@mitu no dice unfortunately with that article. I am going to purchase a 2nd control board to deal with this. Looks relatively simple to install.

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@mitu
Yes I read the gpu setting on the pi4 is managed dynamically and is best left alone as it can harm performance increasing it.
I do try to keep everything default and use the advice in the documents.
I have been able to replicate the issue over and over. I decided to try turning off and on many different features under emulationstation settings and keep testing.
It's probally nothing to do with the issue but after turning OMX on and doing the test again so far ive managed to add hundreds of games without issue. I will create more collections and try again this has been the most successful for me so far. I can't really see why this would help as when adding games to the collections i don't give it time to start playing any video.

Update
Tested again with same setting OMX on with existing and new collections and worked fine.

Thanks Sim

@sleve_mcdichael
When downloading roms, on the page it will tell you the region like Japanese/ Europe and other regions.
Does that mean that the game was created in that country and anyone in the would can use it Or it would just be in their language.

@sleve_mcdichael Regarding non G-Net games, I was also trying to get Guardian Force (grdforce) and Soukyugurentai / Terra Diver (sokyugrt) to work in MAME 2010. I had poor results in 2016, and according to the following compatibility list 2010 should be able to run them at some capacity:

https://buildbot.libretro.com/compatibility_lists/cores/mame2010/mame2010.html

However when I try to load these games in 2010 the emulator freezes. These are stvbios games which seem to have mixed results in MAME. Yet some, such as Shienryu, will even run in MAME 2003-Plus. Just curious if anybody had success with those particular two.

@mitu I disabled it I think due to it being misused.

Still not sure why the things I was trying from command-line didn't work, but this seems to be getting the job done pretty reliably:

autostart.sh:

(vcgencmd force_audio hdmi 1 >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 8; mpg123 -Z /home/pi/RetroPie/bgm/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1) & #bgm emulationstation #auto

.bashrc (excerpt):

[[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty1" ]] && (vcgencmd force_audio hdmi 0 >/dev/null 2>&1; pkill mpg123) #bgm # RETROPIE PROFILE START

...this seems to work as intended, even though I couldn't get it to work on command-line for whatever reason. With this setup the audio channel opens in time for the music to begin, and closes again when I quit to console.

In autostart.sh, I put vcgencmd before the sleep command because when I did the other way, sometimes it would open up in time for the music but other times it wouldn't. This way it opens up and "hums" for a few seconds before the music starts, but it always starts from the first instant, so an acceptable compromise.

In .bashrc, the original guide said to put the command inside the RETROPIE PROFILE section but that whole section gets rewritten if you update bashwelcometweak; putting it outside the section preserves it even when the welcome tweak is updated.

@Grumbles I've found that any images over 1000 pixels either vertical or horizontal either won't load, or are slow to load. The sweet spot for HD resolution and speed seems to be in 750-850 range. Don't use 300 dpi, drop it to 144 or 72 dpi as well.

I've done this to all of my images and I'm happy with the look and load speed on a 55" screen.

One last one .. make sure the size of the file is not over 900k. Reduce it to around 600-500k as long as it doesn't screw-up the quality.

I'm running a Pi3b+, a highly modified version of Eudora with custom system pics and logos if you need to know

@james-milroy apologies again the delayed response, been a bit snowed under with work. At the weekend I finally found time to have a play and document it this time.

I thought I would try and start again, and document the process, and rather maddeningly sound worked with less fiddling. Here is the process I went through, my setup:

Picade 10”, using the USB-C Picade X HAT on a Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB

standard setup where a simple speaker in the Picade case is connected to the Picade X HAT via the 2-wire speaker connector on that HAT

In case it matters I have the USB power for the screen in the top USB 3 port

I also have all my ROMs on a USB stick in the bottom USB 3 port – which made starting from scratch a lot easier.

Using Raspberry Pi Imager I installed RetroPie 4.8 (RPI 4/400) image on a 32GB micro-SD card.
The Picade booted up this clean image fine, and the 10" display worked straight away (no commenting out HDMI lines in config.txt required).
After the initial storage resize reboot, it was at the Emulation Station configure input screen.
Using a USB keyboard, F4 to drop to the command line and run the Pimoroni Picade X HAT install script:
curl https://get.pimoroni.com/picadehat | bash
Then sudo reboot
This then finished in Emulation Station showing a black screen when the reboot finished.
Blindly press F4 again to drop to the command line and re-comment out the hdmi_force_hotplug=1 line in config.txt, then reboot again.
This time the Emulation Station screen showed correctly after the reboot – something must have changed as my Picade used to need that HDMI hotplug line enabled.
Sound is not working at this point, but feel free to configure the joystick and buttons now in Emulation Station.
If you were to run alsamixer from the command prompt you would see the familiar error about the hifiberry_dac soundcard not having a mixer, and no volume control being available.
Instead, just start an emulator from Emulation Station by selecting a game.
Sound now starts, at a painful 100% level.
Drop back to Emulation Station.
Open the menu and set the sound settings to:

Volume: 40% or your preference Audio Card: Default Audio Device: PCM OMX Player Audio Device: ALSA

Audio now works, and the volume persists over reboots etc. Dropping to command prompt and alsamixer shows a PCM volume control. Basically it’s working, and I can’t work out why it wasn’t working previously and why I had to fiddle with .asoundrc etc.

Again, in case it matters, the bootloader and eeprom on my Pi is up-to-date for default branch:

CURRENT: Tue 25 Jan 14:30:41 UTC 2022 (1643121041) LATEST: Tue 25 Jan 14:30:41 UTC 2022 (1643121041) RELEASE: default (/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/default) Use raspi-config to change the release. VL805_FW: Dedicated VL805 EEPROM VL805: up to date CURRENT: 000138a1 LATEST: 000138a1

Finally, with sound now working I brought everything up to date, and sound still works fine:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean

I do hope this helps, and works for others. Very best of luck! I'll keep my fingers crossed that mine stays working as it is now!

@sirhenrythe5th
After i update retropie it then comes to a yes/no screen asking "would i like to update the underlying of the os packages (eg kernel etc)
I select no and then it take me to this
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and then fail at the end

It's probably too much to ask as that's 100s of projects and updates to curate. i would guess that every day there's at least one update to a bit of software in retropie.

just 'watch' the relevant projects in github. eg https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup to receive update messages.

updates are also summarized in each retropie release: https://retropie.org.uk/news/

Are the speakers connected through the audio jack? I'm not sure which one but do you need to/did you already select a different (besides HDMI) audio device in EmulationStation > [Start button] > Sound settings > Audio settings > Audio device?

@sleve_mcdichael ah - I doubt it very much! Thanks for pointing the way, feeling a bit silly now.

@tjuk though I fear that @mitu may be right here, two tests for that come to mind: 1st what happens if you just plug in an unconnected cable and 2nd have you tried any other OS besides retropie (Edit: ok, strictly speaking RetroPie ain't an OS - but I'll guess everyone understood what I meant :] ) ?

Hi, is anybody having a problem installing this? When I run "sudo ./setup.sh install" I get the statement: "sudo: unable to execute ./setup.sh: Permission denied"
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@mitu said in Retropie 3.5mm Jack No Sound:

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VOLUME!!! Thank you