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Just wanted to say thanks for these images. I got the KODI/Raspberry Pi image up and running and am loving it!

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I have a working build of adamem/cvem that I’m trying to get to play nice with retropie. The games start but when I hit F-10 to quit it locks the whole system up and I have to reboot.

This is my entry in es_systems.

  <system>
    <name>colecovision</name>
    <fullname>ColecoVision</fullname>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/colecovision</path>
    <extension>.rom .ROM .col .COL</extension>
    <command>/home/pi/src/adamem/adamem/cvem  %ROM%</command>
    <theme/>
  </system>

Do I need to use the runcommand.sh script? I wasn’t sure how to add an entry to that.

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I see. We’re getting close! Anyone have any luck compiling the other emulators I mentioned?

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Trying our coleco roms with msx (the one that comes with retropie) and no go. Perhaps there’s a change to the commandline in es_systems that needs to be made? I tried using .col and .rom extensions and I just get the blue msx screen and nothing works, not even the keyboard. (except for F1, F2, F3, and F4)

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I’ve been trying all day today to compile various colecovision emulators and get trapped in compilation error hell and can’t find my way out. :(

adamem works except I can’t get past the SVGA section and when i do play it it’s the size of a (large) postage stamp on the screen. Games are playable though except it requires X and doesn’t run in the command line

<builtin>: recipe for target ADAMEm.o failed
make[2]: *** [ADAMEm.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /home/pi/src/adamem
Makefile:12: recipe for target svga failed
make[1]: *** [svga] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /home/pi/src/adamem
Makefile:24: recipe for target linux failed
make: *** [linux] Error 2

ColEm. Eventually errors out as well…

../../EMULib/Record.o: In function RPLRecord:
Record.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of RPLRecord
../../EMULib/Record.o:Record.c:(.text+0x0): first defined here
../../EMULib/Record.o: In function RPLPlay:
Record.c:(.text+0x2c4): multiple definition of RPLPlay
../../EMULib/Record.o:Record.c:(.text+0x2c4): first defined here
../../EMULib/Record.o: In function RPLTrash:
Record.c:(.text+0x5a4): multiple definition of RPLTrash
../../EMULib/Record.o:Record.c:(.text+0x5a4): first defined here
../../EMULib/Record.o: In function RPLInit:
Record.c:(.text+0x5c4): multiple definition of RPLInit
../../EMULib/Record.o:Record.c:(.text+0x5c4): first defined here
../../EMULib/Record.o: In function SaveRPL:
Record.c:(.text+0x5f0): multiple definition of SaveRPL
../../EMULib/Record.o:Record.c:(.text+0x5f0): first defined here
../../EMULib/Record.o: In function LoadRPL:
Record.c:(.text+0x83c): multiple definition of LoadRPL
../../EMULib/Record.o:Record.c:(.text+0x83c): first defined here
../../EMULib/Record.o: In function RPLShow:
Record.c:(.text+0x9ec): multiple definition of RPLShow
../../EMULib/Record.o:Record.c:(.text+0x9ec): first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:13: recipe for target colem failed
make: *** [colem] Error 1

libretro-fba-master compiles forever then crashes at this point:

src/burn/drv/pst90s/d_1945kiii.cpp: In function INT32 DrvFrame():
src/burn/drv/pst90s/d_1945kiii.cpp:420:1: internal compiler error: in push_minipool_fix, at config/arm/arm.c:13055
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs> for instructions.
Preprocessed source stored into /tmp/cciq84Bz.out file, please attach this to your bugreport.
makefile.libretro:571: recipe for target src/burn/drv/pst90s/d_1945kiii.o failed
make: *** [src/burn/drv/pst90s/d_1945kiii.o] Error 1

I haven’t tried msx yet.

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sselph – will it create the gameslist.xml in the current directory or in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/<console name>/ ?

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Hello sselph,

I’ve used this scraper in the past and it’s always been great.. so much faster than any of the others.. I’m redoing my retropie from scratch and I can’t seem to get the scraper to work right.

I followed the instructions and scraper is in my home dir (~/scraper)

I go to the gbc directory and run ‘~/scraper’

It does its thing and I watch as it goes though – most of the games seemed to be found, there’s a few that say hash not found, etc.. seems normal.

When it’s done i check the gameslist.xml file and it looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
        <game>
                <path>./10-Pin Bowling (U) [C][!].zip</path>
                <name>10-Pin Bowling</name>
                <playcount>1</playcount>
                <lastplayed>20150722T215309</lastplayed>
        </game>
</gameList>

That’s it.

I run it in the mame directory and it seems to work well, except I just get this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList>
        <game>
                <path>./jungleh.zip</path>
                <name>Jungle Hunt</name>
                <playcount>1</playcount>
                <lastplayed>20150715T030042</lastplayed>
        </game>
</gameList>

I believe it worked in the atari and nes directories – but those already had some games listed so I’m not sure if scraper worked or if it just didn’t overwrite the previous ones.

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I got mine working after a few tries in the Global options screen. Still want to tweak it a bit so I can play games without using the keyboard to insert quarters, etc..

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Why is colecovision listed in the RetroPie-Setup wiki then? :)

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Available-Platforms

“Below is a list of all available platforms in the database and their IDs.
…
“[31] Colecovision”
…

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I’m posting it in the official ES forum as well, but here’s the Simple Dark theme in it’s current state. I will be adding the above for the help system when time allows, but I haven’t even had be retropie hooked up in about a month due to packing and moving to a new place.

Simple Dark at github: https://github.com/nolageek/simple-dark

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Excellent! Thanks – I’ve been distracted for a few weeks and have not been working on this at all – nor have I logged into the forum.

nilsbyte – I would never remove any of your credits, believe me. :)

As soon as I get back into the swing of things I’ll post what I have so far!

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Basically I want to be able to watch a movie or two occasionally but dont want to install anything as robust as XBMC or anything that will require a graphical UI like X

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I had tried the “helpsystem” and it didn’t make any difference, but their documentation didn’t really help me much. There’s a lot there, but it assumes I already understand how it all works together, which I don’t. :)

In my simple.xml I made this change:

	<view name="system">

		<image name="background" extra="true">
			<path>./art/a2600_art_blur.jpg</path>
		</image>

		<image name="logo">
			<path>./art/a2600.svg</path>
        </image>

/// ADDED THIS //////////////////////////////////////////////
		<helpsystem name="help">
			<textColor>ffffff88</textColor>
			<iconColor>ffffff88</iconColor>
		</helpsystem>
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
		
	</view>

And when I went back to view the theme in ES, I immediately got a segfault and had to restart.When I finally reloaded ES it completely locked up. I restarted again and same thing. I took the helpsystem bit out and restarted and it worked fine. Not sure what that was about, but it didn’t like it. :)

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This script has been a game changer for me (almost literally!), thanks so much!

One request I have would be a way to include our own database file some kind of way? I have a quite a few homebrew games that I’ve downloaded and I’d like to have those not be overwritten if I have to run this again, since I have to add them by hand.

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One more question – any idea why some roms don’t get added? Off the bat I see 720 and 3COUNTB, but not 1942 or 1943, etc…

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thank you so much! I downloaded a massive list of 28000 images from http://www.progettosnaps.net/snapshots/ and used some cli fu to just copy over the ones that matched my 3400 MAME roms and about 3/4 of them matched up.

I wish it wasn’t such a pain to clean up ROMS (not as easy as deleting files I don’t recognize!). It seems like whenever I try to I end up breaking half of the ones I want.

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I was coming back here to report the issue – it was totally my fault – I had it saved as gameslist.xml and not gamelist.xml

renamed the file in the /roms/mame/ directory and it worked just fine.

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I used this and it it worked beautifully to build the gameslist.xml – but ES doesn’t seem to be using it. I have copied the file to both ~/Retropie/roms/mame/gameslist.xml and in ~/.emulationstation/gameslist/mame/gameslist.xml and still, no data in emulation station.

Anything I’m missing?

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snes seemed to work really well, atari2600, not so much. Probably 80%-90% failed to process the .bin file almost all had “hash not found” errors. nes is having a few errors with hashes not being found.

Do these mean there’s an issue with the rom file?

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Running it now, cant wait! :)

Question, do we have to have the scraper file in each of the rom directories, or can we just keep it in /roms/ and then run ‘scraper snes’ to process the snes directory?

Edit: I see this is already an option – I should have done ‘./scraper -?’ before posting! :)

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Why couldn’t you use the retroarch-joyconfig for those as well?

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I was messing with the retropie_packages script last night and it didn’t do anything at all. I’d run it and I got no output whatsoever. I tried:

sudo ./retropie_packages Stella sources
sudo ./retropie_packages 215 sources
sudo ./retropie_packages 215/stellalibretro sources

They all just sat for a second then brought me back to the command line. I tried build, install, etc… nothing. (should there be output?)

So, at this point should I just nuke this SD card and start over again? Does the latest SD image reflect these new changes?

Really, all I’m looking for is:

MAME, NES, SNES, Stella and Open Arena

Everything else is neat, but I find don’t run that great on my Pi – I have the 256M ram version of vB.

But at the same time, I want to be able to run updates every few weeks and make sure I have the latest versions of things without installing a bunch of things I removed.

So, just to clarify – currently, going into retropie-setup will install everything, even if I run the Update Binaries menu option?

If I choose to start over with a new resbian SD card – do I download the retropie scripts and then run:

sudo ./retropie_packages EmulationStation install
sudo ./retropie_packages Stella install
etc…

or do I have to run sources, then build, then install, then configure for each one? To update would just rerun the commands?

Sorry to ask so many questions. :)

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This is what I’ve done, your mileage may vary but this may get you closer to what you’re going for. I got tired of running retroarch-joyconfig over and over…

I have three controllers: a Logitech F310 and F710 and a RetroLink SNES

I ran the joystick config for each of them, with settings for player one and player two. I saved the output into files for save keeping:

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin

Plug in f710
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 0 > /opt/retropie/configs/all/f710-P1.cfg
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 > /opt/retropie/configs/all/f710-P2.cfg

Plug in f310
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 0 > /opt/retropie/configs/all/f310-P1.cfg
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 > /opt/retropie/configs/all/f310-P2.cfg

Plug in SNES
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 0 > /opt/retropie/configs/all/SNES-P1.cfg
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 > /opt/retropie/configs/all/SNES-P2.cfg

Now you have 2 files for each of the controllers, as Player 1 and Player 2. The only thing I think you’ll need to add manually is the
Hotkey and Exit keys for the player 1 files, etc…

input_enable_hotkey_btn = x (usually the select key number)
input_exit_emulator_btn = x (usually the start key number)

Now append each of the controllers configs to the existing retroarch.cfg file in a game directory.

Let’s use the snes game and my controllers as an example. Let’s use the SNES controller for player one and the F710 controller for player two:

Go to SNES directory
cd /opt/retropie/configs/snes

backups are good!
cp retroarch.cfg retroarch.cfg.bak

add controllers to the end of the current retroarch.cfg file:
cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/SNES-P1.cfg >> retroarch.cfg
cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/f710-P2.cfg >> retroarch.cfg

Granted, I have NOT done this to individual games like it sounds like you want to do, but this is how I swap out controllers in my default /all/retroarch.cfg when I want to use different controllers.

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deleting

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Anyone have PiSNES controller config for the the f310? The RetroArch SNES eumulator looked horrible on my screen(s), very blocky and lo-res. Couldn’t figure out how to get it to use the correct resolution (tried a bunch of things from the forum..)

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This looks pretty awesome. I’d like it just for Vectrex support alone. I have only been messing with retropie for a few days – how hard would it be to add vectrx/coleco support to ES using MESS?

[nolageek]

I’ve found this ColecoVision emulator. I may check it out tonight:

http://fms.komkon.org/ColEm/

If it can run on the raspberry pi it shouldn’t be too hard to add it to CS – correct?

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If we wanted to add a new controller after configuring it , can we just copy the button assignments from retroarch.cfg to a file in ‘/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs’ and use the name that appears during bootup?

(or maybe a better way would be /retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 >> /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs/filename-for-controller.cfg)

For example… I have this controller:

When I boot up I get a message like “controller found: “USB SNES Controller” or something like that.

Would I create a new file named gtron-snes-controller.cfg with the following in it:

input_device = "USB SNES Controller"
input_b_btn = "1"
[... the rest of the configuration...]

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