[Floob]

I’ve been playing around with that this week, although I think most (all) of those settings can be saved in the retroarch.cfg?
My approach is to get the best (in my view) shader for each system, and specify it in the system specific retroarch.cfg file – is that the right approach?

[Floob]

Yes, it really is a very effective tool, that is pretty easy to use.
I’m sure it will help a lot of people make their RetroPie experience even better.

It would be interesting if EmulationStation could hook it into their GUI.

[Floob]

That looks great! I think building a case like that really adds to the experience.

[Floob]

Great stuff. I tend to keep a clean copy of retropie about that I compare my install to now and again and see if I’ve changed something I shouldnt have.

Glad its all good now.

[Floob]

Its worth checking the retroarch.cfg files – so blank out the snes one completely, and comment out all the joypad lines in the /all/ version.

Just make sure these lines are uncommented in it
input_autodetect_enable = true
joypad_autoconfig_dir = /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs/

[Floob]

Comparison of shaders in RetroPie to original hardware:

[Floob]

Ah – good point. Yes, sometimes parent roms are needed.
Perhaps you can see which are needed with a GUI rom manager?
http://wiki.romcenter.com/doku.php?id=screenshots

[Floob]

Out of interest, what does your file /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg look like? Maybe if its populated ES wont complain?

Or you could post the query here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=80674

[Floob]

You can delete roms without affecting others, or at least as far as I know anyway.
You can get rom specific names, so they dont all look identical, with either the internal scraper, or you can use this quick command line method:

[Floob]

Have you tried the autodetect process above rather than manually setting them?

[Floob]

I think you may need to tweak the config.txt file for that other TV.
Try a specific video mode for it.

I can only presume its technically different in how it interprets the signal from the Pi than your other TV.
Perhaps some one with more hardware knowledge can help out on that one.

It could be worth trying outputting from the composite socket on the Pi and see how both TVs interpret that.

[Floob]

Ok, I would say that “Joypad #1 (USB Gamepad) configured” indicates the second controller is detected, as the first one would be
“Joypad #0 (USB Gamepad) configured”

Watch it really carefully when it boots again and see if it shows both, as they do flash up pretty quickly. If it does show both, thats a good sign that RetroArch knows they are both there.

Essentially the only cfg files RetroArch will use are the one in /all/ directory, which is obviously read by all the RetroArch emulator cores, and then the system specific one will be read and overwrite any previous rules. Thats why, when you are testing here, it would be good to blank out the snes specific one, so you know it is just reading the one in the /all/ directory, and you can worry about fine tuning later.

You can see your controller config file in the “configs” directory inside the RetroArch folder, retroarch automatically loads this. I have 2 controllers exactly the same, hence its the same controller config.

I dont have any controller settings in the console specific folders, i.e. snes, and in the /all/ directory version I have all the controller mappings commented out – except for:

input_autodetect_enable = true
joypad_autoconfig_dir = /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs/

Are you running RetroPie 2.3, as these settings were default for me.

[Floob]

Thats odd – retroarch should have the on screen display when it boots up.
Does your retroarch file have “true” for the OSD value?

Did you use the controller detector in the retropie setup file itself?

[Floob]

Try using an empty snes specific retroarch.cfg file, then when the emulator is firing up does it identify both controllers with yellow text at the bottom of the screen?

[Floob]

To be honest if the simple theme isnt there to start with, it would be easier and quicker to re-install.

The broad steps are:
– Download RetroPie 2.3 image
https://www.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/
– Burn with Win32 Disk Imager
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
– Run sudo raspi-config, and expand filesystem
– Run sudo apt-get update
– Run sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Then run the retropie setup script
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

and select upgrade script, and restart the setup script.

and in there you can configure your controller etc..

It should certainly include the simple theme within that process.

Check my other videos for details on scraping metadata quickly.

[Floob]

Does it configure in RetroArch ok?
If so, you could manually write the keymappings into the es_input.cfg file?

[Floob]

I guess you are trying to write ‘simple’ directory as user ‘pi’ but it wants root access?

A bit of a shotgun approach, but you could just make all files there writeable by anyone. Get the command prompt and navigate to that directory

‘cd /etc/’
‘chmod -R 777 emulationstation/’

[Floob]

It could be worth trying editing the /boot/config.txt file and try a different video mode?

http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video_mode_options

Maybe this one to start with?
hdmi_safe=1

[Floob]

Maybe a video output setting in the /boot/config.txt file?
http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video_mode_options

[Floob]

Do you know why the <releasedate> node looks odd in the gamelist.xml but displays ok in Emulation Station?

<releasedate>19921220T000000</releasedate>

[Floob]

More details on easily choosing shaders here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owsdsyIDU6A

[Floob]

Theres a chance this is a permission issue. Make sure user ‘pi’ has rights to write to the roms folder itself.

I’ve got a bit of info here:

How to save games in RetroPie / RetroArch

[Floob]

[quote=6093]Now when i have the save function working i got another problem.
Now when i enter a game it’s exactly where i left off. Lets say i’m playing singelplayer Donkey Kong on Snes and want to start a multiplayer game instead. But i can’t get to the menu because it automatically resumes me to where i left off. how do i get to the start menu?
I do apologize if i’m missing something really easy, but it’s my first time playing with a Raspberry.
– simon
[/quote]

It sounds like you have
savestate_auto_load = true

Try changing that?

[Floob]

Ah I see. I imagine the single source will be fine, no doubt it will normally be fine. Not sure if this helps: http://api.archive.vg/2.0/

I dont know how difficult it would be, but a lot of people would love MAME support, as thats obviously a key system for emulation, if that got added at some point it would be great.

Separately, a check to see if the ‘image’ directory exists before running it would help forgetful people. Like me……

[Floob]

Good find. I’ve emailed the project members to see if they could provide that in the format that is usable in RetroArch.

As a side note this tool may be useful in getting more shaders in a format that RetroArch likes:
http://themaister.net/glslview/

[Floob]

Are there any other data sources that you could use besides thegamesdb.net ?
Seems down so often at the moment.

Is this one possible?
archive.vg

[Floob]

Does this help?

[Floob]

Does this help?

[Floob]

It looks like its just your paths that are wrong.

Try this:

[Floob]

XML syntax error on the files I renamed .bin – so looking good :)

[Floob]

I gave it a go and am getting this at the moment

pi@raspberrypi ~/RetroPie/roms/megadrive $ ./scraper -thumb_only
It appears that thegamesdb.net isn't up. If you are sure it is use -skip_check to bypass this error.

thegamesdb.net seems down for me manually checking as well.

[Floob]

Try putting the GBA bios here:
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/gba

Odd that ES doesnt see the other systems. Do the roms show happily within EmulationStation itself – so to check if the rom extension is good?
Perhaps it was a temporary network glitch and it would work if you tried again?

[Floob]

Thanks very much for this.
I’d really like to try it, but all my Megadrive roms are .gen.

Do you think this is a .bin?
http://www.openthefile.net/extension/gen/2908
http://yoyofr.proboards.com/thread/731

For me the emulationstation config looks for these extensions

<extension>.smd .SMD .bin .BIN .gen .GEN .md .MD .zip .ZIP</extension>

[Floob]

My config for iBuffalo is attached.

From:
/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs

I’ve renamed it .txt

[Floob]

This is a pretty good command line version (shown in vid above)
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/

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