@screech said in Proposal: Consolidate filesystem locations:

Not really the same subject, but it's about path on retropie ;) :

why retropie have
Rom here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/
Gamelist here : /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/%System%/gamelist.xml
Image here : /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/%system%/

/home/pi/.emulationstation/ is a symlink to /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/ - so they are the same path.

Emulationstation work great with all thing at the same place
Rom here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/
Gamelist here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/gamelist.xml
Image here : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/%System%/downloaded_images/

By default sselph's scraper uses those locations.

I only had the really long shut down the first time. It now only takes about 15 seconds. In fact, before I rebuilt my SD card from scratch, It usually took about 45-50 seconds to fully boot with metadata. Now it's taking around 25 seconds. So my splash screen video I'm using now takes longer to fully play than the system does to load up. Still, I think even a simple progress bar on the "EmulationStation Loading" screen would be a nice thing to have. But something like that is going to require more than displaying a simple static splash screen.

Sorry, thanks, fixed.

@BuZz Thanks, I didnt realize that.

I discovered TriPi so for the next pi build I will be using that rather than doing all individually like I did with my current RetroPie box.

The VPN into home network to access steam games remotely works as a user in this thread got it working: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1082 Unfortunately I cant seem to send him a message on GitHub.

@mdg33

Improvements will have to be made to the RetroArch cores before RetroPie can become a truly viable solution to light gun gaming. The groundwork has been laid for mouse compatibility with lr-nestopia, lr-genesis-plus-gx, lr-snes9x-next and lr-mame2003, but really only mame2k3 is a fully working solution, due to the recent addition of absolute pointer coordinates. Besides lr-nestopia, the rest don't even recognize a mouse of any kind on the Pi like they do on x86 hardware.

Fortunately, as with anything else of this sort, there will come a day when a developer will find this sort of thing important to them and the whole thing will get ironed out. For example, look at the newest improvements to RetroAchievements in RetroArch. It languished as a half-implemented feature for some time and once the interest was found, it it got finished. You can bet that one day in the future, some developer is gonna want to break out their gun and play the NES 'Duck Hunt' or SegaCD's 'Snatcher' on their Pi and the final nuts and bolts will be added.

@demesauce Did you ever get this to work ? Ia have the same issue..

@mediamogul you are correct about my joysticks Axis... the only hope I am holding on to, is when the mode button is enabled, my Dpad values go from hat #0/#1 to axis 4&5/6&7... My end game is two have two players on mupeb64plus. Thanks for the replies guys!

OK, I'm all set now. Got everything working. Going to post it here and on my original topic just in case it helps anyone. My actual code switches Select and Start, but most people won't want that so this is the normal way to be able to save on a 2-button NES controller. Thank you to all who helped!

[code]
input_device = " NES PC Game Pad NES PC Game Pad "
input_driver = "udev"

input_up_axis = "-1"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_right_axis = "+0"
input_start_btn = "3"
input_select_btn = "2"
input_a_btn = "0"
input_b_btn = "1"

input_enable_hotkey_btn = "2"
input_reset_btn = "1"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "3"

input_load_state_axis = "-0"
input_save_state_axis = "+0"
input_state_slot_increase_axis = "-1"
input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "+1"
[/code]

@BuZz sorry. I have been watching too much it's always sunny in Philadelphia

would it be relationed with __persistent_repos of the 4831258dbaf6d8af93abff513cb7c10b972df488 commit?

No measurable performance increase from my testing. If you build from source you will get rpi3 optimised binaries.

By the way: @fechy started a similar tool from scratch. Look this topic: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4627/retropie-web-gui

It has less features, but at least the development can be more active if he receive users feedback.

The compatibility with RetroAchievements is something I feel RetroPie should publicize more, I bet the vast majority of casual users (those who don't feel it necessary to join the forum) don't know about it.

I have spent more time trying to get my trackball to work with no luck. I have plugged it into my Mac and it appears as a mouse and seems to work just fine. When I plug it into my Raspberry Pi and try it with Centipede and LR-Mame2003 the y-axis seems to work but the x-axis does nothing.

I also plugged a regular mouse into the Raspberry pi and it works as expected in Centipede, both x-axis and y-axis.

This is very frustrating.

Any more ideas anyone?

@Chicago32 also you should brush up on the specs required for certain systems. No way the 3ds will ever be run on a pi.

to get it to work from ES, put it in the emulators.cfg launch line in /opt/retropie/configs/atari/emulators.cfg like SDL_VIDEO_RPI_SCALE_MODE=1 $md_inst/bin/hatari --zoom 1 etc

you can change the pixel aspect ratio also: (note these options are specific to our SDL2 - our SDL1 also has similar options)

Docs:

/** * \brief Tell dispmanx to stretch the SDL window to fill the display. * * This hint only applies to the rpi video driver. * * The variable can be set to the following values: * "0" - Window resolution is desktop resolution. * This is the behaviour of SDL <= 2.0.4. (default) * "1" - Requested video resolution will be scaled to desktop resolution. * Aspect ratio of requested video resolution will be respected. * "2" - Requested video resolution will be scaled to desktop resolution. * "3" - Requested video resolution will be scaled to desktop resolution. * Aspect ratio of requested video resolution will be respected. * If possible output resolution will be integral multiple of video * resolution. */ #define SDL_HINT_VIDEO_RPI_SCALE_MODE "SDL_VIDEO_RPI_SCALE_MODE" /** * \brief Tell dispmanx to set a specific aspect ratio. * * This hint only applies to the rpi video driver. * * Must be set together with SDL_HINT_VIDEO_RPI_SCALE_MODE=1. */ #define SDL_HINT_VIDEO_RPI_RATIO "SDL_VIDEO_RPI_RATIO"

@herb_fargus that sucks sooo bad. That is one great game.

@obsidianspider yes i can... but I would prefer to have my profile, my wife profle and a guest, so when someone want to try retropie, dont save on my account by error