@sleve_mcdichael

awesome. After doing some additional reading, I think i kinda get it.

I have the basic grid working in a few themes that seem like they'll do what I want.

I'm now trying to figure out if I can minimize the space between the art, increasing the viewable size of the image, and will possibly add the "marquee" back onto the image. The last part looks pretty easy, really.

Do you know of any particularly good grid themes? tronky and material seem to be the best "out of the box" options. I like the look of carbon, but I wish it had an area for game details.

really appreciate everyone's help here.

@polygaryd you were replying to a reply from 2 years ago, from a thread originally started back in 2016. it's not helpful to bump ancient topics because they can contain a lot of outdated/wrong/irrelevant advice. if you have an issue please post a new thread.

@arelav @Manic-Miner-123 I spoke with the author of some specific games a while ago. (RIP John Wilson, the Rochdale Balrog).

He found some sort of bug in Fuse. It appears the fault is in the loader when line 13 calls the 'randomize usr 65020' routine ... Fuse fails for some reason.

He actually rewrote the loaders for Balrog and the Cat, Behind Closed Doors II and One of Our Wombats is Missing so the games will load. I don't know if there are any other developers' games which are affected by the oversight.

Where the game is keyboard dependent, like text adventures, I use Fuse, not libretto Fuse (lr-fuse.

Most .tzx games should work though - where they don't it's usually the case that you need to select 128K machine or Spectrum +3.

In rare cases, but especially Russian games, you need to select a machine like the Pentagon and specific instructions, such as for TR-DOS.

@mitu Thanks! I found the real issue why it was not detecting after some research. Three points to note:

My Pandora 3d's top USB port must be used to connect with Raspberry pi4. Pandora must be powered ON to detect the controller. Once Pandora connects, Pandora goes to "Controller" mode(a full screen message shows up) and disables its controller on Pandora but activates on raspberry pi.

Now, I am using both systems on my arcade cabinet side by side using an HDMI switcher.

Hopefully these would help other people. :)

I've been using rclone-v1.56.0.

Latest release suggests v1.59.1 is available, but I don't know if that is really needed.

Just curious if this is now definitely required due to changes in protocols or whatever.

Please and thank you.

@mitu

OK, finally figured it out!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25149143/linux-kernel-consoleblank-argument-ignored

Needed to add export QT_QPA_PRESERVE_CONSOLE_STATE=1 to the autostart file. It seems the consoleblank=0 gets overriden by Qt applications. Seems like a bit of an undesirable behaviour but glad it works now.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#where-are-my-scraped-media-and-metadata-saved

Update for anyone who is curious, I ended up buying an "8BitDo Adapter 2". After updating the adapter's firmware using 8BitDo's firmware updater, the adapter makes it pretty easy to connect a Nintendo Switch SNES controller to a Retropie.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Trying to get my head around control binds:

Do you really have 2500 custom override configs?

Rather more than that, it turns out :D

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Obviously not all of those would be potentially affected by a Retroarch change, but goodness knows how many might be, and I never want to go through AspectRatioGate again. Even now, years later, I'm still finding games with the screen all wrong.

(I have CFGs for all sorts of reasons, in many cases it's as simple as a bezel but even those often need custom tweaks.)

And yeah, I have a backup but at 256GB it takes two days just to write the memory card. (And it's not really practical for a case like this, because if a new Retroarch broke everything the only suitable backup is a complete image file. What I actually have as a day-to-day backup are copies of the ROMS and CONFIGS folders, which can be updated in seconds, but that would be no use for a Retroarch meltdown. You can't save a 256GB image file every night.)

Anyway, that's my hangup to deal with, I'd really like the new feature but since it's basically only for two SNES ports that already run fine in MAME I'll have to weigh up the risk, and the terror of possibly having to go through the infinite pain of configuring WonderSwan games again. Thanks for the help :)

@mitu said in Requesting help for diagnosing ES issue on Pi4B:

@roslof when you have the chance, can you try installing the latest emulationstation-dev from source ? There's a fix added that should help speed up the initial loading.

@mitu as you would expect, with Last Played toggled true, load times are no longer in excess of 50 seconds for me. Cheers to you for the fix!

@mitu Good suggestion, but still no luck. I even verified the setting in the Retroarch Menu-Settings-User Interface, and although the setting shows active, it does not seem to have helped. (The behavior is unchanged)

Good, because that was going to be my next question anyway. So this will fix two birds with one stone.

However, is asking where to "source" these audio samples in the same boat as asking how to get/where to get ROMs to download?

UPDATE:

Never mind, I found them and now things are all good. Thanks!

@psun03 read https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/szlxkz/i_want_2_controllers_active_on_port_1/

A somehow recent version of retroarch is required, so make sure you are using the latest version available on retropie.

@mitu Pi4 and I’ll check it out

@jollster101 Nope, ever was what I meant - as on my Raspberry 3B with 2 connected gamepads, each of them can navigate ES and launch items, but only the gamepad for player one can use the configured "hotkey"-features (exit emulator, open libretro-menu, save/load state, etc.).

If that's not possible with your IPac configured as 2 Gamepads, more Info is needed: What IPac (pre or post 2015) and which Firmware/Mode??

How are the controlls detected by ES? What does "configure input" states if you opt for it in the "?? Devices detected... press a button on the one to be configured" window?

Some older (Pre 1.5) Firmware with Gamepad enabled Mode where not "usable" on retropie as such (I think those may have been the old one currently called Mixed-Mode Firmware (which nowadays needs a seperate version of the Winipac tool for configuration)) ... Between the old Firmwares (the times with different firmwares for gamepad and keyboard only setups), may have been in the time around 2019/2020, there where some changes in the naming of firmware-/&modes on Ultimarcs behalve and sadly I haven't archived the "inbetweens" and properly named my old-archive of the tools/firmwares to use the terms in a correct/everyone knows whats meant way :/

@bruceDaMoose77 said in Random crashes in Emulationstation menus:

My pi just crash randomly in menus after around 1-2 minutes sometime less...

You mean just letting EmulationStation idling, without any actions performed, or when you open the EmulationStation menu(s) and go through the options ?