of snes9x run it perfectly

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[meepingsnesroms]

Tested it on Android,fails on 2010 works on newest.

[hizzlekizzle]

Looks to be a known issue from this era: http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=39663

It might be possible to backport the modern memmapping bits.

[meepingsnesroms]

Yeah also fails on 2005,2002 just SIGSEGV and exits.

[PannaSalmone]

so, to use this game on retropie i must wait a future version of the emulator based on the newer libraries of snes9x ? well xD

[meepingsnesroms]

Or use the newest snes9x.(without a date at the end) What device do you run RetroPie on?(pi2 or 3 should be able to handle it)

[PannaSalmone]

I have the Pi3 with the last version of retropie I think that the default One is the lr-snes9x-next Based on the 2010 version Other lb emulators are armsnes, catsfc, pocketsnes

[meepingsnesroms]

Do you know how to use root and compile?(If you do you could compile the newest libretro snes9x for pi3)

[andres-asm]

retropie is not android... Not sure what you mean with root

[meepingsnesroms]

Compile for armv7 debian then put it in the RetroPie core directory.

[PannaSalmone]

Sorry guys I'm an old player but i' new with these things I've edited something but never compiled an Image or an app I'll try with an another emulator Any advices for the choice?

[meepingsnesroms]

If you want to keep RetroPie use apt or synaptic to install the newest standalone snes9x, otherwise just install lakka.(Use RetroArch as your OS then you should be able to install the newest RetroArch snes9x) From the core names of RetroPie it's emulators seem way outdated anyway.

[PannaSalmone]

sorry, i cannot understand well your words xD Lakka, after a quick google search seems to be beautiful (the UI) but is powerful and plug and play as retropie? otherwise there are a way to update the snes9x libraries on retropie? (from 2010 to 2014 )

[deltabeard]

Commit d8e5d090aa804463a3b27d65aaa657769d8b976d from Snes9x is required to fix this issue. Commit 58f28b2dde4cf8629852970535d358394ad18bfa from Snes9x is required to fix a segmentation fault that occurs after the fix is applied.

I've already applied the first commit to my fork. There's much work to be done on cherry-picking the second commit though. Once tested, I'll make a pull request.

It should be said that if any change reduces the performance of Snes9x-2010, then it should be rejected. So I'll do a benchmark to make sure that these changes don't negatively affect performance.

[deltabeard]

The issue is fixed in my fork. I'll make a pull request shortly.

[hizzlekizzle]

should be fixed now with #130 so I'm going to close this. We'll reopen if not.