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Hello,
I am using retropie 3 with an raspbi 2 model B.
In the Terminal I have performed an upgrade manually with sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.Now the USB Ports are without function.
I am using a G13 Keyboard. The LEDs are on but input doesn’t work.
The Wifi Dongle shows nothing.Could anybody help me?
Andreas
Topic: ve
I have a RP with RetroPie 3.3 on it and was wondering what would be the best way to use all my controllers. I have 2 USB nes, 2 USB sega, 2 USB SNES, and 4 USB n64 controllers. I have a wireless keyboard and a USB hub that has its own power. I really do not need to have all these controllers plugged in at once but I can if it poses and issue.
Any ideas?
Posting this because it might help out a noob or two…
Having installed Retropie 3.3 via the image file from USB, I wanted to be able to use the Raspbian desktop but found I couldn’t – when pressing F4 to get to the terminal (from Emulation Station) then running ‘startx’ to bring up the graphical environment only gave me a white box and a cursor on a black screen.
This is because LXDE isn’t installed, so you need to do the following:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install lxde
Then reboot (you can use shutdown -r now)You should now get the desktop when you run startx. To return to emulationstation – log out of the desktop and run ’emulationstation’ in the terminal.
You can now add a menu item to launch the desktop within emulationstation by doing the following 2 steps:
Create file desktop.sh at /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/desktop.sh
the contents of the file will be:
#!/bin/bash
startxThen open file: /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml
and add the following
<game>
<path>./desktop.sh</path>
<name>Launch LXDE</name>
</game>Topic: Large Bartop Arcade
Hi all,
Just wanted to share my latest project based on the awesomeness that is Retropie.
I built this for my kids (myself mostly, don’t tell my wife) for Christmas this year. I was somehow able to do this in about 4 weeks total thanks to the plethora of info available on this forum and the rest of the internet.This was built from one 4′ x 8′ sheet of 1/2″ birch plywood. 1″ x 2″ braces are glued and screwed from the inside on all joints. You can see in one pic where I placed all the pieces using scotch tape temporarily. I then drew lines on the inside where the 1×2 braces were placed.
This is running a Raspberry Pi 2 with Retropie 3.3.
The screen is a 19″ TV which I mounted in such a way to use the built in speakers on the bottom and project them forward to the holes you see and small wood box under each speaker. HDMI is used for both video and audio from the Pi. The screen is connected to the frame using it’s own mounting holes where the stand used to be. I drilled holes in a couple aluminum bars and screwed it down to the wood, and used the TV’s own screws that used to hold the stand. Then one more piece of 1×2 wood on top of the tv to hold it in place. I ended up having to force the Pi into HDMI mode and specify the resolution in the config.txt file to keep the TV from switching inputs when powered on. There was a timing issue where the TV took too long to power up and the Pi didn’t detect anything in the HDMI port and then didn’t output HDMI. (unless rebooted while the TV was already on) Also the TV would switch to another input when it didn’t detect an HDMI signal. So forcing the output settings with config.txt fixed all this. I also had to hard set the audio to HDMI instead of Auto in the Raspi-config script.
The buttons and 8 way joysticks are wired to an iPac2 controller and connected to the Pi via USB. The iPac is running in keyboard mode.
I’ve customized certain things such as volume control using the option button + player 2 joystick up and down. Save and Load state buttons, Pause, etc.
The “shift” button you see in the pics (player 2 select button) is the iPac shift key. This allows me to navigate config menus that require tab, enter, F4, etc. (These aren’t labeled; they are just for me)
The “Option” button in the middle, is the RetroArch hotkey button. It’s the escape key for all non-RetroArch emulators such as MAME. So players can hold “Option” while pressing pause, exit, save, load, and adjusting volume. Save slots are adjusted with option + left and right on player 1 joystick.For power, I used a standard IEC power connector with switch built in. This way I can use any standard PC power cable, and get one as long as needed wherever this thing is moved to. The back is removable using a mailbox key. The back of the IEC power connector goes into an electrical outlet box on the inside of the cabinet and is wired to a standard outlet. Then a power strip is connected where the Pi, TV, and LED light power supply all plug in. The buttons and marquee are all lit with LEDs.
The marquee graphic isn’t tall enough, my own dumb fault, so I will replace that sometime soon. You can see the white bars above and below it for now. People tell me it looks good that way, but it bothers me, lol.
Finally, I’m still waiting on two small 2 inch speakers grill covers for the front.
All in all, I’m happy with this and it was a really fun project. I’m still tweaking things on the software side. I think the software stuff took twice as long as making the cabinet.
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Topic: Saving Issues
Hi,
I got a Raspberry Pi Retropie kit with everything loaded and ready for me to just get ROMS and play.
I am having issues with saving though. I use USB SNES controllers and was told pressing select and the R button will save. This works while playing Mario on NES, but when I try to save an SNES game nothing happens.
Have tried on Donkey Kong, Theme Park and B.O.B so far.
Is anyone able to help?
Thanks!
Hi there,
I’m new to RetroPie so hope these haven’t been answered already : here it goes :
(running an updated Retropie 3.3 on a Raspberry 2)1. I’ve added the following aliases into my .bashrc / how to make them start automatically (before EmulationStation) during startup? So the sound is set to 100% ?
# increase volume by 10% alias volu='sudo amixer set PCM -- $[$(amixer get PCM|grep -o [0-9]*%|sed 's/%/$ # decrease volume by 10% alias vold='sudo amixer set PCM -- $[$(amixer get PCM|grep -o [0-9]*%|sed 's/%/$2. I’ve defined a new shader in the following file :
/opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg
And set it like this :# video_shader = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/snes_phosphor.glslp video_shader = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/ntsc-pass4.glslpBut it’s not being applied unfortunately… Any suggestions?
3. And finally : I’m using a F310 from Logitech – I had it plugged in one of the USB-ports and it worked splendidly. Removed it, inserted another generic gamepad controller, configured it, replugged the F310 into another USB port and it stopped working. Even if I configure it in EmulationStation (the XboxGamepad(userspacedriver).cfg is created properly) , the F310 doesn’t work in the game(s).
thanks for any help!
/dimi
Here’s a cool idea if anyone wanted to make their own personal case, inside I have the xbox 360 wireless reciever, a wifi dongle, a 64g usb for my roms, and I also added an external usb input in the back just in case, I also added a “piglow” addon board, which adds a very cool effect to the case, it’s about the size of a nintendo wii, and it’s very solid, you can shake it and nothing moves around, feels like a legit console
Hi all,
I’m having an issue where if I setup my USB audio card correctly then I get sound effects in the emulation station front end, I get audio from other emulators like Doom, but all my MAME roms fail to load. They all give the following error:lvl0: VolumeControl::init() – Failed to find mixer elements!
I believe this error is definitely related, because if I change my audio card in /etc/asound.conf to use internal (and this causes the device names visible through “amixer” to change) then all the same exact MAME roms load perfectly (but of course have no sound). In this case also the emulation station front end audio gets lost.
I’ve also seen others with I think the same problem on the raspberry pi forum. I’ve replied there below.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=124652&p=881343#p881343
Hi!
Today I wired my JUYAO Dual Arcade Controller and connected it to one of the usb ports of my raspberry pi 2 with retropie installed… emulationstation launched and… no gamepads detected, hold a button blablabla… but nothing.
Tested it under windows and it’s ok.so, after searching for a while, I found this:
[quote]I finally got this working with RPi by creating a file /etc/udev/rules.d/00-arcadejs.rules containing:
ATTRS{name}==”Arcade Controller JUYAO Dual Arcade”,ACTION==”add”,ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}=”0″,ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}:=”1″[/quote]and then this, as people said it only recognised 1 player.
[quote]Just needed to change the usb device ID’s
Add the following to the end of /boot/cmdline.txt
usbhid.quirks=0x0314:0x0326:0x040[/quote]
I did both, restarted the raspberry… and nothing. still dead.
Any help would be MUCH appreciated :(
EDITED: just tried LSUSB and vendor/id appears as “0314 0328” with no name after all, just blank…
EDITED 2: changed the usbhid.quirks to 0314 0328 and now it recognises 2 gamepads.
Tried setting controls on mame, and player 1 side works great. Player 2 won’t recognise buttons 2,3,4,6,7 :? any idea?EDITED 3: checked wiring, and the ground daisy cable seems to have a bad connection so from that faston on, nothing worked… Now everything works fine…
Topic: Trouble mapping Dualshock 4
Hi ! Long time user here and everytime I had issues with something this forum had been a great help.
Yesterday I freshly started on my Pi2 the latest image of retropie wheezy
I transfered my roms and everything works fine with my SNES controller.
However when I map my WIRED PS4 controller either the buttons are all wrong OR I map it in retroarch and the controls are fine minus D-pad RIGHT which strangely never register in retroarch and no hot keys at all works when I modify my config file here :
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads
Strangely my config file for the PS4 controller is either called
PS4 Controller (when I manually map it in retroarch)
or
Sony Computer Entertainment Wireless Controller (when mapped in emulationstation)I did try this :
But it doesn’t work, all of the buttons are wrong and when I map it correctly and restart the pi it seems like it doesn’t refer to that file at all as all of the buttons are wrong again.
The only two files I have here /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads
is RetroUSB.comSNESRetroPort.cfg
and
PS4 Controller.cfgSorry for the long post and probably bad english. All in all what I want is :
To be able to play with my SNES controller and exiting the roms with my hotkeys
And when I want to play playstation games I want to be able to plus my dualshock 4 and play the game while still be able to exit said game using mapped hotkeys for this controller.Thanks so much guys
Hi
Can you please show me where I can find instructions to compile RTL8192EU driver for retropie 3.3.1? I am quite new to building and compiling drivers on linux.
I’ve tried a few instructions including cross compiling to OpenElec 5.0 but keep bumping into compilation errors.
My wireless component is a generic USB that I’ve bought from eBay and it has RTL8192EU chipset. I’ve tested this wireless dongle on Windows 7 and it is working perfectly with the drivers provided on the CD. On the CD, they have included 3 drivers for linux:
`- RTL8188 8192EUS_linux_v4.3.0.4_1148
– RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v3.4.4_4749.20121105
– rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.4_8785.20130820`I assume all these drivers will work with my chipset as I’ve inspected the *.inf file and they have included the above chipsets.
I am confused with all the different versions of kernel, drivers and gcc. Do I need the same kernel version as seen in the drivers name for it to work?
I’ve tried to get the kernel headers through apt-get but the package doesnt seem to exist.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.1.13-v7 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.1.13-v7'Please help me!
I’ve been configuring MAME on my RetroPie and I’ve run into a controller problem I hope someone could help with.
I’m using a USB SNES controller and trying to play a game like Star Wars, Star Trek, or Tempest where a spinner is used, if I use the normal SNES left and right on the pad, the things you are controlling on screen are way too fast or don’t work at all. If you use the left or right on your keyboard, they work just fine, or if I map the spinner to the shoulder buttons it works. (but this is only a solution for spinner games)
Obviously I know it’s because I’m trying to use a D-Pad with an analog game, but why does it work just fine on the keyboard but not on the D-Pad?
Is there any way to re-map or fix the analog settings so that my in-game characters don’t spin so fast? I’ve tried playing around with the controls inside MAME adjusting the analog settings but nothing works.
This happens with pretty much any game that requires a trackball or spinner. Has anyone found a good work-around for this?
Hello all together,
I´m just trying to connect a PS3 6Axis Dualshock controller to my Retropie. I think, my Blueooth dongle works fine, while I see it using hciconfig after doing all neccessary steps in RetroPie Setup (“Configure Bluetooth Devices” and “Install/Pair PS3 controller”).
When I now connect the controller via USB and then disconnect it, after pressing the PS-Button the controller starts rumbling and the four LEDs blinking for about one second, then the controller turns off.
A connection never seems to be established, so that no device is shown in “Display Registered & connected Bluetooth devices”.
Does anybody know about this problem? Is it an issue of my controller or may it be caused by using a “wrong” Bluetooth dongle?
Thank you,
Soeren
