@dankcushions said in Noted lr-mame2003 performance issues after RA update to 1.9.5:

@jamrom2 said in Noted lr-mame2003 performance issues after RA update to 1.9.5:

As of now, I set up lr-mame2003 as I need it with a few options, saved the retroarch.cfg once and turned off "save on exit". It's now pulling the video parameters of every game I throw at it based on what I have listed in the file I posted to you.

i guess i'm not totally clear on what you want to achieve. retropie at the basic level has a global retroarch.cfg (/all/retroarch.cfg) which has the baseline settings for all libretro (lr-) emulators. then beyond that there's per-directory configs (eg /mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg) which by default point to an input_remapping_directory, and then defer back to the global config, as you've shown above.

then additionally you can have per-game overrides, per-core overrides, and gamename.ext.cfg overrides. to set up any of these you don't need to ever set 'save on exit' on. it's probably safest to manually create them, actually.

so i'm not sure exactly what hierarchy of configs you want to end up with, and what you currently have.

Ultimately... to not have this happen the next time I choose to upgrade any core part of the build... LOL. I thought I was doing something good by updating RA from 1.8.8 to 1.9.4 then .5. But my build has apparently become so convoluted that I disrupted areas I wasn't aware of.

I'm going to say by adding in the scriptmodules I added more issues than I was aware of. Just the idea that I turn off a shader and I loose performance means something is crossed somewhere.

I'll keep poking around my config files and hopefully find out what's causing some of this. What you and mitu offered was insightful and helped a lot.. but I think this is something that will ultimately leave me with a "it's working good enough" scenario.

@clyde consider it done!

ok boomer

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

What emulator are you using to run ZX Spectrum games ?

@dmmarti The MAME softlist only has about six games on cart (the other carts are utilities), and 35 on tape.

I 'solved' it by adjusting the controls in the RGUI. I just remapped the option of test menu to a coin insert since I can't remap it to another key. Not a real solution but for me in this case an acceptable workaround.

@zoyx Try adding video_windowed_fullscreen = "false" to /opt/Retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg. This fixed the issue for me on Ubuntu 20 on x64. You'll also want to make sure this isn't being set to true in any of your directory or game specific config files, because they will override this setting.

Ok, It works very well!! Thanks. Just last thing: is there a way to configure more than 2 buttons on joystick?

@mitu said in x86 Ubuntu install trouble / dependencies:

You could change your current Ubuntu repository mirror and retry (apt update first). You can use apt-cache policy to check the troublesome packages and see what version are available and from which repository.

I was unable to find held packages, but you got me going in the right direction. For whatever reason, my sources.list file had a comment in it that suggested that because I used a smaller ISO it might not have been the full file. Perhaps a side effect of not allowing online updates during install.

So I got hold of a more 'full' listing of the official sources and ran apt update and it suddenly had way more packages to update and then the install script could find more of what it needed.

Thanks!

@dankcushions said in Need lr-MAME2003 core options for config file:

input_overlay_enable_autopreferred = "false"

Tried this, doesn't work from the local overlay/scaling file that is associated with the rom in the rom folder.

Seems MAME2003 is not reading this file for the overlay size specs anymore. Previously, you had to make a config file that pointed to the overlay, then the scaling and and opacity was set there as well. Did something change because it's not reading this file for those settings anymore, even with the auto-scaling "off" in the On-Screen Overlay menu. The overlay shows, but it's scaling is all screwed up because it only reads the settings in the core retroarch.cfg.

I does read everything else in this file though.

005.zip.cfg

video_shader = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/arcade-bezel-shader/crt-pi-vertical.glslp"
video_shader_enable = "true"

input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezel-overlays/005.cfg
input_overlay_enable = true
input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000
input_overlay_scale = 1.000000

custom_viewport_width = "741"
custom_viewport_height = "933"
custom_viewport_x = "589"
custom_viewport_y = "70"

video_scale_integer = false
input_overlay_enable_autopreferred = true

**** nevermind... I see what's changed... it's PORTRAIT now. It's reading that setting just fine.

I deleted the old retroarch.cfg and allowed it to rebuild a new one, and there it was.

@mitu said in Sharp X68000 disk swapping:

@pscotto1234 said in Sharp X68000 disk swapping:

@mitu I cannot find Disc Control function in RetroArch's menu: should you tell me the path where it is?

It's in the Quick Menu:

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@mitu Thanks a lot. Tonight I'll give it a try!

@y-ello said in How to add a GPIO button to a Retropie (Rpi 3B+) build?:

Can I use a GPIO wired push button for exit emulator? how?

Assuming you have a the button wired to a GPIO (there's tons of tutorials and documents on using a RPI with a button), you can use something like GPIONext to run a script whenever you press the button.
RetroArch has a network control interface, to which you can send commands from the script you attach to the button press (pause RA, open the menu, exit, etc.) - see more details here. Since most emulators in RetroPie are just libretro cores and run within RetroArch, it might be enough to cover most emulators, but you can also simulate a keyboard with GPIONext and simulate a key press for the button push (i.e. for opening the MAME menu).

Just to note the binaries for the RPI have been updated.

@zebanon said in I’m having a chromium problem in the pixel desktop from the port section of retro pie:

As the title suggests I’m having a problem with chromium on the pixel desktop that is located in the ports section on retropie, and if that explanation is too confusing it’s just the pixel desktop that you install from the raspbian related tools in the retropie setup section in the retropie consoles and stuff menu.

Anyways the problem I’m having with it is the entire tab appears diagonal, aside from the outer box that defines the boundaries of the tab itself, the problem doesn’t appear with anything except chromium. Note that this is the pre-installed form of chromium that is already there when you first start up the pixel desktop, and not a form of chromium that I installed later, also note that this problem persists even when re-installing the entire retropie image.

Thank you in advance for any and all help.

(Heck it won’t let me remove the “pixel” tag

I had the same issue and resolved it by manually installing rpi os, then retropie on top of it. A 3rd person has reported the issue in this thread but the way to solve it is there until its solved on the developer end.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30627/pixel-desktop-no-taskbar

@mitu said in PS4 Arcade Encoder Disables Audio on Pi3 B+:

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

This info is missing.