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osmc use tips

Display Chinese fonts Under Settings -> Apperance -> Sking, set the font to be "Arial". Reference Play .m3u8 files Put it in a text file and rename the file extenstion to .strm. Browse to it in your video library and click on it. Reference  Or you set up a .m3u files as follows: http://kodi.wiki/view/Internet_video_and_audio_streams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U Edit RSS feeds The RSS ticker can be toggled on or off by going to Settings -> Appearance -> Skin -> Show RSS news feed. See http://kodi.wiki/view/RSS_ticker for details. See http://kodi.wiki/view/Userdata for RssFeeds.xml location. For Linux, it is ~/.kodi/userdata/ with osmc/osmc as credential. Sample xml format:   http://feeds.feedburner.com/Tacos   See http://kodi.wiki/view/RssFeeds.xml for xml file format.

Higan emulator essential use note

Play GBA games with higan Higan expects a GBA BIOS to run GBA games. You may grab an open-source one from TempGBA. Its source code in github has the Normmatt's open-source GBA BIOS replacement in its bios/ folder. Rename the file to bios.rom and put it under Game Boy Advanced.sys/ folder of higan.

Mednafen emulator essential use note

Set up BIOS For a few game system (e.g. PC Engine/Turbo Grafx, Sega Saturn and PlayStation 1), one needs to provide appropriate BIOS files. First, locate the firmware/ folder. If you use the zipped windows distribution, the folder is right under the folder where you extract the zip file. If you use Ubuntu, the folder is under $HOME/.mednafen . Sega Saturn  Put the appropriate BIOS files into the firmware/ folder. sega_101.bin -- for Japan-region games mpr-17933.bin -- for North America/Europe-region games PlayStation 1 Put the appropriate BIOS files into the firmware/ folder. scph5500.bin  - (NTSC-J) Required for Japan-region games. scph5501.bin   - (NTSC-U) Required for North America/US-region games. scph5502.bin  - (PAL) Required for Europe-region games.  To change the name of the BIOS files, edit the following highlighted field in mednafen-*.cfg accordingly. ;Path to the Europe SCPH-5502/v3.0E ROM BIOS psx.bios_eu scph5502.bin ;Path to the Japan S