@TCM said in How can I add a game to Emulationstation?:

So I can only play the game from Raspbian/Raspberry OS and not through Retropie OS?

Using flatpak, yes. But since flatpak is just a runtime container, the game doesn't depend on it and there should be a method to install it natively on RaspiOS without the need for flatpak.

@slaan1974 said in Controller setup for GameCube in dolphin:

@YFZdude Hi, So I got this piece of software running,

select Controllers , select GC standard controller, press configure, select XInput2/0/Virtual core pointer, press all the individual buttons, they do react

select Emulate Wii BT, Emulated Wii, Config, select XInput2/0/Virtual core pointer, press all the individual buttons, they do react , i save this as profile sln

the buttons do react, and i saved it, but still i am not able to press buttons in a GC or Wiiware game

It sounds like you are doing the setup properly. You can confirm your controller settings have 'stuck' by re-opening the GUI and looking at the screens.

When you launch a game, does the runcommand box (grey with text) say it is launching with dolphin-gui ? That's how I run it so it may be necessary.

I haven't configured an emulated wii remote before but I did previously use a Logitech F710 as a gamecube controller and as long as the input is selected to match your device it should work. Double check that part. On my system, the Xinput2/0/Virtual core pointer is my keyboard and touchpad combo I think. I can try to verify that later tonight when I am in front of my system again.

EDIT: I just checked my setup at work that I forgot I had access to. Indeed on this system I have Xinput2/0/Virtual core pointer (keyboard and mouse) and evdev/0/Logitech Gamepad F310 (controller).

to add to the story i use a Wii Pro Controller

Is this the same controller you use with other emulators and it works fine?

Another couple of things you can try:

When you launch the Dolphin GUI, you can set (add) a ROMs directory and the games should show in the list on the main GUI page. Try launching a game directly from the emulator itself instead of through RetroPie and verify if the controller works this way. If that still doesn't work, try launching the Dolpin GUI with the sudo command in front of it and trying again. If the controller works this way, then you will need to add a udev rule to allow the emulator to have proper access to the controller.

on all other emulations i notice there is a bar in the bottom when a game starts this tells me the controller is enabled, but with GC/Wii there is no bar

The bar with the controller information is most likely a RetroArch notification. This would be present in any emulator whose name starts with lr-* which indicates the libretro version of the emulator. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you are running the standard version of dolpin and not lr-dolphin. So those messages wouldn't appear the same way.

Things get more difficult if you don't read the wiki or if you don't provide the important information about the system where the problem exists.
I made the same mistake the first time I tried RetroPie , I found it all very complicated, but they wasn't.

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Does Megumi Rescue (Sega Master System) work on anything?:

FBNeo-SMS gets closest - the game starts but the controls are totally wonky. Right and left are back to front and you can't move into the left-hand half of the screen.

The arcade version works properly in FBNeo, i don't know about the sms version (probably nobody tried it), i'll try to take a look soon.

I'm working to change the video settings in retroarch to best fit to the bezelproject artwork. I have about 400 games in MAME 2010 and had them all working fine then something happened and now, like others, I get the "Failed saving config to "/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg" error message.

I've tried deleting the retroarch.cfg file
I've checked permissions and they're pi:pi

I've tried the suggestions listed here and it seems like most of the suggestions here, and over at the retroarch discord are just "try this and cross your fingers."

Surely someone knows what's going on and how to fix it.

pi model: 3b+, 128gb micro sd
power supply: 5.1v 3a
RetroPie version: 4.8
Built from: scratch
USB devices connected: Ultimarc I-PAC Ultimate I/O
Controller used: Ultimarc I-PAC set to keyboard emulation
Error messages received: Failed saving config to "/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg
File: retroarch
Emulator: mame 2010

@retropieuser555 I don't care about save game files because this is a project for kids from a friend of mine. I worked on it for some time and then I'd left it because of other priorities. When I touched it again, it started to mess up....

@mitu Thank you! I will try this in the next days and let you know if It works.

Berryboot hasn't been supported for quite some time by RetroPie and there haven't been any compatible images released for a few years. How did you actually install RetroPie and which version it's installed ?

I've got autosync back.

So super happy.

Thought for some reason I lost this feature for sure.

@clarke-baxter give the full path to the MP3 to the play command. Eg

play /path/to/file.mp3

@JimmyFromTheBay You can also output that ls command there mentioned earlier. Just type emulationstation to relaunch (just type em and TAB should fill the rest, hopefully).

@MyFartSoTart

"Also in the /opt/retropie/configs/all, there is already a file named retroarch.cfg." -> obviously. Windg told you that file is corrupted. He explained you should replace it with a non-corrupted copy.

"mu: target" -> the command is "mv" (with a v, like in "velocity", not with a "u" like "unknown").

"‘retroarch.cfg.rp-dist' is not a directory" -> that's because you forgot to type the space between the two names.

Here is in 3 steps something that could help you to make less typing errors (press return after each end of line):

cd /opt/retropie/configs/all rm retroarch.cfg cp retroarch.cfg.rp-dist retroarch.cfg

The commands are :
cd, like Change Directory
rm; like ReMove
cp, like CoPy

Mind the fact there is, in the last line, a space between "retroarch.cfg.rp-dist" and "retroarch.cfg". Don't type "retroarch.cfg.rp-distretroarch.cfg" as if it was only one long word.

(as sleve_mcdichael said, it's not required to remove the file in step 2, because the cp command in step 3 will delete the original-corrupted file anyway. But I think it could help you to best understand what you are doing).

@MyFartSoTart As I said in my last post, I'd recommend to access RetroPie via network either using Samba or SSH. This way, you can access all of RetroPie's files instead of only those that Windows can read.

Besides that, for small tasks like only some config edits or file operations, you can just drop to RetroPies command shell by pressing F4 in Emulation Station, and then enter mc to start the text-based file manager Midnight Commander. You can use it to navigate RetroPie's file system, view text files by pressing F3 or edit them with F4. See here for a quick user guide to mc.

To go back to Emulation Station, exit mc with F10 to get back to the command shell, and then enter exit or press Ctrl-d.

@sirhenrythe5th said in Jump to saved state:

@sleve_mcdichael in this great Museum you have the choice of several points to jump in.
The latest savepoint is just one.
So how can we get to the point of choosing between multiple savepoints to jump in without using hotkeys?
I would try to write commandlines as stated above and add them to the gamelist.

You could use a bash script to copy the desired save state file to the required $SRAM_PATH.auto filename before launching with the savestate_auto_load setting enabled.

@Trendkiller-9 Glad you solved it :D

Let's try to test the stable versions of pcsx rearmed(r23) .
You have to modify the pcsx-rearmed.sh

Run from terminal :

sudo nano ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/pcsx-rearmed.sh

and modify the line

rp_module_repo="git https://github.com/notaz/pcsx_rearmed.git master"

to be

rp_module_repo="git https://github.com/notaz/pcsx_rearmed.git r23"

To save the settings press ctrl+O and ctrl+X.