


I searched through for “ fds” and found the section I needed, which I’ve kindly copied and pasted here for you. But I’m busting out my vim and editing the file located here: sudo vim /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg Okay the title is misleading there isn’t any heavy modification going on and the changes you make won’t break anything even if it didn’t work. While poking around in files that would probably screw the whole system up if I edited them the wrong way I found a config file for es_systems.cfg – which if know anything (and its quite debatable that I do not) that this was for the Emulation Station emulators. I’m sure I could have googled it but let’s face it….I need to learn this shit inside and out, and then share it with you folks out there in the digital world. Now I knew I had to dig through the system and figure out what was going on. None of this worked, the games still would not load. I checked my BIOS directory to make sure that it was in there, and then made a few changes, I copied the file in both lower and uppercase as well as adding it to the fds/ folder. Without looking at the logs I had a pretty good idea of what was going on…the emulator wasn’t reading the BIOS file. The screen would go to black as though it were about to load the game, sit there for 30 seconds or so and then kick me back to the menu. After playing through SuperTux, I thought I’d try out some of these Famicom games, but I was a tad bit surprised when the games refused to load. I’ve always been a huge fan of the SNES and would probably rank that as my favorite system of all time.īut I do have a few Famicom roms, mostly just various Super Mario games, including one of my favorite All Night Nippon – Super Mario Bros. Truthfully I haven’t gone Gem looking for awhile, and the last I had it was for the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom instead of the NES/Famicom. This had me excited, because I love nothing more than hunting through games trying to find that long lost gem. 2, it dawned on me that there was a good chance that Japan, or even Europe and the UK were getting games that I would probably never hear of, or learn about. Years later when I learned that we had received a different version of Super Mario Bros. I’d even seen a few photos of the device in a magazine once, and was shocked at how different their device was from what mine looked like. When I was a kid I had heard about the Famicom in Japan running on disks, and also looking quite different from my grey box NES. I have several Famicom games on my RetroPie.
