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Sure, I am (pretty much) using the ones from here:

http://retroarchborders.blogspot.com/

I’ve edited a few of them to make it more like the consoles I remember growing up. For example SNES was not the US version.

Be warned, borders in RetroArch can be a bit of a pain. If you move to a different display with a different resolution, you’ll need to change the viewport settings. And also, RetroArch on the Pi doesn’t seem to have the menu option to resize in the emulator. I end up figuring out the viewport settings on my PC and then editing the cfg file to match

[Roo]

this is my /opt/retropie/configs/gb/retroarch.cfg

# All settings made here will override the global settings for the current emulator core

video_shader_enable = true
video_shader = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/bead.glsl

input_overlay_enable = true
input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/gb.cfg
input_overlay_opacity = 0.70 # 1.0
input_overlay_scale = 1.0

aspect_ratio_index = "22"
custom_viewport_width = "645"
custom_viewport_height = "648"
custom_viewport_x = "637"
custom_viewport_y = "275"

which gives me the picture attached

Just curious what settings you’re using? I don’t see too many people using RetroArch shaders and overlays. To be fair, I tried on on the Pi 1 but performance suffered too much. With the Pi 2 I’ve been trying them again.

[Roo]

Read through /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg. Look for systems that have a <command> setting that includes /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/. Then you can look for the <path> setting in the same <system> section to see where to put your roms to try out that system

[Roo]

ahhhh sooo!

thanks for the clarification :)

[Roo]

ok, i’m a noob. but I did search around and try stuff before asking… how do you pull up the emulator’s menu once you’ve loaded an adf?

I’ve tried LCTRL RCTRL F12 and a bunch of others, but I’m stumped.

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[quote=87339]Even with an overclocked raspberry pi 2 n64 emulation is really poor, better play with common pc n64 emulation or better, a real console with a flashcard (everdrive).[/quote]

You have some interesting thoughts vintagamer… I was trying to be very diplomatic in the other thread, but now I’m starting to think you’re just giving bad advice. I hope your just having an off day.

Do you have a Pi2? I do. Here’s some videos I just made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkKPAZ9YSs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3qxQ6sidGY

What exactly is “really poor” about that? Aside from my playing I mean :)

[Roo]

[quote=87336]If you are using 2.3 retropie just copy the samples right here:

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all-pi/samples

As I said earlier, you NEED to EXTRACT the samples and copy it right into that folder, the path I mentioned in my first post is for latest retropie (2.4.2 and above). Leaving the file as mame4all_1.0_samples.zip does nothing.

And no Roo, sorry… this isn’t incorrect, I just tested myself with donkey kong rom and berzerk (some robotic voices and sfx in berzerk), those samples need to be copy it as dkong.zip and berzerk.zip in samples folder.
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yeah misunderstanding. I didn’t assume he had mame4all_1.0_samples.zip – I read your post as extract the files out (so you have effect00.wav, effect01.wav, etc) which you don’t want to do.

[quote=87207]Unzip the samples file and copy it to /opt/retropie/configs/mame/samples[/quote]

that path isn’t a good place to put samples in any version of RetroPie :)

look at /opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame.cfg in v2.4.1, 2.4.2 or 2.5.0 – it shows where it is configured to pull samples from. which is /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-samples

I’m not trying to start a fight, just to give valid, working information

[Roo]

you could also try a more aggressive overclock. I’d reccomend heat sinks if you’re going down that road.

[Roo]

you run it. type

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

* select setup
* select auto-start emulationstation
* select original boot behavior

[Roo]

Choppy sound is an indication the hardware can’t keep up with the emulator.

Have you run sudo raspi-config and set overclock to Pi2 setting?

Also in raspi-config, try giving the video more memory (the 1gb on the Pi2 is shared between system and video). Try 256, 384 or even 512 video and see if that helps.

Other than that, you’ll have to wait and hope for better optimized versions of RetroPie that improve performance.

[Roo]

:)

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You can’t download from redump.org. That’s just a site that helps collectors identify games they have.

The rules of this forum discourage talking about where to get roms, google is your friend :)

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I don’t know anything about pimenu… Never heard of it before

I just tested on my 2.5 installation , if I launch mame from the command line, it gives me a menu to select which game. When I quit the game it goes back to that menu.

What I said earlier about using tab must be only newer versions of mame

[Roo]

mame can do that too. you press tab inside mame and you can select a game to load

[Roo]

Sure. But your going much deeper into Linux now :)

I would disable EmulationStation from automatically starting using the ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh script

When you do this, the script will modify /etc/profile and remove this last line

[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ] || emulationstation

Which in English means “if this is not an SSH session, start emulationstation”

You’ll want to add back in that same command, but in place of emulationstation, add the command to launch mame. Something like

/opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame

You need to specify the path to the executable since it’s not in your default path locations

[Roo]

Hah, I just installed startx on my test Pi. 282 new packages need to be added to support the GUI. So much bloat… And I have to imagine that all those packages are eating up some of my precious resources. Resources I want for ME so I can play PSX games :)

[Roo]

I don’t know of a browser that runs outside the GUI. There probably is, but it’d be a niche product. I just use my desktop to get the files I want from the net and SCP to copy them to Linux.

I view RetroPie a lot like the Linux servers we have at work. We don’t have a GUI installed on those servers – it just adds complexity and eats system resources. It’s really not that hard to administer Linux from the command line, just a little learning curve is all.

[Roo]

I don’t mean to offend you, but you’re kind of doing things bass ackwards… :)

I administer Linux servers (among other things) for a living, the normal way to do this is SCP protocol.

Your main PC is Windows? Use WinSCP to connect with SCP protocol. SCP uses SSH which is on by default, so you don’t have to turn on FTP.

http://winscp.net/eng/download.php

If you need super user access (so you can copy files directly to restricted directories on your Pi for example), you can do that too. In the advanced, Environment, SCP/Shell window, add sudo -s to the Shell field. See attached.

Edit files on the Pi with WinSCP (right click, edit) or directly on the Pi command line with nano, which is a very easy to use text editor.

But hey, if you really want startx, you can add it to 2.5 like I said above. But either way, I highly recommend you use the newest RetroPie beta image.

[Roo]

I didn’t say that. A PS3 controller would work too, but I see people having a lot of problems getting them working. 360 controller just works. I’ve also heard of people using 3rd party controllers

But yes, you need something with an analog thumb stick.

[Roo]

[quote=87271]1. With the increase in horsepower will we see Saturn and Gamecube emulation?[/quote]

Probably not, the Pi is still not powerful enough for that IMO. It’s always possible that some intrepid developer figures out a few hacks to get GameCube running smoothly on Pi, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

[quote=87271]2. Is it better to run games from the SD Card (IE get a big enough SD card) or just run the Retropie from SD and store the games on USB? Either way is fine for me but I’d rather just use the SD card, but I’ve heard something about the Pi corrupting them?[/quote]

Keep it simple in my opinion. No matter what, you’re going to have an SD card, Pi can’t boot from USB. So why add complexity? Yes, if you don’t shut down the Pi correctly before pulling power you will most certainly corrupt some files on the SD card. If that is a huge concern, make a backup image of your SD card, which only takes a few minutes.

[quote=87271]3. Is the Xbox one controller supported? I know this isn’t a ‘standard’ driver so I imagine someone would need to modify a driver for it?[/quote]

No. I went down this road at first. I ended up buying a wireless xbox 360 for windows controller. Much easier and just works.

[Roo]

It’s a playlist of videos. I’m pretty sure Floob covers configuring controllers for all the different emulators in those videos.

[Roo]

You can add the GUI to 2.5 sudo apt-get install lxde

But why do you need the GUI? I see a lot of people who want the GUI just to configure WiFi, which is a pretty sill reason to add the GUI back in IMHO. The GUI was removed to save space and keep performance the best possible.

[Roo]

When I got into this, I started with RetroPie 2.4.1 beta, I’ve never tried 2.3. So I’m not sure about that image, but I seem to remember reading that in 2.3 MAME4ALL is not the default MAME emulator.

In every image I’ve used, the directory structure was there already, MAME4ALL was the default and the mame.cfg was correct. I’d recommend trying the newer 2.5.0 beta image. 2.3 is pretty old now.

[Roo]

What version of GT2 are you running? I can run the USA (NTSC) version without interlacing. Redump.org version Gran Turismo 2 (USA) (v1.2) (Simulation Mode).7z

Do you have the PSX BIOS in the correct location? /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/scph7502.bin

[Roo]

my question still stands… why is your mame.cfg incomplete? why do those paths not exist? how did you install RetroPie exactly?

I really recommend you use a RetroPie SD card image

[Roo]

I’m not sure how you’re going to be able to play N64 with a SNES controller… You need an analog joystick.

The best option if you want one controller to play everything would be an Xbox 360 wireless controller for PC. Works out of the box for most everything in RetroPie and can be configured to work for the others.

[Roo]

RetroPie changes the default paths

Are you using an SD card image? If the folder’s aren’t there it sounds to me like you added RetroPie to a standard Raspbian image. I suggest you get the RetroPie image from the downloads link above.

That said, you can check the paths MAME4ALL is expecting in the /opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame.cfg file

[Roo]

you could wire the joystick and buttons (20? why?) directly to the Pi. This guy shows exactly how to do that

http://www.instructables.com/id/Donkey-Kong-Bartop-Arcade-Powered-By-RPi/

But as chdez77076 said, I recommend you buy an iPac to offload this to a different circuit. The Pi would see the iPac as a keyboard. It would make this process much easier and cleaner.

[Roo]

try editing /opt/retropie/emulators/mame4all/mame.cfg directly

this is the section you would need to change

[directory]
artwork=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-artwork
rompath=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame
samplepath=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-samples

[Roo]

excellent news, thanks buzz!

[Roo]

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you need to configure your controller to MAME. There’s some good tutorials here

[Roo]

[quote=87107]So I tested with a different PSU and USB cable, (i use 220v to USB and then a cable) But the problem remains.[/quote]

Not sure what you mean here. Have you actually tried a different wall wart completely? The part that actually converts AC wall voltage to 5VDC? If so, then I would try a different Pi next in the list of troubleshooting steps. If that’s not feasible, try a different display, but that is a long shot

[Roo]

SD cards will wear out – you can’t avoid it. cards with wear leveling will be better.

http://reprage.com/post/what-are-the-best-sd-cards-to-use-in-a-raspberry-pi/

You’re on the right track, be sure to always shut the Pi down properly. Even a single time pulling power without shutting down the Pi first will corrupt files on the SD card.

All that said, it’s not a big deal. Once you get your installation the way you want it, just back up your SD card image.

[Roo]

If you want guaranteed compatibility you should by a real n64 and a playstation, emulation doesn’t work like that.

That said, it looks very promising that n64 and psx work well on the Pi2 and be playable at full speed. The Pi2 has been out a week, RetroPie is in major flux, with regular updates to fix bugs and improve performance. If dropping $35 to try for yourself is concern, I suggest you wait a month or two.

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