N64 emulator not working

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11/22/2014 at 12:08 #82972

rififi
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Hello,

this is my first post on this forum.

I’ll make it quick. I installed Retropie, ran the setup script, and everything seems to work well. However, I uploaded Zelda oot and super mario 64 on my pi, and tried to start the games. The games work on my computer, with mupen64 plus.
But they don’t launch on the pi. The screen comes back to the selection of the games almost immediately.

Is it a known issue ?

Hi again

11/22/2014 at 18:28 #82986

proxycell
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well mario64 should work actually, i dunno about zelda right now

did you run the “Update Binaries” option in the retropie setup script?

11/23/2014 at 00:58 #82996

rififi
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Yep I did. It changed nothing.

11/23/2014 at 19:45 #83015

proxycell
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hmm, ok, i will suggest a few more things now:

1. memory split set to 256/256?
2. overclocked to the highest setting? (Turbo)
3. if those still don’t work, go into /etc/emulationstation/ and edit the file es_systems.cfg and look at the N64 block

i believe there are two different N64 emulation options in there, one is commented out, comment out the first one and then uncomment out the other, try that? :S

11/23/2014 at 20:19 #83017
gizmo98
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There are two N64 emulators at the moment. Mupen64plus and mupen64plus-libretro. Both emulators can be installed with the current RetroPie-Setup. Every emulator has issues. Mupen64plus is hard to configure and it is impossible to disable this emulator if it is started from emulationstation. Mupen64plus-libretro should be more compatible but is even slow at 1GHz OC.

Just disable emulationstation with “F4”, update RetroPie-Setup and install one emulator with RetroPie-Setup:
Press F4
```
cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo git pull
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh
```
Select Experimental Packages
11/30/2014 at 13:42 #83231
rififi
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Hi, sorry for the delay, I don’t get email notifications from this forum.

There is actually only one block for the N64 in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg:
```
  <system>
    <fullname>Nintendo 64</fullname>
    <name>n64</name>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/n64</path>
    <extension>.z64 .Z64 .n64 .N64 .v64 .V64</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 1 "/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L  --config /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/n64/retroarch.cfg   %ROM%"</command>
    <platform>n64</platform>
    <theme>n64</theme>
  </system>
```
Do I have to install the 2 emulators to have 2 blocks ?
12/06/2014 at 09:23 #83369

gizmo98
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No. RetroPie-Setup overrides the whole block if you build and install an emulator.
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