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[quote=97326]the lr-fba shouldnt be an issue assuming you havent tweaked its local retroarch.cfg[/quote]
And this is exactly why it was surprising that it didn’t work. I was going for the fastest way from start to finish, so naturally, the retroarch emulators were preferred. Given my time constraints, I didn’t want to have to edit any configs.

…and yeah, I think I ended up having to build him a fresh set because the set I use on my Pi 2 wouldn’t work for him. I’m using lr-fba just fine on my own Pi.

In terms of where I put the roms, I use my own folder structure that was slightly customized and copied over from 2.6, of course in doing so I need to make minor changes to es_systems.cfg. I separate out the FBA roms from CPS roms, for no other reason than I like seeing the Capcom logo in ES, and I use the NeoGeo logo instead of the FBA one. This has never been an issue before.

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I’m absolutely certain it was lr-fba, as I had to make sure I had the correct rom set for the emulator on a Pi 1. Once I switched to PiFBA, everything worked perfectly.

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With those settings, the audio may be a bit “crunchier” but heh, it’ll help add some vintage charm. :)

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I can speak to this on a high level. I’m somewhat of a digital audio expert. However, I’m a linux noob.

The problem is, as the error states with the memory buffer for processing audio. Information isn’t being processed from that buffer fast enough to add anything else to it. Theoretically, there are two ways to fix it; increase the amount of memory allocated to the audio buffer, or reduce the amount of data flowing into it. The simple solution is the second option. We can easily do that by cutting the audio bit rate in half.

instead of this:

audio_out_rate=44100
audio_driver=sdl

do this:

audio_out_rate=22050
audio_driver=sdl

you could also try this:

audio_out_rate=24000
audio_driver=sdl

These are industry standard bit rates, try to stick to them or you may end up with strange audio artifacts or changes in pitch for music and sound effects.

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Did that happen for all systems? Take a look at es_systems.cfg and make sure runcommand.sh is being called for the systems affected.

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There is a scraper in ES that will attempt to grab the box art. Hit start > scraper > then you get a bunch of options for what systems to scrape.

Thanks for this skin, btw, it looks amazing and is really easy to customize. Toss is a new BG image, change the text color and the line at the top and bam! I made mine match the Kodi Amber skin and it looks really great.

I do have one question though, is there a way to keep the background image on the system select screen from sliding left/right or fading when you’re switching between systems? I think it would look even better if that background were static, but I only see the two options in ES.

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There is a configure controller option available from the RetroPie menu in ES on the 3.0 image, I think that’s the one he’s talking about.

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This stumped me last weekend on a pi I put together for a friend. I just could not get the controls to work in fba-liberto at all. I set him up for an xbox 360 controller, on a B+. I gave up and used PiFBA because he was flying back out of state that day.

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I think I read somewhere that it wouldn’t work. I’d love to be proven wrong, however.

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[quote=97051]I’ve got the libretro core to work very well on a B+, but it requires a very high overclock and generous GPU memory allocation. The sound was crisp and accurate, with frame rates around 30fps on most games. Some 3D games would dip into the 20s or teens when there’s a lot of action on the screen like with crash bandicoot or rayman 2. My B+ was clocked at 1150mhz but I have active cooling so don’t try it if you don’t, unless of course you like baked raspberry pie. (pun intended)

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I couldn’t overclock my B+ that high, I tried. Even with active cooling. It wouldn’t even power up. I could only get mine up to about 1050mhz, so with that, and the non-liberto core version of pcsx, psx games worked pretty much flawlessly.

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I got the non-liberto core version to work very well on a B+. The liberto core version was a little slow and sounded a little like a recording of dog poop in a blender playing through a blown speaker. :P

Try installing the non liberto core version. Unfortunately I don’t have the steps to install it any more and it can’t be done through the retropie setup script.

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You’re either using the wrong version of the roms, or the wrong emulator.

to find out which roms or emulator you should be using:
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FinalBurn-Alpha

Here’s how to fix it:
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

This is an extremely common problem, a little search would have found many many threads on the topic.

Once you get this fixed, Capcom CPS 1 and 2 roms will work unmodified in the PiFBA emulator. I assume you hadn’t discovered yet, given this issue. ;P

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Maybe try getting some roms from a different source, since it’s obviously the roms that are at fault.

Seems odd though that it affects 100% of them if it is indeed the roms. Do you know that for sure? You only mention Chrono Trigger, what else did you test?

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There’s a fix for the black screen that seems to work. check it out. Replace your kodi.sh script with this. It looks really similar to what was pasted above. I only poked around at this a little last night but it seems to be working ok on my end.

https://gist.github.com/aperezm-vlex/75d7481afff0db8f5894

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Is your PC at home? I’m still convinced its this website,as I don’t bring my pi to work but do sometimes read this site. I’ve only had the problem occur at work. In addition, occasionally when bringing up this site in Firefox at work completely locks up my PC with no other software running. The symptom was described to me yesterday as GBs worth of DNS queries in s matter of seconds.

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I’d say yes, as the xboxdrv really makes it possible to control anything that you can control with a keyboard and mouse. For example, I have my controller set up to control some of keyboard shortcuts in Vice and atari 800. Take a look into how the –next-config and –alt-config tags work here: http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/xboxdrv.html

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No the charge cable only charges the controller, it does not transmit any data.

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Check the permissions on the roms themselves. Most likely they are owned by root and the pi user can’t read them.

sudo chown pi.pi -R /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

should do the trick

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I’m somewhat new to linux. I’ve tried, but I couldn’t get this working. Could you give me step by step instructions?

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I have no problems from home as far as I can tell, just from work.

I just correlated the two, since around the time I started looking at this site at work is when the guys complained of unusually large amounts of traffic coming from my PC. Bear in mind, from work, all I was doing was reading posts, and not DLing anything like retropie images or anything like that. I’m not really certain it’s this site either, tbh, the time-frame just seems right. That there is somebody else with a similar issue just sounds too coincidental.

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Also, they never found any malware or anything on my PC after a thorough check.

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That’s correct. I have been using my phone to access the site for a week or so now, and the security dudes have stopped complaining. Make of that what you will. I don’t have any more details, only a suspicion.

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I can’t pull up this website at work. The network security guys come over yelling that it looks like there’s a ddos attack coming from my PC when I do.

So I think its not the pi, it’s this website.

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OMG you guys kick ass! 7800 is working nicely here.

One thing that happened to me during the install though, was that my es_systems.cfg file got wiped out. (I’ve had trouble with the file before, I think because I have some systems commented out.) I had a copy on my desktop so recovery was simple. So definitely make a backup first. ;)

…now I just need to get a colecovision emulator working.

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Do the usb ports work otherwise on that model?

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Alternatively reduce the size and or quality of scraped images.

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It’s a video ram issue. Allocate more ram to the gpu.

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There are a couple things technically wrong with it, but it’s cool to see an article on a fairly large website none the less. For instance, the Xbox 360 charge cable doesn’t transmit data.

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The only thing I can think of is a permissions issue. What are the permissions set to on the rom itself? can the PI user read and execute it?

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Are they MSX 1 or 2 games? I’ve had much better luck with MSX 1 games.

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Awesome, that worked. Thanks a lot!

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I had a similar issue a few weeks ago. Strangley, it occurred on one TV and not my other. The TV I has issues with is 1080p whereas the one that worked is 720p. I forced the PI to 720p and the problem hasn’t occurred again.

Btw, have you tried updating to the latest version of ES? I suspect it may help with this issue due to needing less vram.

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This happens on my 1080p TV and does not happen on my 720p TV. Allocating more ram to the GPU does the trick, so does forcing the pi to 720p. As you’ve noticed, reducing the number of roms also helps. If you’ve got entire collections of roms, chances are you have hundreds if not thousands of duplicates, reducing those dups will obviously help.

I have all of the emulators working except macintosh, and have even added a few, so you can definately have more than 12 running at once.

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I was able to accomplish this with a command line mp3 player. I used mpg321, and basically added a single line to rc.local to play the mp3. Before that runs, i actually use a bash script to write a path to a random mp3 to a .m3u file which gets played by the line in rc.local.

I found a bunch of R2D2 sounds and play a random one during startup.

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[quote=90285]On your bravia you add the hdmi_drive=2 line ? Because i dont saw any differences
Other ideas ?[/quote]
Yep, I have that line in my config.txt. Actually, I seem to remember that config.txt had that line already, I just uncommented it.

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