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Swap USB ports or change the index in retroarch.cfg

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https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/EmulationStation#my-es_sytemscfg-is-being-overwritten-on-updates

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It’s very experimental at the moment and only works with a desktop environment (which retropie doesn’t ship with) video resolution was forced to 1152×1080 regardless of the settings I set in the boot/config.txt file. Pretty glitchy but it has a lot of promise. Maybe a few years.

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Problem is gamepad support has to be compiled in and it isn’t by default and we don’t maintain the upstream builds. We’ll look into implementing a hack for xbox 360 controllers at some point but that’s about all we can do at the moment.

There are many other options to control kodi though: cec utils (using your TV remote) which should be enabled by default. Smartphone apps like yatse or the kodi remote, wireless keyboard and mouse, etc.

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I’ve already scripted it as a module but I’ve contacted yoyogames to see if they are cool with distribution with RetroPie. I can’t include it in the script unless they give their consent for it.

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Already on the wiki:

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Ports#gamemaker-games

I’ll try to contact them and see if they are cool with it.

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Did you do a full binary install? Is there a reason that you aren’t using the premade image (as it is much easier to set up)?

Also In raspi-config in the boot options you can set it to autologin to the console rather than the desktop environment

and then The you can auto-start emulationstation from option 3 of the retropie setup script (I’m assuming this is the step that you already tried?)

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What’s your hardware and software? Raspbian Jessie?

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Here’s a module for the gamemaker games. just create a file called gamemaker.sh in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports

With the following contents:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This file is part of The RetroPie Project
# 
# The RetroPie Project is the legal property of its developers, whose names are
# too numerous to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT.md file distributed with this source.
# 
# See the LICENSE.md file at the top-level directory of this distribution and 
# at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/master/LICENSE.md
#

rp_module_id="gamemaker"
rp_module_desc="GameMaker - Games for the Raspberry Pi"
rp_module_menus="4+"
rp_module_flags="nobin !mali !x86"

function install_gamemaker() {
# Install They Need To Be Fed Game
wget -O- -q https://www.yoyogames.com/download/pi/tntbf | tar -xvz -C "$md_inst"
# Install Super Crate Box Game
wget -O- -q https://www.yoyogames.com/download/pi/crate | tar -xvz -C "$md_inst"
# Install Maldita Castilla Game
wget -O- -q https://www.yoyogames.com/download/pi/castilla | tar -xvz -C "$md_inst"
}

function configure_gamemaker() {
    mkRomDir "ports"

    addPort "$md_id" "TheyNeedToBeFed" "TheyNeedToBeFed" "$md_inst/TheyNeedToBeFed/TheyNeedToBeFed"
    addPort "$md_id" "SuperCrateBox" "SuperCrateBox" "$md_inst/SuperCrateBox/SuperCrateBox"
    addPort "$md_id" "MalditaCastilla" "MalditaCastilla" "$md_inst/MalditaCastilla/MalditaCastilla"
}

I can’t add it to the script as the distributors wish for people to download the games directly but its there if people want to add it manually.

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Did you type \\retropie in the file path of windows explorer like diagrammed here?

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

Also are you positive that your pi and your pc are on the same network?

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I don’t know if its possible to encode the video on a separate processor, I think the only way to do it is directly on the pi, and obviously the pi doesn’t have the processing power for that. Only way I’ve found is with a capture card. I’d be happy to be proven wrong though.

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That looks great! You can check out this post to get an idea of how retropie’s module template can automate much of what you described (namely the setessystem function in the configure function) feel free to mess with it yourself using other existing modules from the setup script as an example:

BBCB Emulator on Retropie

But yeah feel free to pm me with a zip or whatever and I’ll do what I can to include it in the main setup script. I appreciate you doing all the hard work on this as its not something I’m too familiar with (yet).

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https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/1236#issuecomment-179660039

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Looks great, thanks for doing that. I won’t have access to my pi for a day or two as I’m out on holiday but I’ll test when I’m able to get back to it and see if I can come up with a working module that we can add to the setup script.

I’m not sure how much Matt ownby cares to be involved or what state his development is currently at, but longterm i would prefer to have his code be the upstream as he has a complete history of development along with his continued development. I know he’s been doing a lot of work with his Dexter project and I don’t want to take away from that by any means with retropie. Perhaps I’ll contact him and see what his feelings are with it.

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Possible its leaving the framebuffer in an unusable state upon exit. It’s pretty common when launching some things from emulationstation. Generally we pipe things through the runcommand script which helps with that. I’d have to test it myself though to verify.

If you want to set up a repo on github preferably with a commit history showing your changes that would be great

Also would be ideal to be built for raspbian Jessie as we won’t provide support for wheezy going forward.

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Apologies, That was my bad.

Another post for reference:

https://m.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/45c07a/35_arcade_file_for_roms_doesnt_work/

Possible symlink may work or some other configs. I’ll do more testing when I’ve got some time and see what I can do to sort it.

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May be worth putting up a github repo just for convenience in building a module for the retropie setup script (if that’s at all possible)

out of curiosity did you implement this?

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=57721

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Possible those systems just were never themed on zoid. Pull requests welcome.

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I need to update the wiki for 3.5 with the arcade stuff. And it’s possible there are some config issues with a couple of the arcade emulators for the arcade folder. Would be interested in any issued you encounter so they can be fixed.

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Where did you get the code for it? May want to check with the main dev of it first. He’s done a lot of work on that emulator. Laser disc isos are also very large and hard to find.

I would definitely be interested in checking it out though.

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Are you sure it just isn’t turning off your TV because of cec utils?

Also did you start with a fresh 3.5 image or upgrade from a previous version?

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This should have been recently fixed. Try basing your changes on the latest updates retropie has done.

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/28

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It’s right there in the wiki:

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

Almost everything in regards to retropie is documented on the wiki. It’s just a matter of taking the time to learn, don’t be lazy. If you want something easy use recalbox.

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Add this at the top to make it go in the experimental menu:

rp_module_menus="4+"

For example:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/ports/kodi.sh

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2d shooter likely doesn’t work due to opengles shaders on the pi. Pc uses a diff video driver

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It would have to be coded into emulationstation which is not something that we maintain (and upstream is also dead for the time being) so its unlikely. We’ve also considered other front ends and would rather not hardcode ourselves into a dead project.

Recalbox has something like that though along with some of the other requests you’ve made, might be worth checking out for your needs.

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It would have to be coded into emulationstation which is not something that we maintain (and upstream is also dead for the time being) so its unlikely. We’ve also considered other front ends and would rather not hardcode ourselves into a dead project.

Recalbox has something like that though along with some of the other requests you’ve made, might be worth checking out for your needs.

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It would have to be coded into emulationstation which is not something that we maintain (and upstream is also dead for the time being) so its unlikely. We’ve also considered other front ends and would rather not hardcode ourselves into a dead project.

Recalbox has something like that though along with some of the other requests you’ve made, might be worth checking out for your needs.

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A lot of that depends on your scraper source. Thegamesdb is incomplete to say the least. Isn’t too difficult to switch the theme tag in es_systems.cfg

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Looks great! Thanks for keeping your theme up to date

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

Not sure which systems its limited to, I haven’t tested them much. You’d just have to test it yourself and see. It can be a bit finicky.

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Yes downloaded images and the gamelist are what are needed. I personally prefer to keep my gamelists and images in with the roms so that way they are all in the same place when I do Backups and transfer. You just have to manually change the gamelist to relative paths to within its relative rom folder. But its really just personal preference.

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They should be in configs folder in samba shares under all/emulationstation I believe.

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Possible you may have a corrupt SD card

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Well retropie has a lot of optimisations but you are correct at the very least you could probably get retroarch working on it. I’ve seen other people who have said they’ve gotten retroarch compiled successfully on a cubieboard.

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