@clyde Thanks.

I used the free trial to play championship manager 01/02 on my phone. While it worked and loaded the game... I wasn't a fan. If my phone screen locked I would lose my progress, had to constantly save. Had errors too.

Even if it worked properly I didn't think it was near worth the cost. If the guy had gone down the open source route I reckon he'd have had a far better end product by now.

Ultimately I'm sure there will be a product that does that in time.

Also while it may be useful to have access to something like this along with retropie, it shouldnt be him cashing in on retropies brand. That feels wrong on every level, especially when in my opinion his end product is nowhere near the level it needs to be.

@classicgmr So the stick has been 100% RELIABLE.

it does get pretty warm but nothing crazy, I can grab it with my hand( my right hand not my left hand) and say " ooohh that's warm", but it never heats up enough to cook my imaginary girlfriend pancakes. It's a solid drive for a Low Profile drive which is perfect for this portable gaming system. No worries in the heat department unles every degree counts, and then maybe ou should do some research.

What I did dislike was while it was PERFECT for my setup profile-wise, the transfer speeds are poor. I have a Kingston HyperX from two or more years back that performs the same as a modern 3.0 hard drive. 100MB/s either way. Not mbs, MB/s. So this drive wasn't great n the transferring category.

If I had everything set, and didn't use it as an experimenting USB drive, it would have been fine. Basically, It's awesome for the look, and I am keeping it as my travel drive, as I am replacing it with a higher performace PC compatible drive but it does perfect for only needing rare updates.

Just my 2 cents and I wanted to update the thread.

People can be intrigued by the thought of not having to do much. They like the idea of a pre made kit that they can play there childhood games on and have minimal setup

@lurker said in Is it Legal to use an arcade machine running retropie, put it in a public place and charge quarters to use it?:

It is like that in all sorts of things. Notice you will rarely see soda vending machines offer Coke AND Pepsi at the same time.

Well said. :)

@benjaminjay I agree that most game cafe's and such don't do their full due diligence in terms of having full legal right to do everything they do.

I can tell, as my return to the emulation scene after many years of hibernation was triggerd by an obviously custom made MAME cocktail table in a German craft beer bar in Winter 2016. Now, I have a self-made upright cabinet in my living room. Damn those bar operators! ;) (and the "good friend" who led us there)

@eckaji I am running at 1.45ghz with on the CPU. I've pushed it all the way to 1.6ghz but that would usually end up counter productive as it would heat throttle. I'm using a Flirc case.

For GPU I'm running at 500mhz vs the stock 400. If I go past that I will get frame drops and hick ups even with good heat and frame rate. My RAM has a similar +100mhz on it, honestly I think the RAM overclock is the most beneficial. You can't crank it up too high, though, as RAM OC can get unstable in a hurry.

I'm happy with my 3B+ and will use it for hundreds of gaming hours. However, there is no real performance boost with it over even a mildly overclockes 3b in my experience.

On the positive side, the WiFi is far superior and my Buffalo controllers no longer give ghost inputs like they did on the 3B. This makes me think that the 3B had some USB power supply issues.

@barbudreadmon said in Odroid XU4 MAME Performance?:

@loggahead said in Odroid XU4 MAME Performance?:

I just have to update the lr-fbalpha package right?

If you mean from binary, probably not. As said above you'll probably have to update from sources.

This worked! Thanks so much again!

Most everything in terms of desktop shell replacements died out around Windows 7's release.

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