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  • proxycell
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    ok, this is possibly a permission issue?
    they aren’t being saved so i figure it might be that…

    could you run:
    sudo chown -R pi /home/pi
    sudo chown -R pi /etc/emulationstation
    sudo chown -R pi /opt/retropie

    proxycell
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    woah that sounds pretty complicated to me. this sounds like something you should do with your own custom scripts

    proxycell
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    nah i’m out of ideas, you can try different emulators for the system as there are like 3 or 4 for SNES

    proxycell
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    does it say “signal out of range” or something like that?

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    erm, i am very unfamiliar with your method of setting up the controller. could you try it as:
    cd
    cd ./RetroPie-Setup
    sudo chmod +x ./retropie_setup.sh
    sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

    select SETUP, then select REGISTER RETROARCH CONTROLLER

    proxycell
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    1. Overclock your Pi – You MUST use heatsinks/fan for this
    2. I haven’t tried this yet but it is on the wiki for this project: in your retroarch.cfg file, set the audio_driver to sdl (or try alsa, see which is best) and set the audio_out_rate to 44100
    3. Try the “experimental” ARMSNES emulator, it has better sound but less compatibility with games…

    let us know what works best for you :)

    proxycell
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    actually i was just trying this myself and couldn’t figure it out either. i imagine its best to just get something with analog sticks for it, i’ve used my wired xbox 360 controller with it in the past successfully

    edit: what i meant to say was to suggest you to try copying an xbox 360’s inputs for this and moving the stuff around

    proxycell
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    argh… i’m not sure if this is allowed here or not but I didn’t see anything against it yet so here goes…
    if you want, you can purchase a pre-setup retropie from myself…
    i will not include any copyrighted software in it but I will (try to) setup any controller you want with it. I have gotten the following to work:
    Scraping, NES, SNES, GBA, GBC, GB, MasterSystem, MegaDrive, Final Burn Alpha and MAME, Sega CD, Sega 32X, N64, PSX, PC-ENGINE (including the CD-rom games) and even Atari 2600…

    from my controllers I can do the following:
    rewind the game, save/load states, slow motion and even a really weak fast-forwarding..

    I will end up writing some guides I’m sure but if you really need this stuff before Christmas or whatever I will do it for you, you have to pay for shipping to me and back to you though

    proxycell
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    the issue with creating a “definitive” walkthrough is that most people don’t have more than just one or two different controllers. i setup my WIRED xbox 360 controller quite easily without any hassles using only the built-in scripts that retropie’s setup gave me. i setup another controller: the Tomee SNES-style usb controller, this was done the EXACT same way as my xbox 360 one

    as for the xbox one… i’m not even sure thats possible to setup? are you talking about a WIRED xbox one controller?

    proxycell
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    no problem, please post your results!

    proxycell
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    How about Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2?, pokemon snap?

    proxycell
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    in reply to: Gamelist.xml issue #83102

    here is how to fix it:

    create a gamelist.xml file with the following:

    <gameList>
    </gameList>

    now put this into all of those rom folders, overwriting the original, to be safe you should do:
    sudo chown -R pi /home/pi/

    proxycell
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    keep going, I got one of the Army Men 2 – Sarge’s Heroes to work I think

    proxycell
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    you can likely exit the libretro one, I haven’t tried it though

    to select which emulator is launched, you have to modify a file: /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

    I am NOT SURE what to add in for these experimental ones though

    proxycell
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    which other games did you get working besides mario64?

    proxycell
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    it does look great!
    i love the power button, thats probably one of the biggest features alone!

    the extra ports aren’t all that big of a deal anymore with the B+ right? but its still good. it’ll have 1 port on the front, 4 on the back for a total of 5. thats 4 for controllers and 1 for wifi I suppose right?

    the added HDD isn’t a major issue for me since I believe all this SD card corruption stuff has been resolved largely. I haven’t experienced anything like it with overclocking at all yet.

    Still a nice little box tho :)

    proxycell
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    wow this sounds pretty serious

    did you have the devices plugged in before booting up? i really can’t think of anything else….

    EDIT:
    did you guys run the raspi-config? can you setup the keyboard/internationalization options? try it over SSH if you must!

    proxycell
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    yeah, I believe with GBA its Select + R (Right Bumper?)
    You will then see a menu, you can select “Exit” from there as well as many other things

    proxycell
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    i don’t believe there are atari 400/800 emulators on the system actually
    you could try running them inside of them atari 2600 or Atari ST emulators instead

    proxycell
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    1 – here is the EASIEST way for you to do this:
    Step 1 – Get yourself a USB stick
    Step 2 – Insert it into the Pi, the LED light on the USB will flash, let it finish flashing completely
    Step 3 – Remove it from the Pi and insert it to your computer, you will find a lot of new folders on this USB. Look for the “nes” folder now
    Step 4 – put your NES roms into this folder and remove it from the computer
    Step 5 – Insert this USB again into your Pi, let the flashing go on again and this time it should take longer. Do not remove it! When it is done, remove the USB and reboot the Pi

    2 – You mean “roms”? Please do the steps I mentioned above and see if you don’t find a “zxspectrum” folder

    3 – To close roms/games and return to the menu… well… that will be a bit harder for you I think. You will need to modify a file on the Pi.

    Locate this file: /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
    At the very bottom you need to add in two lines:
    input_enable_hotkey_btn = 5
    input_exit_emulator_btn = 6

    You have to figure out which button # to use based on your own controller. Like I said, this is a bit harder but I can certainly help you through most of it.

    proxycell
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    ok, so you found it the bios you need right?

    good

    i you just have a keyboard plugged into the pi?
    you should connect your pi to your LAN, I have a macbook pro and connect my pi directly to that via ethernet. i then connect in using an “SFTP” program. you can search for one like FileZilla. These programs will let you connect to your pi and manipulate files in a much more user friendly way

    proxycell
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    ok, and you’re running the script as “sudo ./retropie-setup.sh” right?

    i’ve had the xbox 360 controller working in the past and it was fine for me so lets keep at this.

    did you run the “Install Xbox 360 driver” thing in that script too?

    proxycell
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    hmm, ok, i will suggest a few more things now:

    1. memory split set to 256/256?
    2. overclocked to the highest setting? (Turbo)
    3. if those still don’t work, go into /etc/emulationstation/ and edit the file es_systems.cfg and look at the N64 block

    i believe there are two different N64 emulation options in there, one is commented out, comment out the first one and then uncomment out the other, try that? :S

    proxycell
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    hi mhillis, when you see that error screen asking you to get the BIOS. look for the md5 value, try to write it down or at least most of it and you can try googling for that and you will find plenty of information

    proxycell
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    it depends on the system but i believe if its like neogeo/mame/capcom/fba roms, these are in .zip files typically right? then it is likely reading some of the information from a header inside of one of the files or something like that

    i do believe that you can manually rename files in ES (the gamelist.xml thing i believe)

    proxycell
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    well mario64 should work actually, i dunno about zelda right now

    did you run the “Update Binaries” option in the retropie setup script?

    proxycell
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    have you run the “Register RetroArch Controller”?

    proxycell
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    you have to drop to the retroarch menu, if you have your controller mapped to use a hotkey, use that

    from there you can change it under disk options. i have successfully done this in a sega CD game switch once.

    proxycell
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    in reply to: Nintendo 64 Etc. #82983

    it should yes, you have the option to do it manually (you see each one, and confirm the data)

    proxycell
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    in reply to: Nintendo 64 Etc. #82965

    scraping is downloading the game’s info and box art for displaying in emulation station

    proxycell
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    yeah thats how i had to do it too lol… a lot of trial and error

    proxycell
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    in reply to: Nintendo 64 Etc. #82941

    probably not… i wrote an enormous reply with links and large explanations and then it was lost somehow…

    while its true that this is pushing the limits of the raspberry pi, there are also emulator limitation that you should be aware of… the n64 is much harder to emulate than most games
    PS1 games are 32bit right? N64 is 64bit. it’s CPU is harder to emulate, it has a lot of internal components on the board that need to be emulated and it wasn’t a very well documented system for people to hack up, bootleg and emulate lol…

    long story, short: most n64 emulators over the years have sacrificed compatibility/accuracy of the hardware for performance in a few select games (Mario, Zelda, Goldeneye, etc…)
    Likely owing to the difficulty in emulating the complex system, most devs decided to give into the community pressure to get the most popular games working as perfectly as possible
    this meant that most other games were left with extremely serious problems, including complete incompatibility, graphical glitches, soundless-ness and horrible performance. you could play many of these games on a $20000 gaming rig and they still would have the same problems

    on top of this, for some reason most n64 emulators support “plugins” which drastically alters the entire thing and VASTLY INCREASES CPU/GPU REQUIREMENTS

    so what i’m saying is… don’t give up… give it another… 10 or 20 years and you’ll see more improvements over the current state of things…

    but hey! its better than sega saturn’s emulation state! lol…
    just go for the few games on the N64 that do work well, load up a large collection of ROMs and test them all one by one like I do

    proxycell
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    what hdmi_mode are you running on?

    power off the Pi, take out the memory card and load it on your computer.
    find the config.txt and locate the hdmi_mode setting and find one that works for your monitor?

    proxycell
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    does this affect all of the roms you tried?

    i’ve tested a lot of roms on it and nothing seems to break yet

    proxycell
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    hmmm,

    i’m not familiar with those at all unfortunately. perhaps your neogeo.zip doesn’t contain everything it should? my neogeo games are all kept inside of .zip files for each game

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