@mitu
Guess I'll just live without packages, thanks man.

Edit:
I got it to work, I managed to install Kodi and steamlink!

You were right it was something with the DNS settings, I changed it to 8.8.8.8 using this guide through terminal and it just immediately worked.

@mitu Well, as always thanks for the help. I don't think it's underpowered given my new 3.5a CanaKit PSU made specifically for the Pi4 and it's a powered USB hub. But I can't rule out an unseated cable or something because now it's back to working correctly. I'm going to keep the USB HDD connected directly to the Pi, since if that isn't seen on boot, then it won't have access to the romsets which explains why they wouldn't show up, and if the USB cable to the hub got jostled then that would also explain why the gamepad wasn't detected.
#OccamsRazor

@dookieshooter I don't have a lot of programming/code experience to help people here, but I do have a fair amount of audio expertise and this is a fairly simple issue to solve. It's called an "audio ground loop" and it's because the audio signal isn't grounded to the same ground as the rest of your components. Perhaps it's plugged into a different outlet or surge protector. The reason your second amp worked is because it probably has a ground loop filter built-in and the first one didn't. The easiest and cheapest way to minimize or get rid of the hum is to buy a Pyle PHE300 or similar device that (depending on the model) either connects to the signal that's going to the speakers or to the audio OUT from the Pi. It intercepts the signal and 'cleans' the hum from it by grounding the signal again.

@mitu I'm not seeing any option for dispmanx in the Configuration/Tools menu. Has that been removed in more recent versions? I'm trying to figure out where to set my BasiliskII settings/configs so that it will open as a scaled (fullscreen) 640x480 (or something else that's less than the 1600x1200 default) so that I can see larger icons and menus. If I set the screen to 640x480 in either the run command options or within the Mac emulation itself, it just uses a portion in the upper left of the screen that's the same scale of icons, etc.
EDIT: For anyone else who's been confused by this, I discovered where to find the dispmanx settings in Configurations/Tools. It's under 197 backendsthen select basilisk to change it to use dispmanx if you want to.

@mediamogul I've been seeing this on the forum here about this mysterious basilisk config file that needs to be in basilisk but I haven't seen anything in the docs about this. Seems like the docs could use a lot more information about basilisk. Where can I find out how to create and use this config? I have my os 7.5.3 Macintosh img and rom working fine, all I'd like to do now is make it be 640x480 and full screen. If I do anything lower than 1600x1200 in the run command options or within the emulator using the screen settings, it displays in a smaller window in the upper left corner of the display.

Hi,

Did you ever find a solution for this in the end?

Cheers

@sleve_mcdichael Awesome, many thanks! I will not bother with it further, then. Not worth the hassle, I reckon.

@wmarcio You should open a separate topic with your system details and a also post a verbose log (use pastebin.com to post it).

Looks like the files (.deb packages) downloaded by apt are corrupted. Try removing them with apt clean or directly removing the .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives - then installing again the desktop.

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@Folly I got it, thank you.

@mitu Many thanks.

@mitu If you have any tutorial that even a monkey can follow, I would appreciate it a lot!

Better late then never I suppose

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/14628

@windg Trying to learn. Never tried fstab before. Didn't realize how dangerous it is....

Decided to bail on exFAT. My guess is it doesn't work?
Also decided I didn't want any more pain :)

so ext4 it is

UUID="8787d0f4-f4ab-4eb7-bbb1-ea77b5b2ea41" /home/pi/RetroPie ext4 nofail,defaults 0 0

Working fine with this.

The main thing that surprised me is I can't boot into linux at all if it can't find the drive. Maybe nofail is a good idea for ALL fstab external drive entries. Dunno. Maybe that only works with ext4 and not vfat?

I'm all set now. Thx.

@mitu I've recompiled it with the SLD1 version and the speed is up again (hooray!) but it doesn't seem to want to output as opengl, so the screen size isn't playing ball again, sadly.

@cyperghost , I have installed your multi_switch.sh script on my setup but it's not working. I've set it up for onoffshim as I'm using a Pimoroni PicadeX hat. If I run the script from the command line, it works as expected, but if I press the power button to shutdown, it doesn't save hi-scores etc. I have just double checked everything and now the Pi has went into a loop of shutting down straight after it executes the script in the first line of autostart.sh. I must be making a mistake somewhere, just darned if I know what I've done wrong!

I've used another SD card to boot up and get access to my setup. Here is my autostart.sh file. I load the script, then use Runcommand to run my chosen emulator and ROM, then finally if I quit out of the emulator, it loads emulationstation.

sudo /home/pi/RetroPie/scripts/multi_switch.sh --onoffshim & /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ "arcade" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/starwars.zip" wait $1 emulationstation --no-splash #auto

I've removed the sudo command from the first line and I can get back in again. Any ideas on what's going wrong?

@kazuuu
You could install a port from the setup script and it’ll create one for you at /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports. I would assume you could just create your own folder there but not sure if there’s anything else that would need to be created for it work? Installing from the script would make sure everything was made and you could always delete the other game after the folder was made.

@Glorytonothing said in Experiencing input lag on lr-PCSX-ReARMed:

aftermarket 5V 2A power supply

could be the issue. do you get any voltage warnings (lightning bolt symbol) in corner of the screen?

please also supply the complete information requested by @mitu’s link - including verbose log.

@mitu Actually it still wasn’t working properly turns out that was only part of the problem. Apparently my retroarch hotkey configs weren’t saving when I quit retroarch so Start+Select wasn’t even set to be the exit emulator buttons. However after enabling “Save configuration on quit”. My settings saved and now it is working fine and dandy!