[jeffdamann]

You dont have to hack you pi into a crt, at least not a model 2, there is a 3.5 mm jack specifically for it.

[jeffdamann]

Oh I need to bump this so you guys can see it sorry. Still in stock just not the bare pi zero. You can get the essentials kit its still a good deal.

[jeffdamann]

Are those 5v or 12v leds?

[jeffdamann]

I don’t know if it will help your issue but press joystick 0 or a keyboard button during rom boot up

[jeffdamann]

There is a gameboy shader under handheld that looks like this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/hi-ban/retroarch_DMG_3x_shader_zps545e6137.png

[jeffdamann]

Well napoli there will be input lag, but thats the case even with ps4 and xbox one or anything you use on a new tv. You can set your tv to game or pc mode and turn of all postprocessing effects(noise reduction edge enhance etc) and greatly reduce the lag.

I play on a tv and while there is slight input lag its nothing gamebreaking or horrible. Ive beaten 100’s of difficult games playing them this way. I only noticed a real difference when hooking my pi up to a crt.

[jeffdamann]

Yeah it will work fine, however the games will be more pixelated because you don’t have crt image qualities distorting the picture, and instead they will be crystal clear.

Also nothing will be as smooth as a crt because refresh rates just arent the same for it.
You can have frames dip all you want on a crt and not see a noticable difference in picture quality as long as the frames arent super low.

However this doesnt mean that it won’t be smooth on your tv, its just nothing can be as smooth as a crt.

[jeffdamann]

I wish you could delete a bunch of stuff before it restarts.

[jeffdamann]

[Old post from the last time they were in stock from a distibutor, I just edited the old topic but be assured they are in stock until I change the topic title to [Out of stock]

I got one and so did a buddy! I will be doing 2 handheld builds now!

Hurry only a few left in stock!

[jeffdamann]

I have also noticed that when installing stuff from retropie setup script, you can get a black screen. However entering any input on the keyboard will give you display back.

[jeffdamann]

Ahh I usually pull the plug when freezing, during gameplay on a rom, or while sitting on the ES screen.

Thanks for the info.

[jeffdamann]

I don’t know if thats the cause guys. I know people say it is, but I swear I have probably pulled the plug on my pi during operation literally over 100 times now, and the card is perfectly fine. Keep in mind Ive done this over a period of less than a month.

It just makes me wonder, maybe operating it this way it will become inevitable, but Ive had 0 problems.

[jeffdamann]

I did that, it just removes the orginal terminal messages when firing up the system. I need to remove the little bit between ES and game. Thanks though lilbud.

[jeffdamann]

Change your video options in the pre game config. I had mine change on me and for some reason it wasn’t detecting the bios or my controllers.

For reference Im talking about resoultion@hz options.

[jeffdamann]

lilbud he was talking to webhead, who was being very disrespectful, your comments have been very constructive.

[jeffdamann]

Lol webhead none of this is hard to do, if you would spend just a tiny amount of time to figure it out, just like everything else in life, it would be nothing.

Are there automatic shoe lace tie ers? Or did you learn to do that yourself?

Do we have hoverchairs carrying us around since we were infants? Or did we learn to walk?

It really isnt hard at all webhead. If you think it is you should try to set up hyperspin or a retroarch build on pc that isnt already configured for you.

These guys have already done a ton of work making it extremely user friendly. Keeping it exclusive would be making you compile everything yourself from terminal on a stock build of raspbian. As it stands now you basically drag and drop roms, run an auto scraper, pick some stuff with a keypress, and boom its set up. How much easier do you want it?

[jeffdamann]

Yeah but shouldnt the uncompressed file be deleted after usage? I ran into this problem a few times, but it doesnt seem to happen regularly. I am tight on space so I can’t unzip what I have zipped.

It seemed to me the only ones that stayed unzipped were when the pi froze during gameplay and had to be unplugged.

[jeffdamann]

ooh thats nice, I will test it out when i fire up one of my spare pi’s

[jeffdamann]

Ok here is how I compiled love on wheezy.

Install mercurial

sudo apt-get install mercurial

Clone the Love repo

sudo hg clone https://bitbucket.org/rude/love

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libtool libphysfs-dev libsdl-dev libopenal-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libdevil-dev libmodplug-dev libfreetype6-dev libmpg123-dev libvorbis-dev libmng-dev libxpm-dev libxcursor-dev libXxf86vm-dev

Navigate here

cd /root/love

Run automagic

sudo ./platform/unix/automagic

Configure

sudo ./configure --with-lua=lua

Make

make

Install

sudo make install

Run your game using love "game.love"

Someone let me know if my steps didnt work, I didnt document what I was doing along the way and it was hard to remember. You can test love by just using love without a game. If you get a segmentation fault error(which I did) just reboot.

[jeffdamann]

Im trying other love games now but am finding it hard to find 0.10.0 games since it was just released late december.

However this bodes well for the future and I feel if more games are made for it it would be a quality addition to retropie.

Maybe we should make a Love thread?

[jeffdamann]

https://github.com/radgeRayden/future-mari0

href wasnt working sorry.

Anyways I just tested his test build, and it works 100% flawlessly with the newest version of love with no slowdown or any odd graphical glitches. The only thing its missing at this time is joypad support. Im glad my day of trying to get this work after seeing this thread paid off.

You have to compile the new version of love yourself though, but otherwise it works great!

Give your love to radgerayden!

[jeffdamann]

I got a nice fellow named radgerayden from the #love irc channel to start development on a love 0.10.0 port. That version of love has GLES support so we may see something come out of it.

You can see the github repository here.

[jeffdamann]

I dont know if this would help but add this to you /boot/config.txt file and see if that helps

boot_delay=x
Wait for x seconds in start.elf before loading kernel.
Default 1.

[jeffdamann]

Use lr-snes9x-next and your problems will be gone.

[jeffdamann]

Try pressing select+y and going into input settings. Then change your hotkey button to something other than select.

Select being the hotkey button causes issues in some MAME games, so maybe that is the culprit here as well.

[jeffdamann]

if you have a joypad mapped correctly, it’s select+start.

Default Hotkeys

[jeffdamann]

Are you telling me Ive been scraping manually for nearly 2 weeks all day and selphs scraper won’t choose incorrectly?

[jeffdamann]

I did all my scraping manually on PC and then transferred everything over to the pi. If you have many roms at all auto scraping will destroy your setup.

What I mean by this is about 15% of games I’ve found in all my full sets would have been named wrongly with auto scraping. It will rename roms in ES to whatever the scraped data the auto scraper picks is named. Therefore to fix the 15% of games that were chosen incorrectly, you would have to manually load every single rom in your set and then see if the title is correct after looking at the rom in an emu.

If not, you will have to scrape it manually with the metadata editor, and do this for the rest of said 15%. Manual scraping works out much better, it just takes a lot of time.

For instance, usually any games with roman numerals or numbers, or similar titles(Castlevania , Castlevania Simons Quest) I can guarantee will be chosen wrongly with the auto scraper.

If you don’t have many games or many with roman numerals or similar titles, this wouldn’t be an issue and the auto scrapers would work wonderfully.

[jeffdamann]

Finally I gained some knowledge to help another user here on the forum.

To enable full access to your pi via Samba Shares for editing from a Windows computer:

Enter this in the terminal

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Then go to the very bottom of the configuration file that command brings up, and enter these parameters.

[pi]
comment = pi
path = "/home"
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = pi

Reboot the pi and you should be able to now access a folder called pi, giving you full access to everything in the home folder on the pi.

I havent tried it, but for true full access, entering a path of “/” should work…

EDIT: I just tried all the folders since I claimed full access to the home folder, but some folders will not be able to be accessed. I have tried several times to post a link to the information you need, but everytime I include the link, my message is deleted from this thread. Search google for Samba Shares with Windows ACLs, and that will bring the page up with the information you need.

Im going to take a nap because I’ve been working all day. If you need permission to access other folders and figure out how to do it, please tell me here, otherwise I will figure it out when I wake up.

[jeffdamann]

how can I access the home folder? All I get is bios, configs, roms, and splashscreens over samba shares

[jeffdamann]

Do you know what I can do with my video to make it not artifact like crazy?(I thought I lieterally broke my pi)

[jeffdamann]

From what I gather you have to add it to the theme, but I haven’t installed this yet so Im not sure. Its somewhere in this thread though I believe.

[jeffdamann]

Lol I didnt even notice that. Working on the wifi, I tried to edit the supplicant file in nano, and my password was different. I made sure both supplicant.conf and the interfaces file match, yet I still get no connection even after ifdown ifup….

I can see my wireless network using iwlist though

In regards to my boot video, the above edit fixed it, but when ES started loading I experienced extreme corruption in my video and also the video would cut out to blank, and back on, several times until the video was done.

[jeffdamann]

No upgrade, clean install.

Also, in regard to my wifi thread, I got it working with that interfaces file you see there, rebooted for the intro video, it somehow changed

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
to
iface wlan0 iface dhcp

I corrected that in the file, but now I can’t make a connection.

Ifconfig says wlan0 Link Encap:Ethernet….

[jeffdamann]

Thanks herbfargus that worked wonderfully, however the video does not seem to play on the topmost layer. Normal boot without the video is around 30 seconds including terminal. I made the video 1:00 long. It is clear that what is happening is the video finishes, then I go to terminal for a brief time, and then it proceeds to load ES after all that has finished.

Im using wheezy with 3.3.1

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