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==Add BIOS requirements to the table?==
==Add BIOS requirements to the table?==
Some libretro cores require a BIOS to work. You need to find those BIOSes by yourself as it may be illegal to provide them bundled with each libretro core that needs the. For example, since all PlayStation emulators, like Beetle PSX & PCSX ReARMed, (as well as some other libretro cores), require a closed source BIOS file to work, these BIOSes are usually considered to be in an legal gray-zone and can be a little difficult to aquire, at least legally. Those BIOSes must be placed in the system folder on your emulator software (libretro core in this case).
Some libretro cores require BIOS files to work, and those BIOSes must be placed in the system folder (with each BIOS being a binary file). Currently you will need to find those BIOS files by yourself as it may be illegal to provide them bundled with each libretro core that needs the. For example, since all PlayStation emulators, like Beetle PSX & PCSX ReARMed, (as well as some other libretro cores), require a closed source BIOS file to work, these BIOSes are usually considered to be in an legal gray-zone and can be a little difficult to aquire, at least legally. Those BIOSes must be placed in the system folder on your emulator software (libretro core in this case).


This linked table lists all the required BIOSes which some emulators requires, so if a systems BIOS is not listed here then it means that it does not require a BIOS file.
This linked table lists all the required BIOSes which some emulators requires, so if a systems BIOS is not listed here then it means that it does not require a BIOS file.


* See: http://www.lakka.tv/doc/ROMs-and-BIOSes/ (or see: http://github.com/libretro/Lakka/wiki/ROMs-and-BIOSes )
* See: http://www.lakka.tv/doc/ROMs-and-BIOSes/ and http://www.lakka.tv/doc/Accessing-Lakka-filesystem/ (or see: http://github.com/libretro/Lakka/wiki/ROMs-and-BIOSes )


Remember, since Linux is a case sensitive system, you have to rename the BIOS files according to this table so that the libretro cores will be able to find the BIOS files.
Remember, since Linux is a case sensitive system, you have to rename the BIOS files according to this table so that the libretro cores will be able to find the BIOS files.

Revision as of 14:49, 5 April 2017

Libretro cores not yet ported to the Game API in Kodi

Which libretro cores have not yet ported to the Game API in Kodi? Gamester17 (talk) 07:45, 10 May 2016 (EDT)

http://wiki.libretro.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Core_Software_Library

  • 3DEngine
  • Beetle/Mednafen SGX
  • CATSFC
  • Craft
  • Dinothawr
  • Dolphin
  • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
  • Emux
  • fMSX
  • Fuse
  • Gambatte
  • Game & Watch
  • gpSP
  • Hatari
  • MESS
  • PCSX1
  • ProSystem
  • QuickNES
  • Rustation
  • TempGBA
  • TGB Dual
  • vecx
  • Virtual Jaguar

Add BIOS requirements to the table?

Some libretro cores require BIOS files to work, and those BIOSes must be placed in the system folder (with each BIOS being a binary file). Currently you will need to find those BIOS files by yourself as it may be illegal to provide them bundled with each libretro core that needs the. For example, since all PlayStation emulators, like Beetle PSX & PCSX ReARMed, (as well as some other libretro cores), require a closed source BIOS file to work, these BIOSes are usually considered to be in an legal gray-zone and can be a little difficult to aquire, at least legally. Those BIOSes must be placed in the system folder on your emulator software (libretro core in this case).

This linked table lists all the required BIOSes which some emulators requires, so if a systems BIOS is not listed here then it means that it does not require a BIOS file.

Remember, since Linux is a case sensitive system, you have to rename the BIOS files according to this table so that the libretro cores will be able to find the BIOS files.

Note that most of these BIOSes are not revered engineered releases but binary ROMs ripped from the EEPROM inside of an actual game console system hardwarre, so it is proprietary binary blobs (precompiled software binaries) which might still be under copyright depending on the console age and origins. It may be that some of those BIOSes are can be seen as Fair use since these game consoles are no longer sold and there is probabably no commercial value of them, but that is something that the XBMC Foundation need to talk about with attorneys about before being able to distributing such BIOS files as resource add-ons or bundled with each libretro core in an official repository.

Gamester17 (talk) 07:55, 22 December 2015 (EST)

Acceptable to link to BIOS files in wiki or?

See above discussion, it it OK on this wiki page to link to sites like http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/Emulator_Files which in turn contain links to the BIOS files with MD5 values or maybe even OK to link to the files directly? Gamester17 (talk) 08:00, 22 December 2015 (EST)

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