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well done then ;)

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hi,
removed the red project from the logo. couldn’t find a better one on google. hope you can live with that one.

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hi, I also would like to run Arcadia 2001 (via MESS) on RetroPie. How did you get it running? I’ve followed the instructions above and in the wiki but when I load a game it only goes to the RetroArch Main Menu (MAME 0.171) instead of loading the game.

My “mess” roms folder looks like this:
BIOS:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mess/(arcadia doesn’t need any zipped bios)

GAME ROMS:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mess/arcadia/
3dbowl.zip
3dsoccer.zip
…

I put this in “es_systems.cfg”:

lr-mess
MESS
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mess
.zip .ZIP
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ lr-mess %ROM%
arcade
mess

and in “emulators.cfg” I put this:
lr-mess=”/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so –config /opt/retropie/configs/lr-mess/retroarch.cfg %ROM%”
default=”lr-mess”

Thanks for your help!

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Hi, it also happens if I do “Resume Content”. Having done that, I cannot enter the menu again…

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I’ve also got that issue, there’s only so much looking up and down using page up and page down on the keyboard I can take! :)

Would be happy to get it working with the controller if anyone has any tips?

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Hi,
I watched the video. It’s long but there is a lot of information inside.
So I did clean the following because I dread the full 2.4 installation :
– Deleted the /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/ folder from my 2.3 installation, while keeping the retroarch one.
– Removed all reference of input_player1_* in the autoconfigs of each gamepad config…
– Cleaned the main (“all”) retroarch.cfg file.

But now I have discovered that even if the system seemed to have been updated to 2.4, it still used 2.3.
And right now retroarch is not found in the path and I can’t launch anything.
I’ll try to install via Retropie-Setup, but I’m also making up my mind about installing everything from scratch.

Anyway I could learn a lot about the inner-workings of the system :-)
I’ll keep you posted of my findings.

One question to Floob though : in the video you say that the name of the autoconfig gamepad files doesn’t matter, that the system will search in the files to find the one it needs… What if several files with distinct filenames refer to the same gamepads ? Will it simply take the first one or will it try to load both and therefore cause unexpected problems?

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Hi, thanks for replying soooo quickly :-)

I said my gamepads were functioning before, two at a time yes. I never tried three at once.
And then well yes, I updated like a fool, through the Retropie-setup script (installing binaries, updating, installing again, updating script…), through apt-get update and upgrade too… So that may be why I have a little bit of 2.3 and 2.4 mixed.
I also configured my gamepad first through retropie-setup script doing a “register retroarch gamepad”, and then (don’t really know why), through es-config and the gui interface… It may be the cause of my problems having done it in several places…

I’ll have a look at the video. 30 minutes wow, it must be very thourough !
One thing I don’t understand (and hopefully will after watching), is why there would be a need of gamepad control in “gamepad_specific.cfg” and in retroarch.cfg too …
And why by default I had cfg files with lines like “input_b_btn =…”, but read everywhere in the forums to write lines like “input_player1_b_btn = …” and “input_player2_b_btn = …”
Like I said, it may be a little bit clearer after having seen the video.

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