@rafaz182 having the same issue with 4.7.1. Downgraded to 4.6 with a new flash but stopped working after doing an "apt upgrade" on 4.6 - did this fix you posted worked on 4.7.1?

@tango Thanks for this comprehensive writeup. That's the spirit of a community. :)

For all coming accross this post: This guide works only for Rpi 3B+ (Note the +).

For other models suppporting USB mass storage boot see prerequites here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md

I haven't tried it using FBneo so maybe I'll do that. Failing that I'll just get hold of the NES version I guess.

@jamrom2 I did, but that doesn’t give me the option of choosing keyboard keys when I go to the config.

@radji Ran into this while I was researching my own struggles outputting dual monitors from my Pi 4. I found a way to get it done - I'll spare you the walkthrough if that's okay but it involved booting the desktop environment first with xrandr installed and the displays configured there - then rigging the thing to autostart emulation station from there on top of that environment. Long story short, I took a huge performance hit, even the gen. 4 consoles started dropping frames and chopping audio. I was super proud to get it working after many failures and posts online saying it couldn't be done, but unfortunately it just wasn't worth it in the end. Most people suggest an HDMI splitter and now that I can see how rough it can be on the system to make this work - just don't do it is my advice. Maybe it's a moot point for you by now, but FYI for anyone else down the road. Go with the splitter.

@mitu
Thank you, removing the call for the ds4drv on /etc/rc.local solved it!

Ok, thanks for all!!!!

@arcadez2003 said in dodonpachi dai ou jou (normal and black label) stopped working with latest fbneo + latest retropie:

If your using the latest version of FBN and your rom and PGM bios are correct then you should have no troubles running ddp3

Running was working but I had to load the game individually, ie, if I create a PlayList from a folder and scan it, 'ddp3' doesn't get added to that playlist (like if it's not recognized due to a different CRC32 value I guess). Not sure if how that could get officially fix so that it's recognized when creating Playlists.

@mikebrin
it explains how to run in verbose mode via the link @Clyde provided:

@clyde said in Cannot get Player 2 Joystick to work:

Please run one of the games with verbose logging

but if you can't get into the runcommand menu, it's a moot point i guess.

now, as for your issue - donkey kong's 2 player mode uses one stick - the real cabinet only had one (and why not, since, the 2 player mode isn't simultaneous). you take turns on one stick.

it's possible that there's a cocktail/2p mode you can select via the service menu or dipswitches, or you could map the player 2 controls as alternatives for player 2 via the MAME menu for this game only, or something like that.

note, these instructions are for mame2003 (which is recommended), not the mame2016 which you're using (which is not recommended).

@thorr69 Absolutely! When my girlfriend came to my home for the first time more than two years ago, she was very surprised by my RetroPie upright arcade cabinet (subsequently, she told me that she thought "okay, kissing later"), and soon after that, we played together next to another. 😊 We held hands for the first time when we looked up special moves for Street Fighter II Champions Edition online. 💞😄

(Her interest in playing retro games waned over time, but she still likes my "Automat" – German for "machine" – up until this day.)

Sorry for the off-topic, but this triggered some fond memories … 😇

@john_carter No, it's is when I enable the VMS video driver and then the audio fails to work under HDMI. I haven't seen any other reports of this.

It's a common issue, since the HDMI audio is handled by the KMS driver automatically. It's been widely reported - in fact when the KMS driver for Pi4 was announced, it was one of the changes included (see this forum post). Here in the foruns - see this topic.

@colstar said in Outrun control issue:

@colstar I actually placed a few other roms that were not running under MAME into the FBNeo folder and that worked fine! :)

Romsets have to match the emulator and its version, i recommend reading retropie's arcade documentation.

@george-spiggott I didn't know there was a Libretro version of pcsx2. I'm using the standalone version downloaded from the "experimental" section of retropie setup. Works great on my Linux Mint box. Just doesn't have support for CHD files. I'll keep my eye out for an lr version.

Thank you for being so patient with me. The problem is solved now. If I believed in gods, I would call you a retropie god. I guess Global Moderator will have to do.

"that's why I asked for a complete log (including ES exiting)." I was giving you what ES was producing.

I launched ES from terminal with the command emulationstation --debug

I went and scraped the snes ROMS - data and images were retrieved.

Exited ES and restarted it with just the emulationstation command

copied the es_log.txt file to a rom folder - so I could transfer it to my PC

How I fixed the problem:

Moved the SNES ROM's to a folder called SNESBAK

There was no /snes/gamelist.xml file

I found a bucket load of image files in /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/snes/ I deleted them all

I rebooted retropie

Copied the snes ROMs from the SNESBAK folder to the snes folder

restarted ES

Tried scraping 10 of the snes ROMS and was succesful

Restarted ES and the 10 ROM's data and images were saved.

Deleted SNESBAK and ROMS

@tusabez Nevermind. Apparently I changed the layout for Retroarch a while back which made them not playable. I got them running now. Thanks though!

Hi,

After looking at the runcommand log, I didn't see anything weird, especially since the slowness tended to before runcommand had started.

I reinstalled Alexander Shalin's rclone script for cloud syncs and the problem is sorted.

Thanks for being there ready to help 😀

@aaronc75 Could you provide more information about how you have setup Skyscraper? That path to the media looks strange. It seems you have relative paths turned on, but I don't understand why it says ./downloaded_images as the media path.

What are the permissions of the ./downloaded_images folder itself?