I went back to looking into this again today. I've seen a bunch of threads around where people talk about vlc and using kms for hardware acceleration, so it seems like it is maybe supposed to work?

I captured the output from running it. The output looks identical regardless of whether I'm using FKMS or KMS. With FKMS, the image correctly shows on the screen (either hdmi0 or hdmi1, whatever I specify). With KMS, the output is the same, but the screen still just displays the terminal, nothing else shows up on either display.

Is there some other place I can look for errors, some other log file maybe?

Here's what the output is:

$ cvlc /home/pi/PieMarquee2/marquee/system/snes.png VLC media player 3.0.12 Vetinari (revision 3.0.12-1-0-gd147bb5e7e) [015a11d0] vlcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused [015a2ac8] dbus interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 [015a2ac8] main interface error: no suitable interface module [01528b58] main libvlc error: interface "dbus,none" initialization failed [015bc2a0] main interface error: no suitable interface module [01528b58] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed [015bc2a0] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module... [aab014b0] gles2 generic error: parent window not available [aab00ca0] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:opengles2 module [aab014b0] xcb generic error: window not available [aab00ca0] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:xcb_x11 module

@ian_uk90 said in Shaders causing performance issues:

I’ve changed this to 1080p in the launch menu and now all games are running perfectly with shaders on!
Can anyone recommend an optimum resolution? Interested to see if any of the others may make further improvements.

1080p60 is the optimum really. any lower may increase performance if gpu is the bottleneck, but if it's already full speed it's not going to matter.

also, the crt scanline shaders require ~4 vertical pixels per emulated pixel for the scanlines to look decent, and 240x4=960, so 1080 is near the typical limit anyway.

finally, lower resolutions = more obvious scaling artefacts.

perhaps some of this info should be added to https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Shaders-and-Smoothing/ - will try and do this at some point today!

@tmoe01 said in Issue launching ROMs:

... then goes black again before returning to Retropie.

Using the desktop is not supported on Raspbian/Raspberry Pi, start EmulationStation at boot (from the terminal) and not from a desktop session. More details how to configure that here.

@dankcushions My main worry was that the msu-1 file will get entangled with other files, especially if I was to add ,ore msu hacks, but this is more of my paranoia. I also thought it would be more tidy, but if it adds more clicks and I can't use lr-snes9x anyway, I guess I'll pass.
Thanks for your help!

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/cuuioi/wii_and_gamecube_on_raspberry_pi_4_tutorial/

Pi4 is almost drop in replacement of PI3

For a 14 year old it might be too much for you to understand, but at 15 I was heavily into computers that were JUST being introduced into schools in 1984 and have been building computers and tinkering for over 20 years so today's 14 year old that have been brought up around computers may find it easy

A lot of people I work with are still clueless when it comes to computers and how they work and who are younger than me

@iazrt The Showcase theme (my favorite) does the same thing as well and also has a blank tag which I just removed. Just search for >< and you'll easily find a blank.

@mitu thank you for the response, wanted to double check there wasn't anything that could be done retropie side first. I'll reach out to utility board manufacturer.

@ruttlehead thank you

@wmarcio Worked great. I had tried Aomei Partition Manager Pro, but it just couldn't make a bootable clone. Go figure. Win32imager did the trick.

I then just went into RASP Setup/Advanced Settings and expanded the file system. From 32GB to 256GB and twice the speed. Very likely major overkill, but it was cheap and will remove all concerns for the time being.

@r4izuk0 no. It's part of the original bezel. You can see it. It's best to run these as blank screens in the center and use the shaders to create the screen effects. I've done a ton of them and even altered others works to fit my desire to have a ton of different looks.

And that did it.

After my last reply, I removed the gamepad physically, and put the alan-1 flight yoke adapter in position one of the RPI.

Then, I deleted the Mame-2003-plus config files at \home\pi\RetroPie\roms\arcade\mame2003-plus\cfg

I went into Retroarch config from Retropie and went to bind inputs for port 1. I changed it from Gamepad to Gamepad with Analog, set it to left analog, then mapped only the analog and four buttons.

Next, started up Star Wars, and mapped input for this game to the Analog X/Y and buttons.

Deadzone gone!

Settings and everything held after reboot.

Thanks for all the help!

@stlcyclone It's already fixed.

@derpyder
Dont have that problem anymore...
it was my old pi3
switch to pi4 so start all new (that fix it ;) )

@iandaemon said in How to Filter Out Adult Games?:

@alphabetapie I think you can remove the "button hints" or whatever they're called at the bottom of the screen.

According to mitu in this thread, adding/deleting favorites is disabled by design in KIOSK mode: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29960/problem-adding-favorites/3?_=1615605880384

That would be super helpful, but mine does not seem to act that way. I set it to kiosk mode and then on any game I hit the Y button on, it will still say "Adding/Removing From Favorites." Then if I filter by favorites in Kiosk, only those will show up. I would like this disabled completely if possible. I'm running the version of Retropie from the 4.7.1 image, EmulationStation version 2.9.6RP.

Can @mitu chime in on if I need to set something a certain way, or turn something off (or anyone that might know what the issue is getting these favorites to read-only)?

@mitu I'm hoping to find a video or specific example of the steps to saving the state in say, Pepper II (or any game with a decently long POST) and then the settings to auto-load that post-POST save state each time the game launches.

I THINK I may have gotten the Retroarch settings correct, but don't see anything that says something like, "On load, use this save state for this game/core".

@barbudreadmon Looking into this now.

I now am using an HDMI to RGB (with L/R audio) component video converter - looks very good.