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Cave Story
The original Cave Story (a.k.a. Doukutsu Monogatari) was developed by Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya and was released in 2004.
This system scrapes metadata for the “cavestory” group and loads the cavestory
set from the currently selected theme, if available.
Grouped with the “ports” group of systems.
Quick reference
- Emulator: RetroArch
- Core: libretro: nxengine
- Folder:
/userdata/roms/cavestory
- Accepted ROM formats:
.exe
BIOS
No Cave Story emulator in Batocera needs a BIOS file to run.
Game files
Place your Cave Story game files in /userdata/roms/cavestory
.
Download the game from the following URL and uncompress it in this folder: http://www.cavestory.org/downloads/cavestoryen.zip
It is recommended to use the English version. Other versions may freeze the system.
Emulators
RetroArch
RetroArch (formerly SSNES), is a ubiquitous frontend that can run multiple “cores”, which are essentially the emulators themselves. The most common cores use the libretro API, so that's why cores run in RetroArch in Batocera are referred to as “libretro: (core name)”. RetroArch aims to unify the feature set of all libretro cores and offer a universal, familiar interface independent of platform.
RetroArch configuration
RetroArch offers a Quick Menu accessed by pressing [HOTKEY]
+ which can be used to alter various things like RetroArch and core options, and controller mapping. Most RetroArch related settings can be altered from Batocera's EmulationStation.
Standardized features available to all libretro cores: cavestory.videomode
, cavestory.ratio
, cavestory.smooth
, cavestory.shaders
, cavestory.pixel_perfect
, cavestory.decoration
, cavestory.game_translation
ES setting name batocera.conf_key | Description ⇒ ES option key_value |
---|---|
Settings that apply to all cores of this emulator | |
GRAPHICS API cavestory.gfxbackend | Choose which graphics API library to use. Vulkan is better, when supported. ⇒ OpenGL opengl , Vulkan vulkan . |
AUDIO LATENCY cavestory.audio_latency | In milliseconds. Can reduce crackling/cutting out. ⇒ 256 256 , 192 192 , 128 128 , 64 64 , 32 32 , 16 16 , 8 8 . |
THREADED VIDEO cavestory.video_threaded | Improves performance at the cost of latency and more video stuttering. ⇒ On true , Off false . |
libretro: nxengine
libretro: nxengine configuration
Controls
Here are the default Cave Story's controls shown on a Batocera Retropad:
Troubleshooting
Further troubleshooting
For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.
- systems/cavestory.txt
- Last modified: 2 years ago
- by atari