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RooParticipantIt’s more likely a problem with that emulator. Try copying the rom to
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive-dgenand run it with the other Genesis emulator to see if the same bug happens.RooParticipant[quote=88120]Anyway, I’m not sure if 1080p gives full performance. I have my Pi overclocked at Turbo and having it on 1080p makes SNES lag at some games. For example, Tetris Attack SNES doesn’t run in full speed when playing – especially on VS. Mode.[/quote]
Pi 2 model B? I can’t test Vs mode (I only have one controller) but I run the game at 1080p with a shader and overlay and see no issues at all.
RooParticipant[quote=88115]well, it’s impossible to please everyone – we try to make the most common set up the default. as can be read, not everyone appreciates us switching the screenmode by default, which was done to try and sort out performance issues – many of the shaders do not perform well at high resolution.
default does not mean you can’t change the behaviour. I have spent a lot of time trying to make stuff more easily configurable.
[/quote]Sure, processor intensive shaders are never going to work well, but I’ve had a lot of success with Pi2 and the basic shaders, even at 1080p. I never had success finding a decent scanline shader that would work with Pi 1.
You’re right – I don’t really have any opinion over what y’all choose as the default setup. I can always undo any changes that don’t work for me.
02/19/2015 at 15:22 in reply to: Rpi2 + Retropie 2.5: Random crashing; is my hardware stuffed? #88119RooParticipantYour Pi itself might have problems. I doubt your SD card hardware is causing the Pi to crash. The RetroPie images up to the current 2.6.0 have all been stable for me.
Some things you didn’t mention:
With all the crashes you most likely have some file corruption. I would start with erasing the SD card and reloading the current image.
The other thing I would check is the power supply. What are you using to power your Pi? A dedicated wall wart? What’s the output amperage? It should be at least 2 – 2.5A @ 5VDC depending on what you have attached to the Pi.
Speaking of which, what do you have attached to the Pi? :) You can try disconnecting devices to see if they are causing problems.
RooParticipantNo crackling here. Some games I’ve tried are Crash Banicoot, GT, NFS and Silent Hill.
You’re not using shaders are you? How are you getting video and audio out of the Pi? What is your memory split at?
RooParticipantAre you just trying to get ROMs to your Pi?
I just ask because if you want the best possible performance when playing games, adding packages to the Pi is not the way to go. If it were me, I would just use SCP to copy the files from the Mac to the Pi. For example, from terminal on the Mac
scp <local file> <remote user>@<remote machine>:<remote path>
RooParticipantI have a miniPac in my cabinet and it works great. I only have sticks and buttons, but in my opinion since the pacs just emulate keyboard and mouse, I don’t see you having any problems.
RooParticipantI won’t be the default will it? Just pointing out that I don’t think everyone would want that. Hardware upscaling screws up shaders and overlays. I’d rather use those than hardware upscaling. Especially when the emulators seem to run fine at full speed at 1080p
RooParticipant'tab' Select button (opens config menu in the frontend)huh – I’ll have to try that
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RooParticipant[quote=88016]I noticed that the xboxdrv makes emulators like the SNES one lag when using the thumb sticks[/quote]
There’s a performance hit from using xboxdrv. If it’s too much, the only solution I know of is to just use the default settings (xpad) and deal with the flashing ring :)
RooParticipant[quote=87951]
I only miss being able to map the Playstation button (the one in the center of the controller) to use it to exit games, but that’s a minor issue.
[/quote]Just map the Playstation button to exit mame. I’m not in front of MAME right now, just look for whatever is currently mapped to Escape and add a second mapping
RooParticipantHave you tried opening the menu (TAB key) while in MAME and configuring your controls there?
RooParticipantNot all games are working. I am able to play Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 perfectly with both stock 2.5.0 and 2.6.0 images. 007 works too, but has slowdowns. Zelda games don’t work. That’s all I’ve tested so far.
I know Floob has some videos about playing with the different video plugins, but I haven’t done any testing with that yet. The way I look at it, I’ll just wait for a better optimized build of RetroPie – I got enough other stuff to mess with that I’m not interested in tweaking Mupen64 settings.
I have my Pi 2 set to “Pi2” overclock with a memory split of 384.
RooParticipantI have all my emulators set to CEA 16 – 1080p resolution (by pressing x as the emulator loads up from ES) and I don’t notice any performance hit.
RooParticipantI’ve always just edited
/opt/retropie/emulators/pifba/fba2x.cfgRooParticipantI played with Zoom! and Speedball 2.
I had the best success configuring it as an A500 and letting UAE boot up to the “insert a disk” image, then opening the menu and specifying the disk image.
RooParticipantYou’re not going to be able to read that hard drive from the Pi. Especially an NTFS formatted drive. With some linux expertise, you could theoretically install the drivers needed to read an NTFS formatted drive, but it seems to me your going about this the really hard way.Instead, why not connect the drive to your Windows PC and use WinSCP (it’s free) to copy the files to the appropriate directories on the Pi under /home/pi/RetroPie/roms
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Ignore that comment, it looks like you can mount NTFS partitions in Raspbian without loading any extra drivers (though I haven’t tested it personally).
That said, I’d still recommend you use your PC to copy the ROMs over to the SD card :)
RooParticipantYou say above you know you have the right ROM set, did you verify this with a ROM manager and the dat included in the RetroPie image?
If that is not the issue, do you have the required bios files in
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame? For example, neogeo games require neogeo.zipYou didn’t unzip your ROMs did you?
Try using the built in mame rom verification. You’ll have to copy one of your games to
/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/roms(mame4all doesn’t look at the cfg file when using the -verifyroms switch). For example I copied dkong.zip to that location. Then type/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame -verifyroms dkongof course, you’ll have to replace dkong with the rom name.
Paste back the results of this command and I can maybe help more.
RooParticipantTwo solutions…
Easy:
This rom works well with megadrive-dgen. Just copy the ROM to/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive-dgenHarder:
The Genesis Plus GX core in RetroArch works too. It’s included in the RetroArch cores on the 2.5.0 image but it’s not the default genesis core. If you pull up the RetroArch menu you can switch cores and load the ROM.RooParticipantThe first thing would be to verify you have the ROMs RetroPie is expecting. MAME ROMs differ between versions of MAME – what works in v0.158 on your desktop will not work 100% in RetroPie. This tutorial may help you
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs
RooParticipant[quote=87893]Could it be that the roms are corrupt? I have tried several roms and only got frogger to work. [/quote]
You need to verify you have the right ROMs. You can do that with either of the popular ROM manager tools, clrmamepro or Romcenter. I prefer clrmamepro but it’s really personal preference. If you want to try clrmamepro, I wrote a tutorial
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs
[quote=87890]Same boat Colosimo. I have my roms on my SD but I loaded some of them with a USB, could that be the reason nearly none of my roms work? Which is the weird thing, if NONE of my roms worked it would make a lot more sense then 1 or two working (Like Simpsons and the original AeroFighters); anyone have any possible ideas of why this might be?[/quote]
You probably have a newer rom set. RetroPie uses an older set of ROMs, based off MAME 0.37b5. The tutorial would help you too.
RooParticipantI’m not familiar with the game (though it looks cool!) but I tried it out and I get a weird issue where it pauses when I jump…
RooParticipantThis is a really old thread. Probably best to start a new thread and explain your problem there.
RooParticipant[quote=87762]Is there a definitive check list for troubleshooting MAME4All? I’ve been googling for days and keep getting different answers, none of which have been helpful. I appreciate that people are trying to be helpful with a 39203 different YouTube videos and blog posts but it seems like I’m just digging through mountains of outdated or incorrect information trying to get a trouble shooting list. I have roms of the correct set, they are in the MAME rom folder (and also in the MAME4All folder) and downloaded the SD image that was supposed to avoid all these problems. Any clue of a definitive place to start looking for answers? Or do yall think it is just better to try downloading the image again and hope for the best?
Thanks!!!
[/quote]You should start a new thread and explain exactly what is the problem you are facing.
RooParticipantAll great information, thanks guys!
RooParticipantNES Super Mario Bros? Or MAME? I’m assuming NES. I’ll have to check the syntax for booting an NES game…
That said, in general you could edit the last line of
/etc/profile. Replace “emulationstation” with the command line to load the game. For example “/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame dkong”[Edit]
I worked out the syntax. You would replace the last line in
/etc/profilewith this[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ] || /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/neslibretro/fceumm_libretro.so "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Super Mario Bros. (World).zip"(Check to make sure your ROM is the same name as mine)
RooParticipantThis should get you started. Just use the 2.5.0 SD card image
RooParticipantNope. I’m pretty sure that’s accurate information.
The switch --gamelist-only can be used to skip automatic searching, and only display games defined in the system's gamelist.xmlTo use the switch, you specify it when you load emulationstation. Like this:
emulationstation --gamelist-onlyYou can do that from the command line, but to have that be the default, you need to edit the file that loads emulationstation after the Pi boots up, which is
/etc/profileThe last line of
/etc/profiletranslates to “if this isn’t an SSH session, load emulationstation”. Change it to this to add the switch[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ] || emulationstation --gamelist-onlyRooParticipantSome games work, some need tweaking or are not working yet. Super Mario 64 is full speed and 100% playable. Same with Mario Kart 64.
But “N64 not 100% working” and “Pi2 not compatible with RetroPie” are very different things… :)
RooParticipant[quote=87561]I noted that the .img comes already with the xbox controller driver already installed, my wireless xbox360 controller worked right out of the box, yay!
[/quote]I’m going to start a new thread on this subject, this thread really needs to be closed
RooParticipant[quote=87627]You can understand how bummed I was when I found out that my Pi2 was not compatible with RetroPie after receiving it, so much for my thorough research.[/quote]
What isn’t compatible? Like Floob said, with the newest 2.5.0 beta image I’ve had really good success with the Pi 2, I haven’t found any show stopping bugs
[quote=87627]I’m curious as to how anyone records their monitors/ TVs while running RetroPie.[/quote]
You’re not going to run software on the Pi to record – there’s not enough horsepower there to run the emulator and record the video output. You’ll need an external camera or HDMI capture device.
RooParticipantthe last line in /etc/profile, should just be able to add the switch to the end
[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ] || emulationstationRooParticipantI should have made that clearer :)
I can get into the menu, but on the PC RetroArch I have the option for “Custom Ratio” where I can move the top left corner and bottom right corner to fit the overlay. On the Pi, I don’t see this option, it seems to be missing.
Oh and gaz – see my post above. What settings are you using? I’d like to compare.
RooParticipantIt would be easiest to set the HDTV set to stretch the incoming image.
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