[Floob]

That looks fantastic. I’d love something like that.

[Floob]

Thanks very much for the feedback on the video. I must try out the dosbox!

One comment I have had is that running startx doesnt seem to work now (not that this should really be an issue)

When I exited out of ES and typed startx it resized the window to about 1/4 size and repositioned in the top left of the screen with a white background.

[Floob]

[quote=84914]Mame4all is missing so many games. I know that its meant to be better performance by not emulating newer games but there are plenty of older games that are missing. Is there a better alternative? Or is there a way to add games to a custom compilation? [/quote]

There are over 2,000 roms in the 0.37b5 romset, which isnt bad.
If you want games that are outside of that, you can convert them

See the “SUPPORTED GAMES” section here:
https://code.google.com/p/mame4all-pi/

Or you could use fba to run arcade games:
https://code.google.com/p/pifba/

[Floob]

Has a change in the build affected this directory:
/etc/emulationstation/themes

It looks like it cant see the theme images?

[Floob]

I’d be tempted to keep it simple to start with, something like
– Write clean image to sd card
– Dont update or upgrade anything (maybe expand the filesize with raspi-config)
– Put one rom in the snes or megadrive rom folder

(At the very least I’m assuming you can boot this into EmulationStation where it shows the games to choose)

– Configure your controller for games

[Floob]

This should help

[Floob]

This should help

[Floob]

Yes it does. Although 2.4 beta is out now! I’ll check that out tonight.

[Floob]

You can use the retroarch.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/{systename}/

This sets the controls per console. You can find the button codes with the autoconfig

[Floob]

If its just one rom that has a problem and the rest are ok, chances are there is an issue with that game.
I’m pretty sure others have had a problem with Mario All Stars

[Floob]

I’m using these iBuffalo controllers which work really well.

[Floob]

Is it worth trying hdmi mode = 1 here: (in config.txt)
http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video

You could probably do this remotely even if the screen freezes as it should have network facility by that point?

[Floob]

Maybe setting this to 3?

# Sets log level for libretro cores (GET_LOG_INTERFACE).
# If a log level issued by a libretro core is below libretro_log_level, it is ignored.
# DEBUG logs are always ignored unless verbose mode is activated (–verbose).
# DEBUG = 0, INFO = 1, WARN = 2, ERROR = 3.
# libretro_log_level = 0

[Floob]

Some of your directories you have look like they are from pre RetroPie 2.3, here is an overview of where they should be if that helps:

[Floob]

I’m not sure what this does, as its not in the manual?
overscan=1
Try removing that.

Also, change #disable_overscan=1 to
disable_overscan=0

So just making sure it is using that setting basically.
Try specifying all the overscan values, so

overscan_left=40
overscan_right=16
overscan_top=16
overscan_bottom=16

[Floob]

This video may help you, but if you are scraping SNES you may want the second video because it will populate the other metadata as well.

[Floob]

If you use MAME, you should be able to set all these keys with pressing TAB when the game has loaded.

[Floob]

Could you post your congif.txt as an attachment. Then perhaps we can see something useful when comparing to the options available

http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video

[Floob]

Here is a clean one:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/master/retroarch.cfg

You can check differences here:
https://www.diffchecker.com/

This may also help:

[Floob]

You could try setting overscan to shift the screen right a little

[Floob]

I’d stick with the default pocketsnes (I’m saying that as it works fine for me)

Which user is the owner of the .srm file in question – it should be pi, which I imagine is the owner of the roms/srm in the genesis folder.

With Super Mario World, I think you have to get at least the first checkpoint for it to be a loadable save? When you fire it back up are you saying that all 3 save slots are blank?

[Floob]

It might be worth checking the permissions set on your .srm file (as well as checking it has the same filename as the rom).
Check the datestamp on it, so you know it is being written to recently.

Does this help at all?

[Floob]

That looks really impressive!

I wish these were available to purchase pre-made.

[Floob]

Yes, navigate to
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/{Systemname}/

Then “rm filename”

[Floob]

Not as far as I’m aware. But something like Filezilla shout make deleting quick and easy.

Its probably not an option in EmulationStation because some end users (who may not have built the Pi) may delete by mistake thinking it might just hide it or something.

[Floob]

You could use you own art on this style of import I guess:

[Floob]

You could create one there or use
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

[Floob]

[quote=84446]I’ve managed to get a lot of this working after another fresh image install. However, the issue remains with PocketSNES. It seems incapable of working with 2 controllers, and rendering all SNES games with multiplayer useless. What a bust.
[/quote]

I have tried Mario Kart with 2 identical controllers (as well as 2 different controllers) and can play 2 player without issue.

For reference, I’m running this command for my SNES emulation:

<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 4 "/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/emulatorcores/pocketsnes-libretro/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"</command>

My config files are at the top of this thread. I dont have anything in the snes specific retroarch config file except for a shader reference.

You might want to use this to check your main retroarch file for any major differences: https://www.diffchecker.com/

[Floob]

I dont think thats strictly true, it still has composite video:

Raspberry Pi 4-pole Audio/Video Jack

[Floob]

Try copying that into your retroarch.cfg file

[Floob]

You could open a terminal session in the GUI?

or try Ctrl-Alt-F1

[Floob]

That hardcodes your joypad to the retroarch main config file. So it will work but would cause issues if you want to swap joypads.

The issue you have had is probably this:

Error with RetroPie Setup scripts

Glad you’re up and running now :)

[Floob]

Do you have enable hotkeys enabled as shown at 20:26 in this video?
(Also check your retroarch.cfg file for the value as you may need to press ALT for example)

If you do, you need to press that first for it to work.

This is the value that should be default in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
input_menu_toggle = F1

[Floob]

The easiest way is to get the whole set. So for example, I’m sure there would be a torrent or nzb file that contains all 2,000+ zip files. It should be about 2GB.

[Floob]

Thanks for posting that shiftyowen.
I imagine it may catch a lot of users out.

I believe that the mame4all-pi will run as user “pi” therefore would need at least read permissions to all the roms, and if you create them with “root” it may not

Here is the output when its “correct”:
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 21K Dec 9 19:00 zodiack.zip

The permission flags are:
read/write/execute

The first character relates to filetype, so ignore that, then there are 3 sets of 3 flags.

Owner, Group member, Other user (You can see at the end of the permissions the owner is pi, and the group assigned to the file is pi.

So in the above example “pi” owns the file and can read and write to the file, other users can only read the file.

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