@jcook84

Alright then that confirms my suspicion about changes in RetroPie with Raspbian Stretch.

Sounds good. I recently looked into the RetroPie Sonic robo blast Srb2 script and i was thinking that maybe sonic robo blast 2 which is based on Doom Legacy could provide some info on compiling Doom Legacy for SDL.

As for Doom Legacy the closest thing i came to get it working was building/compiling for X11 window in Raspbian desktop and i could only get the Doom menu to work.

It makes perfect sense to use Doom Legacy source port than ReMooD since it still is actively developed on.

Found it, thanks!

@silicongraphics

Hi, no I never found a way to do this except using a type of Cron job to pop the machine into sleep at a specified time every night, just in case I forgot to press the power button on the machine to put it into standby or manually shut down ES. The Cron thing I tested about 6 months back but I cannot remember if it fully worked. I will pick it back up at some point in the near future as I've not played with the machine for a while.

If anyone has any idea how I can make ES obey the Ubuntu OS sleep settings while sat on the system select menu that would be awesome.

@akafox we were talking about the x86 build running on a PC, which if left on 24/7 consumes too much power and the system fans will keep running. The screensaver just dims the screen so isn't applicable here. Having ES obey the OS sleep settings would be good if you forgot to press the power button on the machine to sleep, shutdown manually via ES or whatever. I know with a Pi you can just leave it on 24/7 because of low power consumption, and this is fine, but using a PC there is a different requirement.

Cheers

@mitu Same things happens...no folders (all, nes, snes and so on) will be copied. Nothing happens. It´s really odd. And...it´s ONLY the config folder that this happens to...all other folders seems to be copied.

I think i found it , i didn't connect the buttons at the same place on each PCB !

@denisuu Thanks, but I've already installed it!

@NiCKOz When you configure your input, skip the Hotkey assignment. Before exiting, the dialog will ask you if you want to use Select as Hotkey, say yes and press ok. Try with this configuration and see if it solves your problem.

@Andrewpk200 if you use a crossover cable and hook your pi directly to your pc you can have everything transferred in no time.

@dankcushions Sorry. Think I couldn't get something to work right and just went with a Google Drive link. Won't happen again.

@RetroFreak89 i first used several class 4 kingstons i bought at walmart and best buy. I got data corruption all the time on them. Went to samsung after that. Not a single data corruption on the samsung evos.

I love Assault, but have yet to see a PS style controller do it justice, because I just got too used to playing the arcade version. It is possible to flick both sticks outward at the same time you hit the fire button to drop a mortar shell right in front of you and your tank won't even rear up, it's that quick. There are also some other stick tricks that just don't work right with a controller.

Thanks again, man. It seems I've been editing a core-specific cfg file which overrided the "all" retroarch.cfg file but I couldn't edit it from retropie, had to edit it by SSL. Now all my binds are as I want 'em.

Thanks!

@A-pi said in ROMs from exfat USB drive, drive not automatically mounting on startup:

Incidentally, blkid still shows the drive (/dev/sda2)...?

blkid shows you the block devices detected by the system, but that doesn't mean they're mounted and available. The mount command should give you the list of mounted (and available) drives. I guess your drive is not automatically mounted at start or there's an error mounting the drive - check you by manually mounting it and see if any errors show up.

OK so after literally half an hour of extra mucking round with this, I discovered i was being stupid!

I had been looking for a way to automatically map the joystick to the face buttons, (which doesn't appear to exist) but there is a way to manually map the controls,

If anybody is trying to do this themselves its actually relatively simple,

I already have my controls set up to map the left stick to the DPad

I have my face buttons mapped the same as the face buttons on an Xbox 360 controller

So
Y
XB
A

these then translate into mame as buttons

4
32
1

I then used the controls section of the retroarch menu to mapp

Auto +2 - Button 1
Auto -2 - Button 4
Auto +3 - Button 3
Auto -3 - Button 2

It only seemed to work properly when i used the AUTO ones, I have now saved this as a core remap file so all games that use Mame2010 will map the left stick to the Dpad and the Right stick to the face buttons.

the only other thing i had to do was to set up the controls within mame itself (no idea why but it just didn't seem to auto map the controls but that is really quite easy anyway

Hope this helps others

Scoop

@mitu

Yes, I did what you said and I succeeded to lower boot time to 11 seconds for libretro emulator but only through autostart.sh.
However, non-libretro emulators still starts about 5 seconds faster through the rc.local script and I dont know what else I could do here.
It seems runcommand is a problem, because for some reason it refuses to start through rc.local properly...

@saddlepiggy The script provides a generic power button. Just connect your latching button to pin 5 and 6 then you can power down and restart the Pie. The command switch is --generic

Or you can write your own script. I modified the python script for the NesPi+ to demonstrate usage
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17506

@rbaker Breadboarded the circuit. The only problem was the 10uF cap to boost the gain to 200x, as you can see in the pic, I have its lead pulled. High distortion with that in place and no appreciable gain in volume. The 20x native to the LM386 gives the same volume as a GBA (seen here running Advance Wars from my prototype controller mounted build) running from a 6v supply. The audio quality is about the same as a GBA as well. Nothing incredible, but adequate and I should be able to cram a couple of these in that casing without a problem.

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