@wizardling Shucks, I'm blushing here. But seriously no problem at all, just browsing the forum and saw your post and noticed you were using apt and was aware it sometimes can cause issues like this.
The "problem" is that Linux will do exactly what you tell it to do and if you aren't fully versed in exactly how things work it can cause problems. I honestly couldn't tell you why it works, other than it handles installation of packages and dependencies differently.

Hi there!
I'm only replying here to give you the solution I found to get my THT THT 2 Player Encoder working on Raspberry PI3, and Retropie 4.3.
I can say the usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040 command didn't work for me and after hour and hour of trying I opened the cmcline.txt via the retropie

cd /boot/
sudo nano cmdline.txt

Before that I did it only by pulling out the sd card putting in to my pc, changing the cmdline.txt with the windows editor with one space at the end of the line and....... Never worked...

After I took a look in the cmdline.txt via retropie I saw that the "usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040" had two spaces between the last command and was also in the second row of the file. I wonderes an changed it. Bam! That was it! Now 2 Gamepads are detectet and eveything is fine for me. May someone will have the same issue with the cmdline.txt file without recognizing it.

Have a nice christmas!

so ,i was kinda overloaded with stuff didn't realy proceed with what i posted, i am back to making the arcade now ,still i am fazed with this problem ,since i am gonna be making a shutdown/boot button for the pi,if i connect in parrallel to this connection the button that you push to manually open the TV is it gonna work ?.My main concern is frying the pi due to the tv being a higher power device ,should i use a relay for that kind of work?.

I honestly don't see what this has to do with RetroPie.
Lr-mame2010 is a pre-compiled binary in RetroPie and is available to be installed from the setup script. And I'm almost 100% sure that the libretro cores have an option to disable the nag screen and warning screen within the RetroArch menu.

@mitu , thank you for your reply.
There is no specific problem, just trying to increase my knowledge about how does the retropie_setup script works.
=)

@BuZz , thank you. I'll try it! I believe this should also work for the other piece of codes. ;)

@Trailjacker , I'm happy my question was useful in you scenario.

Thank you guys!

Man, i know nothing about Linux, so i think i will just leave this backup away and download my roms, there aren't many roms anyway, so no problem with that.
Would like to thank everyone, my retropie is running perfectly now:
@mitu
@jonnykesh
@markyh444
@Sano
@chipsnblip
@BuZz

Dont know what is more awesome, raspberry/retropie itself or its community :)

@juice said in help setting vertical games with bezel and crt pi:

@dankcushions is there a way to delete all the cfg and start again, or do i need to make a fresh build. i would like to use you files as it is the way forward

where is the config file you posted above from?

Had the same problem on my ubuntu mashine.
The BIOS files where named using upper case, but they had to be lower case.

Just rename the BIOS files to lower case.

@retroprogrammer I would assume he manually installed it as per the official guide.

@wardh Did it work!

thanks for the help :)

@haller Thanks for sharing your solution for others.

This would be possible if you check presence of OMXPlayer process. It's not an elegant method but it might work. But keep in mind you will loose opportunity to play video snapshots in gamelist

So the better way would be an implementation into the C++ code of ES itslef.

PSEUDOCODE

#!/bin/bash # Run this script with root user or sudo command # Initiate GPIO x ouput # Exports pin to userspace echo x > /sys/class/gpio/export # Sets pin x as an output echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/direction while true do # Slow down the whole thing a bit sleep 5 # Suggest running oxmplayer instance omxpid=$(pgrep omxplayer) # Set GPIO x high > switch off screen [[ -n $omxpid ]] && echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/value # Set GPIO x low > switch on screen [[ -z $omxpid ]] && echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpiox/value done

@carcamerarig Yip just run emulationstation to launch and then exit through the menu it will drop you back to the console.

@caver01 I'm working on it, now for some reason I can't click buttons in the menu of rgui :(

It seems that you should be able to use the linux way by being in developer mode, opening crosh, and typing shell.
You then will have a bash shell, with the dd command.
Careful to use the correct device as target for dd.

I also see that the chromebook recovery utility can be used too - see here : https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/7d02im/using_a_chromebook_to_install_an_iso_to_a_usb/

@mitu said in How to port games to retropie:

the game needs to either compatible with Linux or supported by one of the Emulators/Ports included in Retropie

And the source code needs to be available and some sort of genius needs to Port it from Windows to Linux. Sonic mania: not a chance

@cpcbegin no x server, no vnc.

thanks i will use the official image - thank you

Here's a solution for the Linux command line of Retropie. You get to the command line by quitting Emulation Station or by connecting over the network with ssh. After logging in, you will be in the home folder of the user pi with the full directory path /home/pi/ or in short ~.

I've extracted all rom names from the 0.78u5 DAT file. You can get the list here. Save it into a file called lr-lite.list to use it with the following commands.

In the example below, your full romset is in folder romset_full and the custom romset will be in folder romset_lr-lite, both located in your home folder ~. The file lr-lite.list is also in your home folder ~.

You'll then have to execute one these commands:

Either copy the files (needs more space, the full set remains intact)

while read file; do cp "romset_full/$file".zip romset_lr-lite/; done < lr-lite.list

or move the files (same space as before, filtered files are removed from the full set)

while read file; do mv "romset_full/$file".zip romset_lr-lite/; done < lr-lite.list

Now, you have a custom romset matching the 0.78u5 DAT file in the folder romset_lr-lite. Copy the roms into the rom folder of your choice (e.g. mame-libretro) and then scrape them to generate a new gamelist.xml.

You can delete the file lr-lite.list after checking that everything worked as planned.

Bonus for advanced users: I extracted the rom names from the 0.78u5 DAT file by using this command.

xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m /datafile/game/@name -v . -n mame2003-lr-lite.xml >lr-lite.list