@mitu

Wow! At some point I did disable the save on exit setting. Thank you.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Video slideshow has blank screen between some videos:

They're read from the gamelist, right? Or no?

Yes.

After this PR will be merged, it will be possible to use a separate folder for videos, just like for images, in the screensaver.

@retropiecase said in How can i copy my retropie sd card to my computer:

@gomineko if i Backup is every setup lile scrapper or controller configuration the same ?

If you backup the SD image, it's a bit-for-bit duplicate of the entire SD card. This copies everything, updates, boot settings, installed packages...the mistyped commands in your bash history...everything. Just like you shut it off and just turned it back on again.

If you copy the roms, bios, and configs over the network share and then restore them to a fresh image, you will still keep most of your customizations (from the "configs" folder) but all your history, updates, etc. will be wiped clean and you will be starting fresh on those fronts.

according to some googling, I can use pkexec in place of sudo with chmod to fix the folder. What do you think?

https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-sudo-not-working-after-changing-the-permissions-of-usr-directory/

@upjumptheboogie depending on the video player and your pi model, try lowering the video resolution and see if it helps.

@russellb Would you be so kind to share it? Your approach is probably the most convenient way. TIA!

@asktheaxis it should not be too hard to find a correct rom for SNES, it may become much harder when you decide to go for arcade roms ;D
However: a sidenote, you can keep the SNES roms in zip-format.
Try to search for zipped roms with the addition "good", "[!]" or "tosec".
Those will work for sure.

@megagames3999 See? now that's all i wanted.. i just spent 3-4 hours looking for a solution to filtering the adult roms in my arcade folder, went through 6-7 various filtering tools that were overly complicated or have a learning curve.

and then you hide away in here with your little batch file that does it in one step.

why can't mame rom organisation be more like this?

Click, click, done.

all these various dll and xml and csv and dat files and romsets that change daily and the moon and stars having to align IS MADNESS.

God i hate arcade emulation.

Thank you. your batch file removed 300 or so mature themed roms and now I can stop filling my google search history with questionable queries. I hope you are well and have a great day.

@sleve_mcdichael

Technology hates me so things such as this are my norm. =) Thanks for the help, you presented the actual problem and I will work on the script. I found a site that has all emu movies at the correct bitrate or whatever is off.

@mitu The changes have to be made to/with the OMX player itself.

Ah looks like it's a potentially known issue

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/31463/mame-light-gun-game-cursor-not-reaching-the-whole-screen

Anyone point me in the right direction of how to downgrade retro arch on pi

😭😭

@mitu
Ok. All clear now. Thanks for the clarification.
I'm not a dev guy, so it's beyond my knowledge to modify the source code. I guess I have to prepare two set of config.txt, and reboot into the proper video mode when needed.

@mitu said in Quit Pixel back to ES?:

@smartroad said in Quit Pixel back to ES?:

I am sure when I tried this ages ago there was also an option to return to terminal.

There is, if the desktop is started from ES or command line.

You can boot to desktop by modifying the autostart.sh in /opt/retropie/configs/all/ and load Pixel before EmulationStation:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _PORT_ lxde emulationstation #auto

Of course, configure auto-login to console instead of auto-login to desktop for this to work.

That's what I was thinking of, I must have had it launch from ES. Thanks for the replies, and sorry for the delay replying, work and life got in the way :(

I've set the system up now so the first option on ES is the "Ports" so the desktop can be loaded quickly from there :D

@jmcall10
I understand you know how to copy Atari ST games (.st files) to the Atari ST Folder (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atarist).

The next step in the doc is to copy a file named tos.img into the bios folder (/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS).

For some reason, you sound like you suddenly "have no idea what to do" at this step. Why not.

step by step:
1/ On your PC, open your web browser, go to Google (it's a search engine), type "tos.img" in the cell. Click on a random link from the results, read the page that just opened until your eyes see "tos.img" on your screen. Click on that tos.img link to download the file tos.img to your PC.
2/ Do exactly what you did when you copied .st files, except it's no more a .st file, it's a tos.img file now, and you don't copy it into the roms/atarist folder anymore. This time you have to copy this tos.img file into the BIOS folder.

@that_fish_ said in Retropie not going to home screen:

@hostolis I got an error message

-bash: emulationstation: command not found

How did you install RetroPie? What hardware is it on?

everything was working fine earlier today,

I suppose the $64,000 question is, what did you do since earlier today?

What service does it say failed to start, up where it says "failed to start..."?

Oh wow, it works!!!

I installed g++-10 and gcc-10 with:
sudo apt install g++-10
sudo apt install gcc-10

Then I ran this command:
sudo make CC=gcc-10 CPP=g++-10 CXX=g++-10 LD=g++-10

with error, because I had to run ./configure command again. So I did and then tried it again.

After that I've finally built retroarch core package and performed basic installation of Retropie.

I could not figure it out myself. Thank you for your direction, you're the best! ;)

for the record, mini-usb cable was defective.

Before I found the cable is a problem I was trying to solve that by copying the BT pairing data from /var/lib/bluetooth/* from my functional Retropie installation @ RPI3, but it seems those files are not enough.

Yep, that was it! Thanks!

@buzz Thank you! Flashed and booted perfectly.