I get the desire for a "turn key solution", but it really is easy and very low cost to do this yourself. Granted the legality of ROMs is an issue I won't get into, but learning Linux and how to tweak the files to get things the way you want them is really satisfying. You can do all kinds of cool stuff with RetroPie, EmulationStation, and Retroarch.

@jiryn said in Sound Issues with System 32 Games in MAME2003, 2010 and 2016 (Jurassic Park):

@barbudreadmon
Interesting, and I never use the controllers in bluetooth mood, they are always hard wired to the console with USBC
Never tried overclocking, just use it stock for the most part.

More interested in the best em ups anyways, but Jurassic Park was always a fav.

The Sega system 32 graphical rewrite circa MAME97-98 will always cause performance issues on lesser devices,
as @barbudreadmon suggested quite often this can cause skipping and or other sound issues. MAME2003
is one of the fastest cores and apart from that it uses the faster although slightly more imperfect system 32
video code from before the big rewrite i mentioned above.

So it might be your best bet to get the best performance on your device of choice and may sort your sound problems
when playing Jurassic Park it's worth a try at least.

Can you add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?

@mitu thank you as always! Will give this a go.

@buzz is it possible to add the option in the retropie-setup script when installing any emulator to create also a script in the ports or emulators folder that runs directly the emulator it self ???
instead to work only by running a rom/game.
And create an extra menu in Emulationstation called stand-alone Emulators for example
for advanced users like me,i think is good to exist an option like this in Retropie.

thanks

To use a Switch controller wired, you have to install both of its drivers first:
https://joaorb64.github.io/2020/04/08/using-nintendo-switch-controllers-on-linux.html
After this, you must press ZL and ZR to pair it everytime. Working fine on a RPi3B+.

You purposely want to build a cab that can not play most games? 😯
Anyways you'll have to check the keys n the mame menu, i think by default you access that by holding start. you can also open it from the retroarch menu, you can not see it from within emulationstation like you're trying to do on the picture.
Start the game first.

What you're configuring is actually a keyboard - mapping GPIO pins to keys - so you can set the P2 inputs to whatever you want (as long as it's not conflicting with P1). The real configuration has to be done in the emulator and in EmulationStation you can have only one of the players configured to navigate and launch games.
I think there are a few arcade games that require P2 Coin input, so having just one coin input might pose some problem for those games.

See the Keyboard controllers doc page for additional details.

There are separate drivers that can interpret the GPIO input and simulate 2 gamepads - like mk_arcade_joystick. They require either a specific wiring schema or manually configuring the mapping with driver options.

You can add shortcuts to your gamelist that will start with an empty file, thus disabling the auto-loading. Some emulators already have a similar shortcut (+Start Amiberry, +Start Fuse), you can replicate the setup for others.

If you prefer working from the desktop, then you can leave RetroPie alone and just install the emulators manually on a Raspbian + Desktop image.

If you have a 4k TV, try setting the video resolution of your Raspberry Pi to 1080p - you can modify the /boot/config.txt file on the sdcard and set

hdmi_group=1 hdmi_mode=16

then reboot your Pi.

No, at the moment this is not implemented in EmulationStation, the videos are always read from the gamelist.

@mitu thanks mitu☺️

@yserra Thanks! I suspected as much.

@saucerman My pleasure. To mark this thread as solved, you could add a [Solved] in front of the title of your first post. To edit the post, click on the little three dots on the left and choose "Edit".

This is not required (in fact, alas, almost nobody does it), but just a common hint for potential helpers to know that their help isn't needed here anymore, since the forum software itself has no such feature. 😉

@alistairgd said in Wired XBox Controller works in menu but not in-game:

Now, it works for P1 in some games, but as P2 in other games.

Do you have any configuration overrides for the games where the configuration is not applied ? Try removing them. If that fails, give an example of such game and maybe provide a verbose log from running the game.

@mitu Finally got it working ok with your help (THANK YOU), full upgrade using Putty worked although my laptop crashed and corrupted the SD card at around 80% of update and had to reflash it and start all over again.

But copying the two files across, then updating via putty worked in short.

Thanks,
Tom

@mitu ok, i will do just that. i will have my old image restored, update the OS and retropie, then follow the instructions in the previous thread.

@mrnoholster what happened is you updated fb-neo which requires a new rom set. The old roms are not for newer versions.
FYI. Updating arcade emulators to newer versions is risky as there is no guarantee that the update will work with your roms. Don’t update them if you have a working set of games. Most roms may be fine in if you just go up to the next update, but if you keep updating, there will reach a point where fewer and fewer roms run.