@ExarKunIv thanks. Will look into these unofficial ones you mentioned

@TPR said in Calling Pi 4 Atari Jaguar Fans:

Just messing around with lr-vjag last night and it does appear that some games are running amazing! One question... I noticed that Tempest will throw odd glitches here and there...

No glitch on my side with lr-vjag. I'm running tempst2k.zip (from MAME Romset) with the default settings and Vulkan

@lesk said in Making a custom game that randomise NES games to play?:

My question... Is it possible to do a similar thing for retropie?

Not without creating a new game, which is what Nintendo did.

I am not sure what to suggest, a Pi4 with 2GB would have been my answer in pre Pi5 times... and still, the Pi4 runs an official image, but the pi5 ain't such a newcomer nowadays and the official image is still based on (IIRC) buster and since then, even before the Pi5 was released, the discussions where about when there will be a "bullseye" image and whether it will be 64bit/32bit or still in support of 32bit ... sigh...

So the official image is missing debian 11, the 64 vs. and or 32 bit problematic still unsolved and now with the pi5 we are over the edge to 64bit and on bookworm as the current debian/raspi OS base...

I would say, it depends... if you want to play straight ahead and use the existing image, go for a pi4 with whatever mem you may need to reuse it after upgrading retropie to a newer device (for retropie on a RP4 2GB is IMHO more then enough, if you want to use it as a terraria or minecraft server afterwards, at least 4GB better 8 would be the way to go).

But if you are totally new to raspis and retropie... well, bad timing, if you simply can afford it, go for the above mentioned route of the pi4 and learn some *nix basics ... but be assured that all you learn for the nowadays official buster based image is void for the next official one, because too much on the underlying OS was changed (just to add a match of buzzword: config.txt vs. cmdline.txt) - if you are willing to experiment and learn on raspberry pi/*nix in general in the meantime, go for a pi5 with the memory you can afford!

Here is another suggestion to help speed up AetherSX2 that I discovered today:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/36636/aethersx2-cache-question-any-way-to-auto-clear-or-turn-off

@mitu

Sorry just realised I pasted the wrong filename. It should be
Armbian_24.8.1_Orangepi5_noble_current_6.10.6_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz
(updated above.)

Basically the 6.10 kernel, Ubuntu based, Gnome I think it was. And has mesa pre-installed.
The Mesa is from some forked repo but seems to work. Not sure why they use that. Mesa needs to be of a certain version for Panthor, don't remember exactly which.

Iv'e added some more notes on the youtube info box.
For example,

You'll still need to add to your,
~/.config/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini
a line
PreferGLES = True

and

If you get an error when trying to run a game try first running in the term,
export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=""
to revert the environment to xwayland. (or something like that)

Alternatively use the -nogui version. That doesn't complain about wayland in qt6.

Ahh.. regarding Audio. I got audio in my desk speakers by running a dongle I use for my sons headphones. It plugs into USB and gives me a 3.5mm jack I can plug into the desk speakers. Don't test using the Ubuntu Settings->Audio 'Test' thingy as that seemed broken.
I also got sound by plugging the headphones into the jack of my PS5 controller and using that to play with. But something was a bit janky with glitchy on/off input for some reason so I ended up swapping to an xbox controller I had.

armbian.png

update: after doing a little configuration the game doesn't boot. I think I messed something up in the settings. Probably selecting the wrong bios or something.

Parameters: Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/xemu/xemu "/home/retropie/RetroPie/roms/xbox/ATV Quad Power Racing 2.iso" xemu_version: 0.7.132 xemu_branch: master xemu_commit: 8707d2aa2626063cb67b5ea20382584a0848dce7 xemu_date: Sat Sep 21 02:14:45 PM UTC 2024 xemu_settings_get_base_path: base path: /home/retropie/.local/share/xemu/xemu/ xemu_settings_get_path: config path: /home/retropie/.local/share/xemu/xemu/xemu.toml MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev glx: failed to create drisw screen CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10600K CPU @ 4.10GHz OS_Version: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS GL_VENDOR: Mesa GL_RENDERER: llvmpipe (LLVM 17.0.6, 128 bits) GL_VERSION: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.1 GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 4.50 xemu: /home/retropie/RetroPie/roms/xbox/ATV Quad Power Racing 2.iso: drive with bus=0, unit=0 (index=0) exists Created QEMU launch parameters: /opt/retropie/emulators/xemu/xemu -machine xbox,bootrom=/home/retropie/RetroPie/BIOS/xbox/mcpx_1.0.bin,kernel-irqchip=off,avpack=hdtv -device smbus-storage,file=/home/retropie/.local/share/xemu/xemu/eeprom.bin -bios /home/retropie/RetroPie/BIOS/xbox/system.bin -m 64 -drive index=0,media=disk,file=/home/retropie/RetroPie/BIOS/xbox/xbox_hdd.qcow2,locked=on -drive index=1,media=cdrom,file= -display xemu -device usb-hub,port=1,ports=4 /home/retropie/RetroPie/roms/xbox/ATV Quad Power Racing 2.iso

I will keep testing. If anyone knows what I did wrong please share your input.

Working on trying to get Munt working on a Pi5.

I was able to compile switching the flags around a little. I used "-mtune=cortex-a76" and "-march=armv8.2-a+crc", and I had to remove the "-mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard" instructions.

I installed it and got everything setup, but on boot, the Pi complains that "rc.local[1023]: Could not open pcm device: default" and "rc.local[1023]: mt32d: pcm.c:1226: snd_pcm_prepare: Assertion 'pcm' failed."

Any ideas?

@mrizzone at what part does that come up

@TPR
If you want to play GameCube or Wii at fullspeed on a Pi5. You must use Dolphin standalone.
You just need to set your controller once and create hotkeys like lr-Dolphin and it will be like the lr-dolphin with the same hotkeys.

@administrators I would be interested in that too?

@ExarKunIv got it!, i allready thougt that lr-melonds has to be in the extra-repo as i did not find it in the reular core-sections ;)
I just printed out your installation-tutorial here in the office and will start again in the evening ;)

thx for advise!

Actually you can use box 86 witch emulates x86 on a arm processor.

@ExarKunIv Much appreciated! Thanks!

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