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    I don't think you'll be able to use Ubuntu 16 to install RetroPie, even if you check out the 4.5.1 version - most of the packages will not work with that old Ubuntu version.
    You can try installing the current Debian release or a more recent (18.04) Ubuntu version and install RetroPie as explained in the docs.

  • I’ve got 2 questions about custom themes.

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    @intergala The best way I found of doing this was to open the "Themes" folder in the MAIN .emulationstation folder (Best done on a PC really). This will give access to all the subfolders that are themes available on my PC it looks like this

    themesfold.jpg

    Next open the Themes folder that closely matches what you are looking for eg Simple theme, and you will get a list of systems available, at the end will be a XML file called theme. Right click on this and Open with a program such as Notepad. You should get something akin to this;

    basicsetup.jpg

    This is the main program for controlling what you see on the screen. But EACH system has it's OWN theme, and this progam links to those systems. Which means you have to have a "theme" file in each system you want to show.

    My theme I am working on for MAME, looks like this in code.

    egmame.jpg

    and like this in emulationstation

    frankie.jpg

    The best thing to do is just mess about a bit and see what happens. Hope it helps, oh and also the documents on the site on creating your own theme are brilliant!

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    @Folly Thank you so much for doing this. It was very kind of you. Very helpful, informative, and solved my long problem with this game.

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    So I've copied the 5 zip files from mame2010

    outrunb.zip outrundx.zip outruno.zip outrunra.zip outrun.zip

    with just outrun.zip extracted I get the message:

    cannot open rom: epr-10381a.132

    managed to get all the files from all those zips and then get "illegal instruction"

  • lr-mess and astrocade

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    @Folly yea for sure i am about to install mame and other systems i let you know how it goes.

  • Retropie on a PC - video issue

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    @andini

    If you are using Wayland as your display server (now default on Ubuntu 22.04 on) try switching to Xorg instead.

  • Waveshare 12287 not working with retropie

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    @mitu Thanks! I will give it a go and get back to you :-)

  • And suddenly no ScummVM Games are working...

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    @10vorne
    You will found the info about scraper media paths here : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/

    Of course it is possible to copy the configs folder. Inside you will find configuration files about emulators, retroarch,controllers, emulationstation and some others important files.

    You can read about backup options here : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/#making-a-backup-option-2

  • FBNEO Cheats?

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    @Retro-Arcade-Fan said in FBNEO Cheats?:

    made a dummy cheat.dat file in bios/fbneo

    Why would you need this ? FBNeo won't read it

  • Installation of Xpad driver failed.

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    @windg Nice.

  • Retroarch recording and sound

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    @hellricer I was about to say that you might have overrides (reading your top post), therefore the diff output location
    on RA 1.15 the output dir is simply named records and the configs go to records_config folder (for example you can have custom config.cfg file in there.

    As per RA docs you need also to have custom FFMPEG compile with
    --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame options
    but this does not fix the hissing sound which I believe you hear when you start the recording.
    As you stated, the output file though is video/audio ok which I also confirm from my testings

    Since you say you tested all other options in video_record_quality, you can test this override config and retest

    Option 1:
    Edit your main retroarch.cfg file in /configs/all/ and set
    video_record_quality = "4"
    and save. You can do from network share or locally to the file if easier for you.

    Option 2:
    create a config.cfg file, in /configs/all/retroarch/records_config/
    and add the above line in there and save.

    If you compile the ffmpeg as per docs you can add even more settings to it such as:

    vcodec = libx264rgb acodec = libmp3lame audio_global_quality = 75 sample_rate = 44100 threads = 0 video_preset = ultrafast video_record_quality = "4"

    or just

    video_record_quality = "4"

    Then select in ra the file or again change in your retroarch.cfg
    from
    rgui_config_directory = ""
    to
    rgui_config_directory = "~/.config/retroarch/config"

    Forgot to add. If you use shaders you should also enable in either option the
    video_gpu_record = "true" default is false BUT i noticed with lossless it causing video stutter.

  • lr-genesis-plus-gx crashes with "Bus error"

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    @Machtroid Thanks for the confirmation. Btw, if you upgrade now (again) the OS packages, there's a new kernel & firmware update (20230509~buster-1) that should fix this and the config.txt change should not be necessary any-more.

  • Issue with latest update on RPI4

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  • Getting rid of "scanlines" in lr-x1 (Sharp X-1)

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    @sleve_mcdichael That did the trick. Scanlines gone. Thanks all!

  • Lightgun Breaking Controls

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    @mitu Thank you. Your fix worked. I really appreciate you taking the time to help as this was driving me crazy. All I need now is to figure out how to dial in the adjustments for this light gun.. gameplay isn't exactly smooth at the moment.

    Thanks again.

  • Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]

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    @fryguy1 Please don't post links to ROMs or ROM sites.
    Not sure why this reply was needed, since @Folly already provided a solution in one of their earlier posts, but I guess the more the merrier.

  • core do not support save states with lr-pcsx_rearmed

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    @140714071407 it looks like you've got the old ZeroJay version of RetroPie-Extra. Currently it is maintained by ExarKunIv at https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra

  • RetroPie Hotkeys names in the autoconfig folder

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    mituM

    See here in RetroArch's source.

  • Dreamweb and ScummVM 2.6.0 git

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    @windg Thanks for the tip with the graphic. Unfortunately, deleting the shortcuts didn't help. Before I actually do a clean install, I'll open a new thread with a suitable topic and...hope :)

  • Help with X68000 emulator

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    @mitu I could solve the problem and now I can play the games.

    The issue was with the bios file names. The files were in capital letters. I changed that and worked without inconvenient.

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