@Meatydeal When creating a PBP file, I know you just provide the BIN file, not a CUE. But it's been a while since I've tried to create my own, and once I discovered CHD files, I no longer needed to.

CHD files are MAME Compressed Hunks of Data files. It's a compression format for disk images that are not only smaller than PBP files, but they're lossless, so they result in better quality files than PBP conversions. When you create a CHD you do it using the CUE file, and it will embed that, and the associated BIN files, into the final CHD file.

Thank you ever so much. All is working properly now after setting up retropie-mount. Much appreciated

@r3cho Yes. Just note that background is defined three times in the carbon.xml file for various views. You will need to replace it in all three places.

@sirhenrythe5th Hey, thanks for these suggestions! I'll look into them.
Sadly I must admit, that I'm a very bad at playing Shmup's. But I love the aesthetics, though.

I remember buying Ikaruga for DC when it was released as the "last" commercial game for the DC. ...and the crushing difficulty when I finally played it at home... :D

@YFZdude said in System xxx is missing name, path, extension or command:

@sirhenrythe5th
I've been watching several of these threads from the same user and I find it interesting to see how hard a person might work to make all these tweaks, changes and manual repairs trying so hard to save a broken installation but still be so resistant to the idea of just imaging the sd card fresh and starting over.

There are other things on the SD card like just Retropie, e.g. browsers or other tools, all of which have long been set up. Of course I have a backup of that. However, reinstalling the image is not a solution for me, if you can get the problem under control yourself with appropriate help, especially since it has meanwhile turned out that a software bug is obviously responsible for the last-mentioned problem. I may be a newbie when it comes to Linux and therefore don't have the prior knowledge like many others here, but I try to solve such problems myself as far as possible, especially since you can now read (almost) everything on the net - but only almost everything. I set up Retropie exactly as recommended by the website and did the configuration within the respective emulators - just as I have been used to for decades with the PC and the standalone emulators. I could neither guess nor understand that problems like this would arise right away. Nevertheless, I am of course grateful for everyone who helps me in such a situation. And yes, at times I was pretty boisterous, excited and venting my anger because I wasn't used to such problems. But it was never meant personally. Giving up is just not my thing. Better sleep on it for a night or two and just try again in a new attempt.

With this in mind: Thanks to everyone who helped me, even if it was just with links and references to other topics.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Module depends on other module.:

And then if it's not installed, I'd do that with rp_installModule lr-prboom which is the same as rp_callModule lr-prboom auto right?

Yes.

Would this all go in the depends_ function of the other module?

Yes, you can add it there.

And if I want to make sure it's the latest version anyway, could I just skip the check for rp_isInstalled and just do something like this?
...

You could, but that would attempt to install/check update for lr-prboom each time instead of just checking locally that lr-prboom is installed.

@Rhys said in Using Chromium as an "emulator" for Scratch projects:

Does anyone know if there is a way to temporarily enable and disable the GL drivers from the shell, on the fly, without having to do a reboot?

No, unfortunately this is cannot be done on the fly - it needs a reboot and thus would 'break' RetroPie's front-end (EmulationStation).

Thank you very much, everything works now!

@mitu said in 35" curved RPI3b+ retropie bad quality:

@supebillen said in 35" curved RPI3b+ retropie bad quality:

The asus monitor er in 3440x1440p 21:9 resolution. What do you think would be the best option?

Depends on what video modes the monitor supports. Looking at the video modes in the docs, I don't see an out-of-the box mode with 21:9 aspect ration.
Try the settings from https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=203100

Also the config.txt are modified on the SD card connected to the pc, right?

Yes, add the options at the end of the file.

OK,
Will try this when i come home to see if it boots up

display_rotate=2

disable_overscan=1
dtparam=audio=on
dtoverlay=disable-bt
dmi_cvt=3440 1440 50 7 0 0 1
max_framebuffer_width=3440
max_framebuffer_height=1440
framebuffer_width=3440
framebuffer_height=1440
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=88
hdmi_aspect_21_9=7

#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2
gpu_mem=64
disable_splash=1

@RPi-Techmarine Genarally you can run any GOG game on Dosbox when there is this small text beneath the requirements on the product page: This game is powered by DOSBox.

If you want to rund Windows games you have to install BOX86 and wine (Look here and here), but it's a small gamble if the game will run bugfree or at all. Usually anything released maybe up to 2002 or 2003 is ok on an overclocked Pi4 but there are exceptions and a lot of tinkering involved.

@ALVIN_GHOST If it says optional then yeah, it's not needed. In some cases it can improve compatibility, like for Dreamcast or PS1.

@Rinusch thanks again for rephrasing despite my clear lack of understanding. You did right by raising a ticket directly. Somehow I'm still convinced your issue is related to the one I've mentioned earlier about the custom controls. Anyhow thanks for your patience.

@Coldcoat please add some more details about your system as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

What hardware are you on and how did you install RetroPie? Please attach the relevant log from ~RetroPie-Setup/logs from when you tried to install Drastic.

@sleve_mcdichael This is exactly what I was looking for. I installed Retropie and about 100 NES, SNES ROMS, themes etc. on a 256 card but looking to do USB rom service on NESPI 4 case on a 256 SSD. Thought I would be able to make an image and then install it on a 128 card but no, Win32diskimager says the card is too small. I thought there is no freaking way this card was too small but now I know it copied the unused sectors too.
Thanks for tip about PiShrink! You hopefully saved me $40 on another SD card! Thanks again!

Ok figured it out.

First step, is to open your router and add your raspberry pi to the port forwarding. This is easy enough, you will want to use the internal IP of you pi, and open port 22 to tcp. you can usually access your router settings via http://192.168.0.1/ in your browser, providing you are wired directly into the router and not using wifi to connect.

Once this is done you will need the external ip. I found it by going on to my retropie under "retroarch netplay".

You will need this external ip to login from the internet.

this site has the steps on creating a new user:

https://humanwhocodes.com/snippets/2021/03/create-user-linux-ssh-key/

Once done you can open putty from any pc connected to the internet and ssh into your pi by using the external ip.

Expose your pi to the internet at your own risk.

@PARALAX yeah, we can't really support you if you're using your own configuration - eg the "correct" BIOS folder for retropie is so because retropie's config heirarchy sets it - if you make your own config it will be whatever you set/retroarch defaults to.

@Ashpool Note that if you were looking into more recent MAME vintages to fix emulation issues present in older ones, FBNeo would be a solid alternative and doesn't have the rotation bug.

@Ashpool said in Fixed IP and disable wi-fi.... how ?:

@DjDiabolik said in Fixed IP and disable wi-fi.... how ?:

My question it's...... it's the wireless connection need for some devices ? Like some joystick or joypad used wireless instead bluethoot?

Not that I am aware of any, but all my controllers are wire based (I am not a Fan of wireless HIDs) - but as long as you are not owing such a device, why not disabling the wifi, as it could always be reenabled again ? ;)

For the moment i have thinks it's best idea to maintain active :)
An Example:
Some time i goes in trasfert to my houses of friends or my brother house and pass whit us some hours on retropie in double :)
In most of cases in this houses i can't connect my Pi4 to a LAN Network if for example we need to add some roms to my collection or something like that and if i disable the wi-fi now how i can re-enable it whiout the possibility to re-edit the config.txt ?

Problably i can do it using a keyboard attach to a usb port......press F4 and do it from console using "nano" but i'm not sure.

Could it be a suggestion ..... why not add a function to activate or deactivate the adapter directly from the retropie-setup?