@smilker Hi there. I am having similar issues with EGSTARTS joystick and buttons. Actually, you have made it much further. I am still not able to get even one controller to map properly.

Do you mind sharing where you found info on getting these set up? The EmulationStation configuration seems to work to some extent, but doesn't work properly for me in games.

Thank you.

@buzz Hi, Im having this same issue but with Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 (debbie). Could you add the work around for that as well please, cheers.

~$ lsb_release -sidrc
Linuxmint
LMDE 4 (debbie)
4
debbie

So I found a solution that I think works (at least for me.) I changed the entire configs.hdmi>daphne folder permissions to 555 and when I add a new controller, I get this error:

daphne input.jpg

However it does NOT overwrite my current dapinput.ini file. I can't see anything else in that directory that it would need to write to anyway.

I tested all 17 Daphne games and they all worked and they all kept my controller configs even after configuring a few new controllers so I think this is at least a fix for my situation.

Thanks for the input everyone! It was helpful to put me on the right path!

@buzz
You have a good point.

I had a very similar problem to this thread. I replaced my Pi 3 retropie with a Pi 4 and retropie was behaving in a jittery fashion with Emulation Station and the games weren't smooth. I also have a 4K Samsung Smart TV as did the original poster. Although I wasn't using Amiberry, I was using mame, daphne, and jzintv and I figured the same solution that @gordonfreemanjr used would work for me. So I added the five lines to my /boot/config.txt file that he listed in his "IT WORKS" post but lo-and-behold it did not work for me. tvservice -s was still showing a 4K connection when I expected 1080p.

My solution was simple with a twist. Starting from the stock config.txt, I uncommented and modified the following:

hdmi_group:0=1 hdmi_mode:0=16

It was necessary for me to add the :0 to get it to work. Now there are no jitters, the motion is smooth, and tvservice -s reports a 1080p connection.

@guy-0 said in Run a command after logging off pixel:

Should I have done it through CLI instead?

No, installing from RetroPie-Setup is fine. I wonder why the onstart script doesn't work though, the desktop is launched via runcommand.

@buzz hi have reread and now its working just need to search about adding games .

Thanks

@mitu Thanks. Didn’t work though. Updated Skyscraper, recreated the gamelist, installed the Daphne emulator, rebooted: the ES fails to boot, same error code.

@george-spiggott Thanks for the reply, I’ll keep my eyes peeled for Amiberry updates.

In the meantime I’ve ordered a 2nd SD Card to have a general play around as I’m still new to this and keep breaking things, so I’ll have a look into the Amiberry downgrade as part of that experiment!

@dankcushions i'm not familiar with SSH functionality,i use putty to connecting but nothing is shown in the terminal windows when i try to launch Mame4all.
do i have something specific to do to provide a log ?

Look into https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Nintendo-64/#controls to see how the controls are configured for N64 emulators.

@oathbetrayer The Docs have a section for getting started. You don't need NOOBS for RetroPie, you can just flash/install the latest image and it will be enough to get you started.

@dreamcastkid That may be true, and they could be defining the same thing or perhaps using a different approach to correct the perspective geometry enhancing the GTE processor or the Emulated Geometry Transform Pipeline . The co-processor for original hardware playstation was called the Geometry Transform Engine. A few plugins available for PCSX-R and EPSXE have GTE accuracy hacks but these plugin options are lost in Retroarch, or perhaps already implimented.

@mitu
I have now managed to get the test script to read the following data.

mame-libretro lr-mame2016 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/galaga.zip /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2016/mamearcade2016_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/galaga.zip"

Test script:

system=$1 emulator=$2 path=$3 commandline=$4 echo $system > /home/pi/test.txt echo $emulator >> /home/pi/test.txt echo $path >> /home/pi/test.txt echo $commandline >> /home/pi/test.txt

Where do I enter the option Y for the game and how do I read this option into my script?

E.g:
if type = Y then ./script1.sh
if type = X then ./script2.sh

Edit:
Now I have a solution.
My script:

############################################################### # 4 oder 8 Wege Joystick von runcommand-onstart.sh aufgerufen # # (C) 2021 treki # ############################################################### # Namen der 4-Wege Games in /home/pi/4way.games eintragen #system=$1 #emulator=$2 #path=$3 commandline=$4 echo $commandline > /home/pi/game.name.txt #Name des 4-Wege ROMs in diesem File, welches in 4way.games geschrieben werden muss var=$(echo $commandline | grep -o -f /home/pi/4way.games) if [ -z "$var" ] then echo "8-Wege Joystick" > /home/pi/test.txt else echo "4-Wege Joystick" > /home/pi/test.txt fi

In the file /home/pi/4way.games are the names (.zip) of 4-way games.
My 4way.games file looks like this:

asteroid1 astdelux bzonec pbobble2u dkong dkong3b dkongjrb fantsia2 galaga galaxian mspacman pacman pengo phoenixt popeyebl qbert qixb spacedx supertnk tankfrce atetrisa tetrisp tron4 uniwars

Entry in /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh :

bash "/home/pi/4or8way.sh" "$@"

@hairdyeguy said in Speeding up boot time and the necessary commands:

Tried it along side to disabeling bluetooth and rainbow splash screen + inserting the quiet flag to kernel. Booting time is now 28 seconds!
Are there more things you'd recommend?

The EmulationStation settings I mentioned in my first post - they should speed up dramatically the front-end startup.

Other services that are not strictly needed - raspi-config(?), hciuart (which you don't need if you disabled Bluetooth), rpi-eeprom-update (the Pi zero doesn't have an EEPROM).
You can also disable the swap service (dphys-swapfile) and test, but the Pi 0 has limited memory and swap may be useful if you want to install from source or run other things.

I'm not sure why the dev-mmcblk0p2.device takes so long, maybe the sdcard is not so fast (?).

There may be other - more radical - options

@g30ff
That’s worked perfectly. Many thanks.

@barbudreadmon

Thank you

Experiencing the same issue since updating to 4.7 (pi 4)

Previously I had working bluetooth but it seems to be messed up since the update.

I also tried removing bluez and reinstalling but now cannot see any bluetooth devices when scanning .

What's the fix guys? Would prefer to not re-image my SD card!

@mitu

Turns out I'm a complete dope.

I figured out what I've been doing.

I thought I had been setting the rendering resolution of the game.

What I had actually been setting was the Pi video output resolution over HDMI to the monitor.

So in the end I now have my games running properly. They are being rendered at 640x480 in the emulator as they should, and I'm outputting dreamcast games at 720p to get a bit more performance. Every other system I left at the default output of 1080p.

@sivaman22 said in Retropie crt edition shivering image on samsung crt tv:

I have a samsung crt tv cw-29z338t and retropie crt edition with a raspberry pi3 b+ pi2scart edition.

Sorry, but we don't support 3rd party images - you'll have to ask the author(s) of the image for support.