@alan-miller3 said in need help understanding screen size/orientation etc.:

@dankcushions

ok, physically my display's visible area is 15 x 12 inches. That's a 5:4 ratio.
So I changed my screen resolution to 1280x1024@60Hz (also a 5:4 ratio) and rebooted.

if that’s the native resolution of the screen then fine

vide_rotation=3 is still set in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

After starting a game and hitting tab, the video options offer 3:4 or 7:9 or cocktail.

tab should get you to the MAME menu (not retroarch(. you probably don’t want to to be changing options there.

Disabling any of the options (backdrops, overlays, bezels, marquees, etc.) doesn't seem to do anything.

because bezel project adds retroarch bezels, not MAME ones. how did you install it? presumably the same script permits the disabling/removal of the bezels.

or did you use a pre-configured image?

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If I revert the video_rotation (back to 0) in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
I still get the same 11 x 11 screen with "Arcade" bezels but without rotation so players 1 and 2 are both looking at the screen from the side.

Is it the fact that the original game was intended to be on a square screen?

no, it a a 4:3 crt screen rotated on its side (so effectively 3:4)

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@theboundlesssky said in Retroachievement image clipped:

I wasn't able to find the base /boot/config file anywhere

Just download the RetroPie image for your Pi model and open it with 7zip, you can look at the boot partition and extract the default config.txt without writing the image on a sdcard/usb stick.

@mitu Well that can be arranged as I tested the VLC mode and it still worked right, however there's still no game info displayed.

What could possibly be causing that? Something wrong with the chosen fonts? The font files? The resolution I'm forcing it to display at (resolution mode is meant for a screen installed in an Arcade1Up gen 3 cabinet)? I'm trying to think of anything that might mess with its subtitles and can't come up with anything.

EDIT: FINALLY figured it out. In video screensaver settings, VLC Resolution needs to be set to Max. Doing that finally shows the game info. Gonna guess this has something to do with video mode, but I don't know for certain. Either way, that fixed it.

@mitu said in Usb drive mounting problems:

Just assign a letter in Windows to the partition and erase the folder on it.

So yeah, apparently that was the issue, that somehow a retropie-mount folder was also in the EFI partition:

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Assigning letter H: to the EFI partition and checking through admin in powershell I can see that there is a folder structure and it looks the same as what I see on the desktop on the RPI400 when it fails to load the HDD. I just removed everything from H:

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So let's see how it behaves from now on. If I don't come back to this thread asume that it was solved.

Thank you very much both of you for your help!

@Addison said in bsnes-hd availability:

Do we not have this for Retropie?

No, bsnes-hd is not available in RetroPie.

@lostless thanks, I think that did it! Will need to test some more, but it seems to do the trick.

@em you have to give more information.
What Pi, which version of retropie, which emulators, which roms,....
Please read this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and fill out all the requested informations.

@friendlist21 I'm afraid I'm not familiar with those roms. This qualifies for a ticket on Github please. Just ensure to rely on the latest Amiberry (5.3) and Retropie (4.8) please.

@Bernie @sliderem Hello, My Pandora 3d controllers does not detect by raspberry pi4. I have installed Sanwa joysticks in my Pandora 3d. Also added usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e0:0x040 inside cmdline.txt. Do you have any idea? Is this because of my Sanwa sticks on pandora or should the Pandora ID remains same after joystick replacement? Really appreciate any suggestions.

@JimmyFromTheBay

Yea, nice summary, looks like we did not get far. haha ;-)

I think we have to keep on digging.

I found an quasi88 for sdl2 and have succeeded to compile it on debian 11 on x86_64.
Will try that on the RPI4 too, and hope I will get it fullscreen.

@hawkes_84 I'd like them to do an M30 Pro with dual analogues, hard to fit on the 6 button layout though. There's a cheapo Chinese one that sort of does it, they've tilted the buttons the other way to make room for the right analogue. From what I could work out though it's not a proper 6 button layout, one of them is for turning on autofire.

Got a 2.4G M30 on the way for my real Mega Drive, can't wait!

@mitu Thanks a lot! Unfortunately this didn't fix it after re-installing them all, so time to reflash!

@Darksavior thanks for the advice. I think I'll return the 1440p monitor and get a 1080p one.
I can always upgrade down the line.

The issue seems to be the mirror chosen supports IPv6 and the PI tries to connect via IPv6 to it, then fails. Changing the mirror may work, but you can also configure apt to use IPv4 only - see here.

Should be possible, why not ?
Use the GPIO inputs for simulating keyboard keys input and map them to the emulator's controls. For this bit you may need some additional configuration or scripts to interpret the GPIO pins state, but other than that there's just configuring the emulators' input for the actions you need.

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks! That was exactly the issue I was facing!

Some time has passed from this post and just wondering if anyone has a fully working version of House of the Dead for the Saturn with working sound? This isn't a rom request, just looking for advice/experience if anyone was successful.

Solved

I just tried to boot with just the lid of the NESPi case removed, where the SATA-to-USB adapter is located, which was of course plugged into one of the Pi's USB 3.0 ports.

Now it boots without problems!

Since these problems started after I performed an update of RetroPie, I suspect an EEPROM update of the Pi made the SATA-to-USB adapter incompatible. I never would have suspected the case lid as it has worked without problems in the past.

At least we finally found the problem. I'll now try to fix this by updating the firmware of the adapter in the case lid and report back whether it worked.

Thanks for your help, mitu! :-)

@daubsi said in Retroarch Menu is not shown anymore:

@windg Ok, understood! So you’re saying that retroarch itself sometimes corrupts the config when using its own function to save?

It is not corrupted, but changed from the default settings that selected for the proper RetroPie operation and it happens everytime you save the settings from RA menu.