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Its a common oversight. Glad you got it working :)

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I had the same problem with rca cables- I think its more a raspberry pi issue rather than a retropie issue.

http://www.pimame.org/forum/discussion/1254/hiss-on-audio-but-only-when-nothing-is-playing-and-the-sound-is-active/p1

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Did you make sure to choose the right SD image for your version of raspberry pi? Raspberry Pi 1= raspberry pi A,A+,B,B+
Raspberry Pi 2= raspberry pi 2 model B

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If you want an all in one solution with all peripherals then canakit will be your best bet- I bought the same kit and its worked great for getting things up and running quickly. I would definitely go for the Pi 2 over the B+ as the speed is a notable difference in boot times and emulators. Go with HDMI over RCA as RCA has buzzing issues with the sound (at least in my case).

See this page and the linked video for a quick overview of getting started:

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation-(RetroPie-SD-Image-2.6)

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This has been requested on the emulation station github:

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/421

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I have to agree with alex, unless you like tinkering with settings and stuff incessantly then you’re probably better off using project 64 on a pc- that’s what I’ve resorted to. Though I was able to get Mario kart working pretty well with the rice plugin.

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

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Yeah that’s not a problem. Easiest thing to do is just sudo reboot. And then if you configured it right it will work just fine.

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Quickest way to upgrade is go into the setup script, update the setup script, restart the setup script and do a full binary install.

Might want to make a backup first just in case. I find it easiest just to start with a fresh 3.0 image.

See this video for help:

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For wep try these lines instead of the WPA lines:

wireless-essid NETWORK_NAME
wireless-key NETWORK_PASSWORD

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You could try
chmod -R 777 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc

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If its piplay you might have better luck on the piplay forum. Otherwise if you’re using retropie I made a video showing how to get lxde installed and added to the retropie menu in emulationstation.

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That is rather odd. This is a long shot but when I made manual edits to metadata, I had to select quit emulationstation from the emulation station menu for it to write the changes (not restart or shutdown system), perhaps its the same for your controller, its worth a try.

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Glad you got it worked out, sorry I wasn’t more help. Would you mind documenting some of your steps for others to show how you got it to work?

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I GOT IT! alright so- steps to take:

first locate your war2.ini and change the first line to look like this cdpath=d://

Second, make sure all the files are in one folder in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc You can name it whatever you like. I called mine “warcraft2”

Next open up dosbox and type:

mount d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/warcraft2" -t cdrom

then type C:

then type warcraft2\WAR2.EXE

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try deleting the & from here : omxplayer /home/pi/video.mov &

I made a video outlining my steps in getting the above script to work. it may be helpful to you

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It might help to specify what controller you are using and which emulators as some will have retroarch configs and some will be emulator specific. For a regular USB controller see this page and linked videos to get an idea of controllers.

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

If you are using an original SNES controller with gpio pins it might be worth looking into petrockblogs controlblock

ControlBlock: Power Switch, Game Controllers, and I/O for the Raspberry Pi

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I thought I had it running at one point. I’ll test it this evening once I have access to my pi and report back.

In the mean time see if adding the line “cdpath=d” in war2.ini makes any difference.

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

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https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Commodore-64

C64/VICE Joystick Config Help

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you can have it configured to your keyboard as well.

in the setup script you can go into SETUP and then option 310- change hotkey behaviour and select option 2 Press ALT to enable hotkeys

Then you can press alt+esc to exit your emulator

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/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS

Letters are case sensitive.

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yeah, it’s not super ideal- a new method of key input is currently being developed that will be hopefully incorporated in the next release of RetroPie- it will just be a one time input with the same interface as emulationstation- it will vastly simplify things.

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well then that rules out the power supply. The only thing I can think of if you are using manual configurations is to change the line in

opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

input_autodetect_enable = true
to
input_autodetect_enable = false

There are a bunch of videos linked on this page from Floob who has the same controller as you, so it might lead you in the right direction of what configurations will work for your controller:

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

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Emulationstation scrapes games based off of the platform value in the es_systems.cfg which is currently listed as Megadrive. If you wish to change your theme from megadrive to genesis as well as the scraping, you need to make your megadrive system look like this:

/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

<system>
    <name>megadrive</name>
    <fullname>Sega Mega Drive / Genesis</fullname>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/megadrive</path>
    <extension>.smd .bin .gen .md .zip .SMD .BIN .GEN .MD .ZIP</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ megadrive %ROM%</command>
    <platform>genesis</platform>
    <theme>genesis</theme>
  </system>

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Could be a power issue: do you have a power supply that is at least 1 amp? I use a 5v 2amp power supply and it seems to work fine, if it is a power issue you could look into getting a powered USB hub.

It also could be a faulty controller.

Or it could be wonky config files.

Does it do it for all games and emulators as well as in emulation station or is it just GBA?

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See video at the bottom of the page:

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

Default save and load hotkeys:

Select+right bumper= save state

Select+left bumper= load state

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Its already there on the wiki. They are known as hotkeys. See the bottom of this post.

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

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See this wiki page and the videos linked on it.

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

Each console page on the wiki that has non libretro emulators also shows emulator specific controller configurations.

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sound fix tested and verified. Thanks Gizmo!

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If you are starting from a fresh 3.0 install, you need to update your setup script and do a full binary install for the n64 plugins to work properly. they also have separate configuration files that are outlined in the videos linked on the wiki page.

For Minecraft- same method as above- update setup script, except you’ll install from experimental. Obviously you’ll need a mouse and a keyboard and you’ll need to use your keyboard to navigate the menu. Buzz just fixed the screen resolution issue and the exit issue (once you are in a world you can use the mouse to exit out of the window.) as it stands without the update, the only way to exit is to reboot from SSH. I’ve been working on adding experimental Builds to the Wiki and I was hoping to get to minecraft today.

**Edit: Minecraft has been added to the wiki

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Minecraft

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Better yet if you are trying to get the genesis theme instead of the megadrive theme- the easiest way to do it is change the es_systems.cfg file under megadrive. You can keep all of your roms in the megadrive folder and everything else the same- all you have to change is the theme.

/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

change it to look like this

<system>
    <name>megadrive</name>
    <fullname>Sega Mega Drive / Genesis</fullname>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/megadrive</path>
    <extension>.smd .bin .gen .md .zip .SMD .BIN .GEN .MD .ZIP</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ megadrive %ROM%</command>
    <platform>megadrive</platform>
    <theme>genesis</theme>
  </system>

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Fix tested and verified for ROM path. Thanks Gizmo! Keep up the good work!

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Thanks! The fix works in order to get the dreamcast running, but I can’t play a game. When I press play it says please insert a game disc. I have a .cdi game in the roms folder- is there a config file I’m supposed to modify to tell the dreamcast where to look for my games or a menu that I’m missing?

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I found it: I added the game path to

/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/reicast.sh

I changed

sudo ./reicast.elf -config config:image=""
to
sudo ./reicast.elf -config config:image="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/dreamcast/scalibur.cdi"

and it ran- It was a little sluggish on my Pi2 with no overclock, my snes controller worked fine even with the hardcoding of the controls. then I just pressed ctrl+c to exit.

Supposedly someone was able to get sound working with a few modifications before compiling on this thread, might be worth looking into:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=100076

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

see configs near the bottom for an example. it might be different for your controller but template is the same.

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