[Jassen Payen]

I tried Recalbox a while ago, and it is extremely basic compared to Retropie. Whilst all the things you’ve mentioned are nice touches on ES, the performance and version of the emulators used aren’t very good, and support has been slow/bad. I’ve asked questions on there that have gone ignored for months, and there is only one main guy that works on it, who is busy now as he has another job.

Retropie in comparison has immense support and community backing. The configuration aspect of it has been frustrating, but it is coming along. I look forward to trying 3.0 soon to see how the controller config aspect has changed since 2.3 (the last version I used!!).

[Jassen Payen]

@whettingstone there are two choices for N64 emulators in ES, basically the non-retroarch version where you store ROM’s (n64-mupen64plus directory) doesn’t support zipped roms, which is why the emulators may not appear in ES.

Once extracted into the folder it appears and works fine. I haven’t got the other emulator working at all.

[Jassen Payen]

Ryux, as far as I know the builds are different so you need to get one compiled for the Pi 2 and it’s Arm 7 architecture. Maybe grab a fresh build, and slowly copy your stuff across?

[Jassen Payen]

It’s a bit confusing as there are multiple places to configure N64 controls for RetroPie, however I discovered that the correct place is in the N64 directory under /opt/retropie/configs/n64

The configuration for both N64 emulators is here. I use mupen64plus, not the RetroArch version, and the configuration for that is mupen64plus.cfg. There is another file in the same directory, which allows you to map controls based on what pad is recognised by the Pi which needs playing with too. I forgot what it’s called, but I think it’s something like “autoconf.ini”.

[Jassen Payen]

Hi,

I initially got Buzz’s image at the weekend, and have been playing about with the RPi 2, experimenting with the emulators, and also getting the controls right for the XBOX 360 wireless controller. I did an update of the script and binaries last night and things appear to be going quite well…

* Currently the default Mame4all is working well, haven’t tried advmame yet.

* Default SNES is working best (PocketSnes), things work OK with pisnes and snes9x, but the controls are very slightly laggy, and certain games don’t work (starwing, and SMRPG)

* Both FBA emulators work, although currently using PIFBA. Might switch to default retroarch version to obtain the ability to save/load state.

* Using default Genesis emulator, and working well.

* Default N64 emulator is not working for me, possibly because I only tried with zipped roms. I have switched to mupen64plus, and after fixing the controls, it works almost full speed on what I’ve tested so far.

* SCUMMVM is fantastic! Very unexpected to find that there is an MT32 emulator within this build, and it is very accurate. Also works with both the 360 controller and mouse/keyboard. Going to replay a few point and clickers again to enjoy the superior music!

* Tried both default gbc, gba, and NES emulators, and all appear to be working very well.

I will attempt to see how home computers fair soon, and maybe the PSX one for FFVII. Thanks!

[Jassen Payen]

I’ve had this problem as well on my RPi 2, which I think is due to the D-Pad configured as ‘h0’ (hat up, down left or right).

When the xbox wireless controller was configured without the specific settings to load in the driver, and set the LED on startup, the D-Pad would work, however and the analogue stick was actually recognized as having an axis, so this stopped working.

I find that to exit mame, I just hold the ‘back’ button, and press the left shoulder button. This gets me out of most of the retroarch emulators. I will try this out again later today.

[Jassen Payen]

C’mon, trial and error with the Rpi is half the fun!

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