[Floob]

[quote=83673]thanks all is working now, I suppose I read to much.

On to another issue. the scraper error that the image can’t be scraped because of image size?
[/quote]

Are you using the command shown here?
https://github.com/sselph/scraper

‘./scraper -thumb_only’

[Floob]

Its odd – mine works fine as per the original post in the autoconfig file (although I dont have a blank line separating them.

[Floob]

Yes, I think so although I havent set this up
http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server

[Floob]

Check towards the end of this video for the hotkey
To be honest your file contents look ok. Maybe that line space is confusing it?
You could try pasting that into your main retroarch.cfg instead as something in there may be overriding it
/opt/retropie/configs/all/

Check this video for the retro look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owsdsyIDU6A

[Floob]

hmm, well it is emulated by MAME
http://www.mamedb.com/list.php?fuzzy_name=golden+tee

But maybe it needs an older version. You can convert roms though, but you will have to google about that.

[Floob]

The auto config files are in
/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs

They relate to the specific controller you are using – you can tell which has been configured by looking at the last edited date (the comman is: ls -lah)

The retroarch.cfg file will import those settings. Or you can type them in the retroarch.cfg file manually
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

Search the file for the text ‘joypad’ its towards the end and has examples in there – just under the keyboard config section. The above video should show it.

[Floob]

The first video above shows how to do that.

[Floob]

[quote=83484]I used WINSCP and found the file /etc/emulationstation/es_system.cfg but it would not allow me to save it. So then I tried sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_system.cfg and it acted like the file didnt exist. How do I access it to add the .atr .ATR extensions?[/quote]

Its es_systems.cfg not es_system.cfg

[Floob]

I’m pretty sure the laptop will only have HDMI output, not input.
Does your brother have a separate monitor?

Or maybe he could use a PC based emulator instead?
You could get RetroArch for windows
http://www.libretro.com/index.php/downloads/

Or go crazy and get one of these:
http://www.adafruit.com/categories/160

[Floob]

When I use 2 controllers (that are the same), it seems to happily detect both with just the first set of lines. i.e.

input_device = “USB Gamepad ”
input_driver = “udev”
input_b_btn = “2”
input_y_btn = “3”
input_select_btn = “8”
input_start_btn = “9”
input_up_axis = “-1″
input_down_axis = “+1″
input_left_axis = “-0″
input_right_axis = “+0″
input_a_btn = “1”
input_x_btn = “0”
input_l_btn = “4”
input_r_btn = “5”

When you start a rom it should have some yellow text at the bottom of the screen confirming detection of the controllers.

If you wanted to specify both controllers, I’d disable the autoconfig and just manually add the lines to the retroarch.cfg

This may help a bit:

[Floob]

That does look good, it’ll be interesting to see its performance.

[Floob]

Ok – hopefully that new romset you get will work well. I’d delete anything else you have in this doe before you add them there:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame

It shouldnt need any extra files.

[Floob]

hmm, it looks like RetroPie 2.3 has been released since you started the project.
Would it be worth using that?

I’m afraid I’m not that experienced with the old version – I have a guide of how to hook up the controller, but I’m not sure how to go about it with the GPIO setup.

Using the autoconfig will import the file that retroarch generates, but again, all the path references I would use are relating to RetroPie 2.3

I’m pretty sure the GUI screen you show above can be manually edited in the retroarch.cfg file – so you could find that in your local install. If you use 2.3 I can help more with paths.

[Floob]

I’m afraid I dont know much about the GPIO functions, but I do know when using the Pi / RetroPie normally, one file deals with the emulation station controls, and another for RetroArch based emulators (retroarch.cfg).
Is there a chance that the games are trying to use a different controller config to emulationstation?

My gameboy emulation is through RetroArch and so it uses controls in those config files

    <system>
        <fullname>Game Boy</fullname>
        <name>gb</name>
        <path>~/RetroPie/roms/gb</path>
        <extension>.gb .GB</extension>
        <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 1 "/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/emulatorcores/gambatte-libretro/libgambatte/gambatte_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/gb/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"</command>
        <platform>gb</platform>
        <theme>gb</theme>
    </system>

[Floob]

This may help you
http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards

[Floob]

For issue #1, are you definitely using a romset specifically for FBA?
I’ve since found having the bios zip in the main bios folder and the rom folder itself seems to work fine.

This may also help:
https://code.google.com/p/pifba/

I would have thought any romset that is specifically for FBA should be fine.

[Floob]

I’m assuming you are using RetroPie 2.3 ?
All your MAME roms (should be about 2,000 zip files) in zip format should be stored here:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame

A MAME romset (of 0.36b5 anyway) should be about 2GB in size.

Your MAME entry in es_systems.cfg should be

    <system>
        <fullname>MAME</fullname>
        <name>mame</name>
        <path>~/RetroPie/roms/mame</path>
        <extension>.zip .ZIP</extension>
	<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 4 "/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame %BASENAME%"</command>
        <platform>arcade</platform>
        <theme>mame</theme>
    </system>

[Floob]

I dont think there is an easy way to check which romset you have unless there is a readme file with the set or in the archive filename somewhere.

Its probably easier just to download the right romset – google should help out. Its against the rules here to link to roms.

The those zips from the romset simply go in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame directory. You may need a neogeo.zip file in the bios directory if you want to play neo geo games in there.

[Floob]

Have you got the neogeo.zip in your rom and bios directory?

[Floob]

It might be to do with the position of the lines – can you post your auto config joypad file?

[Floob]

Are you using romset 0.37b5?
Also, do you have neogeo.zip file there for the neo roms?

[Floob]

Hi,

Try changing the line in es_systems.cfg runcommand from ‘1’ to ‘4’ on the MAME section.

[Floob]

These should help

[Floob]

Seems odd that Mame isnt detecting a USB keyboard.
Usually pressing tab would bring up the GUI menu and you can configure in there.

Is it using mame4all-pi – that should work fine

[Floob]

Ok – when you make your save state, can you check the directory for the *.state file?
What is the exact name it uses? You should be able to tell which file it is looking at the from the timestamp.

I’m presuming permissions are fine here, and the pi user can write and read here:
/home/pi/RetroPie/savestate (although the line is commented out)

It looks like when you save it is always using the .auto file, but you are trying to load one with a number at the end?

I know one of your savestate directories is commented out, but I would get rid of the line so there is no conflict.

So I’d lose these at the bottom of the file and use the main ones
savefile_directory = /home/pi/RetroPie/
savestate_directory = /home/pi/RetroPie/

If you simply hit F2 to save, then F4 to load – does that work?

[Floob]

Maybe its the defaults in here:

sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

Option 3 – Setup
Option 310 – Hotkey behaivour

As per this post, I think you would want option 2

Default configuration for RetroArch hotkey button

[Floob]

Change this line to read 16 so you can at least see the error in full.

# Size of the font rendered.
# video_font_size = 32

This may help

[Floob]

Can you post your config file so we can see?

[Floob]

You could try checking this file
/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/mame.cfg

Mine has this for the keyboard section:

[frontend]
#Keyboard controls for frontend only
# Get codes from /usr/include/SDL/SDL_keysym.h
K_START=13
K_SELECT=53
K_LEFT=276
K_RIGHT=275
K_UP=273
K_DOWN=274
K_A=306
K_QUIT=27
#Joystick controls for frontend only
J_START=9
J_SELECT=8
J_A=0
AXIS_LR=0
AXIS_UD=1

You can see the key here:
http://www.ascii-code.com/

13 is Enter/Return

Or maybe delete the files in here:
/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/cfg

[Floob]

Assuming you are using fba to run Neo Geo:

I set my select button which adds credits here (depends on your control pad for the right number)
/opt/retropie/emulators/pifba/fba2x.cfg

[Joystick]
# Get codes from "jstest /dev/input/js0"
# from package "joystick"
A_1=0
B_1=1
X_1=2
Y_1=3
L_1=4
R_1=5
START_1=7
SELECT_1=6
#Joystick axis
JA_LR=0
JA_UD=1

[Floob]

Have you pressed Tab and tried using that GUI?

A bit like this:

I’m afraid I dont have an Xbox controller to try it on.

[Floob]

This should help

and this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owsdsyIDU6A

[Floob]

The . in the path means its hidden – perhaps cyberduck is set to not show the hidden folders by default?

[Floob]

Sorry, yes, I just meant the link for the reference of where to change the video mode output from 720p to VGA.

For scanlines, I could try it out on an XRGB Mini I have, but I’d want it to run without that to be honest. The SLG3000 looks like a good option.

Maybe this guy can help?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/90925637@N06/11751114826/

[Floob]

Have you set your es_systems.cfg to output into VGA to try that out?
Thats video mode ‘1’

some details are here:

Using overscan in RetroPie to fit video to your display

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