Oops, sorry about that. Have updated the original post.

@mitu Yeah, the Splash screen and menu aren't a huge deal, so I don't mind too much, I just wish I could figure it out. At this point I'm hoping it's resolved with a future update.

@drdave79 well glad it's working for you now, any case.

@superfromnd I got the game pre-patched initially, so a few minutes ago I decided to patch the original JP files using the tutorial from that website you linked. Each of the different checksums for the ISOs were the ones indicated and they patched with xDelta3 successfully. Loaded up the game and I still get crashes.

So I started thinking maybe the issue was to do with the files being split as .iso/.wav/.cue instead of a .CHD file or a .cue/.bin. I tried using Isobuster to convert it back to a bin/cue format and was able to launch the game but still got the same crash. I thought maybe I had done the process incorrectly so I found someone else's conversion to a .bin/.cue format and the game will still crash at the same point. I also found another person's version of the game in .CHD and yep, same crash.

the crash specifically happens at this point in the longplay above, where you examine the gun in this opening office segment. You can examine other bits like the cigarettes and the machine on the right, but clicking either the gun or the picture frame crashes it. I dunno what's going on with the saturn hardware wise, but it transitions into a still zoomed in image separate from the rest of the environment, and that's where the crash seems to trigger.

It's so frustrating that I can't really get any more information from yabasanshiro (I also don't seem to be able to get much from lr-yabause because it just hangs at the section as opposed to crashing outright).

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@mitu said in Lr-Gearcoleco:

@dteam said in Lr-Gearcoleco:

I think lr-gearcoleco might be an emulator option in Retropie Setup.

Is there any advantage over the existing Colecovision emulators that would make it worth while adding it ?

Saves states seems to be more stable than Blue MSX. Better controller setup than BlueMSX (major point here).
It runs No Intro romset,what Fbneo doesn't.

They say :
Accurate Z80 core, including undocumented opcodes and behavior like R and MEMPTR registers.
Accurate TMS9918 emulation.
Sound emulation using a fine tuned Sms_Snd_Emu library.

At the end, I prefer Fbneo (but only fbneo romset can be used) and Lr-Gearcoleco is better than BlueMSX in my opinion.

Maybe a longer testing period is needed, but it could be in the experimental section for now.

aarch64 is an ARM 64 bit system (kernel), while arm7l is 32 bit ARM.

Can you convert from System: rpi4 (aarch64) to System: rpi4 (armv71)?

It depends. If you installed your system from the beta 64bit Raspberry Pi OS image, then no, you cannot convert. If you merely modified the /boot/config.txt file on a 32 bit Raspberry Pi OS and added the option to boot the 64bit kernel (arm_64bit=1), then you can remove that configuration line and you'll be booted back to a 32bit kernel/OS (arm7l).

got an answer in the dev-forum of ppsspp: this issues is caused by new saving-routines, also the paths have changed/shortend (from /roms/psp/psp/system/ -> /roms/psp/), so you will find saves on the memorystick there since 31.01.2022.
The issue is well known and should be fixed with the next update in a couple of days.
FYI, even if i seem to be the only one here using / updating the lr-ppsspp-core :D

@magnetaphan try without it just to be sure. Also try on a different TV if possible.

@barbudreadmon said in lr-genesis-plus-gx master system sound garbled after restoring save states - all games affected:

@uncledisgusting said in lr-genesis-plus-gx master system sound garbled after restoring save states - all games affected:

My pi 4 isn't overclocked - what settings would you suggest I use for that please?

I don't have any recommendation, as i said i don't own a pi4. I'm just thinking that garbled sound can be the result of performance issues, and gpgx appears to be surprisingly demanding. So i'm wondering if an overclock could improve things.

@uncledisgusting said in lr-genesis-plus-gx master system sound garbled after restoring save states - all games affected:

should they be enabled?

Probably not, they are features that will lessen performances.

On a sidenote, savestates with the nuked setting appear to be broken to me : i just tried loading my savestates from yesterday and the core crashed, after some more tests it appears the core can't load savestates from another session on my setup (it works just fine if i set it to MAME). That might be related to your issue. Maybe report this to the author, and/or change setting/emulator.

There are no performance issues whatsoever playing a game with nuked sound in the initial session

Your sidenote issue IS the issue that I have been concerned with the whole time. Thank you for corroborating that. I think this emulator is the only one with nuked fm sound.

@fmentiplay Because it hasn't been updated yet. But you can update once the image is written easily enough.

@mitu

Thank you! That was exactly what I was missing. It is funny, because in my first Retropie copy I've got exactly that command but forgot about it now.

Sorry for little bit stupid question. Thanks again.

@dankcushions

can you give an example? fmv in PS1 games used pretty brutal compression. it's typical to see constant ugly colour banding on real hardware.

Not an FMV, but I believe it's a 24-bit color scene. Comparison between a screenshot and the screen. Some of the grays in the photo aren't completely gray.
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what did you add?

I used hvs_set_dither=0x210

@mitu
Thank you foryour advice.
I will attempt to install RetroPie manually on my Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS. I want to have the experience of manually installing RetroPie.
I think Retropie is brilliant and I am keen to get it working correctly and use all it's features.
Once again thank you for your help.
Regards Frank

@sleve_mcdichael
Sorry it's not much help but it was these ones:

base-files bind9-host bluetooth bluez debconf debconf-i18n debconf-utils distro-info-data firmware-atheros firmware-brcm80211 firmware-libertas firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-realtek libasound2 libasound2-data libasound2-dev libavcodec-dev libavcodec58 libavdevice-dev libavdevice58 libavfilter-dev libavfilter7 libavformat-dev libavformat58 libavutil-dev libavutil56 libbind9-161 libbluetooth3 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc-l10n libc6 libc6-dbg libc6-dev libdns-export1104 libdns1104 libgssapi-krb5-2 libicu63 libisc-export1100 libisc1100 libisccc161 libisccfg163 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblwres161 libnftnl11 libnss3 libntfs-3g883 libpam-systemd libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpostproc-dev libpostproc55 libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev libraspberrypi-doc libraspberrypi0 libsndfile1 libssl1.1 libswresample-dev libswresample3 libswscale-dev libswscale5 libsystemd0 libtiff5 libudev-dev libudev1 libvlc-bin libvlc-dev libvlc5 libvlccore-dev libvlccore9 linux-libc-dev locales multiarch-support ntfs-3g openssl pi-bluetooth policykit-1 psmisc python3-debconf raspberrypi-bootloader raspberrypi-kernel raspberrypi-net-mods raspberrypi-sys-mods rpi-eeprom systemd systemd-sysv tzdata udev vlc vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-video-output

I also increased the gpu mem from 64mb to 96mb but I suspect it was the updates that fixed it.

@sleve_mcdichael I updated the picture hope it helps.

Hey!

Many thanks to both of you for your feedback!

In the end, it was the Raspberry Pi Imager tool that got the job done - excellent!

Unfortunately, the weekly builds link didn't work for me, the same problem continued. I also, out of curiosity, tried Firefox (as was trying Safari and Chrome) and pressed the resume function every time the download failed along the way - that method completed the download.

Anyway, thanks again for your help re the Raspberry Pi Imager help! :)

@90sgamer Good to hear!

@retrofdi

So, you get the same results on fresh install...And just spit balling per say, how many video ports do you have? Additionally, have you tried any other displays? My thoughts would be the next thing to look at the communications via HDMI (Assuming you are using HDMI based on the hardware). I would use a known/good HDMI cable, attempted another port, and another display is possible.

@mitu
Thanks for all the help, I finally figured it out. There was a directory config overwriting in the folder with the bios config, when I removed that one my own configs worked and everything is now perfect.