A thousand thank yous! I'm glad I only finished 2 yesterday!

Also - I found where to set the bezel opacity:

~\retropie\configs\arcade\retroarch.cfg

Changed the line

input_overlay_opacity = "0.700000"

to

input_overlay_opacity = "0.400000"

Now I just need to get my spinner working.

Interesting reading. Which systems that the Pi4 can emulate would actually be affected by the read speed that USB2 or SD cards can deliver?

I usually transfer new games from my phone or my PC so my WI/FI and Ethernet speeds would probably be the limiting factor for writing speed for me.

@matchaman I think it should work, but I can't be sure if the final install image won't require a reinstall. As for drivers, those are usually distributed with Raspbian, so if anything gets updated on that part, they'll be automatically installed as part of a normal OS package update.

I should probably just tell you that i did order and received the 2x Tomee NES to USB adapter. They work flawlessly with my two original NES-004E controllers. I have been using them for the past 2 weeks playing top NES games. :-)

I am still waiting for the PSX to USB adapter to arrive. At the moment i have no way of testing my PSX Analog controller.

@pilsnerz said in About the RetroFlag cases! Surprise surprise.... They can cut off power!:

@cyperghost

Just bumping this @cyperghost or if I anyone has ran into this

Just did that to expand into a 256gb SD card. However, if you want to transfer files directly onto the non-boot partition there are two ways I do this. 1) install the desktop environment on your Pi and you can use a keyboard and the file system included in the desktop to transfer files between a USB stick and your SD card. 2) I have an older laptop with a SD card slot and the DVD version of Knoppix installed on it. You can boot the DVD version and use that if you don't want to install it. This can read and write virtually any filesystem in use, including exFAT from your retropie SD card.

EDIT: Note that option #1 is very slow, and option #2 will be slow if you are moving files between an SD card and USB stick plugged into the computer. #2 is much faster if files you are moving to the SD card are on your hard drive.

Bit late to the party, but I've just got one of these for Retropie and I really like it. VERY responsive analogue sticks, zero deadzone, and a very nice D pad indeed. I'd been looking at the Retrobit Sega controllers but although they'd fit better with my Mega Pi, I've never been a fan of anything made by them tbh.

Anyway, only thing - I'd like to add some thumbstick caps rather than take it to bits to mod it. Can anyone recommend a set that fits? Would Switch Joycon ones fit? Thanks boffins!

EDIT: NVM, answered my own question. Bought some joycon caps from local Asda, seem to be just fine. Bit tight but seem OK so far.

@lukabrazi the servo stik is the sanwa JLW just has the side car servo included. I bought just the servo by itself to install on a JLW. I was able to get the servo working in both windows and linux (from katie snow) as well as just using a switch on the top of the CP (this requires flashing the servo though and it will never work with software after that!).

@cyperghost said in Your top ten dos games:

Dungeon Keeper (wish there would be a port for this genius game)

Any good?

https://opendungeons.github.io/downloads.html
https://github.com/OpenDungeons/OpenDungeons/

btw this page has a list of open source game clones/ports: https://osgameclones.com/

Thank you for your quick response, on this subject, after watching a ETA on youtube, he changed the platform to PI3 not sure of the constant name, as I'm on my PC writing this.

I thought there may be ways around it, but after looking at the forums a bit, I see it looks like I newish architecture for the PI4 over the previous models, pitty I like RetroPie, tried DietPi, and got lost, and just started eating :).

Anyways if it's not possible than thank you

@mitu Thanks for the info. Sorry for jumping in. My brain didn't register that this was a RPi4 specific thread. FWIW, Turns out my issue was xpadneo README's instructions for raspbian. Installing the raspberrypi-kernel-headers package on 4.5.1 causes the buster headers to be installed on top of the stretch ones (which are already present on the retropie image).

@jodiefoster clrmamepro works, you are either not using it properly or using the wrong dat file

@jodiefoster said in Question about mame roms(please read all):

their is no 100% accurate .dat out there you will find

Those dat files are directly generated by the emulator using its own code, they are 100% accurate by definition.

for me, regardless of whether he was obligated by the license or not, the email reads snarky and hostile:

Not to be a complete ass or anything, but technically the LGPL license REQUIRES you to make the sources available when it’s released.

capital letters, and just sending it in the first place considering the author had not refused to release the source, just not got around to it yet (and given that it came out in june, can't have been long). considering that this is the author, and not a forker, clearly we can give some leeway, especially considering he clearly had rushed to get RPI4 support done quickly.

the intention of the LGPL is not to be used to needle volunteer developers. i just kind imagine this kind of mindset , but we see it ALL the time :(

@ExarKunIv @cyperghost Good to hear. Thanks for testing out the new changes.

Me neither. If bitbucket does support such a feature, it could be useful to future revisions of the scriptmodule.

Now I will update the scriptmodule in the PR for the RetroPie project. :-)

@bleuge said in MAME Set Rebuilder:

@FranceMSR Windows link in the forum, https://goo.gl/abupmV gives me HTTP ERROR 403

thanks!

It works ;-)

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You can use the RetroArch network interface to send commands to RA through a script that's called when you press the button - http://docs.libretro.com/development/retroarch/network-control-interface/#enabling. It looks like the interface supports the 'Disk Next/Prev' commands so you can switch disks, but I don't see a command to get the current disk index. Maybe you parse the RA log to get the current disk index and determine if you need to go next/prev in the disk index list.

There's no link to the code (?).
RetroPie uses a helper (joy2key) to translate gamepad inputs to keyboard keys, interpreted by the dialog screens. You can use the joy2keystart and joy2keystop as wrappers for your script - see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/helpers.sh.

Yes, you can - you'll have to install Ubuntu/Debian or a compatible enough distro (like Linux Mint) and then follow the Docs.