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There were a few errors in my code that I think have been fixed now. Just update your setup script and try and install it again. I’ll see if I can test it as well once I find some time

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I haven’t tested with dsk games yet. Out of curiosity if you’ve been able to get mx2 games to work with both bluemsx and fmsx, which would you say has better performance?

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Are you using bluemsx or fmsx? If you’re using retropie 3.0 rc1 you can press a button as your ROM loads and switch between the two emulators as some games work better with some and not others. I haven’t really tested disk images with msx though.

Also you can press select+x to open up into the rgui and change the input configs from retropad to retrokeyboard so that it registers your keystrokes I believe.

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Well it’s been merged to the source code now so you can open the retropie setup script, update it, restart the setup script and then navigate to the experimental directory and choose lr-bluemsx and it should install it.

You’ll need a keyboard for controls. If you install it from the setup script within emulation station you might need to press f4 to refresh your emulation station configs

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Just out of curiosity- when is it crashing? Is it a specific battle or in the menus? I played it for maybe an hour or so today and it didn’t crash at all. I’m just running on a fresh image on a rpi2. Perhaps test my build out through the setup script and see if it still crashes.

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Here we are:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/918

If/when its added to the setup script you should be able to update your setup script and install it from the experimental section. If you don’t want to wait for it to be added you can install it manually.

I’ve configured it to default to msx2 in the core options.

I added an option for colecovision in the core options as well. Games run but I wasn’t able to figure out controller input so for now its basically useless.

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I added a pull request to install lr-bluesmx with the core option defaulted to msx2.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/918

I tested it out and I was able to play msx2 games using my keyboard.

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place your scripts in the folder that you have designate in your es_systems.cfg

<path>~/RetroPie/roms/apps</path>

so in the aformentioned example they would be placed in a folder called apps in the roms folder. they’ll show up if you have the same extensions on your files as indicated by this

<extension>.sh .SH</extension>

so in this case they would be shell scripts- if they still aren’t running even if they show up you may have to sudo chmod +x yourshell.sh

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Nope not yet.

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I know that the bluemsx emulator has core options

https://github.com/libretro/Lakka/issues/166

so maybe I’ll try and compile it and see if it works- maybe I can come up with a scriptmodule that can be added to the setup script.

with a little bit of coding to the source it is possible that it could run colecovision games as well…

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Its been merged to the source so if you update your setup script you can install it from the experimental menu.

I was more worried about the whole Nintendo intellectual property issue than the stability for adding it.

I haven’t tested it out enough to see what might be causing it to crash, I’m not the most gifted when it comes to coding so you’d probably have a better idea than me at the moment, but I’ll see what I can figure out as it goes on.

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Ok- so I’ve been inspired by your posts Ronoh55 and how helpful you’ve been in detailing how to compile it so I took the liberty of testing it out. Not only was I able to get it to work based on your posts but I was able to clone the repo onto my own github account (https://github.com/HerbFargus/smw) and in the process removed the need for subversion, add all the patches to the source code, change all the line endings so that dos2unix is no longer necessary, and just for kicks I created a scriptmodule that can be added to the retropie setup script:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/917

I’m not sure if it will be added to the project but the code is there if you want to use it. :)

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does this happen to all games or just some? I’ve been testing it a bit and it seems that some games just have issues- one way to workaround it is to load up a game that is working and then in the rgui switch to the game that wasn’t loading. It worked for pokemon emerald for me.

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Unplug it after you’ve run the sudo shutdown -h now and then plug it back it to turn it back on. At least until you’ve added hardware with an on button. I typically just leave my pi on because I’m too lazy to keep turning it off and on.

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Alternatively if you want the whole desktop thing back you can do sudo apt-get install lxde

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1: I find it easiest to just start from a fresh image. You can try a full binary install from the retropie setup script (after updating the setup script) but there is no guarantee the configurations will carry over.

2. Press start in emulationstation and in the menu there is an option to configure controls like you did when it booted. It creates configs for retroarch and emulation station. You can configure things for only retroarch from the retropie menu or the setup script as well.

3. The favourites list is something a lot of people have requested but would need to be integrated into emulation station. Closest you’ll get for now is the most played variable from your gamelist (which I think you can sort from the start menu in emulation station)

4. I’m not super familiar with the rgui but I’m pretty sure there Is at least one setting in it you have to change to tell it to save settings on exit or something like that.

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details are on the github page. Floob also made a video if that’s more helpful:

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same here: I’ve opened up a ticket on github:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/914

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Some Hyphenated games aren’t scraped for some reason (another reason why pacman and digdug aren’t scraped) you’ll probably have better luck with sselph’s scraper.

https://github.com/sselph/scraper

Another thing to make a note of is the platform variable in es_systems.cfg

See also:

Scraper does't find existing results in TheGamesDB

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sudo apt-get remove wicd-curses

Glad you found my videos useful :)

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With wicd-curses sometimes you have to press shift+c for it to connect. I’m hoping in the future we can integrate something into the retropie setup script as it seems the modifying the interfaces file directly works a little more consistently (plus it doesn’t affect processing like wicd-curses does)

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Sometimes wicd-curses can be finicky. Try configuring it manually using option 2 here:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Setting-Up-Wifi

And see if it makes any difference

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The fba-libretro is a depreciated folder only used in older versions of retropie. For 3.0 you should put your FBA ROMs in the fba folder.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FinalBurn-Alpha

You can also put them in the neogeo folder as well.

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If you are trying to play a game, each emulator will show up as its own page in emulation station with the list of games you added. The retropie menu is just for configurations.

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Another thing that might be worth looking into is sselph’s scraper:

https://github.com/sselph/scraper

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That is good to know. BTW you should be able to remap the core controls now under the quick menu in the rgui (called core input remapping) so that they match the other PC engine without needing to change your retroarch.cfg

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I think the problem may be the platform your es_systems.cfg has listed. by default its the megadrive. see this post:

Retropie 3.0 Not scraping NTSC Genesis artwork?

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I think you may be thinking of the old way of doing things, with the newer versions of retropie you don’t need to modify any paths in es_systems.cfg. rather you can press js0 (button 0 on your joypad) or a keyboard as a ROM loads and you can switch the default emulators on the fly.

But if you’re talking about wanting a two n64 menus in emulation station, one for each emulator yes you’d have to modify the es_systems.cfg.

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This isn’t related to your issue… But that being my favourite game I’ve been working on a project that you may find useful for once you do solve your save state problem (its still a work in progress)

http://super-mario-rpg-legend-of-the-seven-stars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

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Its a known issue with lr-fba and lr-imame4all. For some reason the hotkey overrides the select key input coin function for some games so I usually just swap my hotkey with the left bumper and then pressing select works to input a coin.

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Did you remember to put the gba_bios.bin in the BIOS folder?

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Nope NEVER just yank the cord. That will definitely corrupt all your cards. The code is sudo shutdown -h now it also runs that code if you choose shutdown from the emulation station menu.i also just use this app on my phone cause im too lazy to type it in the terminal.

Good thing you had the common sense to ask since some people never realise that what they are doing is ruining their stuff so that every time their card corrupts they blame the retropie project when in reality it’s user error.

I think it would be nice if the raspberry pi came with an on off button but there are ways you can modify the hardware to add one like the control block, mausberry switch, etc.

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Are you using the new emulation station input function? If so it outputs an autoconfig file here: /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/yourgamepad.cfg and that’s where you’ll want to change it. You can also check out the hotkey section on this page:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

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I don’t have much experience with other systems so I can’t speak to those, and I agree the gamepad configuration is definitely a work in progress, but as far as the gamepad configuration the bottom of this page has everything you should need for knowing what buttons to push for each controller:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

They are also on each of their respective emulator pages on the wiki.

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With retropie 3.0 there is an option in the retropie menu to configure retroarch controls (I haven’t had any issues with my ROMs), one of them is to configure the keyboard. Its pretty self explanatory. By default the keyboard just works anyhow- arrow keys are the Dpad, x is a… Etc. You should also just be able to change the retroarch.cfg file manually if you want different keys to be used depending on which emulator you are using.

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