I don't have my screen in front of me here to talk through exactly how the cheats are downloaded but from memory, once you press the menu hotkey to open the GUI, there is an option for 'Settings', which then leads to 'Update', and an option to 'update cheats' - this then downloads the cheats to the folder you outline. You are mentioning that the cheats don't work for Sega emulators, have you tried any other system? If they also don't work maybe it's a permission issue? Or maybe a bug in the libretto core for Ah, understood - yes, I was referring to the setup script. So you say that if you use the retroarch gui it will download the cheats to the pi? But where does it save them? It sounded like was a little bit inexperienced and I wanted to take the easy route by just making a cheat folder and then transferring the cheats to that folder.

You update them from binary or source using the Retropie setup script. I may have misspoke, what I meant is Retropie is built upon Retroarch and therefore you don't update the cores in the retroarch gui. They just don't seem to switch on specifically in either of the primary Sega emulators. So you're telling me that the specific menu and updater system included in Retropie doesn't update the underlying Retroarch and cores?Īnd are you also suggesting that the GUI menu option when within an emulator core, that's marked Update Cheats (which then downloads and installs the cheat database), doesn't install the cheats?

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