[Floob]

I’d be tempted to run 2.4.2 and dont update from source as its a pretty new image anyway, I dont expect you’d be missing much just by running with the image as is.

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Can you confirm the Pi isnt running EmulationStation at the time? Just wondering if something has the device open.

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Well its pretty good as well as including a lot of options to tweak the output just as I want it, but I tend to use it with my RGB megadrive rather than a Pi.

I’ve just ordered an SLG3000 to try out and see if thats good to use with the Pi.

Thinking about it, how does the sound get carried through the HDMI to VGA cable?

[Floob]

Make sure when you run the script that EmulationStation isnt running at the time, as that can lock the joystick device.

This can happen if you connect remotely to the Pi but its still running ES.

I’d also be tempted to use 2.4.2 instead of 2.3

[Floob]

Are you putting roms in the system folders found here?

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/

There is a guide here:

[Floob]

Have you overclocked 2.4.2 the same as your old system?

[Floob]

Could you post your controller file and /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file here as attachments?

You would need to rename them .txt

[Floob]

Would they work like:

Pi – HDMI to VGA – Scanline Gen – VGA to HDMI – HD TV

or is that crazy?
Or maybe I should just use the VGA in that many TVs have?

I do have an XRGB mini but cant really bung that in with each Pi setup I do.

[Floob]

Feel free to check out my other videos (link in signature) to see how to easily setup USB controllers.

[Floob]

Have you updated your retropie script?

Maybe run with the 2.4.2 image?

[Floob]

Is there a way of parsing data from this file?
https://code.google.com/p/romcollectionbrowser/wiki/HowToAddMAMEOffline

Or a way to grab the description here (url has filename):
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/history.php?id=bloodbro

[Floob]

This may help you setup hotkeys

[Floob]

If you put the roms in the megadrive rom folder it will use the picodrive retroarch core. The megeadrive-dgen folder uses dgen emulator.

Although thats on RetroPie 2.4.x the 2.3 version only has the picodrive/retroarch option.

Do you have any extra settings in your megadrive retroarch config file?

I cover some hotkey settings here:

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Yeah I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s just too many compromises using software shaders on the Pi, I’m going to try a inline scanline generator and see how that does.

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Which scanline generator will you try?

[Floob]

Which file is being edited here?
retroarch.cfg?

[Floob]

Thats great news! It will be good to see it part of EmulationStation.

The update to your scraper to support mame is amazing! It works very well.
Would a future update be possible to get the description as well?

[Floob]

Can you include a link to it here?

[Floob]

2.4.2 has a vice update (and mentions config location):
https://www.petrockblock.com/download/retropie-sd-card-image-v2-4-small-beta/

[Floob]

I think I’ve read F11 should grab the mouse – I’ve not tried this though.

[Floob]

I just checked my 1943.zip file, and the contents include those files you reference.
What does yours contain?

If it looks more like the files shown here you have a newer version:
http://www.mamedb.com/game/1943

They are also detailed in the file I linked to above. At the moment I’m thinking you dont have the 0.37b5 romset.

Mine contains 2271 files, and the 1943.zip is 298KB

[Floob]

The newer versions of FBA do support this, but it would need to be ported to a Pi version.

[Floob]

I’m pretty sure this version of fba doesnt support mappable buttons for pause etc..

If ‘P’ doesnt pause it I’m not sure its possible.

[Floob]

1) I guess you could read the gamelist.xml that shows last played game.

3) http://cagewebdev.com/index.php/raspberry-pi-showing-some-system-info-with-a-python-script/

4) http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54145&p=413297#p413297

5)

Scripts

Auto Running Programs-Command Line

[Floob]

No, the mame4all version that comes with RetroPie is for the 0.37b5 romset.
Do you have a game in that romset that doesnt work?

Here is the list of the supported games:
http://mamerominfo.retrogames.com/lists/romv37b5.zip

[Floob]

Yes, it would overwrite 2Axes11KeysGamePad.cfg if you did it again.

The video above and my other controller videos show why you may not need to alter your retroarch.cfg at all for controllers, I never edit mine in terms of controller used and let the auto management work instead.

RetroArch will use edits in retroarch.cfg as priority over the auto config files. Thats how it decides.

[Floob]

You can tell which you are using by looking at:
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

This will show the directories used
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame will be using the mame4all emulator.
All the zip files in the romset should be put in there.

[Floob]

Thats odd, I’ve not seen that before.
Would you be able to write the image to a different card to make sure thats not the issue?

Did you follow this approach to write the image?

[Floob]

The folders that the mame emulator will use is defined in
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

So in there it shows that to use mame4all as your mame emulator, roms should go into the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame folder.

The *all* the zip files from a given romset (collection of roms related to a specific mame release) should go in there.

Once thats done, I tend to scrape the directory like this:

[Floob]

If you go to this directory
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary

You can edit this file
retroarchjoyconfig.sh

and change this part:
–timeout 4

So if you change 4 to 10, it would give you longer to set the buttons.

You may find this helpful:

[Floob]

There are other settings in that core file that relate to megadrive/genesis multi player. Have you tried those?
Unfortunately I dont have a B+ at the moment to try this on.

[Floob]

To get a benchmark can you try the same Pi on another TV?

[Floob]

maybe you have a key set to enable hotkeys, in which case you need to press that as well.

This may help:

[Floob]

Put it in that second one. This may also help:

[Floob]

Just noticed the OP said the link didnt work in Ports in ES.

I updated the file in
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/xbmc.sh

to read “kodi” instead of “xbmc” and its happy.

[Floob]

I just ran it on 2.4.1 and got this error at the end of the attempted install

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  libtag1-vanilla libtag1c2a kodi-bin kodi xbmc
E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes
Could not install package(s): xbmc. Aborting now.

The I ran
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and it installed without error.

Then type kodi to run it.

Now I’ve just got to work out how to configure this …. :)

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