@annomatik said in Custom Mega-Drive Controls:

So... I might have found a bug or maybe that's just the way it is. Apparently, RetroArch is only able to configure things in the remap , if they exist in the controller config? In other words "if the button 5 is not configured in the config, it will be only available in the current session, but not for the remap file"?

Kind of. It's not really button 5, but button who' s input code is 5. If the input code is not mapped to one of the RetroPad's buttons, then it's not available for remap.

If you modify your controller's .cfg file and add labels to the buttons (like I did), then you'll get rid of input codes and just see the button names in the control mapping menu - makes it easier to see which is which.

Yep... that's it. Thank you!

So I think I figured this out...

I had to run the following two commands in the RetroPie setup screen (per the instructions here - https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper)

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential qt5-default

Once I did that, I was able to install skyscraper "from source" in the optional packages section.

Now if only I could figure out why it didn't scrape any images/videos...a problem for tomorrow.

@Buckey-Jaw said in 4tb external hdd on raspberry pi model 4 running 4.6:

@mitu ahhhhh, I was waiting on the auto copy, it's formatted as ntfs, is that an issue?

You'll have to decide what format you have on the disc - is it ntfs or ext4 ?
Please use the documentation and follow the instructions - you have to choose one of the methods described there and take into account what filesystem you have.

There isn't a configuration setting for that. If you want a certain splashscreen to run only once, then you'll have to run a script on first boot that will switch the video files - same name, different files.

You nailed it; once I deleted the shaders folder from retroarch, the update went through without issues.
Thanks!

@Spudmckenzie Make sure you un-commented the password/username entries you added, they're commented (# at the beginning of the line) by default.

If you've watched videos, the performance is not worth the hassle. If I really want to play gc/wii, I'll use an emulator on my pc, or use a real wii which I got for ~$30 many years ago.

@bryanbrady start a new topic.

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Thanks for the reply. So it does not matter much if I make them 320x240 or 640x480 or what else, as long as they are 4:2:0 YUV. I will definitely use the script, thanks!

Welcome to this forum.

Try this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/170381

@BelligerentBash said in running retropie_setup.sh basic install without gui:

The output I get from running with no parameters (sudo ./retropie_packages.sh) does not list the 'sub-parameters' for the setup parameter, or even the main setup parameter.

The first parameter is the module. The second is the function to call. It does list all the functions.

@retroack said in Few newbie questions:

Sorry I am not 100% sure where these should
Be directed as the 64gig Vman build has a lot of settings menus including retropi, playbox, emulation station and not sure quite where my issues is.

i'm sorry, but we do not support third party images. please read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

It works !!!!!! but only when i launch ES in a terminal :-(

This is exactly what I said in my first reply. This is how it's configured the RetroPie launcher - as outlined in the docs.

Last question : does ES and Retropie need sudoers ?
If not, i should modify authorization in /opt/retropie/configs : actually all files are for root:root and not for my user "pi"
As runcommand try to write in the .cfg file, it couln't !!!

The /opt/retropie/configs shouldn't be owned by root - there's something that you maybe changed, because the RetroPie-Setup scripts ensure the folder is owned and writable by the installation users.

The sudo rights for the install user is needed for installing additional packages and for adding the necessary configurations needed for RetroPie. This is one of the first steps outlined in the installation docs.

I do use the Select button on every controller who has it, which also seems to be the standard in the Retropie community as far as I know.

@mitu yes I did! thanks

Hi,
yeah, it's definitely the correct gamelist.xml

I switched on my PC today, and the problem remained.
So, in an effort to find the exact sequence to trigger this, I built a test .emulationstation folder from scratch. 3 roms, 1 system, 1 hidden rom.

And, it worked perfectly. <hidden>true</hidden> tags hid the one hidden rom.
So, I put back my original .emulationstation folder.

And, now, <hidden> works fine for me.

No other changes were made. (I renamed the folder, and just named it back)
So.
Not sure what to say to you guys now!

If I can reproduce it in future, I'll note how I did it.
Some of the time in the last day or two, I enabled Kiosk sometimes via the UI, and sometimes by editing the .cfg file by hand.
I didn't think ES wrote any changes apart from into the .emulationstation folder.
Each time though, like I said, I could see <hidden> was true in the entry, in Full mode.
And Kiosk was enabled properly, since I couldn't make any UI changes.

In my software, I'm going to add support for hiding certain genre's, and that should complete the work on it for the time being, I think.

@t-poepken You should have opened a new topic, just because this is about 3DO doesn't mean you're experiencing the exact same issue.
Please provide a detailed log - use the runcommand launch menu to enable debug logging then post your log file on pastebin.com.

rpi 3b+ and retropie 4.6 . I saw ... although I had all the scripts adapted with zdoom ... I would touch to modify them all again.

So with 4.4, most core and main packages installed, but there were a few that wouldn't. lr-stella, lr-pcsx-rearmed failed to build.

So in short - trying this is a mixed bag. Some things will build. Some things won't.
At least the raspberry pi image is a stable platform, but doing PC builds will always be a forever-forward moving target