@mitu There hasn't been a reply on that thread in months...

I'm getting both an 'xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused' response to StartX
and a response " *failed to add service - already in use?" to emulationstation.

Do you think it is related to autologin settings? It's as though both the services are started but I'm outside them (I guess because George's script itself called Xinit ... though I uninstalled Meso, Box86 and Wine).

@mitu said in Which files/folders to backup?:

@retrodaniel said in Which files/folders to backup?:

know that I changed the configuration of some games specifically during emulation, but I have no idea where those are stored. Could anyone point me to where they are, please?

The overrides for cores/games should be stored in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/configs, each core has its own folder for overrides. If you're backing up /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch, it should be enough - you can restore them afterwards.

Other than that, the backed up folders you mentioned should be enough.

Amazing! Thank you for the help :)

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Handling the infinite tedium of split ROM sets:

I already tried /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame

Just an alternative for you.
I am surprised you never tried this :
If you install the arcade category from the add-mamedev-systems.sh script the rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame will be added in the loader lines for lr-mame and mame.
(only in the loader lines created by this script, I have to mention)
So then the less important roms can be placed in :
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame

Just have a try !

Basically what I'm doing to launch is to configure the platform like this:

<system> <name>steam</name> <fullname>Steam</fullname> <path>~/RetroPie/roms/steam</path> <extension>.dat</extension> <command>steam steam://rungameid/`cat %ROM%`</command> <platform>pc</platform> <theme>steam</theme> </system>

And then in the Steam ROMs folder, saving the game id in a .cat file.

Like @abaaihd said, the only issue is when exiting the game, as Steam will be minimized and EmulationStation will loose focus.

@abaaihd Did you get able to get back to ES after exit any Steam game?

@sirhenrythe5th Maybe it's a combo of extra bandwidth usage and the time required to update them. I'm not sure. I ended up getting what I could from emumovies and then I used a batch renamer to rename them and mass edit the xml's to match that.

Before emumovies had acceptable scans (some are hit or miss like the pc-engine covers...) I did go overboard by getting the really big scans from the cover project. It was a long process because the cut/resize batch script in photoshop wouldn't always work correctly.

@windg Hi. This doesn't seem to have worked, I can use the keyboard to navigate the main menu but not in Retroarch.

@mth75 anytime. I suspect something's wrong with your setup. Agony should have launched without issue and with proper settings. Usually this points to an old amiberry.conf. Please ensure to:

use the latest Agony "package" version as above (Agony_v2.1_0960.lha) and use that exact naming. backup then delete your amiberry.conf from the "conf" directory. Reinstall Amiberry from Retropie-Setup.

This should definitely fix your issue and allow Agony to run as it should with proper defaults. If this works we would continue from there.

@Darksavior nes accuracy is measured through various tools to verify correct ppu/cpu/apu operation and proper support with the most popular nes mappers, support for obscure mappers isn't accounted during those tests tbh.
Mesen probably had missing/broken support for that mapper 078 used in 2 games (Holy Diver and Uchuusen - Cosmo Carrier) at the time of its release.
Afaik Mesen is the only emulator getting 100% at those tests, nestopia is around 80%, quicknes is around 70%, fceumm is only around 50% and the least accurate nes emulator available on retropie.
I don't know if there is any nes emulator with 100% mapper compatibility, there are several hundreds of them and they all need to be coded separately.

Can you post your config.txt boot configuration ? What version of RetroPie are you using ?

@Lolonois Edit: was able to get it work after all! Thanks!

You need to give us some more info to help diagnose your problem.
Did the image you're using has ever worked on a Pi4 ? When you say you 'updated so on old board' - does this mean you've used a Pi3 with the same image/sdcard to do the update ? What image are you using ?

@mitu

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for your help!

We’ve got most of it working now. Just need to add a few tweaks to the code to write the metadata to the screen and make the info displayed selectable by the user. Thanks!

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@racecarmike said in Games not loading.:

I bought the SD card off of Amazon and I used it on my raspberry pi 4

Then ask the seller for support - we don't support 3rd party images in the forums, only the image from https://retropie.org.uk/download.

Have fun. 🙂👍️ unison-gtk should be available in most Debian-based Linux distributions. Don't know how it is for Mac or Win.

If your Pi has a keyboad, you can also press F4 in Emulation Station to get to its command shell, and then enter sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh to edit the file. In the editor, press Ctrl+xfollowed yand Enter to leave and save the file (or press n to not save it). You can leave the command shell by entering exitor pressing Ctrl+d.

Finally, you can also use SSH (Secure Shell) to access your Pi. See the Docs about that.

The fuse package hasn't been updated in quite some time. Unless you had a very old version, any recent update wouldn't have changed anything in the emulator.

Are you using the standalone emulator or the libretro core (lr-fuse) ? Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@Ashpool thanks for the pointer :)

Got it working using that script.

If it helps anyone else my /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh file looks like:

sudo /home/pi/RetroPie/scripts/multi_switch.sh --mausberry & emulationstation #auto

(All on one line in the file)

I suspect my missing piece with the 'stock' mausberry install script was adding it to the autostart file, but this alternative script works so will stick with it. 👍

There is a new version of ppsspp (v1.13.2), RetroPie is using the v1.12.3. I haven't test this, maybe it have better performance. If you want to test it, you have to modify the ppsspp.sh file and build it from source(it takes 2+hours).

@Floob @dankcushions Thank you. I just had som eoveride of menu_driver in the retroarch.cfg from some systems folder so i still had rgui for some emulations. but know i have matched everything against the parent retroarch.cfg menu_driver and it works.