@sleve_mcdichael said in Sometimes My Videos Freeze:

@AlphaBetaPie said in Sometimes My Videos Freeze:

Update Again:

I know I'm just kinda talking out loud now, but I may have narrowed down another fix without having to switch to OMX player. It would appear that turning power saving mode off can also allow the default video player to work without freezing.

Anyone care to give insights into this? I'm curious as to why and how it's affecting it. I have flipped it off and on several times, and the issue goes and comes with those tests.

Power saving disables redndering of redundant frames after the description or title has scrolled once (or, instantly, or never):

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/172

Is that when the freeze occurs?

This seems exactly right. I just never noticed the correlation between the description scrolling and the freeze. After it scrolls once, that is pretty much when the video freezes each time (can vary, but ballpark). This is why it would seem turn ing PS mode off stops this. So very good info!

I will say this line seems to conflict with what we already know: "PS is disabled while running Videos through VLC." If you have to turn OMX on, wouldn't VLC be the video player by default? And we know it does not disable the freezing unless we manualy turn it off. But other than that, it seems all good now!

@IanDaemon I actually tried to use the same method for an image viewer. The problem was that the ones I have tested needed an X11 system to work. And this is not available on a fresh installation. I wonder if and how it would work when the RPOS desktop is installed. But I'm not the one who will try it. Still have to finish some other projects. :)

@Bushmeister Frogger and Pac-Man (and many others) only had one set of controls; there was no need to install a second set of hardware, since the players take turns anyway. As far as the game is concerned, there aren't any "player 2" inputs except for the second coin slot and the 2-player start button (select and start on the second controller.)

You could remap this so that both sides control "player 1" (except for start button of course) and you can even make it only for these games so that 2p simultaneous still works on other titles -- the only catch is, they will both be always active so you have to trust the other person not to interfere when it's your turn.

Maybe is possible. I have recover saves that i delete accidentally, i use the free open source program Testdisk. I install it on Raspberry Pi Os with the command

sudo apt install testdisk

I tinkered around a bit more and got rid of the extra script by moving the commands completly in the es_systems file. Here is the full entry, if anybody wants to add it themself. Just don't forget to create the docs directory in the roms folder. Also remember, that this is probably not well supported by themes.

<system> <name>docs</name> <fullname>Documents</fullname> <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/docs</path> <extension>.txt .TXT</extension> <command>/opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key start; whiptail --clear --scrolltext --msgbox "$(cat "%ROM%")" $(stty size); /opt/retropie/admin/joy2key/joy2key stop</command> <theme>docs</theme> </system>

Searching for some new game pad I remember that mine's has X-imput and D-imput capabilities. As standard comes in X-imput, and it works fine in previous versions of Retropie, now I'm on 4.8, but now I have issues with it and tried to change to D-imput and, it works!!! I don't know why but it works.

Maybe this information will be appreciated by some, one.

@dankcushions...I understand. Thank you for your time!

@EctoOne

Oh yeah. Will do. Thank you!

@vic-viper-001 Well, now I feel like a complete moron. All I needed to do was re-install LzDoom, and overwrite the new lzdoom.ini with my old one.
Everything works again like it's supposed to.

@AkatoshTheGreat also it is fixable in mame via mames menus, but if you want to add other emulators, you will have issues as they expect a different device for each player. Unless you plan only using 1 player.

It should already have these defaults:

Arrow keys = D-pad
ZXASQW = BAYXLR
RShift = Select
Enter = Start

You can add additional binds in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg:

input_player1_b = "z" input_player1_a = "x" input_player1_y = "a" input_player1_x = "s" input_player1_start = "enter" input_player1_select = "rshift" input_player1_l = "q" input_player1_r = "w" input_player1_left = "left" input_player1_right = "right" input_player1_up = "up" input_player1_down = "down" # input_player1_l2 = # input_player1_r2 = # input_player1_l3 = # input_player1_r3 = # input_player1_l_x_plus = # input_player1_l_x_minus = # input_player1_l_y_plus = # input_player1_l_y_minus = # input_player1_r_x_plus = # input_player1_r_x_minus = # input_player1_r_y_plus = # input_player1_r_y_minus =

This works in conjunction with the gamepad. Right now I am playing Double Dragon (arcade, ddragonw.zip under lr-fbneo) using the d-pad to walk around and the keyboard to punch and kick.

@dawc21 said in PS3 Clone Controller is recognized however 2 buttons are not recognized:

@windg

Thank-you for sharing this information. What is the path so that it changes globally? I can find these configurations in a few different places...

The path I think it is :

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig

Yes this the path for the file, this is what i change too.

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Turrican (hurricane clone) black screen:

[EDIT: just dumped all the files from 5.2 into /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/sorr and it works a treat now.]

Glad you got it working, if any of the ports dont work, then they need the data files from another source, which you are on your own to provide.

Here is the link to my post here about all the scripts in Extras

post your questions and findings there, so everything is in one place