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  !! READ THIS FIRST !!
  help support wiki read me • • herb_fargus

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  Forum Rules
  copyright rules forum • • herb_fargus

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  How-to guide: Recording Live Gameplay in RetroPie’s RetroArch Emulators Natively on the Raspberry Pi (and Twitch streaming)
  recording video capture ffmpeg libretro retroarch • • RetroResolution

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  Hello everybody,
  thanks for your fantastic guide @RetroResolution , I got it working with almost no problems.

  However what I am experiencing with my Pi model 3 / 10,000kbit upload bandwidth (wlan though) is that my emulator stutters/lags slightly to badly in intervals of 20 minutes or so, and the stream was cut off completely after 2 hours. Cpu temperature/load and memory load were all good. At first I thought it might be related to me not using a real storage instead of the SD card but the swap file is always size 0 (using YARMan Web to check). I looked for some sort of logs but couldn't find anything relevant (runcommand.log has no errors). I already tried increasing the buffer size but that didn't do anything good.

  Does anyone have an idea what this could be?

  Btw I also found a -hwaccel option in ffmpeg which is disabled by default although there would be devices available. Would that be advisable? Couldn't figure out how to correctly use this though ("stream specifier"?)

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  Downloading optional packages
  optional mame • • stevep

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  @stevep building these emulators needs quite some time... mame2013 took me 4 hours

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  EmulationStation Update broken? Line 21: No such file or directory
  emustation update all • • timothee

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  @xFlesk I have made a submission to trend. I have no information as to if/when this will be sorted.

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  Atari 5200: New version of Atari800 (Beta): two triggers (Moon Patrol!!!), hat start and exit buttons
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  @future.child Sounds good. I'm going to see if anything I can do with the configs can handle this too. Some settings do not save in the emulator, so that might not work, but if you can get proper control on these games by simply choosing to use mouse input than it might just be a matter of using a "poleposition.cfg" and saving the Mouse option.

  But there is still going to be a problem when it comes to up/down shifting in that game. Could I ask one more quick favor that you just add the rest of the numpad buttons to the emulator and let me know what values would essentially leave them unused for most games? That way for the Pole Position config I can map the up/down gearshift to the stick as well as have the fixed mouse support control.

  If you would be interested in having these different configurations when I'm done, just say the word. I'm going to be releasing an entire 5200 pack at some point on the other site I hang out with that has all the artwork and videos too, but thought you might want these configs if they work after I make them just to save you the hassle.

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  Borked a lot of stuff
  crash lost settings • • hansolo77

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  Updating from source seems to have fixed the EmulationStation crash. But I'm still getting a black screen when I return from games. I managed to changed the gamelist view to Detailed rather than Automatic, and it works ok for now. If I switch it over to video though, I get that black screen still. So I think the video snaps feature isn't working right. Can anybody help me?

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  Cloned SD Card image, suddenly not booting up.
  applepi-baker cloned sd card not booting up • • SoniqueBoom

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  I've determined the problem was bad USB ports on my thunderbolt breakout hub. For some reason ApplePi-Baker doesn't notice that something went wrong and tells the user that the operation was successful. When I do it directly from my iMac's USB port, it took around an hour and the RetroPie is booting up successfully. This will now be the second time I have to return my OWC thunderbolt interface. :( Thanks for your help!

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  Adding touch input support
  pi zero w pitft configuring touchscreen controller • • jsorozco

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  building mupen64plus from source, causes seg fault when launching games
  n64 mupen64plus.cfg • • Twitch0815

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  @BuZz

  Ah thank you. Trying right now! Great support! Appriciated

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  Unsupported OS, update/scripts not working
  unsupported os update didnt work • • Josh I

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  Yeah I'm thinking it might just be best to start from scratch and be done with it. I'm just hoping I can put my roms back on it. I do have a back up on my computer but I can't access my roms individually, I'm still learning how this stuff goes but might have to start over on that which is too bad cause I had over 5000 games...

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  Removing duplicates
  duplicate rom duplicate file • • kjcraig77

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  @kjcraig77 if you had read the read-this-first post you would see this:

  Make sure you are using an official image, or have done a manual install yourself. We will not support 3rd party images.
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  EmulationStation Video Choppy and randomly launching games
  emu station video preview video stutter • • ainmosni

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  @TMNTturtlguy So I ended up writing a small patch for the sselph scraper after all, I'll just have to run the scraper from my desktop machine instead of the raspi. (And if I do that, I can also write all the files locally first so that I don't have to keep emulationstation shut down during scraping, which will be a nice side benefit). I also submitted a pull request to add this feature to the mainline scraper which people can see here.

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  USB Sound Card No Video Preview Audio
  usb audio • • HemiJJ

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  ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
  audio • • obsidianspider

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  Yeah I'll try updating and see if it goes away.

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  how to use two remotes(bluetooth) at the same time on retropie
  joycon • • Jean

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  Ah. Sorry. I found this post with someone trying the same thing. They didn't come back to say if it worked or not though https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5867/trying-to-make-two-bluetooth-controllers-act-as-player-1

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  Arduino Leonardo/Micro with two emulated devices (one usb port) seen as one (js0)
  joystick arduino leonardo micro js0 • • Danik

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  http://mheironimus.blogspot.gr/2015/09/linux-support-for-arduino-leonardo.html

  Solution Found! For anyone else having problems with Leonardo/Micro problems, it's just a matter of adding a string to the end of the line in /boot/cmdline.txt depending on your setup:

  usbhid.quirks=0x2341:0x8036:0x040 (for Leonardo)
  usbhid.quirks=0x2341:0x8037:0x040 (for Micro)

  Yay!

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  Unsolved Needed both Genesis & Megadrive System appear in main screen
  genesis megadri • • LorThe3rd

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  Retro arch menu in Dreamcast
  dreamcast • • stevep

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  I'm using the experimental package of reicast that's offered in retropie 4.2. It's impressive simply for the fact that Dreamcast was a graphical intense system. Hopefully it will be updated in the future.

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  Updated Kodi to 17.3 - Receiving exception message upon exit
  emulationstatio kodi error message • • ibro

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  @LiveFastCyYoung

  Would you be willing to provide a snippet of the script that's used to launch Kodi on your system?

  I believe it's located at the following path:

  /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/kodi/kodi.sh

  Thanks for replying!