Quackshot post is up: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17681/may-game-of-the-month-quackshot-starring-donald-duck

@classicgmr Thank you for the missing artwork :0)

I should have said, the iGo is a bluetooth keyboard. Sorry, I forgot to mention it in my earlier post.

It's really, really easy to make it yourself via the official images. You are responsible for the content as well as your own hardware.

Pre-made images will never work fine for anyone, you'll always need to keep fixing things and you'll end up frustrated.

Don't forget that pre-made images can be dangerously overclocked destroying your CPU (or at least your guarantee) and could contain malware such as crypto miners.

Stay away from them and do it yourself :)

Well...i thought i updated my laptop, but as it turns out as im on it now i did not and its on RetroArch 1.71. Ill do an update and see what happens...My pi 3b+ works even with my current overclocking tests so if things go south...

I did reinstall retropie on all 3 machines. My method of testing involved stripping the drive of its partition table, install my OS of choice (deb based of course), and then i installed retropie. Nothing else in between.

Edit: More info

I was wrong on that. Its RetroArch 1.7.1 on the desktop machine, but i was able to unfortunatly recreate this on the pi by doing an apt update, apt upgrade.
It upgraded a few things such as the bootloader and the kernel, but as im watching it it seemed to have partially removed xpad - i say partially because it stated removing xpad and blah blah, but then in the retropie setup script it showed it as installed. Im not sure which action if not both caused the issue, but reinstalling xpad after a reboot did not resolve it.

So my Pi no longer works in Retroarch for player one. Does anyone know of any fixes for this, incompatabilities, bugs within the newest kernel or anything of the sort?
It is entirely possible that i did the same on the desktop before doing that second reboot so im kinda leaning toward it being kernel issue since xpad was NOT installed.

@herb_fargus I've pretty much tackled it as far as I'm willing to at the moment. I'd certainly revisit it later after a Pi 4 were released or if I felt the need to get a Pi 3B+.

Anyway, I've linked it properly on the wiki now. Hopefully someone finds what I've documented useful. Know I would've loved to just have a quick list of 51 games I could run on my overclocked Pi 3B.

Decided to just go with the Google Sheets method. It is smarter.

@youxia that's giving a more accurate and sharp image but frequently changing back to HDMI isn't very convenient even by using a tvservice startup script. Also setting things up for different arcade games is a pain. Quite ideal for setups permanently hooked on a CRT though.

@athman8 280p is supported via HDMI but you'll need to find an adapter that will give out the same resolution and also a CRT monitor that accepts 240 lines. The easy way to get 240p out of the Pi is via composite on a CRT TV by setting sdtv_mode to either 16 or 18 (NTSC or PAL).

I cannot get this removed. I try sudo apt remove python-es-bgm and I get

dpkg: error processing package python-es-bgm (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: python-es-bgm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any ideas? I actually cannot install or uninstall anything, this error from the particular package keeps appearing!

Edit: nevermind, I removed it from /var/lib/dpkg/status and did a dpkg --configure -a. I hope it's clean now...

I've also created a bash script that makes use of the multi_switch.sh
So the script hast to be placed alongside the Python code to work.

I haven't changed installer... so the best way is to install the original script and then to use the changed python code from my repo and place the bash script alongside the python script.

@Drakaen391 you can use this method ;)

To install use this:

Login with SSH Got to installed directory with cd /opt/RetroFlag download the multi_switch script with sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/ES-generic-shutdown/master/multi_switch.sh Make script executable sudo chmod +x multi_switch.sh Remove old script with sudo rm SafeShutdown.py Get new script with sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/retroflag-picase/master/SafeShutdown.py

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One of the few I beat

@lurker said in Games with 2P ROM versions:

I am developing a theory that Player 3 has the best characters;
Ralph the Wolf (Rampage)
Bart (the Simpsons)
Donatello ( TMNT) and TMNTII

Ha! I really think you're on to something there. For 'Rampage', I play Ralph most of the time myself. It's a shame he was always the one snubbed when they needed to cut a character for the home ports. Of course the Lynx version actually threw us a curve ball by including a fourth character, Larry the rat. I've experimented with just about all the ports, looking for a good alternative that allows character selection and while several of them are very impressive on a technical level, especially on the Lynx, Master System and Atari 2600, nothing beats the arcade original.

I do agree the lists need complete overhaul as some games that ran flawlessly, now don’t work (Pokemon Snap)

@thedatacereal You're welcome. :)

@quicksilver

heya. yeah. havin no luck getting this chd convertor to work. i'm gonna keep trying, but so far, no dice. i can't even tell which version im running because the thing just crashes in wine.

*EDIT

just got it to work. finally found a chd converter that worked in wine with gdi files. first one tested was ikaruga which came out to 73 mb (as you said). this is insane. just converting the 4 dreamcast games on my retropie to chd should free about 2 gigs.

thanks again

@herb_fargus thanks herb appreciate the feedback! I will take your advice and post my proposed changes here for feedback first. I have got N64 running well on my pi (at least for most games anyone cares about). So I'd like to share my tweaks that have made it a more enjoyable experience. Thanks again.

Although I like to "earn my spurs" sometimes, I think that anyone should play their games like they want. For the vast majority of people, games are for having fun, after all.

So, if someone wants to play all unlockable content from the start, I'll gladly let them. RetroArch officially supports cheats, after all.

Another situation in which unlocked saves and cheats are very handy are gaming parties where people just want to have fun. Even hardcore gamers do that from time to time.

@fruitybit

I was aware of the contest when it was going on, but had too much on my plate to participate at the time. Between all the various puzzles and programming an actual 2600 game, I still can't get over how much effort was put into it. Such a great promotion.