@guestdreemurr how are you trying to install? RetroPie has to be installed within a preinstalled supported Linux OS (Debian/Ubuntu/Linux mint etc).

See the instructions in the docs https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/

Just me thinking that, works great now! Thanks!

Now the only thing not working is sound on the VIC-20, weird sound is working on the C64 side of things.

@mitu

Ok, so had a bit of time to tinker, and I can confirm that Joycons are working perfectly in 4.7.19. Seems it's a bug in 4.8.

Now - any tips on getting them to sync at startup - I find I have to be very precise to the moment I turn them on during boot up, otherwise they don't pair!

@RobbyThomas2525 Please don't open several topics for the same issue. I've merged your topics.
Please provide all the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, this will help diagnosing the issue you're having.

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks

@mitu Discovered my problem. There were actually two theme.xml files that needed editing, the first in the root of the designated theme and a second copy in the retropie subfolder.

Sure enough, modifying both theme.xml files got the font working!

I am a newbie and don't know anything about programming. But I tried to install new Retropie 4.8 on a Armbian Bullseye and I think I could compile almost everything.
I made a Image from the tinker board retropie for anyone who wants to test it or wants to make it better.
I uploaded the image file to my nextcloud. If anyone interested, here is the link:

https://waltikon.mooo.com/index.php/s/3Le33bX2YCZFKFC

I compiled everything, which was to be compiled there. It seems like everything works fine but I can't give any kind of support. If you want to test this image, be my guest. :-)

I am a newbie and don't know anything about programming. But I tried to install new Retropie 4.8 on a Armbian Bullseye and I think I could compile almost everything.
I made a Image from the tinker board retropie for anyone who wants to test it or wants to make it better.
I uploaded the image file to my nextcloud. If anyone interested, here is the link:

https://waltikon.mooo.com/index.php/s/3Le33bX2YCZFKFC

I compiled everything, which was to be compiled there. It seems like everything works fine but I can't give any kind of support. If you want to test this image, be my guest. :-)

@mitu said in Request for RetroPie build instructions for Odroid C4:

@retropi19 said in Request for RetroPie build instructions for Odroid C4:

Sorry whats PR

PR means Pull Request, the most common way for an external developer to send patches/modifications to a Git-hosted project (such as RetroPie).

Unfortunately i don't know from this things.someone else has to send it.

I've taken a look at this, it's a SDL2/Mesa issue (see here) which gets triggered with the KMSDRM video driver.

TL;DR - using SDL_Quit in an atexit handler will lead to a segfault in this particular scenario. Various other programs have implemented alternative ways to cleanup SDL's state without triggering this bug (see here, here or the patch sent by @psyke83 for gzdoom here).

We'll see if the upstream projects wants to prevent this crash, which otherwise is harmless.

See if the adapter has any firmware upgrades that fixes that. You never know.

@zombie_ryushu said in Issues with local Screenshots and Migration:

AARM and Skraper appear to be Windows Specific Applications

Yes, but that doesn't mean they can't run on Linux. For Linux, you can try Skyscraper, has a lot more flexibility than the built-in EmulationStation scraper.

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks Sleve!

Hi,
unfortunately, I do not know how to help with your actual issue; just for anyone reading, according to the specifications, the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ actually does have 5 GHz Wifi: "2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11.b/g/n/ac wireless LAN"

@phillylive when you say "crashing," you mean it kicks you back to the command-prompt? And it sounds like you already have a keyboard connected, so you should be able to correct it this way. Type exactly:

nano ~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg

(Make sure it's all lowercase like this, and that squiggly dash is a "tilde," not a regular dash. Single space after nano, no other spaces.)

Scroll down to the string section (past all the bool and int values) until you find the line that says:

<string name="ThemeSet" value="your_problem_theme" />

Change the value to "carbon" (the default theme), then press Ctrl-S, Ctrl-X to save and exit (if you make a mistake, you can exit without saving by just using Ctrl-X; tell it "No" when it asks if you want to save anyway.)

Then you can type emulationstation to restart ES, or you can reboot.