Update #2:
Somehow got it to work. Not sure what I did different (b/c I'm pretty sure I did everything the same), but it's working now.

Thank you all for the outpouring of love and support. You have all been extremely helpful.

Since apparently this issue has never happened to anyone else ever, let my experience stand as testament that stubborn perseverance can pay off. Occasionally the blind persistence of attempting the same thing in the same way over and over again will yield the results we seek. So fear not! Keep trying to jam that square peg in a round hole because one day it WILL work my friends! It WILL fit! And on that day you may proclaim, "I HAVE TRIUMPHED! GLORY HALLELUJAH, THIS DAY IS MINE!"

@yortdog that is odd to be that far off in numbers. Glad you got it working.

@meleu
As painful as it sounds I guess I will have to. Thanks.

@rulmismo It was moved to /dev/shm quite a long time ago - when launching it states where the log is btw.

The wiki is user editable btw. feel free to update if you think this is needed.

to save configuration settings you should use https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

@LARoehr said in lr-pcsx-rearmed black screen:

@dankcushions
But it runs great on 3 of my other x86 (x64, actually) systems. Just not on this one with this particular video card driver. If you don't mind my asking, how does lr-beetle measure up to pcsx?

it's just a fairly old emulator that does a good job of running games at native resolution on low-power arm devices, but if you have a powerful PC then beetle is a better choice as it has loads more features (high resolution, perspective correction, etc), and is constantly updated.

Its working now. Seems like between the time I installed it (last night) to now there has been a change. Running the update all packages resolved the issue!

oh wait i had to restart

@meleu said in runcommand questions:

PSX are the worst offenders

They are big ROM files, isn't it? :-)

I think If you're using retroachievements it adds an extra time to RetroArch load the game (RetroArch calculates the game's hash and try to find the game in the RetroAchievements server).

Ah, this actually probably explains why the black screen became more obvious seemingly out of the blue. I'll try disabling it. Thanks!

@denisuu That's on an RPi 2 and I'm assuming that going to an RPi 3 would be an increase, but not a ton of difference. I've been curious about AOE vanilla though.

Thoughts on resources running it on Raspbian vs Retropie?

Hi, yes they are, I've checked everything amd after asking in various other places it may be that the issue is retrosmc as I'm using that instead of retropie

@KANE81

a creator called nacho skinny.

You mean THE nacho skinny? What's the skinnster been up to these days? If he ever tries to tell you a story about a trip to Cancun, a walnut farm and a circus performer named Millie, he's a liar. That lady got her shoes back.

@herb_fargus said in Colecovision sound stutters:

@barbudreadmon I also hear the bluemsx is capable of emulating colecovision ;) just needs some controller hooks.

This would be a more viable option. Fba needs it's on romset for Colecovision.

With bluemsx you could just use the No-Intro set.

@MLC4050 I'm new to this...I don't fully follow you. Any chance you could break this down simple and sweet? Thanks for your time. I appreciate your help.

Builds / wizards aren't supported here and neither in Kodi forums, because most of them contain banned addons. Ask for help in their pages/forum.

I think you ran the raspberry setup and installed Kodi as user root.
Trying to fix this now for myself..