Hi folks, I am quite intrigued by the game launching videos. Is there a good source for downloading video packs? I have done some google research but did not succeed in finding useful repositories. Thank you for your support.

I was trying to find where the description, image, etc. information is stored in RetroPie.
I searched the forums, etc. and didn't find anything.
I am trying to manually add info that the scraper doesn't find.
I know I can manually type the info in RetroPie, but it would be much easier to copy and paste it from Windows.
The info from https://retropie.org.uk/docs seems old and I couldn't find the files where they were pointing to.
Does anyone know where I can find and edit the files remotely?

According to https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Amiga/#whdload-disc-images - when launching a WHDLoad LHA image in lr-puae, kickstarts should automatically copied into the disk image. (Presumably, into devs:kickstarts)

This doesn't seem to be happening. Some WHDLoad images don't need a copy of the kickstart, and they work fine, but the ones that do don't currently work, throwing an error about the missing kickstart.

As an example, trying to launch "Off Shore Warrior" - my image is called "OffShoreWarrior_v1.0.lha", complains about not being able to find "devs:kickstarts/kick34005.a500".

My copy of that file matches the required checksum in the documentation, so I'm sure it's the right version:

I'm running RetroPie 4.7.9 manually installed on the aarch64 version of Raspberry Pi OS Lite on a Pi 4, and lr-puae 2.6.1 built from source.

Re: Almost all popular AGS games fail to load citing new version requirements

Is this still a known issue, or is this fixed? When I attempt to load a game in KQ1, AGS crashes back to Retropie home. My children are really digging this game, and it's pretty much unplayable w/o save ability.

Switching Emulation Station to the Odyssey² logo

I did this before and it worked with the platforms.cfg... But it seems like it isn't working now with emulationstation.

Any ideas?

i recently dug my familys old Atari 2600 out of storage. It was dead and I was unable to repair it so I decided to turn it into a retropie project.

I'm using a Raspberry pi 3 for this but I have salvaged some parts from the Ataris mainboard. Namely the 2 of the 4 main silver switches. The on/off will be used just for that purpose, the other momentory switch will act as a reset. They are practical and keeps the astetic of the console intact. (The other switches have been replaced with USB ports)

My issue my is my lack of experience with this sort of thing. The on/off switch has 6 poles and I'm pretty sure the power setup for the pi uses 2 wires, so I;m not sure how to put this together. Anybody have any experience on wiring up an atari 6 pole switch for raspberry pi power?

switch.jpg

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3b+
Power Supply used: 5V/2.5A DC power input
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): 4.7.1
Built From: retropie-buster-4.7.1-rpi2_3.img.gz
USB Devices connected: I’m running ROMs off a Corsair 128GB USB drive
Controller used: SNES USB gamepad (I think it’s 8bitdo but I’ve had it for a while). ROHS Mini Keyboard
Error messages received: N/A

Hi there,

I've been running my ROMs off a USB drive but recently bought a bigger SD card. Can someone please confirm how to move back to running ROMs off the SD card? I read elsewhere that I just need to rename my "retropie-mount" folder to "retropie" on my USB drive. Then when I reboot my Pi with the USB plugged in, it will automatically copy my ROMs to the SD drive. Is this correct?

Thanks

Hi all,

I'm using a Dualshock 3 wired. I'm familiar with needing to set the correct controller type depending on whether the game accepts digital or analog input. However, like many others I've been wrestling with the bugs which cause the analog sticks not to work on pcsx rearmed.

To begin with the sticks weren't responding at all, but I searched around and applied the following solutions:

Turned off both multitaps.

Configured all 5 inputs to analog.

I'm now getting some response from the sticks while playing Ape Escape, but they're not behaving properly. The sticks only very intermittently do what they're supposed to - movement (which is set to the left stick) is completely janky and the weapon (which is set to the right stick) doesn't trigger much of the time.

Has anyone run into these issues and if so how did you resolve them?

Thank you,
Phil

im trying to download drastic, and install from binary doesn't appear. if i try to install the other emulator for the ds (i can't remember its name) then it keeps saying that something failed to download.

whenever I launch goldeneye, the main menu doesn't pop up, then if I press start like 5 or 6 times it takes me into the first mission, but the map is either partly invisible or has no texture, does anyone know how to fix this?

So I've got my arcade setup working well using the MAME2003 romset, but I had a general question about the newer sets. I've been able to locate some newer romsets including one of the FBNeo sets, but many of them seem to omit CHDs. As I understand it, once a game uses a CHD, all newer versions should also require a CHD. Is this correct?

But more importantly, are CHDs checked by signature by MAME/FBNeo, or would a CHD mostly work fine regardless of which romset is in use? (In this case I would think the newest CHD dump would be the best.)

Hi guys,

Ever since running a RetroPie-Setup script update a couple of weeks ago, I've been experiencing issues with a variety of ports, namely lzdoom, tyrquake, ioquake3, and iortcw (which I understand is not part of the official distribution, however I think the issue isn't with individual ports). The issue is that I am getting no sound whatsoever out of those cores. No music, no sound effects, nothing.
As libretro ports seem to work fine (lr-prboom, lr-tyrquake), my feeling is that the update broke something that the other ports rely on.

Any ideas guys?

Hi,

Reading on RETROPIE DOCS among the many versions of mame available on Retropie there are MAME and lr-mame which correspond to the latest version of mame.

in fact it says:

MAME has monthly versioned releases, there is no single version. Version 0.221 was released for May 2020, 0.222 for June 2020, etc.
Installing from binary will probably get a version that's a little behind the current MAME, installing from source will always get the latest monthly release.

and

MAME Version: Similar to MAME, lr-mame follows the monthtly MAME releases, so there is no single version. Installing from binary will probably get a version that's a little behind the current MAME, but the upstream Libretro repository tries to keep up with MAME's monthly releases, so installing from source

Now my question is this:

to download the correct romset where can I read exactly what version of the mame * I have downloaded?

*according to the Mamedev website, the latest stable version of the mame is 0.229 (24 Feb 2021)

Thanks to who will answer me

Hi All,

I had the GPIO script running for a while and it always worked nicely, including saving metadata/last played. Recently it stopped saving metadata, poweroff and on still work though. I looked into recent forum posts and found the new cyperghost script.

(https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17415/multi-switch-shutdown-script?_=1609290226722)

Installed everything and seems to be working. On shutdown the script is called from /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

autostart script looks like below now. Any idea what could be wrong?:

Hi all,
Firstly, thanks for all the hard work. I'm setting up a Retropie and because of all your work, it's a beautiful thing!

It is clear though that some games are a complex and require more instructions than can be provided in the scraped game description.
It's usually quite easy to find a pdf of the game manual when one is needed, you just can't access it on emulation station.

This is especially relevant to me, the RetroPie I'm building isn't for me (honest 'guv!) it will be a gift for my nephews.

I think it would be very handy if there was an option to launch a PDF / plain text reader from Emulation Station. The launcher needs to be tied to the currently selected game, either buried in the Emulation Station menu, or even by a direct button press.

If the pdf were stored with the same name as the game file (but with a .pdf / .txt extension) launching a reader from ES would be fairly trivial. What may take more effort is producing a pdf reader compatible with a retroarch controller.

Thoughts?

Hello !!

I have a problem with my TV 4K, i can't change resolution and my FPS are around 7 to 15 (in the main menu)

I have a raspberry pi 4 8g

I have nano /boot/config.txt and tried to change resolution (groupe 2 hdmi 82 /// groupe 1 hdmi 31..) but everytime i change it and reboot, i have a black screen and i must ssh to change it back to come back in 4K Can you help me please ?

Thank you . (sorry for my english i'm french)

Hey all, so I recently decided to check out some of these consoles I'd never played on my Pi4 (Version 4.7.3, Last Commit 7 weeks ago [3f5b62ad], system rpi4 [armv71] runing on Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 [buster]... and for future reference, if any of that info is gratuitous for figuring out what system I have, feel free to let me know). These include CD-ROM games, like the Playstation 1, Sega-CD, and the TurboGrafx-CD/CD-ROM².

So far, I haven't had any luck getting any of the Turbo-CD games to run. When I run them--usually using lr-beetle-pce-fast, I think I've tried them all-- I get a screen that says:

PC ENGINE SUPER CD-ROM 2 SYSTEM VER 3.00 PUSH RUN BUTTON

When you do press "run"/the start button, you get a “LOAD ERROR!” Message (alternately, when I hit run on the Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari game, it says "Just a moment...," but the game never loads).

I've tried enabling Verbose Logging in runcommand to elaborate on these errors (prior to doing so, if I'd use F4 to access Terminal and run cat /dev/slm/runcommand.log , I got 2 prompts that said " Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-beetle-pce-fast/mednafen_pce_fast_libretro.so —config /opt/retropie/configs/pcengine/retroarch.cfg “/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pcengine/Double Dragon II - The Revenge.7z” —appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg " ; as you can see it mentioned Double Dragon, but none of the other games that gave me that "Load Error" message)

After I enabled Verbose Logging, a far more extensive screen ran (admittedly it's all kinda Greek to me), but I'm not sure how to save/download these error logs so I could potentially share them, assuming they'd reveal anything (besides that, is there a way to exit this screen WITHOUT having to reboot/using the " sudo reboot " command?).

Is it possible I have the wrong BIOS file, or that the BIOS is in the wrong format?? Currently, I have a [BIOS] Super CD-ROM System (Japan) (v3.0).zip , [BIOS] Super CD-ROM System (Japan) (v3.0).7z , and the syscard3.pce file all placed in the general "bios" folder (largely just because the PC-Engine Doc included here said that the syscard3.pce BIOS is the most compatible with games).

I do see that the Docs file here said "that It is important that the image file (usually .bin) and the CUE file (.cue) match," and it's true that a couple of these 7z's, after I decompress them, ONLY have a .cue file, with NO .bin file (granted, all of these are files that I got off a proper archive-type site, so I'd like to think that they wouldn't have compressed/uploaded them if they had a missing file).

That said, any ideas of why these aren't working? More specifically, HOW do I download/save these error messages, if those will provide further details?? (sorry, I tried Googling/searching that here, but couldn't find anything). Thanks!!

Articles referred to:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PC-Engine/
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15896/errors-logged-to-dev-slm-runcommand-org/9
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26869/appendconfig-dev-shm-retroarch-cfg/2

Is there a means to scrape just one title at a time? I have a huge MAME set and would just like to scrape my Favorites and since that doesn't seem to be a thing (or is that possible too), I'm wondering if there's a way to get Scraper to just do the selected game.

(Retropie on RP4, Canakit 8GB w/32GB mSD card)

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So I had this issues that my Mame2003 controls got messed up and started mapping multiple input buttons into the analog joysticks for my arcade controls. So for example right would be right and A which means that right wouldn't work and your character would take one step and attack or jump or something like that.

I saw a few other people with the same issue and after some looking around I figured it out. You have go into RGUI and into options and turn Map right analog stick as buttons to OFF and change input interface from simultaneous to retropad in my case. Then scroll to the top and select save game options file then resume and then you can map the Mame2003 input options in game without any issues.

I still have no clue why this changed or what happened so if anyone has an idea I am all ears. The last thing I did was set PS1 controls up in RGUI so maybe I did something but this fixed it for me. Unfortunately I seem to need to do it per game but it works.

Hello, everyone. A new enhancement has been merged into the emulationstation-dev package!

Feedback and test results are greatly appreciated.

This enhancement adds an option called Ignore Articles (Name Sort Only) to the START menu. When enabled, common leading articles are ignored in both ascending and descending order while sorting each system's game titles, similar to popular multimedia-based systems. The comma-delimited list of articles is stored within the es_settings.cfg file as LeadingArticles. By default, common English articles "a", "an", and "the" are ignored, and others may be added to the list manually. (This also allows more articles to be easily added to the default setting going forward.) The option itself is persisted as IgnoreLeadingArticles.

Additionally, a popup message is displayed whenever sorting has been re-performed in response to the selection above.

Examples:

[SortType = FILENAME ASC, IgnoreLeadingArticles = false]

A Boy and His Blob
Adventures of Lolo
Marble Madness
The Legend of Zelda
Yoshi's Cookie

[SortType = FILENAME ASC, IgnoreLeadingArticles = true]

Adventures of Lolo
A Boy and His Blob <-- article ignored
The Legend of Zelda <-- article ignored
Marble Madness
Yoshi's Cookie

More detailed technical information is listed within the pull request:

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/729