[Floob]

[quote=86213]hi @all can someone please tell me how i can get the sd Card Image? becouse when i klick on the downloadbutton nothing happens. sorry for my bad english i am from Germany thanks[/quote]

Try this link:
https://www.petrockblock.com/download/retropie-sd-card-image-v2-4-2-beta/

[Floob]

Hi Roo,

Thanks very much for your help.
I think I’m slowly getting to grips with scanning and rebuilding now.
clrmamepro certainly has a lot of options!

So is it the case, that the dat file will contain the precise information about the relevant roms (filesize, anme and crc check) and sets, so when you build it will rip out any matching roms from your sources and recreate/rebuild valid ones itself, so a lot of the hard work / important data is held in the dat file?

So potentially you could build a full romset against a given version even if you never had any of those roms to begin with?

And with RetroPie, the FBA dat file is 0.2.96.71, and this appears to have 684 games, so that would be the maximum amount of verified games that will run on it? And that also implies that the fba binary would be most happy with this set as thats the dat file that came packaged with it?

Should I worry my neogeo.zip never seems to find the correct sized 000-lo.lo rom in it?

Floob.

[Floob]

Remember that all the paths (except the main .cfg file) and folders for mame4all in RetroPie 2.4.x are in
/opt/retropie/configs/mame/

[Floob]

Can you confirm you expanded the card?

What does the command “df -h” return?

[Floob]

I’d suggest following this from scratch (except use 2.4.2 as you are doing)
You are using 2.4.2. Its the only one available at that link you followed above.

The guide includes how to expand your card first.

[Floob]

Thats right. Its RetroPie 2.4.2 and EmulationStation v2.0.0
Its the right file you have.

In the setup script here:
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

run it with
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

On the first screen choose “Update RetroPie Setup Script”
Then quit out and re-run it

Then choose option 3 Setup
Then option 315 would reset permissions, but if you have just built the image it should be fine.

Just make sure you copy roms across using the “pi” user. It should be fine.

[Floob]

Fairly sure the FBA version uses romset 0.2.96.71 due to the dat file it comes with

rename to .dat

[Floob]

Maybe you’re looking at EmulationStation – thats v2.
As long as you used that link above its fine.

[Floob]

You can get 2.4.2 here:
https://www.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/download-info/retropie-sd-card-image-v2-4-2-beta/

[Floob]

In 2.4.2 there is an option in the RetroPie setup script to check permissions, its under the Setup menu in there.
Or use Filezilla and set everything in the roms dir to 777.

[Floob]

Do you have the full error message?
Maybe its permissions writing to your rom folder?

This may also help:

[Floob]

I would be sorely tempted to download the set that profitwarning mentins above. It seems FBA is happiest with sets geared for portable devices. As I’m no mame / fba set expert I download the correct set rather than convert them.

Maybe we could keep track of what works here:

MAME romset versions?

[Floob]

I run a game, then press F10 to bring up the in game menu that allows you to configure your joypad.

[Floob]

There are details of how to set up the controller here:
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/The-gpSP-Emulator

[Floob]

If you change this it may work:
input_driver = “linuxraw”
to
input_joypad_driver = “linuxraw”

Saying that, my iBuffalo has this
input_driver = “udev”

But to be honest I’d take all that out of the retroarch,cfg and just use the auto approach.

[Floob]

My videos answer most of your questions, check them out in my signature.

The controller file for pisnes is here:
/opt/retropie/emulators/pisnes/snes9x.cfg

[Floob]

I’d be tempted to put your retroarch.cfg back how it was and just use the autodetect method.
I think it might be easier to debug if there are issues then.

[Floob]

[quote=86065]This location seems not to be quite accurate at least on V2.4.2.
/opt/retropie/configs/{system name}/retroarch.cfg[/quote]

Yep – yo’re right, thanks. Updated my post now.

[Floob]

Hi Roo,

I think I’ve got a MAME 0.138 set, what is the best way to confirm this?
Would it be (if I download the windows exe of mame 0.138):
mame -verifyroms * >verify.txt

Or is there an easier way?

[Floob]

Which directory did you copy the roms into?
It should be /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/

Which romset are you using? It should be 0.37b5 or it probably wont work.

[Floob]

My iBuffalo setup is this:

[Joystick]
# Get codes from "jstest /dev/input/js0"
# from package "joystick"
A_1=0
B_1=1
X_1=2
Y_1=3
L_1=4
R_1=5
START_1=7
SELECT_1=6
#Joystick axis
JA_LR=0
JA_UD=1

Which seems the same as yours, although I dont have this:

QUIT=999
ACCEL=999
QLOAD=10
QSAVE=11

My romset used is shown here:

[Floob]

The per system retroarch config is in
/opt/retropie/configs/{systemname}/retroarch.cfg

Here is an overview on configuring them

[Floob]

This may help explain how to get files on there, obviously you want the BIOS folder instead of the roms folder I mention. I probably need to expand on how the USB copying works.

[Floob]

I’m not sure of the full paths where you say you have 2 retroarch folders.
If it is
/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/

then you have 2.3 and 2.4 installed at once. I’d just use the 2.4.2 image and dont update it. If you use the RetroPie image you dont need to install/update the binaries etc..

You can see how to configure controller here:

[Floob]

At the command prompt you can type “ps -u pi”
This will show whats running, as long as EmulationStation isnt running, that should be fine.

The comments underneath this video here may help you fix the path issue otherwise:

To get to etc, in the terminal you type “cd /etc”
Then “cd /emulationstation”

Just let me know if you need anything else.

[Floob]

Is it listed as “Toki” ?

[Floob]

If you run the RetroPie setup script, you will see an option to reset the permissions

Check 10:20 here:

[Floob]

Its in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

[Floob]

That folder structure doesnt look valid. Can you post your retroarch.cfg as an attachment here?

It will be in /opt/retropie/configs/all/

[Floob]

@huskefreak
The issue you have with the config process bombing out is probably this:

Error with RetroPie Setup scripts

Either that or you may have EmulationStation running in the background.

If its feasible you could start with a clean 2.4.2 image, then follow the guide?

Remember that the /etc directory is at the top level if you want to get to that, as opposed to being in /home/pi/ for example.

Hopefully some of my other videos below will help you.

[Floob]

hmm, this is the folder used in 2.3
/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/

its lowercase retroarch in 2.4.x

I would definitely go for a 2.4.2 image and start clean so you know where you are.

Thats a very good question about how exactly the auto detect files are used – in my experience the most recent valid file seems to be selected. You can always confirm what happens by running a rom and checking the yellow text at the bottom of the screen.

[Floob]

DOS games go here:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc

The command it runs is
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 1 "/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -c \"MOUNT C /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc\"" "dosbox"

http://www.dosbox.com/information.php?page=0

I think Ports is conversions/ports of PC games that are now rewritten to run on linux.

[Floob]

Do these help?

http://emulationstation.org/gettingstarted.html
NOTE: if you don’t install libudev-dev before building SDL2, the keyboard will mysteriously not work in EmulationStation.

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation
Hold a button on the device you want to configure. This includes the keyboard.

Does it work if you simply plug a normal keyboard in?

[Floob]

Thanks a lot! I’m sure that will sort it out.
I’ll give the next release a go and see if the script as a whole gets everything up and running in one go.

[Floob]

gnGeo exits quite nicely (bring ingame menu up and exit from there with joypad)

Not sure about AdvMame though – I need to try it out.

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