Ok so I'm ra I forgot to mention it was a nespi+ case. And I opened it up to see if it was a problem with the case and come to find the usb connector not plugged in. Must have came undone while removing the m.2 board I had in it. I guess the usb ports still gets power from another source too thus why the light came on. All is working now. It works like it should. Disregard my issue as user error.

@pm4698 said in Create custom arcade console:

In case i want to seal this arcade box, does raspberry support so many controller inputs? (2 USB-joystick-button controllers, 2 normal USB controllers, 2 light gun controllers and 2 wheel controllers?)

Not sure on the light gun part but I would assume so, I use the ipac (mini) as well with sanwa joysticks and gold leaf buttons from ultimarc. I've used the inexpensive stuff on amazon also but nothing compares to the ultimarc IMO. The only thing with the sanwa's is going from 8way to 4way switching for games like Donkey Kong as the switching is under the panel. I tried using other joysticks that switch at the top and just didn't like them (mag-stik being one of them). I did get the sanwa working with a servo (servo-stik) for auto switching however my control panel did not have room to fit the servo... I used a toggle switch to move the restrictor plate. You can also set the rom bootup to change to the correct setting but I opted for a manual switch.

I use the arcade sticks for mame games, and usb wired xbox360 like controllers for nes/genesis etc. Some nes/genesis games I use the arcade sticks as well, Works great either way. I don't remember if I ever got genesis 4 player games working with arcade sticks and usb controllers together, IIRC I had to use 4 usb controllers was something with the multi-tap in genesis but I only have 1 friend so it's not a problem normally lol.

You will need a powered usb hub as you wont have enough ports for everything.

MDF is what I used for a small 2p bartop, going to do a 4 player pedestal next using MDF again.

@dankcushions said in Boot to Retroarch?:

the false meme that MISTer/FPGA emulation is somehow inherently more accurate/less latency than software could ever be persists :(

I looked into Mister after reading that when it went up on his blog, and I have to say that Mister seems overly complicated and expensive. It immediately looks like something that would take huge investment of time and money to even evaluate. And then you are already in for it. The pi is cheap and relatively effective. What's even better is that it can be augmented with higher quality hardware. Need a decent sound card? Buy one and plug it in. Need better graphics? Use a fancy processor. All the Pi has to do is handle the software, and that means having a dedicated community like this one. The solution with the biggest community is always the winner, and the low price point of the pi makes it a natural.

Retroarch has a new(ish) CRT Auto Switcher that should make CRT stuff easier and automatic. it does super resolutions and all that. however i'm not aware of anyone attempting it via retropie. it should be the best approach.

Thanks. I've looked into the switchres settings. I think I'll try it eventually. Looks like it will take time to define the graphics modes. For now, I guess I'll stick with the tink for Lakka, because I can use a super resolution for that and Raspbian thru the Extron for any emulation I can run natively. (like Dosbox)

Playlists are just text files saved in $HOME/.emulationstation/collections, you can just copy them over. As long as you copy the source ROMs (the file is just a list of ROMs), then they should be preserved.
If you use via file shares, copy the \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\collections\ folder.

I think there's something wrong with the version you have, because the RetroPie 4.5.1 image doesn't support the PI4 model (!). So which RetroPie version do you have ?
As noted in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, support for PI4 is still added to RetroPie so some things are not fully working - certainly not using the 4.5.1 version.

EDIT: you can see the exact version by looking in the RetroPie-Setup script title:

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I have solved the audio issue. I looked back at my es_systems.cfg file in my .emulationstation folder. I noticed that it points to the RetroArch executable in D:\ (my microSD card). I double clicked it and went to the Audio driver section/Output to make sure that audio was turned on. The Audio was also changed from xaudio to dsound. I also went to the Driver section to make that Audio was identified as dsound there as well.

It works!
TBH this project required a little more than that. Had to uncomment a line in a config file to make the screen come to life. Had to change default keyboard layout (I'm using US keyboard, couldn't type "|"). Had to localize system. Had to install gamepad driver and configure input. Mount system on my network. And of course install a romset in the proper directory. Still... WORTH IT.

Thanks for your help.

Resolved (I forgot to map floppy disk to load games). Now Amiberry works fine. Thanks Mitu for your suppport.

Mirko

You're using a very old RetroPie version, is there are reason for you to do that ?
Regarding your issue - most likely EmulationStation cannot create any new files, since the filesystem is 97% in use. On Linux, by default, a filesystem will have 5% reserved to the root user to prevent users filling it accidentally (or maliciously).
Run EmulationStation manually, then exit (via the menu or F4). Check the log file in ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt and see if any errors occur when exiting (like files not being able to be created, etc.).

@Schonarchy Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@mitu

I don't know why that error occurs, I don't think RetroArch uses directly this env var - may be a Wayland/screensaver warning.

So I fixed that error regarding XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, maybe RetroArch does use it after all. I was mistaken when I said it flashed up when launching, it actually flashes up when exiting! Same for the CD-ROM warning.

To solve it, I did the following:

run:

sudo sudo -V

scrolled up a bit to see which environment variables are preserved. XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not one of them.

I then had to edit the sudoers file (sudo visudo) and add the following in:

Defaults env_keep += "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

Save and exit, you can then run 'sudo sudo -V' again and you'll see XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is in the list of environment variables to preserve. Reboot the system and the error should go away when quitting Retroarch.

For whatever reason, sudo does not preserve this environment variable, and i'm guessing because Retroarch launches from the Retropie menu with root privileges, it cannot see or have access to this environment variable. Adding the above in preserves it, suppressing the error (after a reboot).

The CD error still pops up though, but not much that can be done about that at this time it seems.

FYI, this error only pops up when you quit Retroarch after launching it on its own from the Retropie menu - it doesn't come up when quitting out of a game. I guess this is because games are launched as the 'pi' user, rather than with root privileges.

My question would be, is there a reason Retroarch needs to be launched with root privileges from the Retropie menu? Maybe I am misunderstanding how it launches, but that is what it looks like to me.

Cheers!

@rsn8887 You can also try

Install Safe Shutdown script

wget -O - "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/retroflag-picase/master/install.sh" | sudo bash

Uninstall Safe Shutdown script

wget -O - "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/retroflag-picase/master/uninstall_all.sh" | sudo bash

You're probably looking for Netplay.

@vehige33 You just repeated your first message - I asked for more details about your setup and a specific SNES game that doesn't scrape. I just scraped some SNES games right now from EmulationStation and I didn't have an issue - so it doesn't seem to be an issue with the scraper(s) or the source site (ScreenScraper).

I am having issues as well. I tried configuring the joystick.cfg by manually mapping as instructed and I also reset my emulation station controller inputs (so it auto configures reicast) and it still didn't work. This has been an ongoing issue for years now, they should update this emulator.

My only other alternative is to overclock my pi and pray lr-flycast performs better. Otherwise, I am stuck.

I reverted to an older fw. All is good. Protip, never buy vizio. They remove features. They removed chroma 4:4:4 in later fw updates and it screwed everything up.

@mitu

No problem. I literally just figured it out. I just updated everything, used a different BGM script and in raspi-config, I disabled and enabled the text splash screen, followed by using a custom splashscreen using the OFFICIAL script off emulation station. The custom scripts are trash, absolute trash. I have to be careful.

So I have a totally new issue now, non-image related.

I used SD Card Formatter to format my Micro SD to exFat, Windows 10 recognizes it....I used Win32 Diskimager to write my image, and now Windows 10 won't recognize it. Any idea how to fix this? I must fix this because I have to create a backup, now that I fixed it. I'd appreciate the help. Thanks.