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Well I would highly recommend giving retropie a go as we just released version 3.4

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases

When I have time I’d love to give your game a whirl. It’s always appreciated to have upstream development along with gpl at that. Opensource is the way to go.

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https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Setting-up-the-XBox360-controller

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Did you go back and change it after you finished configuring all your other buttons before your pressed ok?

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Update your setup script and try again.

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BTW you can use ln -sf to overwrite the file if it already exists.

Glad you got it sorted. I appreciate the feedback as that was one setting I failed to note on the wiki.

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You’d have to custom code a call to omxplayer for each game in the runcommand menu. Not worth the effort imo as that’s what the scraper is for.

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I fixed the link. Images are available from github now.

As far as the scraper if you use sselphs scraper from the setup script it places them in the same place as the built in scraper. Those files are now editable over samba shares so they are easy to copy over from the configs folder.

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Each Linux command has a manual or “man” page for commands so for ln:

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ln1.html

The -s stands for symbolic link which is described more here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/108771/what-is-the-difference-between-a-hard-link-and-a-symbolic-link

Basically we are linking an essentially imaginary file to where wthe real file is installed for the configs for c64. We do it for a lot of configs to keep everything structured. (We also do it with the Genesis rom folder to the megadrive rom folder etc)

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Should work on wheezy and Jessie. Of course performance on the rpi 1 isn’t as good as the rpi2. Perhaps we should start another thread with good love games that can be added to retropie (gpl licensed of course)

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Just for reference its been added to the experimental section of the setup script:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/6b752d1f5cb162e96f519e74b26e70a803a94bae

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Looking at your previous image its not symlinked (it should be). You can symlink it with

ln -s /home/pi/.vice /opt/retropie/configs/c64

What version of retropie are you on? Are you using the latest image? (If all else fails you can try with retropie 3.4)

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It’s a symlink to /opt/retropie/configs/c64 so you can just add it there.

You can use sudo nano newfilename

Or cat > newfilename

Or it’s editable over samba shares which may be an easier option.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#samba-shares-needs-an-active-internet-connection

But they should just be created when you save them from within the emulator.

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Apologies, alrighty here’s what I’ve come up with. I updated the wiki with saving settings (as there is an option to save settings in the f12 menu – see the aforementioned wiki page for the changes -note its still not complete, just a rough reference)

So I think you are correct with the following being the files for joypad configs:

JoyMapFile="/home/pi/.vice/sdl-joymap-C64.vjm"
HotkeyFile="/home/pi/.vice/sdl-hotkey-C64.vkm"

when you save the settings from the f12 menu it will create these (if it doesnt create them, create them manually and then they will be populated when you save in the menu)

I personally couldnt get consistent results though that may have been due to conflicts with my xbox controllers/how I configured the controllers, which configs, etc.

But perhaps you may have better results with the information I’ve gleaned.

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yes it is the mario portal game and its awesome

and no there is no joypad support (yet)

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For reference for others:

C64/VICE Joystick Config Help

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In all your googling did you look at the official documentation?

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Commodore-64#controls

There were some similar issues with gpsp (that still aren’t quite resolved) where we had to change perimissions of the files in the /opt path. It’s possible there is something similar going on with VICE.

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Just for reference I’ve logged a ticket here on GitHub with a working module to add Mari0 to ports. Eventually I’d like to have a game selector rather than coding it specific to one game.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1194

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is it zipped? retroarch unzips the file when you play it

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FORUM RULES (ALSO ON POSTING IN REGARDS TO ROMS/GAME IMAGES)

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If you think its a bug I’d post it on github. I don’t have any experience with gpio or those drivers but that would be the place for discussion on solutions.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues

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You could always look at PetRockBlock’s controlblock

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It’s preliminary as it will be officially released today/tomorrow (pending bugs/fixes etc.) but you can just follow the aforementioned page to update your current build with the latest changes or wait for the image to be uploaded after we finish testing.

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Retropie is built on raspbian. It just doesn’t have the desktop environment.

You can either do a full binary install after installing noobs:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Updating-RetroPie

Or you can install the desktop environment after flashing the retropie image:

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Its definitely worth pursuing if there will be dev support on the games. a module should be possible to code in if thats the case.

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You are a fantastic man and just validated all of my efforts. THANK YOU!

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https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Dreamcast

Dreamcast

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I have split your post as its own post as discussion is better separate from the sticky post.

You can add whatever you like to your theme:

Documentation is Here:

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/master/THEMES.md

though it would seem that colecovision is already part of your theme:

https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-simple-dark/tree/master/colecovision

Also I would be interested in knowing how you got final burn alpha to work with colecovision as I was never able to get successful results.

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This may be a much simpler method:

Would anyone be able to compile this for retropie?
byu/Matty_B90 inRetroPie

but I don’t know if it will work on jessie (nor do I think that it will work on newer versions of love) and I’m thinking its likely you’ll need some instance of xserver to make it work. in short it may be more trouble than its worth to try and integrate especially considering that there is no upstream development.

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alright: very very basic steps:

This is assuming you are using the jessie image:

drop to terminal with f4

cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh sdl2

Will take a LONG time

cd

then create a script called love.sh with the contents:

apt-get install build-essential automake libtool libphysfs-dev libsdl-dev libopenal-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libdevil-dev libmodplug-dev libfreetype6-dev libmpg123-dev libvorbis-dev libmng-dev libxpm-dev devscripts debhelper dh-autoreconf libasound2-dev libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxss-dev libxt-dev libxxf86vm-dev
wget https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/love-0.10.0-linux-src.tar.gz
tar zxvf love-0.10.0-linux-src.tar.gz
cd love-0.10.0
./configure --with-lua=lua
make

Make it executable:

sudo chmod +x love.sh

Run as sudo:

sudo ./love.sh

Takes a while and then you can open it with

./love-0.10.0/src/love

Now to see if I can actually get a game to run on it…

Just for reference: these are the two main posts:

http://forum.stabyourself.net/viewtopic.php?t=4356

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=90184

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I’ve never used gpio pins (yet) for a controller. Would it make sense to have different profiles on the setup script (like one for SNES and one for NES etc?)

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I’m playing with it right now. From what I understand (I could be wrong) but mari0 uses the love2d game engine. So I’m working on compiling that and then I will play with compiling the game itself.

If I can get it working I may look into adding a module for the love engine but as of right now it is taking over an hour with the sdl and lua dependencies.

Likelihood is that even if I get it working the game will be too slow to be playable enjoyably.

I haven’t looked at the synthesiser yet.

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try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhkEnDdygbQ

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https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Updating-RetroPie

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Learn how to use the resources available to you.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

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Just for reference it is linked on the download page…

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