Running in a desktop environment is not supported on a Pi - I guess the relevant topic is https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first:

Do not report issues with running on a RPI4 - it's not yet officially supported, and there are many 3rd party guides with incorrect instructions out there.

If you have a Pi4, you can install manually over Raspbian Lite - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/ - but remember that Pi4 support is a work in progress.

@dalekman27 Good to hear! Enjoy :)

Thanks!

I never played fighting games much - always liked the spaceship games - so that explains why I didn't even think of that.

@felifel We don't support 3rd party images - is clearly outlined in the https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first topic.
Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download to install, update your RetroPie installation and try again installing the emulator.

Haha yes, it works :D Simple solution is:

First of all - if you have your copy of .sav file (or any other containing your save state), backup it to have an original one in case of losing all saved data.

Open rom in Visual Boy Advance, restore you save and create save state using built in saving mechanism.
Now close the game and remove in-game save file - file which is a copy of your original state file.
Next open game in Visual Boy Advance and load state saved in built it saving mechanism.
Go to VBA Options > Emulator > Save Type and change it to SRAM
Perform in-game saving. New .sav file will be created in folder when your game was stored.
Rename file with extesion for "your_game_name.srm".
Copy it to Retropie.

After these steps I was able to open my save state from Pocket-Go on my GPICASE :)

BTW:
There is a possibility that @lostless sugesstion will work to but if not, you need to perfrom above steps.

BTW2:
Visual Boy Advance saves in-game states files as a .sav file, so you are able to copy you states from VBA to Retroflag also.

Thank you guys!

The blueooth packages are part of the OS (Raspbian) - they can be upgraded if a new version is released by the upstream Raspbian project and can be installed with the apt utility, or just choosing to update your OS packages from RetroPie-Setup when you do an upgrade.

@BuZz I unintentionally got two failed installs so I'll share them as they had your exit code fix. They failed differently so at least it's something. :) The N64 emulator exited with 1 as expected, but Splashscreen exited with 0 (it didn't continue to install but I don't know how to tell when it's done done). Edit: It should end with Info: [message] on success?

1: basic_install exited with 1 when mupen64plus failed. Ran on Debian with amd64. See full log.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Building 'mupen64plus' : N64 emulator MUPEN64Plus = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [snip] make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-video-glide64mk2/projects/unix' head: cannot open '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/mupen64plus/GLideN64/src/Revision.h' for reading: No such file or directory current revision "50e83004" last build revision /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/mupen64plus/GLideN64/projects/cmake /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/mupen64plus /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required): CMake 3.9 or higher is required. You are running version 3.7.2 -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/mupen64plus /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup Removing additional swap /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup Could not successfully build mupen64plus - N64 emulator MUPEN64Plus (GLideN64/projects/cmake/plugin/Release/mupen64plus-video-GLideN64.so not found). Errors: Could not successfully build mupen64plus - N64 emulator MUPEN64Plus (GLideN64/projects/cmake/plugin/Release/mupen64plus-video-GLideN64.so not found). The command '/bin/sh -c if [ "$(uname -m)" = 'x86_64' ]; then sudo ./retropie_packages.sh setup basic_install; fi' returned a non-zero code: 1

2: basic_install exited with 0 when splashscreen failed. Ran on Debian with arm32v7. See full log.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Configuring 'splashscreen' : Configure Splashscreen = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/splashscreen.sh: line 91: systemctl: command not found /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup Removing intermediate container c40e0a51fa8f ---> 3e4f12bb8360 [snip] Successfully built 63739c10746d Successfully tagged rc:docker-multiarch

Thread necro, but same problem, and a way to resolve...

Get into the command prompt go to the ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary directory Delete the old retropie-manager.sh file Download the correct script from the github repo (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/retropie-manager.sh) Go back to RetroPie setup again and now the script should work and install retropie-manager.

("code" is below if needed)

F4 cd ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary rm -r retropie-manager.sh wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/retropie-manager.sh

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PC/

We don't support 3rd party image, as explained in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Install the RetroPie image from https://retropie.org.uk/download and update the emulators, then try again and see if you can reproduce the error.

Nope. This didn't work. The internal resistance of the capacitor is too high to deliver enough current to prevent a power interruption. You get a very low current output for a long time, not a high current output for a short time. I found only very large supercaps such as car audio "stiffening" caps have low enough resistances, and those are about the size of a soda can so it's a no go.

Ok that's good to know (how messy they usually are).
I'll follow your advice then and will start my own project from scratch.

As this was an inappropriate question please feel free to remove it!

Cheers

Sorry for the delay in replying. The only other thing in my 'fba' folder is another folder called 'fbneo' which has a file called galaxian.hi (high score I presume) along with other games with .hi extensions. Some files in there have an .fs extension, Galaxian doesn't have an .fs file here though.

Nothing at all now in the 'fba' folder as my games are now in 'mame-libretro'. No other files in 'mame-libretro' other than the rom zips.

Hmm....

@hawkes_84 we only support the rpi4 on Raspbian

@mauroque said in Retropie no longer loads desktop:

could be a dick too and mention how nobody helped me with my controller problems with PS1 games last year.

Looking at your topic from last year, I don't see this to be true - you got help. How about your come back in another year or so ?

I don't think there's a RetroArch's option to fix what it looks like an overclocking issue - your overclock may not be stable.
Try removing your overclock and try one of the other N64 emulators - mupen64plus, the standalone N64 emulator, or lr-mupen64plus-nx , the newer version of the libretro N64 emulator core.

@ratedrguy said in Error running any script including RetroPie-Setup:

Module /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/openbor-6xxx.sh is missing valid rp_module_desc

It looks like you created this file incorrectly - this file is not part of RetroPie - attempting to install another version of openbor. Deleting the file would have fixed the problem.

Never mind ..figured out doom 2 tnt and plutonia are all 32 levels in size and share the music file names.

@mitu Many thanks! Just managed to post what I needed to!

David.

@ven9 Please open a new topic for your issue - and add more details about your system as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.