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Topic: USB Storage in Kodi?
I figured that this would be the best place to ask…
I have RetroPie running nicely on a Raspberry Pi 2 B, and so far, I’ve managed to learn how to do everything I wanted to do, but there’s one thing that baffles me. I downloaded Kodi from the Experimental menu, and I even created a EmulationStation icon for it, but I can’t seem to get the software to recognize my USB drive.
My USB drive is plugged in, but when I try to add a source folder, my drive doesn’t show up! Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Does it need to be formatted a certain way?
Thanks for your help!
Hey guys,
i am configuring retropi only over ssh since i dont have an usb keyboard. Since 3.0 n64 emulators use the same rom folder. libretro emulator is set as the standard emulator and it can be modified pressing x or m on emulator start. Since i dont have a keyboard i cannot enter this menu. How can i change the settings over ssh. Or is there a simple way to access this using my laptop keyboard?Hi everyone, first the summary:
Pi Model: 2 B
RetroPie Version Used: 3.0 Beta 2
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected: 4x Buffalo Classic USB Gamepad through 4 port Rosewill powered USB Hub Canakit wifi dongle, Microsoft USB Keyboard are plugged directly into the RP, with a Microsoft mouse plugged into 1 of the 2 USB ports on the keyboard.
Controller used: 4x Buffalo Classic USB GamepadHow to replicate the problem:
Run Super Bomberman 5 on lr-snes9x-next (or previous versions of the core), it will freeze audio at the menu, but video will keep going until you press any key, and then video will freeze also.
or
Run Super Bomberman 4 on lr-snes9x-next(or previous versions of the core), it will freeze audio and video during the intro cinematic.
I’m building an emu box for my friend’s birthday. The most important game, the one he will want to play is Super Bomberman 5 for SNES (with Super Bomberman 4 being a close second), with 4 people at a time.
I’ve tested Mario Kart 64 with all 4 controllers, and apart from garbled textures and unreadable menus, all 4 people can play once we hit the actual race track!
Also, running Castlevania SOTN and Parasite Eve for PS1 just fine, and very impressed by retropie in general, so awesome.Here is my problem: Every version of Snes9x I’ve tried on retropie has crashed at the menu for SB5 (and even earlier in SB4). All other SNES cores I’ve tried do not have this problem, however I can’t get more than 2 controllers working for them. I got multitap support working for Snes9x via adding this line to /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg:
input_libretro_device_p2 = “257”
As per astorek86’s post here:
Adding that line did not enable multitap in any other snes cores on my system, even the other ones which start with lr_. I have searched through all of the configs and sparse documentation for the other cores to see if there is some way to enable multitap, but haven’t found anything.
I’ve used rom editing software to try adding/removing headers, applying general ‘fixes’, overdump trimming, etc etc, I’ve had SB5 and SB4 rom files on the operating table for about 2 hours, but nothing helped. These games were never released outside of Japan, and perhaps use some special internals. All the other cores can run them though, and so can every x86 version of ZSNES and Snes9x that I ever used on Windows. I tried using DOS ZSNES through DOSBox on RetroPie, but it ran the game too slow to be playable, no surprise. I’ve also tried many different versions of the roms, in case some were damaged or corrupt or something. But again, they do run great on other SNES cores.
At this point it seems like getting multitap to work on a core other than snes9x is my best bet. It seems that several Japan Only Bomberman games have quirks, as per the changelog for CATSFC:
– Panic Bomberman World requires SPC700 memory to be initialised to zero on
reset otherwise the game hangs when a tune finishes and another one should
start.– Panic Bomber World, Bomberman 4 and UFO Kamen Yakisoban all need the slower
SPC700 timing.https://github.com/ShadauxCat/CATSFC/blob/master/source/changes.txt
I do not have any error logs or crash dumps from Snes9x, because I don’t know where they are or how to access them. I’ve looked for this info but haven’t found it. If anyone can help me locate this info, I would be happy to post it, but at this point it may be easier to find a way to get multitap working on other SNES cores.
Thanks for reading, and any ideas you have!
Topic: Laggy sound and video
Hello everyone, I am brand new to emulators and I had a couple of questions. I went through the Retropie install and everything went very smoothly. But if I play anything more advanced than NES, even some NES games sound is very poor, the game is very choppy sound and video. N64 is completely unplayable due to lag. I am not sure if these could be bad ROM’s that I downloaded or some other issue. Current setup is:
Pi Model:B+
RetroPie Version Used: 3.0.0 Beta
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected: Keyboard
Controller used: Xbox 360 remote (2x)THanks in advance for any help.
Thanks for taking the time. I am a total noob, like less than a week having my raspberry pi 2. I am running the newest retropie beta for the pi 2. Everything works fine with my ps3 controller. But my project for the arcade cabinet is the goal. Got my joystick set up from ebay
figured going off other plans would work great. Plug everything up as a test and configure with the emulastionstaion everthing seemed to be working up, down, left and so on. Went to the menu in retropie for the retroarch joystick config did the same thing. Went to launch NES mario bro. and nothing. I can hit one button and it makes me jump. Joystick does not let me move. I can also pause and exit using a two button combo to get back to emulations station. So WTF. tried a different emulator same thing. I tried MAME and was able to map the joystick and buttons to play galaga and worked left,right, and fire. So exited and went back to NES, see at the bottom it still sees the controller, and still can only jump.
So any help would be greatly appreciated, I tried google last night for about four hours and saw some similar issues or for all I know the exact issue and I just don’t see it, because I am a total noob. Not sure if I have the newest version 4, I believe its 3 but some of the commands I tried last night could of updated maybe not sure. The reason I am also using the beta ver is I could not get the 2.6 one to work with my wifi and read that the beta had a idiot proof setup. If you can help can u please dumb it way down for me
Thanks
First off thanks for the great project.
I had my controller working just fine in Beta 2 then I updated to Beta 4. I did the controller configuration and now my controller is not working.
When doing the joystick setup it sees the button presses and writes the config file to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/THTTHTArcadeconsole2PUSBPlayer.cfg
What step am I skipping/missing?
Topic: Watch movies
Hello. I wish the menu was the choice movies, these movies are in USB . Thank
I Am useing WinSCP to try and edit the es_systems.cfg in /ect/emulationstation/ folder . But when i try to save the file with the new paths to my usb roms i get the below ? .
Permission denied.
Error code: 3
Error message from server: Permission deniedTopic: Problem with 1st time setup
I got a problem, it’s my first time using retropi. I downloaded v3 beta 4 as the newest version. I got the image flashed to the raspberry pi b+. It boots, starts emulationstation and starts the configuration setup. So far so good, all the videos I’ve seen have been exactly what I see.
It then shows 1 gamepad dectected and to hold the button to configure. I start to press a button and it highlights at the bottom “USB Gamepad” I then hold down the button for about 3-5 seconds like all the tutorials say to do.
This is where things go different from everything I read and seen. A little box saying ‘OK’ shows up at the bottom and nothing happens. I’ve let it sit for quite some time. Hitting random buttons, holding random buttons… nothing.
Redownloaded, flashed, same thing. Downloaded torrent, flashed, same thing. SDcard is fine as it works with a ‘regular’ debian image. I tried using just the keyboard with no gamepad, nothing. Tried running from command line the retropi-setup.sh and configureing the controller there. That breaks emulationstation and makes the screen go all flashy the next go round.
Why is this happening? How can I fix this?
For some reason when I access the RetroPie console to enter commands I keep getting ~ entered in on my lines. Its driving me nuts! One question I would ask if it perhaps has anything to do with the keyboard setting. Im using a standard USB keyboard, what is the best setting for that in RetroPie, I saw a ton of presets but I wasn’t sure what to pick. Also for some reason in .cfg files all the options are ^X or ^C if that has anything to do with the issue.
Im running a Pi2 B and retro 3.0 2
Hi.
I have purchased a Mayflash SNES to USB Gamepad. [img]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/NzYAAOSw-ndTnwOX/$_57.JPG[/img] And 2 original SNES controllers.
Have read up and down on internet and watched movies on Youtube on how to map controller for EmulationStation. I can get it to work as menu controller (i configured it in ES and it just works).
[b]But when I fire up a Emulator i.e. SNES emulator – nothing works![/b]I have also tried to configure with the RetroPie_setup.sh and using RetroArch controller – but it does not recognize any of the Button pushes (is this because it only reads USB controllers?).
Please help me! Im new to the whole Rasp PI stuff, so I need explanations.
Thank you for any comments and help. Very much appreciated.
I am building a “mini-arcade” built around an iCade and a raspberry pi. I want to add a “touch sensor” button, which is sold by sparkfun.com and is based on the AT42QT1010. I am interfacing the joystick/buttons using a “zero delay” USB encoder I bought off eBay.
Question is, can the digital output signal be used by the USB encoder, or do I need to connect the output directly to the GPIO? I read somewhere that pin 5 already has a pull up resistor on it. It seems every pi tutorial on buttons involves lighting an LED; all I want to do is read the button push.
appreciate any help!
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Topic: Odd USB Gamepad behavior
Hey all, I installed beta 2, and my gamepad worked perfectly. I bought a larger SD card, and installed beta 3 fresh. Configured my gamepad in emulatorstation and retropie setup with no issues. In emulatorstation, all directions and buttons work, however in all the emulators all buttons work, but directions don’t. I’ve re-ran the setup in both areas multiple times with no change. Could anyone offer some assistance?
Thanks in advance!
Hello everyone,
I use for some time Retropie v3.0 beta 3 and I would like to add new emulator for zx spectrum and make it default.
Retropie comes with two built-in emulators fbzx and fuse (default), but for me the best emulator “Unreal Speccy Portable” is not present.
I downloaded an emulator here https://bitbucket.org/djdron/unrealspeccyp/downloads/unreal-speccy-portable_0.0.64_rpi.zipunpacked and put together with the others in /opt/retropie/emulators/usp
Then edited the emulator.cfg file in /opt/retropie/configs/zxspectrum adding a line usp=”/opt/retropie/emulator/usp/unreal_speccy_portable %ROM%” and set default =”usp”
Unfortunately, the emulator is not working when I started a game, just came back in emulationstation menu.
I also tried to make a script +Start USP.sh that will start the emulator manually from es menu (as uae4all for example) but this also failed, because obviously I’m not well-configured parameters.
The only way to start the emulator is to press F4 and go to the terminal, then manually change the emulator directory and start it with ./unreal_speccy_portableAlso, maybe I should set the es_systems.cfg file but did not know what.
Can someone help me set this emulator as the default, or at least that it can start from emulationstation menu and be able to use it comfortably as other emulators.
I exhausted my modest knowledge of retropie package and linux and I would like to solve this problem.
Sorry for my bad english, best regards.Pi Model: 2B
RetroPie Version Used: 3.0 Beta 3
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected: joypad, wireless keyboard
Controller used: ps3 dualshock clone