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hello,
I could manage to have sound for the n64 emu via the regular audio out
but I was wondering how to set it up for an usb sound card ?I tried many alsa setups to force audio through device 1 instead of zero, so retropie outputs audio through the usb card
but the n64 emulator still does not want toso I tried modifying the config file
but there only seem to have options for audio jack or hdmican someoone help ?
thanks
Copied all my games into the relevant folders on my Pi 3 and have discovered I have no sound.
Have checked all the options (force sound via HDMI), checked the PSM sound and it is on full, checked that the TV sound is on (you have to check these things!) but still no sound.
Have run all the updates but still no joy.
Anyone else experienced this?
Making up a small machine cabinet and was testing with a TV HDMI and all is well.
The build uses a monitor with no sound so I have forced audio out via the 3.5 in doing so I get a hiss sound on some screen but not all. Its mainly when you should have no sound like on a menu etc.
How to fix, anyone else found this?
I usually use my pi on 1 tv but I took it to my buddies and it did not detect video. I brought it home and it worked fine. I tried it on y downstairs tv and it does not detect video. So I went into /boot/config.txt and added:
config_hdmi_boost=4
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_drive=2Still nothing on basement TV. Works fine upstairs.
Changed it to:
config_hdmi_boost=7Still nothing. I tried a different card and same issue so I am looking for any advice. Thanks for the help.
Hi, i need to force the AV output instead of HDMI to connect my pi to a regular CRT TV, i have the cable already but it seems that pressing SHIFT or 1, 2, 3, 4 keys on booting is not helping.
Any ideas?
Topic: Large Bartop Arcade
Hi all,
Just wanted to share my latest project based on the awesomeness that is Retropie.
I built this for my kids (myself mostly, don’t tell my wife) for Christmas this year. I was somehow able to do this in about 4 weeks total thanks to the plethora of info available on this forum and the rest of the internet.This was built from one 4′ x 8′ sheet of 1/2″ birch plywood. 1″ x 2″ braces are glued and screwed from the inside on all joints. You can see in one pic where I placed all the pieces using scotch tape temporarily. I then drew lines on the inside where the 1×2 braces were placed.
This is running a Raspberry Pi 2 with Retropie 3.3.
The screen is a 19″ TV which I mounted in such a way to use the built in speakers on the bottom and project them forward to the holes you see and small wood box under each speaker. HDMI is used for both video and audio from the Pi. The screen is connected to the frame using it’s own mounting holes where the stand used to be. I drilled holes in a couple aluminum bars and screwed it down to the wood, and used the TV’s own screws that used to hold the stand. Then one more piece of 1×2 wood on top of the tv to hold it in place. I ended up having to force the Pi into HDMI mode and specify the resolution in the config.txt file to keep the TV from switching inputs when powered on. There was a timing issue where the TV took too long to power up and the Pi didn’t detect anything in the HDMI port and then didn’t output HDMI. (unless rebooted while the TV was already on) Also the TV would switch to another input when it didn’t detect an HDMI signal. So forcing the output settings with config.txt fixed all this. I also had to hard set the audio to HDMI instead of Auto in the Raspi-config script.
The buttons and 8 way joysticks are wired to an iPac2 controller and connected to the Pi via USB. The iPac is running in keyboard mode.
I’ve customized certain things such as volume control using the option button + player 2 joystick up and down. Save and Load state buttons, Pause, etc.
The “shift” button you see in the pics (player 2 select button) is the iPac shift key. This allows me to navigate config menus that require tab, enter, F4, etc. (These aren’t labeled; they are just for me)
The “Option” button in the middle, is the RetroArch hotkey button. It’s the escape key for all non-RetroArch emulators such as MAME. So players can hold “Option” while pressing pause, exit, save, load, and adjusting volume. Save slots are adjusted with option + left and right on player 1 joystick.For power, I used a standard IEC power connector with switch built in. This way I can use any standard PC power cable, and get one as long as needed wherever this thing is moved to. The back is removable using a mailbox key. The back of the IEC power connector goes into an electrical outlet box on the inside of the cabinet and is wired to a standard outlet. Then a power strip is connected where the Pi, TV, and LED light power supply all plug in. The buttons and marquee are all lit with LEDs.
The marquee graphic isn’t tall enough, my own dumb fault, so I will replace that sometime soon. You can see the white bars above and below it for now. People tell me it looks good that way, but it bothers me, lol.
Finally, I’m still waiting on two small 2 inch speakers grill covers for the front.
All in all, I’m happy with this and it was a really fun project. I’m still tweaking things on the software side. I think the software stuff took twice as long as making the cabinet.
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Topic: No video to AV receiver
Hi all
Having problems with video output from my Raspberry Pi Zero to my Pioneer AV receiver (model: VSX-819H). I am running the Retropie 3.3.1 SD-card image for Raspberry Pi 1 and Pi Zero.
Video works fine connected direct to my Dell tv (model: W3202MC) via a mini to full size HDMI cable. Everything boots properly and emulators display and run perfectly.
I have tried amending the config file using:
hdmi_safe=1
config_hdmi_boost=4
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=4I have tried each individually and various combinations of the above with no joy.
I have also tried using different power adapters ranging from 1amp to 2.4amp.
Anyone got any ideas? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Topic: Config.txt missing from 3.3
No biggie, but the config.txt file seems to be missing from 3.3. I’m using 3.3 – Pi 2 – standard image. I need the file to force HDMI sound. Easily recreated.
Topic: Error Flash Screen
Hello
I m very new in retropie workflow, i ve downloaded the last img for raspberry and try to start EmulationStation.
Yesterday i had an error about Alsa and the splashscreen EmulationStation flashing.
So after a little of google i ve found a solution to configure the /boot/config.txt in the idea than the Alsa error message crashed the emulatorstation.Now i do not have errors messages but always the splashscreen flashing and blocked on it.
The log do not seems to show any problems so i m confuse about how to resolve this bug.
the rapsberry is RASPBERRY PI 2 MODEL BAny help would be appreciate ;)
This the es_log.txt and boot/config.txt files.this the log:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ emulationstation --debug lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Oct 4 2015 - 21:44:17 lvl2: Creating surface... lvl2: Created window successfully. lvl2: Checking available OpenGL extensions... lvl2: ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING lvl2: Loading system config file /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/amiga/gamelist.xml"... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/amstradcpc/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "amstradcpc" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/apple2/gamelist.xml"... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari2600/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "atari2600" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari5200/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "atari5200" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari7800/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "atari7800" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari800/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "atari800" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atarilynx/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "atarilynx" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atarist/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "atarist" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/c64/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "c64" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl1: Unknown platform for system "coco" (platform "coco" from list "coco") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/coco/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "coco" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl1: Unknown platform for system "dragon32" (platform "dragon32" from list "dragon32") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/dragon32/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "dragon32" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/fba/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "fba" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl1: Unknown platform for system "fds" (platform "fds" from list "fds") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/fds/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "fds" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gamegear/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "gamegear" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gb/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "gb" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gba/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "gba" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gbc/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "gbc" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/intellivision/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "intellivision" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/macintosh/gamelist.xml"... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-advmame/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "mame-advmame" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-libretro/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "mame-libretro" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-mame4all/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "mame-mame4all" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mastersystem/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "mastersystem" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/megadrive/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "megadrive" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/msx/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "msx" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/n64/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "n64" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "neogeo" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "nes" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ngp/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "ngp" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/pc/gamelist.xml"... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/pcengine/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "pcengine" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml"... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/psx/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "psx" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: Unknown platform for system "scummvm" (platform "scummvm" from list "scummvm") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/scummvm/gamelist.xml"... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/sega32x/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "sega32x" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/segacd/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "segacd" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl1: Unknown platform for system "sg-1000" (platform "sg-1000" from list "sg-1000") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/sg-1000/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "sg-1000" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: Unknown platform for system "vectrex" (platform "vectrex" from list "vectrex") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/vectrex/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "vectrex" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl1: Unknown platform for system "videopac" (platform "videopac" from list "videopac") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/videopac/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "videopac" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/wonderswan/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "wonderswan" has no games! Ignoring it. lvl1: Unknown platform for system "zmachine" (platform "zmachine" from list "zmachine") lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/zmachine/gamelist.xml"... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/zxspectrum/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: System "zxspectrum" has no games! Ignoring it. ^Clvl2: EmulationStation cleanly shutting down. EmulationStation will restart in 5 seconds. Press a key to exit back to console.And my /boot/config.txt:
# For more options and information see # http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md # Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details # uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode #hdmi_safe=1 # uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible # and your display can output without overscan disable_overscan=1 # uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console # goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border overscan_left=16 overscan_right=16 overscan_top=16 overscan_bottom=16 # uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus # overscan. #framebuffer_width=1920 #framebuffer_height=1080 # uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output #hdmi_force_hotplug=1 # uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA) hdmi_group=1 hdmi_mode=82 # uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in # DMT (computer monitor) modes hdmi_drive=2 # uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or # no display config_hdmi_boost=4 # uncomment for composite PAL #sdtv_mode=2 #uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default. #arm_freq=800 # Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces #dtparam=i2c_arm=on #dtparam=i2s=on #dtparam=spi=on # Uncomment this to enable the lirc-rpi module #dtoverlay=lirc-rpi # Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README #gpu_mem = 32 dtparam=audio=onTopic: Hdmi Vga
Hello everyone , I’m new but I found a problem with a HDMI to VGA converter for raspberry pi b + , I do not get it working , I tried to enter the following command in the config.txt file, but without success :
hdmi_force_hotplug = 1
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=16
hdmi_drive=2someone can help me, thank you very much
Topic: VGA issue
Hi,
I bought a VGA converter cause my Acer X193HQ has only a VGA entry.
So, to configure my retropie, i wrote this in /boot/config.txt :
# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode hdmi_safe=1 #disable_commandline_tags=1 #uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible #and your display can output without overscan #disable_overscan=1 #hdmi_ignore_edid_=0xa5000080 #uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console #goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border #overscan_left=30 #overscan_right=15 #overscan_top=20 #overscan_bottom=10 #uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus #overscan. #framebuffer_width=1366 #framebuffer_height=768 #uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output hdmi_force_hotplug=1 #uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA) hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=81 #uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in #DMT (computer monitor) modes hdmi_drive=2 #uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or #no display #config_hdmi_boost=4 #uncomment for composite PAL #sdtv_mode=2 #sdtv_aspect=1 #for more options see http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt gpu_mem_256=128 gpu_mem_512=256 gpu_mem_1024=256 overscan_scale=1 arm_freq=950 core_freq=250 sdram_freq=450 over_voltage=6but, when i reboot, i still have this value:
pi@retropie ~ $ tvservice -s state 0x12000a [HDMI DMT (4) RGB full 4:3], 640x480 @ 60.00Hz, progressiveand my display is totally awful, flat, and pixelised ! :-1:
even i choose hdmi group 2 ande mode 81 !
with
tvservice -m DMT, i found this values for my screen :Group DMT has 11 modes: (prefer) mode 4: 640x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:25MHz progressive mode 5: 640x480 @ 72Hz 4:3, clock:31MHz progressive mode 6: 640x480 @ 75Hz 4:3, clock:31MHz progressive mode 8: 800x600 @ 56Hz 4:3, clock:36MHz progressive mode 9: 800x600 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:40MHz progressive mode 10: 800x600 @ 72Hz 4:3, clock:50MHz progressive mode 11: 800x600 @ 75Hz 4:3, clock:49MHz progressive mode 16: 1024x768 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:65MHz progressive mode 17: 1024x768 @ 70Hz 4:3, clock:75MHz progressive mode 18: 1024x768 @ 75Hz 4:3, clock:78MHz progressive mode 81: 1366x768 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:85MHz progressiveWith the tvservice command, i can change the resolution, but, after reboot, this settings disapear !
Someone has the same issue ?
Topic: Emulator Screen Size
Hi Guys,
I’m facing a rather odd issue with the emulators snes8x-next and fceumm (NES). A few pixel rows on top are missing in both emulators. If i switch to other emulators like pocketsnes the screen size is just right. I also messed around with all the screen options in the menu before the actual emulator starts.
At the beginning, the ES screen was too big as well, so I adjusted the config.txt. That fixed the ES screen size and also lead to an improvement at the above-mentioned emulators. Instead of about 40 lines missing on top, it was down to 20 I would say. But regardless how much I increase/change the overscan values from that point (24), it only enlarges the black frames on the sides.
First I thought it’s related to the swampy’s issue
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/484I tested this fix and it indeed shrank the ES screen. But actually it had the same effect like increasing the overscan values to about 35 or so and didn’t fix the emulator issue.
# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode hdmi_safe=1 # uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible # and your display can output without overscan #disable_overscan=1 # uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console # goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border overscan_left=24 overscan_right=24 overscan_top=24 overscan_bottom=24 # uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus # overscan. #framebuffer_width=1920 #framebuffer_height=1080 # uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output #hdmi_force_hotplug=1 # uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA) #hdmi_group=1 #hdmi_mode=16 # uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in # DMT (computer monitor) modes #hdmi_drive=2 # uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or # no display #config_hdmi_boost=4 # uncomment for composite PAL #sdtv_mode=2 # for more options see http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt gpu_mem_256=128 gpu_mem_512=256 gpu_mem_1024=256 overscan_scale=1 arm_freq=1100 core_freq=500 sdram_freq=500 over_voltage=6 temp_limit=80Any ideas?
Thanks
nbk7I have a samsung HDTV installed lengthwise in an arcade cabinet and I can’t seem to get emulation station output the 4:3 aspect ratio I set in the config.txt file. The emulators work properly when I start a game per the settings.
The forum linked below is the closest thing I have found to a solution but it looks like the file structure of retropie has changed since this post and I am unable to get it to work with their instructions.
https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/55
Here is my /boot/config.txt
# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default “safe” mode
#hdmi_safe=1
display_rotate=3
# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
# and your display can output without overscan
#disable_overscan=0# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
#overscan_left=24
#overscan_right=24
overscan_top=50
overscan_bottom=-50
overscan_scale=1
# uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display’s size minus
# overscan.
framebuffer_width=640
framebuffer_height=480# uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output
#hdmi_force_hotplug=1# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
#hdmi_group=1
#hdmi_mode=1# uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in
# DMT (computer monitor) modes
#hdmi_drive=2# uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or
# no display
#config_hdmi_boost=4# uncomment for composite PAL
#sdtv_mode=2# for more options see http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
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