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smithers wrote:

look in the ports section and you will find Goldenaxe Remake and Double Dragon Extreme – these are both Openbor mods and are both very good

Thanks Smithers. Am i the only one that thinks that “Goldenaxe Curse of Death Adder” should be implemented in your “new” build? Is it possible? It is much much better than the classical golden axe !! (even better from the golden axe remake-openbor)

Looking forward to it!

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Well its funny you should say that as it was actually me who made the ‘Goldenaxe – Curse of Death Adder’ mod! I released 3 demos of it but never could give enough time to finish it off so abandoned it, unfortunately. Somebody else picked up where I left off but they ruined it and it lost the feel and look that I was trying to achieve (they even removed the Conan the Barbarian theme music I put on!!). A few people have borrowed from it for their own goldenaxe mods too I noticed, which is cool. I still have my original ‘final demo’ version, should you want it, but I didn’t include it in my build as it was unfinished. It is the version that you see in my video.

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smithers wrote:

I’m afraid I don’t. You will need to either go through the motions in the Emulation Station ‘Joypad Setup’ script, or edit the es_input.cfg file manually. Please bare in mind that the es_input.cfg file requires keyboard characters to be entered in using their ‘key code’ (for want of a better term). What I mean is that it won’t accept for example ‘W’ ‘S’ ‘A’ ‘D’ as ‘up down left right’, you need to find the key code that corresponds to the ‘W A S D’ keys and enter them. Here is an example of my own es_input.cfg file but please don’t be tempted to copy this as it will not be what you need (I created it for a wireless air mouse / keyboard / remote combo):

  <inputConfig type="keyboard" deviceName="Keyboard">
    <input name="up" type="key" id="1073741906" value="1"/>
    <input name="right" type="key" id="1073741903" value="1"/>
    <input name="down" type="key" id="1073741905" value="1"/>
    <input name="left" type="key" id="1073741904" value="1"/>
    <input name="a" type="key" id="13" value="1"/>
    <input name="b" type="key" id="1073741925" value="1"/>
    <input name="start" type="key" id="1073741926" value="1"/>
  </inputConfig>

Those long strings of numbers are key codes that were interpreted by Linux from my remote. Yours will be different no doubt.

Honestly – your best bet is to plug in the keyboard and set them up through the GUI. That way the settings should be carried through into Retroarch too for the libretro emulators, preventing you having to set those up manually too.

Good luck!
Smithers

Hi,
This is the keyboard I was talking about LotFancy® Mini 2.4GHz Black Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad for PC, Pad, Andriod TV Box, Google TV Box, Xbox360, PS3 & HTPC IPTV and I have this one: Rii Mini i6 Wireless USB Keyboard + Trackpad + Universal IR Remote Controller (Black).

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Yeah I have a similar one myself. Quite a generic design there are hundreds of variants!

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haris1977 wrote:

Smithers

Can y upload the lr-blood.shh file in /home/pi/retropie/roms/ports ? I dont have the time to re-install the 7.2 image..

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Thanks mayki!

[quote=106121]hello!

Thank you very much for sharing this!

I would have 2 questions about this:

1) how big are the partitions for each system? can they be expanded?
2) how do you update one or the other system when updates are released?

Thanks!

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Hi.

The partitions for beast build are around 1.4gb for KODI and the rest is allocated to RetroPie. For my normal KODI build, KODI is allocated around 1GB.

As for updates – both systems work in the normal manner. RetroPie is via the RetroPie Setup Script and KODI is through the GUI for none ‘milestone’ updates and via a .tar file for major updates (as far as I understand it). Either way, they should both work in their normal manner, the fact they are dual booted should make no difference.

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lilbud wrote:

Awesome, you also said something about a triple boot with Retropie, Raspbian, and openelec, is that going to be like that miniemu kickstarter a couple months back?

Except smithers isn’t a greedy dirtbag that prostitutes the work of others for his own financial gain and smithers actually knows what he’s doing.

Good work smithers. You’re a stand up chap.

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Thanks Herbfargus. :) I believe in sharing with the community and not withholding information which I think can only lead to bigger and better things for everyone, myself included. Already there are folks commenting on how they are modding their own builds now off their own back, which means they are taking the time to learn Linux and the Pi in general, which in fairness is the Pi’s goal – a learning tool. :)

I take it ‘Kickstarter guy’ wasn’t very popular around these parts then? I can certainly understand why. I think its fair enough to offer something for sale if it is something special and all your own doing, but if all you are doing is building upon the (vast) foundations of others hard work and putting your badge on then its just not cricket.

Rasplex / Retropie Dual-Boot is now ready to download but I have created a new thread specifically for that build, so not to get lost in this lonnnngg thread!

[quote=106080]Hello Smithers,
how to enable this feature?

RetroPie_OpenELEC_Dual-Boot_v7.1_SS

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Hi.

Bring up the Emulation Station menu (normally by pressing ‘Start’ on your controller), go to ‘UI Settings’ and set ‘On-Screen Help’ to ‘ON’.

I personally prefer it off as my pads don’t have buttons ‘A B X Y’ (they are PS3 pad style), but to each their own!

All the best.
Steve

p.s. don’t touch the theme whilst you’re in there or you’ll lose my extra system additions! Leave the theme as ‘ss’.

@mack505 – I never attempted a dual-key setting.

[quote=106001]Hello Smithers,
something has changed in the game Quake? Version 7.1 build of me wants to operate PS3 gamepad controls. In version RetroPie_OpenELEC_Dual-Boot_v1_SS it worked OK.
Which games folder PORTS going to control the PS3 gamepad?

Adventures Of Square
Aliens vs Predator
Brutal Freedom
Cave Story
Dinothawr
Doom 1
Double Dragon Remake
Duke Nukem 3D
Golden Axe Remake
Heretic
Hexen
Quake
Quake III Arena
Rise Of The Triad
Super Mario War
Wolfenstein 3D

You need any special setup to be able to operate the PS3 gamepad?
Thank you very much for the great job you’re doing for us.

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There is a world of difference between v1 and v7.x! Chances are I left some of my own controller configs in v1 by mistake which have now been removed.

You need to do any controller set up yourself, I can’t apply a catch all controller setup or I would have already.

OK so I’ve had a number of people asking for a RetroPie / Rasplex dual boot image and I think I may have figured out how to do it. I was struggling for ages trying to get my script to run but then I realised that Rasplex wants Python scripts, not bash scripts! So a quick crash course on Python scripting and I have a very basic script that seems to work. 8-)

I know nothing about Rasplex, literally nothing, so could do with some advice on a couple of things by a more seasoned Rasplex user. OK so firstly, from what I gather, Rasplex is not about using internet streaming addons (like in KODI), rather it is for playing your own personal media from say, a NAS drive or the likes – correct? So this being the case, I’m guessing that there are no addons or extras that need installing and what you get ‘as-is’ in a fresh copy is all you need to get going – is that correct?

Now I have had to install a different skin to enable custom scripts (Aeon, of course!), and what I am left with is a very basic looking home screen with only the following options available:

Channel Directory
Search
Games (links directly to my script)
Settings
Shutdown

I need someone to tell me if there is anything else I would need to add to make it ready for you to set up. I have not registered for a Plex account or set up my NAS drive (to keep it clean before I make a tarball of the install), so when I click on ‘Channel Directory’ nothing happens. Can someone advise what is meant to happen?

I don’t know, I was kind of expecting to see the normal ‘TV Shows’, ‘Movies’, ‘Music’ etc. but its just not there so looks very basic and Im not sure if it just magically springs to life once you connect your account and NAS drive up.

Anyway, like I say I have my script working so I can offer this as a dual boot option now, I just want to make sure it is ready to be released in its current state or whether I need to do some more work on it.

Any Plex experts out there reading this? :?:

Ok… I am still missing something

There is no retroarch package or lr-mame2010 package on the experimental option from the setup script. I’ve installed retroach from “Install individual emulators” option instead but the files and directories I’ve mentioned on my first post are still missing. What is the exact option to install lr-mame2010?

Regards!

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smithers wrote:

This is the incorrect directory (it was used in an earlier version of RetroPie but changed recently). You need to change it to exactly match the below:

joypad_autoconfig_dir = /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/

1,This problem persists when using the script on video mod 4: 3 (4_3.sh)

2,Videomode switch to 4:3 only worked for the first time, then it’s still only 16:9. You can look at the problem?

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Indeed it does – an oversight (again) on my behalf as I use pre-configured 16:9 / 4:3 retroarch.cfg files and whilst I updated the main retroarch.cfg file, I forgot to update those 2. :/ I am fixing this and will upload a 7.2 version.

One thing I will say however – please bare in mind that the purpose of the ‘aspect ratio switcher’ is meant to be a one-time choice on first setup, for those who don’t like the stretched 16:9 image. All my script does is remove my videomodes.cfg file (so you can start afresh) and replace my retroarch.cfg file (which is set for 16:9), with a version that forces 4:3. If you switch back to 16:9 again then all it does is copy the original retroarch.cfg file over again and re-enable my videomodes.cfg file. This means that if you have made any changes to the retroarch.cfg file since setting it to 4:3 ratio then they will be lost as all my script does is copy over the top of the retroarch.cfg file that it finds present at that time.

So like I say – I envisioned this to be a one-time change and only included it for the few folk who had asked for a 4-3 build to fulfil their needs in a simple way. If you are wanting to regularly change the aspect ratio then that is fine but please be aware that you need to make a backup of your retroarch.cfg and videomodes.cfg files *if* you have made any changes to them.

Hope this makes sense!