@birgersp said in Games won't "launch". Menu fades to black then reappears.:

I'm hoping that even though the issue is resolved this topic can remain on the forums so others perhaps in the same situation as me can find it when troubleshooting.

We don't delete topics unless spam is involved.

@mem-com I had the github password problem with other scripts but not with xboxdrv. I don't know how to bypass this.

@mitu ok thanks! I'll take a look at this...

Instructions which are working for me here:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/293697

@chisnillum Open the EmulationStation menu by pressing Start and choose to the Input Configuration menu item.

Please add more info about your setup - what Pi model/RetroPie version/etc - as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Problem solved!

I was able to get into the actual Quick Menu then into Core Options. Changed language.

Thank all of you very much for the help!
I really appreciate it!

@DeSanta dropping the link and what you tried will help.

What's in your .sh files. Ect

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks for the suggestions! I will give it a try.

You may succeed with giving the kmsgrab system admin capabilities, it does no longer require explicit sudo then.

sudo setcap cap_sys_admin+ep /path/to/kmsgrab

https://linux.die.net/man/8/setcap
https://linux.die.net/man/3/cap_from_text
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html

I did not debug to the end, but I strongly assume at some point DRM hits this method, which bails out with -EACCES ("Operation not permitted") when privileges are not met.

@ecto

xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

I failed to debug this on Pi5. That's why I use runcommand now. Can you show me how do you initialize display in your shell script please ?

EDIT : Ok, I just understand that you run your script with runcommand. I tried this, but not starting.

RE-EDIT : Ok it's working, somes stupid errors from me. Thank you for your help !

This is working too :

#!/bin/bash cd "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Trials 2 Second Edition" wine trials2.exe

@mitu I set hdmi_enable_4kp60=1 and made the VRAM 512mb as i have 4gb and that should be plenty to play with

Now the menu is slightly choppy but not too terrible and games up to PS1 are playing fine at 4k60 N64 i expect would be the limit but honestly I only want to get to PS1 and it's doing that so this is awesome :D

@mitu I did what you recommended and it worked! The interface is working as it should.

@Sever just brainstorming: do you have "Settings > Latency > Run-Ahead" enabled by any chance?
Just asking because i had a very similar issue a couple of years ago when i started with lr-flycast and this (deactivating run-ahead) solved it.

in /boot/config.txt i deleted the "#" in front #dtoverlay

just delete the thread - i've started a total rebuild

On Android, there is a known bug in RetroArch where two buttons won't register as being pressed together.

To correct that, change the Input Block Timeout from the default of 0 to 1, up to 4 if needed.

Think I usually set mine at 2.

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Probably doesn't help you any, but it's the only thing that came to mind on this.

Glad you got it resolved even if you don't know what happened. :)

@duglor

Found that the mame softlist version is a demo version it's in the !Boot file.
Found that with this program :
https://github.com/geraldholdsworth/DiscImageManager

The full version on .hdi file works. ;-)
Got into the shop and into level 2.

I added this to the runcommand to load the .hdi file (on aa5000)
-upc:ide:1 hdd -hard2 %ROM%
(in my script version 274.02 it has been added now by default)

Use !Configure to add an extra ide harddrive (nr 5)
Good luck !

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