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…what was the point of installing it from USB? It didn’t install to USB. Bah!
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I suspect somebody hasn’t read the ‘readme’ file!

The purpose of a USB install is to get the maximum space available out of your SD card. The standard version of NOOBS doesn’t allow installing via USB and therefore if you install my latest image from the SD card then you’re going to lose around 2gb of space just to install files, which you can’t recover. I didn’t like that so after much searching I found a github page for a USB install method, compiled it and now use it in all my builds.

2gb is precious on an SD card!

There has been much discussion on running from an external drive in this thread already. If you have a look through you should find your answer. It is not something I do personally so I can’t really offer any assistance.

[quote=107272]Hi Smithers,
As usual, great work.
The WIFI instructions worked great for me also I got the build to install from usb by using a different flash drive (Sandisk low profile 32GB USB 2.0 formated as Fat32).

I also installed Sprinz-tv build in kodi which works great.
I was wondering if I decided to add a second profile with an additional build if it will have enough space for that. Also if 0 cache was selected to save cache to sd card??

My only real problem now which is minor, is setting the correct time/date in Raspbian.
Do you know of an easy way in doing this??
Thanks in advance.

Do you have a donation link where people can donate.
You are very deserving of such. You have save me a lot of work not having to do all this myself and I very much appreciate it.

Keep up the great work.

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Hi, sorry for delay in replying. Glad you got it working! I guess that backs up the theory that the NOOBS installer doesn’t like larger flash drives.

As for KODI profiles – its not something I have ever dabbled with, but I guess it depends on what build you use for KODI in the other profile? My latest minimal build I made is around 400mb which is a few hundred MB less than beast build I think. All I could say is give it a try?

Whilst in the subject, I am exploring the possibility if making my own KODI wizard that would add in my build and my games menu. No promises or ETA on that but its a possibility for a build in the future maybe. Would make things easier for upgrades etc. as it’s not always practical to restart everything when a new build comes along!

As for the date & time in Raspbian – I have never tried to fiddle with it, I assume it is managed via the internet since the pi does not have a built in clock? Therefore if you do not have the internet set up then the time would be wrong (like KODI which rolls back to Jan 1970 or something when no network is detected). Are you seeing an incorrect date or no date at all?

As for donations – I couldn’t accept any money for what I do, but thanks for the offer. :) If anyone deserves donations then it is the devs of RetroPie, Emulation Station, KODI ports etc as they do all the really hard work, and for free, which is very admirable. :)

I imagine people don’t realise how much hard work has already gone into projects such as RetroPie, Recalbox etc. to make it a much smoother ride for the end user – if you were to try and set up emulation station from scratch it would be a much much longer and harder affair. I don’t mean for this to sound patronising at all, more just an acknowledgement and appreciation of the work that is put in for these projects, especially when they are released as free downloads.

All the best.
Steve

The model I’m looking at looks similar to the Wii adapter, but it’s for usb. Handles nes / snes / genesis controllers

Have tried different ports, different controllers, all buttons, plus usb keyboard. Nothing is detected. I’ve installed retropie literally hundreds of times and this is the first time this has happened. It must be something to do with doing the binary update on this latest 3.1 update.

I’ve been trying to get Micro Machines 2 going. It won’t emulate on Snes9x so I can’t play 4 player there, and all other emulators for the platforms it’s on won’t handle multitaps etc. the DOS version has the option of playing 4 people with two on keyboard, and while DosBox has a fantastic controller to keyboard mapping system the controller input that runs it just isn’t setup to receive input from more than two USB controllers.

It seems obvious enough to patch in the files but I just don’t have the raw skill/confidence to do it yet, and even if I did it’s a very rare case for extended functionality :)

Well, after a fair bit of searching I’ve found the mapping details on github that tend to suggest that only two virtual joysticks can be mapped using Dosbox. I guess that answers that – still I’ll try with the USB hub and hope I’m reading this wrong. Failing that: is there more than a couple four player games that would make me digging into this worthwhile?

i thought that, but it boots without the usb wireless receiver plugged in. weirdly.
so i’m thinking that it has to be related to that. power?

ok so i’ve powered it back up without my usb xbox wireless controller receiver plugged in and it boots up ok. not sure why its not appriciating that any more. maybe its to do with the power?

i’m in europe rather than the uk. so 110v not 240v. tried on 3 diff usb adapters now and same on all. also tried about 3 different usb leads.

ok i’m confused now. unless my usb receiver thing has completely died a death. :/

[quote=107286]If you want to, use the minipac from ultimarc, https://www.ultimarc.com/minipac.html, plug and play via usb for 2 players, plus spinner and trackball, and go to focus attack for the buttons and joystick. http://www.focusattack.com, this is how mine ended up

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Interesting! So I’m assuming the way that works is I would program what key each pin corresponds to using their software on my PC then when I plug it into the Pi via USB it will simply function like a keyboard, correct?

Just find a quick workaround for retroarch. I added those lines to my config file :
input_player1_joypad_index = “0”
input_player2_joypad_index = “2”
input_player3_joypad_index = “3”
input_player4_joypad_index = “4”
input_player5_joypad_index = “1”

So controlblock 2 is always player 5, letting the space for usb gamepads.

It is powered from a wall outlet microusb adapter, which is rated as 5volt / 2000mA

At medium overclock setting I still saw the hitching in nes, mega drive, and snes emulators (those were all the ones I tested)

I had it, then I decided I needed to get off SD and boot of USB, so I am on a new setup now.

I am trying to ./configure but am getting this error:

No working C++ compiler was found.
Please install a C++ compiler, such as GCC’s g++.
If you have a C++ compiler installed and openMSX did not detect it, please set the environment variable CXX to the name of your C++ compiler.
After you have corrected the situation, rerun “configure”.

Yes, you are right, I forgot all about Fastab, it has been years!

Since I started this post, I found out that since I am over clocking my Pi 2, that I increase the chances of burning out my SD card, so I opted to only initiate the boot sequence from SD, and now host my OS on my USB stick, which of course in itself also solves this problem without the need to edit Fstab.

Thank you though, maybe this will come in handy for those who don’t share my SD phobias, or just that little extra speed boot, save money, or what have you.