@sleve_mcdichael said in How Do I "Wake Up" My Retropie Audio Sooner?:

You can force the audio channel open with vcgencmd force_audio hdmi 1 but I'm not sure where you'd put this to have it take effect before the splashscreen. You could probably put it directly in the splashscreen script itself at /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh, but it might get overwritten if you update.

I tried fiddling with this, but it became a bit too cumbersome. So I just added an audio queue to my splash that should help activate it sooner.

In the meantime, would it be possible to play two splash screens (one small one to "wake up" the pie's audio, then the second could be my main)? Or if I turned on an image splash as well, would that work to load it before the video in order to get the audio channel active sooner? Or is it just a one and done setting for a single video loading at startup and that's it?

@yserra Hmm, shoot. I wonder if I have a greater issue. I did as you instructed for the C64 and the keyboard is still having the same issues. FWIW, the same issue exists when I connect a straight up PC USB keyboard. I also notice the Scoll lock made no difference.. then again I test that after I edited the cfg, so maybe it doesn't work because I set it to "nul".

@Ashpool said in Can't get retropie 4.1 to boot in 720p:

. Is it possible to activate such a function here (please ignore if this forum actually is already warning the user about it) ?

It is activated, but the warning was probably shown to @RickyTan, your reply was later.

@sleve_mcdichael said in CEC control - Pi turns TV on when booted:

echo 'standby 0.0.0.0' | cec-client -s -d 1

Thanks @sleve_mcdichael. I did try both. It's odd that I can turn it on, but not off. But I've tried both methods. I appreciate the assist though. Maybe someone else will chime in.

@hjk321 said in Xbox One Controller won't connect the "official" way but WILL connect via bluetoothctl.:

So at first glance it might seem like a xpadneo issue, but it's actually not

It could be, if your controller has the latest firmware, but xpadneo's version is less than v0.9.2.
Update your RetroPie-Setup script, and then re-install xpadneo. Try pairing the controller again - either through the RetroPie menus or via bluetoothctl.

@windg that worked. thanks @windg and @mitu

@mitu There hasn't been a reply on that thread in months...

I'm getting both an 'xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused' response to StartX
and a response " *failed to add service - already in use?" to emulationstation.

Do you think it is related to autologin settings? It's as though both the services are started but I'm outside them (I guess because George's script itself called Xinit ... though I uninstalled Meso, Box86 and Wine).

@mitu said in Which files/folders to backup?:

@retrodaniel said in Which files/folders to backup?:

know that I changed the configuration of some games specifically during emulation, but I have no idea where those are stored. Could anyone point me to where they are, please?

The overrides for cores/games should be stored in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/configs, each core has its own folder for overrides. If you're backing up /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch, it should be enough - you can restore them afterwards.

Other than that, the backed up folders you mentioned should be enough.

Amazing! Thank you for the help :)

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Handling the infinite tedium of split ROM sets:

I already tried /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame

Just an alternative for you.
I am surprised you never tried this :
If you install the arcade category from the add-mamedev-systems.sh script the rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame will be added in the loader lines for lr-mame and mame.
(only in the loader lines created by this script, I have to mention)
So then the less important roms can be placed in :
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame

Just have a try !

Basically what I'm doing to launch is to configure the platform like this:

<system> <name>steam</name> <fullname>Steam</fullname> <path>~/RetroPie/roms/steam</path> <extension>.dat</extension> <command>steam steam://rungameid/`cat %ROM%`</command> <platform>pc</platform> <theme>steam</theme> </system>

And then in the Steam ROMs folder, saving the game id in a .cat file.

Like @abaaihd said, the only issue is when exiting the game, as Steam will be minimized and EmulationStation will loose focus.

@abaaihd Did you get able to get back to ES after exit any Steam game?

@sirhenrythe5th Maybe it's a combo of extra bandwidth usage and the time required to update them. I'm not sure. I ended up getting what I could from emumovies and then I used a batch renamer to rename them and mass edit the xml's to match that.

Before emumovies had acceptable scans (some are hit or miss like the pc-engine covers...) I did go overboard by getting the really big scans from the cover project. It was a long process because the cut/resize batch script in photoshop wouldn't always work correctly.

@windg Hi. This doesn't seem to have worked, I can use the keyboard to navigate the main menu but not in Retroarch.

@mth75 anytime. I suspect something's wrong with your setup. Agony should have launched without issue and with proper settings. Usually this points to an old amiberry.conf. Please ensure to:

use the latest Agony "package" version as above (Agony_v2.1_0960.lha) and use that exact naming. backup then delete your amiberry.conf from the "conf" directory. Reinstall Amiberry from Retropie-Setup.

This should definitely fix your issue and allow Agony to run as it should with proper defaults. If this works we would continue from there.

@Darksavior nes accuracy is measured through various tools to verify correct ppu/cpu/apu operation and proper support with the most popular nes mappers, support for obscure mappers isn't accounted during those tests tbh.
Mesen probably had missing/broken support for that mapper 078 used in 2 games (Holy Diver and Uchuusen - Cosmo Carrier) at the time of its release.
Afaik Mesen is the only emulator getting 100% at those tests, nestopia is around 80%, quicknes is around 70%, fceumm is only around 50% and the least accurate nes emulator available on retropie.
I don't know if there is any nes emulator with 100% mapper compatibility, there are several hundreds of them and they all need to be coded separately.

Can you post your config.txt boot configuration ? What version of RetroPie are you using ?

@Lolonois Edit: was able to get it work after all! Thanks!

You need to give us some more info to help diagnose your problem.
Did the image you're using has ever worked on a Pi4 ? When you say you 'updated so on old board' - does this mean you've used a Pi3 with the same image/sdcard to do the update ? What image are you using ?

@mitu

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for your help!

We’ve got most of it working now. Just need to add a few tweaks to the code to write the metadata to the screen and make the info displayed selectable by the user. Thanks!

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@racecarmike said in Games not loading.:

I bought the SD card off of Amazon and I used it on my raspberry pi 4

Then ask the seller for support - we don't support 3rd party images in the forums, only the image from https://retropie.org.uk/download.