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a cue file is needed to cue the music. try using something like this to build a cue file for your bin files:

http://www.racketboy.com/downloads/sega-cue-maker.htm

I’m not sure if wav files work or not. all I know is all of my sega cd games won’t work with sound unless the .cue file is there with the .bin file.

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you could try a full binary installation if the individual installation didn’t work.. other than that I’m at as much of a loss as you are at this point.

seems others had the same issue on this thread

mupen64 video plug ins

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generally speaking with sega cd files you need both the bin and the cue file in the rom folder in order for it to work with sound.

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If you want to clean up the metadata for each game you can delete the files under each respective console here:

/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists

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did you update the setup script and do a binary install on mupen64 plus? there was a bug with 3.0. also try and unzip the rom if it is zipped.

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I got you covered Floob- the Wiki has been updated.

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it was a bug with the 3.0 BETA release that buzz and Gizmo fixed: the binaries have been updated since then so from a fresh install an updated setup script and binary installation is necessary for N64 to work. Glad you figured it out.

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Depends on what version you are using. If you are using 2.6 or earlier just plug your USB stick into your raspberry pi, wait for it to finish blinking, pull it out and plug it into your computer and it will have a folder called ROMs. Open that folder and place your ROMs in the respective folder- GBA for gameboy advance, SNES for supernintendo etc. Then plug it back into your raspberry pi, wait for it to finish blinking, restart emulation station or your raspberry pi and on reboot the systems you added ROMs to will be visible in emulation station.

If you are using retropie 3.0 beta you will need to create a folder called “retropie” (without quotation marks) first on your USB stick and then plug it into your pi. It will create two folders, one for configuration backups (game scraped data etc.) And one folder for ROMs.

See here for more info:

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/How-to-get-ROMs-on-the-SD-card

Also quick note: generally speaking you’ll want to unzip your ROMs first except when it comes to mame and FBA. Check the wiki under each emulator to see the accepted file extensions for ROMs.

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I can understand your frustrations (you should have seen the wiki before I got to it…), I felt the same way when I started with the RetroPie project which is what compelled me to try and fix the wiki (I’m still trying… also as a side note I keep the wiki updated to the latest emulators, including experimental packages and I try to make note of which need to be installed manually to be included; on top of the idea that a rom has to be in its respective rom folder in order to show up on the emulationstation front end.)

It’s hard to keep up documentation with a project like this that changes so quickly with each release. Couple that with the multiplicity of emulators, the different projects people do, along with many different kinds of hardware- there is definitely not a one size fits all solution. That’s probably why the forum and Wiki are so disjointed.

Being a community based project there are plenty of sources to learn and it is always appreciated when people like you with a fresh perspective can document their work, particularly for those just learning about the project. Thanks for your efforts :)

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Thanks for the input Miroof, I’ll give it a go when I get the chance.

I’ve submitted a request on github to have your script added as a retropie setup module

** Edit

I followed your steps and it now runs on boot. Brilliant!

I made a video of the steps I took to get it to work:

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This has links to some DAT files.

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

Or see this video on how to build one from clrmamepro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuWl2GdEfDA

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Good job! Its always the simplest things that get you :p

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Gameboy Advance= gba see the wiki for each emulator and where to place the files:

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

You’ll also need the gba_bios.bin file placed in the BIOS folder (if you are running 2.6 or 3.0) you’ll need it in the core gpsp folder if you are running earlier versions of retropie.

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You can also use ecm tools as well.

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The version you are looking at I think is referring to emulation station not retropie itself (I could be wrong though). I’m unaware of any way to verify the download version of retropie- might be useful to know how if there is a way to verify that.

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Quick tip- you can type a few letters and then press tab and it will auto complete the filename for you

Also if you want to know the filename of a certain game from emulation station instead of selecting a game press select and choose modify the metadata then you can see the filename of the game.

You can also see the list of most mame ROMs and their file names here:

https://code.google.com/p/imame4all/wiki/GameList

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you can type “emulationstation” (without quotation marks) into the terminal and it should open up. it should boot directly into emulationstation, if it doesn’t you can go into the set up script under the setup option and change emulationstation to start on boot.

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and maybe, just maybe, one day oldchocobo might take 5 seconds to consider how other people might feel and might actually say something nice AND productive…

I’ve added a changelog page to the Wiki (believe it or not, the wiki is now somewhat useful due to recent changes) as well that shows the changelogs from version one to the current 3.0 BETA version:

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

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See this video:

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Don’t quote me on this but I thought I saw it under experimental packages in the setup script.

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For anyone who was having an issue with this, this is what I did to get it working from a fresh install (it’s a little easier than the above methods):

#Install Node.js first:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb

sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb

# must be run as root
su
git clone https://github.com/miroof/node-virtual-gamepads
cd node-virtual-gamepads
npm install
# The following steps are to get it to run everytime when the pi boots up
# Install globally pm2
sudo npm install pm2 -g
# Launch virtual gamepads application with pm2
sudo pm2 start main.js
# Configure pm2 to launch at startup
sudo pm2 startup
# Save the current state of pm2 
# to reload all current applications at startup
sudo pm2 save
#Then switch back to user pi to start up emulationstation and configure controller
su pi
#Once in emulationstation configure it like you would any other controller.
emulationstation

type your IP address into your web browser: e.g. 192.168.0.110

then configure your controller like you would any other controller in emulationstation and with retroarch configs and voila away you go.

see source code at https://github.com/miroof/node-virtual-gamepads

You’re a genius Miroof!

btw Miroof- is there any way to get this to load automatically on boot or will I have to do this every time I want to play games with my android?

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You can follow this video

Or see the wiki:

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

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Perfect! Thank you so Much! Ok so for anyone else to lay out my steps:

sudo apt-get install matchbox

I created a new theme for emulationstation for Minecraft:

I first created a new folder in the roms folder called minecraft.

home/pi/RetroPie/roms/minecraft/

and in the above minecraft folder I created a shell script called

minecraft.sh

the contents of this file are:

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms  # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off  # disable screen saver
xset s noblank  # don't blank the video device
matchbox-window-manager &
/opt/minecraft-pi/minecraft-pi

it differs a bit from Basst’s cause I’m using the 3.0 Beta image.

Then I added a section to

/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

<system>
    <name>minecraft</name>
    <fullname>minecraft-pi</fullname>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/minecraft</path>
    <extension>.sh .SH</extension>
    <command>xinit /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/minecraft/minecraft.sh</command>
    <platform>minecraft</platform>
    <theme>minecraft</theme>
  </system>

and last but not least I added a theme folder named minecraft to

/etc/emulationstation/themes/simple

This is a link to my minecraft theme folder

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3z8jfbpgxt9wqsx/minecraft.zip?dl=0

Hopefully this was useful to someone!

as a side note: for the menus you’ll want to use a keyboard as the mouse gets a little wonky with the matchbox window.

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https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/How-to-get-ROMs-on-the-SD-card

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Glad it worked out :) Feel free to change the status to resolved in the dropdown menu at the top of the thread.

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there used to be a “nul” bind that you would put as the value for your hotkey so that you could just press one button to make it work but I haven’t been able to get it to work on the newer versions of RetroPie. you could give it a go though and see if it works for you.

input_enable_hotkey_btn= “nul”

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The romset you’ll use is determined by the emulator- floob laid out a good list of which emulators support which romsets.

MAME versions and romsets on RetroPie

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How did you get it full screen? Is it just because your screen is so small? I have a 42 inch 1080 television and it only shows up in the upper left corner. Do you know of any way to make it fullscreen?

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Create a folder on your USB called “retropie” (all lowercase without quotations) and then it will work.

This way it will give you two folders in the retropie folder- one for configs (scraped data) and one for your ROMs.

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I don’t own an xbox 360 wireless controller so outside of Floob’s videos, the Wiki, and former posts (https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/1-xbox-controller-works-fine-2-xbox-controller-not/) you probably know more than me at this point, sorry. Perhaps someone else who has two xbox controllers can help out with this thread?

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Floob has some videos on it.

You can also check the wiki:

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

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As far as I understood it I thought pifba didn’t support more than 2 players (I tried to get it to work the same way you did and had no luck) supposedly this dude added 4 player support in his version of pifba:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=91731

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I’ve also added the 7800 to the wiki

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Atari-7800

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Great list Floob! I’ve added it to the Wiki on the page that Roo created that I think is the page you meant to link to on rebuilding ROMs:

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

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This might be worth looking into for colecovision though it seems the author is a little more restrictive about his code.

http://fms.komkon.org/ColEm/

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