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    @windg Thanks going to buy a new SD card today.

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  • Fixing a Konami arcade cabinet.

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    Re: Fixing a Konami arcade cabinet.

    So turns out this model is super old. It has a monitor and a VGA port (the model is: hp Hewlett Packard Pavilion) the motherboard seems to be okay. Just dusty. I plug in everything and the monitor works but nothing shows on the screen. I'm starting to think it is the power supply of the pie or the VGA port not working. Any ideas?????

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  • How NOT to kill a background process with CTRL-C?

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    In case anyone's keeping track, Reddit user McDutchie says:

    Ctrl+C interrupts all the processes in the current process group. When your [jslisten] is invoked from .bashrc, I think you'll find it shares a process group ID with bash itself. You can check this with:

    ps -o pid -o pgid -o comm

    The -m option, a.k.a. -o monitor, causes bash to give background processes (including those invoked from a subshell, as you're doing) their own process group, so that Ctrl+C does not interrupt them. This option is on by default for interactive shells, but profile scripts are run before bash turns it on. But you can turn it on yourself within the subshell that you're invoking the background process from:

    [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]] && (set -m; /opt/retropie/configs/all/jslisten/jslisten /dev/input/js0 &)

    This does indeed seem to be my solution. Ctrl-c (for example, to cancel a half-typed command when I notice a typo at the beginning) no longer kills the jslisten process, allowing my "logout hotkey combo" to remain functional.

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    @exitkioskmode Looking at the video you posted, seems like you're not using the 1st HDMI port - the one next to the USB-C power port. I also don't see the bootloader diagnostic screen, specific to the Pi4.
    Just to make sure, you're using the latest RetroPie version (4.8.2), written from scratch ? Note that the 1st boot will not start EmulationStation, since it will resize the Linux partition on the sdcard and then reboot.

  • How do you gain rep?

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    @BuZz Thanks

  • From where is retroarch.cfg seeded?

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    @daubsi Yes. The .rp-dist files are created when an emulator is installed or updated and the default config has been changed (as it won't overwrite your custom config).

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    @mitu thanks for the reply. I turned off my shader preset to see what would happen, and it does improve performance to "mostly" 60fps. The global shader I use is just "sharp-bilinear-2x-prescale" which afaik isn't supposed to be demanding at all, so I'm surprised performance tanks so badly with it on.

    Unfortunately I've screwed up the video settings for all the snes cores by attempting to remove the global shader preset from bsnes, while keeping it in place for snes9x. Shaders don't work at all for snes anymore, and different resolutions in the runcommand menu aren't even working... I don't know why that happened.

    Bsnes is causing me too much trouble, so i'm just gonna uninstall it once I restore my backup...

  • How to setup 3.5 inch screen

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    It didnt work it just booted up like usual.

    I got retropie image from the raspi imager presets should I go to the image from that website?

    No, it's the same image - it doesn't matter how it's installed.

    Unfortunately I don't know much about the various 3.5' models for Waveshare's displays - the above config was taken from one of their images, but it looks like there's more than 1 model with this resolution (and supported with different drivers).

    I suggest looking at their Wiki page and try one of their images to see which one works (and then replicating the config.txt from the image onto the RetroPie installation) or trying their install script from https://github.com/waveshare/LCD-show/.

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    I decided to change the title to make it more relevant. I wasn't sure where to post the following yet as I was keen to share it in case this helps others.

    We ran into a very painful issue while testing a recent build of DOSBox Staging. The sound was crackling like hell in almost every games tested and only pi4 platform was affected (pi3 was ok). Builds for macOS, x86, etc didn't have the issue either. After a long and rather difficult debugging session the culprit has been found (thanks to @kcgen!) > SpeexDSP's floating-point API is unreliable on current (32-bit) Buster. After compiling our own version everything went back to normal.

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    @dookieshooter said in compiling mame on ubuntu 22.04 fails:

    So I hacked around and THINK I got the mame 245 binary installed properly. I basically hacked up the mame.sh script in retropie setup to skip the compile step and only take the precompiled stuff from stickfreaks.

    Ok, It probably can work if you did it correct.

    This is how I do it when mame has been already configured earlier :
    Extract the .7z in /opt/retropie/emulators/mame .

    This is how I do it when mame has NOT been configured earlier :
    Extract the .7z in /opt/retropie/emulators/mame .

    Commands for installing the dependencies and configuring :

    cd RetroPie-Setup/ sudo ./retropie_packages.sh mame depends sudo ./retropie_packages.sh mame configure
  • HELP! Emulation station broke on rpi display!

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    @Yaszuthemage said in HELP! Emulation station broke on rpi display!:

    @mitu how would I use either the fkms or kms overlay? how would I load Gpu drivers? I tried using the built in spi panel overlays but it didnt work

    The default RetroPie (or Raspberry Pi OS) images have the fkms /kms overlay already enabled, so you don't need to add anything for this part. What you need is to add the configuration for your display to config.txt, which can be different depending on your display model and capabilities.

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    @sleve_mcdichael ok, I was just making sure there wasn't somewhere obvious I was missing on handing fr HDMI to headphones. Or if there was a general location where this would typically be saved, such as in a config file somewhere. It may be easier for me to just install another separately from the beginning

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    @mitu thank you but it seems complicated for me....

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    @Folly said in Only Cartridge Files Loading on Amstrad CPC6128+ (MESS/MAME):

    ~/RetroPie-Setup/ext/RetroPie-Share/scriptmodules/supplementary

    @Folly

    I did not find a second version in ~/RetroPie-Setup/ext/RetroPie-Share/scriptmodules/supplementary, but I deleted any other versions of the file on my system - in the trash folder, download folder, etc...and that did the trick.

    I will try the ParaDOS options again later and report back.

    The ParaDOS options are visible and they do load ParaDOS.

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    @mitu @Refazeshot1 yes, works, thanks.

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    @stevethefish76 what you're describing there doesn't sound like a crash to me, but without the full error message and all the other stuff in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first i can't really diagnose.

    but if it works now i'm not sure there's much utility in doing any of that :)

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