Poor performance running Super Smash Bros. 64? + controller in wrong "slot"

[haydendavenport]

Hey all,

I just got my Raspberry Pi 2, and it’s cool…

But it’s also hard for me to get things set up!

I’m having two main issues.

Issue 1:
I just put Super Smash Bros. 64 on the device, and got an xbox controller working, but when I ran the game, the first cut scene was stuttering massively. I thought that might just be a cutscene issue, but then I got into the game and there is lag and audio stuttering going on constantly.

Is that just how this works, or can this be remedied? I read the troubleshooting stuff, but to be honest, it wasn’t step by step so I didn’t understand how to do it (if you have suggestions, please make them step by step for me!).

Issue 2:
It seems I can’t get the controller to work for Super Mario Bros. 3 (although it works for Super Smash Bros.). I suspect this has to do with the fact that the Pi is assigning my Xbox controller to slot #2 instead of slot #0. I think this might be the case because when I type “jstest /dev/input/js[0-3]” it says “Joystick (Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver) #2) has 6 axes”

I know the Snes had to have the first player’s controller in the first port. So.. Is that my problem? If so, I’d love a fix for this as well! :D

Thank you so much for your help :)

[haydendavenport]

Ok weird, I couldn’t find this post anywhere, even in my thread history, and it suddenly showed up.

It’s here now though!

Does anyone know the of potential solutions to my issues?

[haydendavenport]

This thread keeps disappearing and reappearing… Why? O.o

Anyways, bump!

[neighbourhoodnerd]

Issue 1:
Support for Nintendo 64 games is a bit patchy. There are two different emulators; each offers better support for different games.

For example, I have Super Mario 64 and Star Fox 64 running flawlessly, but Banjo Kazooie has blurry text and Banjo Tooie is massively laggy.

Issue 2:
In your Retroarch.cfg file, you’ll need to make your joypad have an index of 0. This makes it the “first” controller. If you still want to use your keyboard ingame, give it a higher joypad index.

input_player1_joypad_index = "0"

[haydendavenport2]

Neighborhoodnerd,

Thank you so much for your response! I haven’t been able to use my Pi 2 for like a week because of these issues, but I think I’m on my way to having things running smoothly with your help. :)

I have two small questions though:
1. How do I switch between the two emulators?
2. Would you mind giving me a step by step on how to edit the retroarch.cfg file? Can I edit it using the pi itself, or do I need to use something like CyberDuck?

Thank you! Seriously. :)

[haydendavenport]

Oops, I had a second account made because I couldn’t get posts to work for a while. Pretend that post ^ was by this account. :P

[davejaca]

Hayden, make sure you check out the vid below on n64 setup, it might solve some of your problems, Mario and smash should work fine if you tinker, also make sure your overclocked to the Pi 2 setting for best performance, send me a PM if you don’t know how to do this.

[neighbourhoodnerd]

1. There are two different folders for N64 ROMs. Each folder will utilise a different emulator. Note that the non-standard N64 emulator doesn’t use the standard button mappings and often has to be tweaked separately.
2. You can either edit it via ftp or locally(or SSH) using Nano. If you do it via FTP in Windows, I recommend using Notepad++ to edit the files as Notepad does not lay out the file nicely.

To edit the file locally:

sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

This edits the primary config file and affects all Retroarch Emulators (which is almost all of them).

Each emulator has its own folder for individual configuration. EG:

sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg

The above lets you specify extra config just for the PSX.

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