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Any reason why you aren’t using the setup script the install it?

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There is also the raspi2png option where you could probably figure out some way to make a script that recognises the rom you are playing and then when you take a screenshot with raspi2png it automatically names the created png the same as your rom name, then as above you can run sselphs scraper to link all your images.

Lots of ways of doing it. of course retroarch also has a screenshot function as well.

Also as a correction there are no quotation marks in the syntax for -img_format=”png” even though there are in the help docs for his scraper.

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Binaries are typically updated anytime there are major changes (for example scummvm binaries are already updated to 1.8) it really just depends. You just have to follow development on github if you want the latest changes.

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https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

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https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

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Odroid has rubbish community support though. Good luck getting it to do all the stuff the pi does.

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https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Scraper#where-are-my-scraped-images-and-metadata-saved

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Added sfc to the theme downloader.

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Just as a reference to further emphasize the current userbase these are the latest download counts as of right now. The vast majority of users are on a Pi 2 or Pi 3.

“name”: “retropie-v3.6-rpi1_zero-berryboot.img256”,
“download_count”: 859,

“name”: “retropie-v3.6-rpi1_zero.img.gz”,
“download_count”: 3763,

“name”: “retropie-v3.6-rpi2_rpi3-berryboot.img256”,
“download_count”: 3358,

“name”: “retropie-v3.6-rpi2_rpi3.img.gz”,
“download_count”: 128655,

I think the above points are valid. Config sounds good to me.

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It may be a long while before any of the upper end systems are supported. At the very least will need a RAM bump before we see anything too spectacular but even then I’m not going to hold my breath.

I bought a pi 3. Hasn’t gotten here yet but I just like the idea of onboard wifi I probably could have waited until the pi 4 (or whatever their next release will be) but it gives me an excuse to do another project with my old pi so I don’t mind. I do it for the development, I haven’t played a game in months.

$35 is hardly breaking the bank so that’s how I justify it, but if the board were say $100 for the changes yeah I’d wait for a while til the price felt justified.

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Looks much better, thank you. makes the forum a lot more readable. (especially on mobile devices)

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Please learn to use pastebin for posting logs.

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This is what mine looks like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<inputList>
  <inputAction type="onfinish">
 <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/scripts/inputconfiguration.sh</command>
  </inputAction>
  <inputConfig type="keyboard" deviceName="Keyboard">
    <input name="pagedown" type="key" id="114" value="1"/>
    <input name="start" type="key" id="115" value="1"/>
    <input name="pageup" type="key" id="101" value="1"/>
    <input name="up" type="key" id="1073741906" value="1"/>
    <input name="a" type="key" id="13" value="1"/>
    <input name="b" type="key" id="1073742053" value="1"/>
    <input name="down" type="key" id="1073741905" value="1"/>
    <input name="right" type="key" id="1073741903" value="1"/>
    <input name="select" type="key" id="97" value="1"/>
    <input name="left" type="key" id="1073741904" value="1"/>
  </inputConfig>
</inputList>

The following code block is needed in order to call the script that automates the creation of the retroarch controller configs. It is called anytime that you configure a controller through emulationstation

  <inputAction type="onfinish">
 <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/scripts/inputconfiguration.sh</command>
  </inputAction>

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post the whole contents of it on something like pastebin

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what does your es_input.cfg file look like?

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The simplest analogy would be RecalBox is like Apple, RetroPie is like Android

Recalbox is a nice project where their emphasis is on user friendliness. It’s built with a buildroot system so it is streamlined for performance but very much hardcoded in, and obviously is much more limited in what you can do, has less systems, less settings to play with etc – but its a good plug and play option for those that want a simple experience. They’ve also done a lot more work on their fork of emulationstation so that it includes music in the background, favourites, etc.

RetroPie as you realise has a lot more options, is much more modular and can be installed on top of more than just the raspberry pi (x86, Odroid (sorta), and likely other devices in the future) Because it’s installed on top of an operating system (like Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi) It’s a lot more flexible for the kind of stuff you might want to kludge onto it (we just added 7 ish game engines in the last week) so power users can pretty much do whatever they want if they know what they are doing.

I obviously have a bias as I’ve worked on retropie for over a year now (and not to toot my own horn but the documentation for RetroPie is fantastic)

RetroPie also has a more active community. You can look at the download counts for both projects to get an idea of their relative popularity:

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

https://api.github.com/repos/Recalbox/Recalbox-os/releases

I wouldn’t say any one is better than the other as they both have unique things to offer, rather it just depends on what your priorities are and what you prefer.

And also just to add the majority of the software retropie and recalbox use are essentially the same (RetroArch and EmulationStation), the main difference lies in the environment the software is built on and the settings available.

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The theme has been updated in the theme installer.

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https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#transferring-roms

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BIOS files go into /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Dreamcast

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Not saying it can’t be done, but I haven’t seen anybody do it.

It’s likely it would require recoding of the emulator to utilise that functionality of the wiimotes.

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I wouldnt ever trust any of the sets to actually be what they say they are, so you are correct in assuming you need to use clrmamepro to rebuild your sets. you won’t ever get a complete set as there are always some roms that don’t work but if you’re getting a pi 3, you’ll likely get support for more sets with lr-mame2003 (which is the deafult libretro mame emulator) Performance on mame4all-pi might be a bit better but I think it may also just depend on what roms you are trying to play.

But just follow this page and you should get the majority of your stuff working:

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

and kudos to you for reading the documentation first before asking questions, most people dont.

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sudo apt-get remove kodi

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Rookervik has already created a desktop theme for the default carbon theme, so that isnt any issue.

But I think I’ll leave it under ports for starters just for simplification especially considering the amount of systems retropie already has along with the limitations of a lot of the themes (It also allows people the freedom to create their own themes if they want)

There are a few things that need to be addressed with autostart functions on jessie before I can build a proper module to install it but once those are addressed I’ll add it to the experimental menu of the setup script.

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Sounds like it didn’t properly install likely due to a network issue. Try reinstalling it. I had to try a couple times to get it to work, but I did get it working.

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Those changes are easy enough to do manually (most info is on the FAQ on the wiki and actually it has more info to make the boot even quieter so there is no text at all or raspberries…)

and to amend my previous statement I guess there is a package for the raspbian version of LXDE (you install it after you’ve installed lxde), its raspberrypi-ui-mods so that’s easy enough to install with it and shouldn’t be a problem.

It complains when launching that there is no session for PID XXXX which is referencing lxpolkit but this post shows how to easily remove that annoyance: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=100118 I dont think it actually causes any problems. or you can just install the dependency: policykit-1 which also fixes that issue. Preliminary module for my own reference, test at your own risk http://pastebin.com/mJJik7p6

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I don’t know if there is a package for a “raspbian version” I’ve only ever used lxde installed with apt-get. retropie can be easily installed on top of the Raspbian image if people want that flavour.

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You can also use the new directlaunch function. Which doesn’t require a shell script as it will launch a command directly from the main carousel in emulationstation

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Only thing I can think of is just making a new topic – Not much I can do on the backend really.

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Yeah that’s a fact. We’re working on getting a new site and forum

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Will the performance really be that different? I suppose I can do that… I’ll do it when I find some time.

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Dont think emulationstation supports animated gifs

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cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh residualvm configure

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There was a path issue with the residualvm settings so hopefully that was resolved.

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Not sure if its the hardware or if it can be fixed with a software update and or setting change (the raspberry pi foundation seemed to allude to a future update fix)

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Let us know if you get the same hissing with the raspberry pi 3. supposedly they fixed it but I’d like to know if thats actually true

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