[newpie]

I will give it an ear then ^^

[newpie]

Who on earth would come up with something like that? 2 different save options? Really? :)

Thanks again for your help, I now found the save option for the joystick setup and now it saved and now my gamepad works even AFTER a restart of the game.

Where are the days where I just punched in a cartdridge, flipped the switch and I could play? I am getting to old for this %$§& ;)

And your homepage works now, earlier, it wouldn’t load at all for me. ^^

[newpie]

Well, I like to try stuff too, but always having to switch between monitors and keyboards, forwards and backwards and it’s not working .. it’s wearing me out and dampens the mood ^^

Btw … it still didn’t work. The file is still 0 byte and the settings don’t get saved even though a VICE message pops up when I do ingame. After a restart the gamepad is again useless.

All this owner settings paranoia stuff is so not my thing. :)

P.S. Is your homepage down or do you have a typo in the link?

[newpie]

The file is now there, but nothing will be stored in it. Tried it a couple of times, still 0 byte and my settings are gone, every time I start the game.

[newpie]

Wow, the stuff you are finding out …thanks, will try that.

[newpie]

Had that in my last posting but edited it out again as I was able to connect via the default password.

A mod linked the wiki entry you are quoting in my other thread and I did all that .. didn’t help, as the setting was already YES, when I checked, there was nothing to change in that file.

Thanks for quoting, I appreciate your help.

[newpie]

For now I am using an SNES-Retro-Controller for USB.

I updated my earlier posting as I still can’t root-connect to my Pi via my PC.

Ok, scratch that .. I now tried pi / raspberry and it worked though I set a new password earlier, no idea why that is.

[newpie]

There is an option to save but it didn’t save my controller config last time I tried. Only the memoryexpension settings.

I still have no full access to my Pi via network. In the sshd_config the Permit-thingy is enabled, also I set a password and in raspi-config the SSH is also enabled.

I installed an SFTP plugin for Total Commander and tried to connect via “Secure FTP” but I get an error message that the login failed. The IP is correct. I have no idea where the problem is now.

[newpie]

First of all: The F-Keys are working in FileManager … I was using a new keyboard which I was not used to and I had to activate those to be usable! I edited all of my postings saying the FileManager was just a viewer … I’m sorry :(

Now I could type away everything you suggested and it’s working! Yay! :)

The only thing that I now have to do every time I want to actually play, is to configure the gamepad as the emulator is not using the ES settings … but this is way faster than my complicated way until I even got to that part!

Thanks a lot for your help! And maybe this new section is in a new build of Retropie soon, too.

[newpie]

You do your magic ^^ All I can do is watch your progress ,,, too bad.

[newpie]

I meant the F keys in the File Manager, those are not working for me, so I can’t copy, move, edit … or use the File Manager in any other way than browsing through the directories on the Pi. I also can’t access the menus on top of the File Manager window.

Wouldn’t be a problem if I had access to the Pi via network … I wouldn’t wanna use the File Manager anyway, but my TotalCommander on my PC. ^^

[newpie]

Thanks for all the work you put in there … I answered in your new thread … sadly, I could not get it to work as I am still not able to access the needed files via network.

[newpie]

Thanks for all the work you are putting into this and I really tried to follow your steps but it seems Retropie is denying me access:

– via network, all I can do is copy my CRT-Rom to the direcectory I created

And as Retropie does not grant me the right to view/edit all the files, I am not able to grant myself access to them as I am not allowed to edit the config file that would allow that.

[newpie]

Thanks for the links, I officially give up now that is more than I can do. I can’t edit a file from my PC I don’t have access to. :)

Thanks for all the help I will stick to the complicated method then .. at least there I know what to do! ;)

[newpie]

I am sorry, I can’t even connect to the Pi. I set a new password like you said, but then I used several names as user name from “pi”, “raspberry”, “user”, “root”, “admin” .. I have no idea what the user name is .. google says it’s “pi” …

You said “using the root user”, I suspected a word switch and tried “root” but it’s not working either. And yes, I do have the correct IP address :)

I did “ifconfig” and noted the IP but I can’t connect to the Pi with this IP, nor with \\RETROPIE from my browser. It only works when I seach the networks via TotalCommander and then select RETROPIE, that I can access the few directories that are permitted to be seen.

[newpie]

Thanks, I will try that.

[newpie]

Is there a way to access all the files and directories via network? I’d feel so much more comfortable, doing all that from my windows PC and TotalCommander.

But I don’t see all the directories and files when connecting to the Pi.

[newpie]

Thanks for the help, I doubt that I could get all of that to work though, especially the changes in the cfg-files and the creation of the new section and logo. All I could manage would be to start the FileManager from the RetroArch section of ES, but after that I am pretty much lost, sorry.

[newpie]

Would be awesome, thanks.

[newpie]

Ok, I got it to work .. still a few issues, but I can play SHAMUS now.

For everyone who is interested and also a novice, here is how to do it:

– copy your VIC20-cartridge rom via network into the c64 directory under ROMS
– reset emulationstation
– in the c64 part of Emulationstation highlight the game
– press and hold any key on your keyboard and press START on your controller
– in the menu that now pops up (this is the “Runcommand” menu) choose option 2 and tell it to pick “xvic” as emulator for this rom
– start the game .. it will fail to load, as it will be loaded as a disc image
– press start on your controller and in that menu configure the memory expansion and joystick settings
– then you need to attach the catridge (first option on the top) and make your way through the directories until you find /home/pi/RetroPie/roms … there is your VIC 20 catridge file
– then go to RESET and perform a SOFT RESET

The game will start and is playable via controller.

There is an option to save your settings but it doesn’t seem to work properly. It only saves the amount of memory expansion you chose, not the joystick settings and not the cartridge you chose. You will have to set those options every time you want to play.

But .. it’s working and that’s what matters! :)

For future editions of Retropie it would be nice to have a seperate VIC 20 directory under ROMS and an extra entry in Emulationstation for the VIC 20 … and maybe the option to save all settings, not only a few.

But for now, I am happy … topic resovled, thank you ^^

[newpie]

That would be great. I updated my post from earlier with the updated problems I am still having and would be grateful if you would still help me, though my initial question has been answered … thanks for that … would never be able to find those emulator entries on my own though!

[newpie]

“This is accessed by pressing any key on the keyboard”

I did and nothing happened! Took me half an hour to find out that you should press any key TOGETHER with the start button on your gamepad, not instead. :)

The emulator is indeed there, wow … but as soon as I told the thingy to start the game with the correct one, the next problem came up … more than one actually:

1. The game needs a memory expension … which I found in the options menu could be given to it, but I doubt it makes much sense to try to load a game that’s too huge and afterwards plug in the memory expansion.

2. The emulator automatically trys to load the game like a disc image ,8,1-style, but it is a cartridge which needs a reset to start. I found RESET as an option in the menu, but it didn’t start the game, because of the disc loading thingy.

[newpie]

I have and it doesn’t, though the c64 emulator in Retropie supports .CRT files … not the ones from the VIC 20 though.

VICE is not one emulator but several. Each machine has a different emulator in VICE and the one for the c64 does not emulate the VIC 20. Sadly.

The VICE-emulator for the VIC 20 is called “xvic”.

For someone who has the knowledge I think it might be easy to put that one into the Retropie package together with the rest of the emulators. The c64-VICE is in there, so someone knows how to do it. I don’t know why the rest of the VICE emulators are not in there. Maybe no one thought that someone would like to play those old VIC 20 games. :)

[newpie]

PRG and the Shamus catridge’s ending is CRT

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