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  ES devs and testers, this tool is for you!
  emulationstatio script development github testing • • meleu

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  Thank you for sharing, I was looking for this :D

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  Getting Started with ES Development.
  development guide how-to self-help • • Hex

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  @mitu said in Getting Started with ES Development.:

  It's called dialog - https://linuxgazette.net/101/sunil.html.

  Wow. In that case, the feature I want to add isn't even a RetroPie-specific feature at all.

  I want to add an on-screen-keyboard option to dialog and then have the RetroPie setup script use it when text entry is required. That would enable entering the wifi password with a game controller.

  So I believe I'd need to start here, (or maybe here?) code up my own new version and then get RetroPie onto using that, with a new -osk command line option.

  (later edit) I have started a fork of dialog and even got it to make using this guide

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  Game launching video loading screens
  emulationstatio launchingimages launchingvideos • • dmmarti

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  @pisces3988

  Extract file name from called ROMcode_text

  gname="$(basename "$3")"
  build path to file and remove extension from ROM to add mp4 extension
  $HOME variable will help users that are not stick to raspberry ;)

  ifgame="$HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/${gname%.*}.mp4"
  ifsystem="$HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/$1.mp4"
  default="$HOME/RetroPie/videoloadingscreens/default.mp4"
  If condition to check filename with -f switch, f means regular file

  if [[ -f $ifgame ]]; then

  omxplayer "$ifgame" > /dev/null 2>&1

  elif [[ -f $ifsystem ]]; then
  omxplayer "$ifsystem" > /dev/null 2>&1
  elif [[ -f $default ]]; then
  omxplayer "$default" > /dev/null 2>&1 code_textcode_text

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  (REQUEST/IDEA) Dynamic marquess .. or interprocess comms...
  idea request • • kiro

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  @janderclander14 Very strange, I'll upload the compiled binary into github today, so you can download it an try it. It is compiled on a RPI4, so hopefully you have a similar setup.

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  Announcing Pegasus Frontend
  development pegasus frontend c++ qml • • fluffypillow

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  Hi @fluffypillow . I recently received my Retroid Pocket 2 and am in the process of setting up with Pegasus. The RP2 comes with 2 versions of RetroArch, a up to date version and an older 1.5.0 version that is specifically for playing GBA.

  My problem is that I can launch the up to date version thru Pegasus, but when I try to launch a GBA game with the 1.5.0 version of RetroArch it just exits immediately and returns me to Pegasus. (The 1.5.0 version works correctly if I load roms directly in RetroArch)

  Here's my GBA metadata file and my lastrun.log

  My guess is it has something to do with the launch parameters, but I've rooted the RP2 and double checked all the directories and they are correct.

  If you have any suggestions it would be appreciated. Thanks!

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  Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and the Sega Saturn
  emulation saturn improvement • • ultrakev9

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  @firebird_ws6 Did yours work using Quicksilver's patch? I've entered the code that Buzz gave above, all seemed to work fine but I am still getting the message that the shader hack has failed to apply.

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  Request: add Duckstation PSX emulator
  retroarch playstation duckstation • • janderclander14

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  @fcibx6r1un it doesn't work flawlessly yet afaik - there are some rendering issues. Btw @dankcushions did the Retroarch changes and some others relating to this, so we are aware of current compatibility etc. It will be added at some point when issues are sorted etc.

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  (request) Add Xqemu emulator for original Xbox
  xbox request new emulator add • • Unknown

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  Add Vulkan Support to RetroPie for Pi 4?
  retropie pi 4 vulkan • • bluestang

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  @dankcushions said in Add Vulkan Support to RetroPie for Pi 4?:

  it is already confirmed as not happening in the vulkan (v3dv) driver: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/3758#note_701947

  I added some screenshots to the issue thread for visual references.

  you may want to try and get a backtrace with a debug build of flycast.DEBUG=1 buildflag, typically. that should make the trace a bit more useful.

  Thanks for the tip! I updated my issue with the new backtrace report. Seems like the issue appears to be in the GetPhysicalDeviceProperties2 struct returning a bunch of zeros where it should be returning the device limits in v3dv_device.c

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  lr-dosbox-svn / lr-dosbox-core (new dosbox libretro cores)
  retroarch dosbox libretro lr-dosbox lr-dosbox-svn • • muldjord

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  @nikitau
  If you want to enable BASSMIDI support, the ARM versions are posted here:

  https://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=13804.msg95617

  You need the "hardhf" builds of libbass.so and libbassmidi.so. They need to be placed in the libretro system directory, which is where the core looks for them.

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  new scriptmodules (lr-vice-xvic, gsplus, proper lr-mess integration!)
  development github scriptmodules • • valerino

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  @folly

  Can you explain a little bit more about your "special 3D" idea ?

  I misspelled, I meant "specific", not special.

  Do you keep me posted on your findings ?

  Of course, as soon as I can try it, I'll update you.

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  Multi Switch Shutdown Script!
  cyperghost shutdown script shutdown switch • • cyperghost

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  I've installed the script on the NESPi 4 case set up with Retropie on an SSD.

  And they work... mostly. One issue though:

  When switching off the device correctly shuts down the OS and then... stays on. Lights off etc but the fan is still spinning. I can;t switch it back on from this state either, have to unplug from the power and plug back in.

  Something similar happens with the Retroflag scripts, only with those it will boot back up again immediately after shutting down the OS without me doing anything.

  Now all this said I should point out that I'm running a 512GB SSD from the USB2 slot so that may be causing issues? Pi 4 just flat out won't boot anthing above a 256GB 2.5" SSD from USB3... I've had no issues through USB2 though.

  Any solutions to this issue?

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  (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?
  daphne singe • • Darksavior

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  @darksavior said in (REQUEST) Add Daphne Singe emulator?:

  @dirtbagxon I guess I won't be using singe 2.0 then..

  It's the new fangled big-brother, but for the retro scene you have to make your choice.

  I'm sure new games coming to v2 will make it a go to app, but then 'new' isn't 'retro'...

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  Versatile C++ game scraper: Skyscraper
  scraper gamelist.xml scraping skyscraper github • • muldjord

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  @muldjord Funnily, I witnessed your first edit of the post yesterday and decided to go to bed and let you finish your thoughts. Looks like I was the right decision. 😀

  Thanks for your ongoing exploration of this effect. One more thing about folders: They can also be used to create subsets of roms in the same ES system, where you can move down into them, seeing the roms inside, and move back up like within the systems themselves.

  That said, I found that Skyscraper wouldn't create the Gamelist for roms in subdirectories when it's invoked from the RetroPie setup menu. It just freezes after "Sit back, relax and let me do the work! :)" and even Ctrl-c can't stop it – only the yellow text "User wants to quit…" appears, but it doesn't return to the menu. In the command line however, it works.

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  Translate games on the fly
  script idea github japanese translation • • Folly

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  @folly Ah nice!!!

  I've got a few other computer systems I'm wanting to try .. so this translate tool is awesome.

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  Broken links on the About page of the website
  website broken link • • pmotch

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  @pmotch I'll correct them. Thanks

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  Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME
  mame game&watch tiger handheld jakks konami handheld • • DTEAM

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  I added 6 new all_in1 plug & play consoles runned by xavix.cpp driver. They need frameskip = auto. With that, they run well. The list above is updated with those six consoles.

  namcons1
  namcons2
  taitons1
  taitons2
  tak_geig
  tomcpin

  I add those plug & play in my gamelist.xml and downloaded images. see : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bfuYF7Ij_dhNc9b8bVCS6I22XiEmP7rv?usp=sharing

  For lr-mess, I added a gamelists and downloaded_images for pockstat and updated svmu with more games videos and images.

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  Suggestions for ports
  ports ideas ports retropie • • retropi19

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  @ecto Yup, that did the trick - sort of. There was an error at the end of the build_deps.sh process, but I managed to get past the cmake error. I didn't think I would but it worked, I've managed to run 'make systemshock' so now I think it's just a case of running the game.

  Thanks a bunch! :D

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  Keyboard mapping to gamepad for MSX/MSX2?
  msx fuse keyboard map msx and joypad msx2 • • retropieuser555

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  @folly Thinking about it, is it possible it might work on other cores? Is it a functionality all the lr cores share?

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  New port installer: OpenMW (Morrowind)
  ports • • A Former User

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  @quicksilver yes that was it. the list of dependencies in the script was not being checked and or installed if missing.

  once i did that i was able to run the setup script fine.
  now i did install cmake 3.15.4 so i dont know if that also was causing a error or not.

  i might try a clean load on a different card and test to make sure for other people looking in to this