Can you explain how you fixed this? I've been wrestling with this all day.

I tried multiple solutions suggested here, but to no luck. In the end, I just started the whole installation all over again and it's working fine now. God knows what happened, but it seems re-installing everything seems to have fixed it... weird.

Thanks for the replies everyone!

@skykid said in Despair over controller ports constantly swapping:

I hear setting up Samba on OSX is a ballache, which is why I was looking for an easier option.

It's not, you can access the RetroPie shares from macOS without any issues:

open Finder, select "Go" menu and "Connect to Server". Type smb://retropie and hit "Connect".

@windg
Alrighty! I'll keep playing normally, i'll install duckstation just to see it working
Thanks!

Additional notes:
I installed the duckstation core, i tried playing the game there and swapping discs works perfectly, although it doesn't recognize the CD1 or CD2 extension i had to rename them as .cue files again and change the m3u to reflect the changes

@dankcushions I'm going to do a full update and reinstall of as much as I can right now.

@mcjones9631 said in Ubuntu PC having issues running ROMs:

Controller always gives "✔️ USB Gamepad (121/17) not configured" when in games and games can only be exited from the keyboard

This usually happens when your controller doesn't have a configuration file/profile in RetroArch. If you configured your controller in EmulationStation, a RetroArch configuration file for the controller should be created automatically, unless you turned of the auto-configuration of controllers in ES.

Is you controller working in EmulationStation, after you have completed the input configuration ? Did you disable the auto-configuration in EmulationStation, by any chance ?

@gerry69 Conclusion:

I thank you all for trying to help me!

As I was about to reinstall again (!) I discovered Recalbox as an alternative distro and thought I'd give it a try (forgive me). While on Retropie Vice refused to install, and lr-Vice had to be compiled 3 hours for stuttering results and Sega Mega Drive was unplayable with both emulators, in Recalbox EVERYTHING works perfectly smooth without even the need of setting up or installing anything.

So I hope you all understand that at this point - after at least 20 hours of trying to get Retropie going - I give up and go happily with Recalbox.

Thanks again anyway - cheers!

Ok it is kinda working, it seems I need to do a lot of editing to the github files to make it work nicely with the original retropie install as various default directories are different in this alternative emulationstation.
This isnt as straight forward as I thought it would be lol

You can hit F4 on the ES menu to get to the command line of the Pi. If using Samba or SSH you can get to the file structure on another computer, WIndows for example.

Yeah I use my switch pro controller, I havent done any extra configuration at all and it pairs just fine. Can you try another bluetooth controller? Dualshock 4 or Xbone one controller?

If this is your first time pairing via bluetooth, you might want to check that your bluetooth is working correctly with this command in the terminal:

systemctl status bluetooth.service

Thanks guys, that was exactly the problem. I followed the thread @windg provided, and it worked first time. I really appreciate you guys

I think I got it working finally! Thanks a lot for the help, it's much appreciated!

@hunksurvivorx Agree it's something to do with the newest update. It was perfect before because I played it briefly back in july. Playing it with the latest build and the sounds is terrible and even screeching at times.

@retropieuser555

Yeah.

I see how you're right on this.

Using the default, built in WiFi, it took 45 minutes to transfer a 500 MB folder.

With the WiFi dongle and the same folder, about 6 minutes.

And with a direct connect with an ethernet cable, less than 30 seconds.

I'm not sure how to test for ping though, but I think I'll stick with the dongle. :)

@dankcushions
Just read rules of forum. I apologize to everyone. Thanks for the tips and help though!

@officialazyria the runcommand just needs to point at whatever folder you want it to look for emulators.cfg in.

I'm seeing that "hikaru" is a Sega system similar to NAOMI and Atomiswave, so it might probably use the Dreamcast setup too, not Arcade. Gaelco is just a game publisher though, right? I don't know much about it but I've got Alligator Hunt running in my Arcade folder under FBNeo. What game(s) are you trying to play? What emulators do they require?

@jimmyfromthebay said in Anyone know why lr-fmsx doesn't work on Pi 4?:

@folly said in Anyone know why lr-fmsx doesn't work on Pi 4?:

@jimmyfromthebay

Aha, MAGIC, that's nice to hear !

Btw., what is the md5sum of your "Jet Set Willy (1984)(Software Projects).dsk" ?
Perhaps you have a different file than me, if so, the patch probably will not work because of that.

It would be nice to know the cause.

I suspect the cause was GitHub. I can never remember which method of downloading files from GitHub pages gets you the real file, and which way gets you a broken useless one just pretending to be it.

Never mind.

Tagged for later reading.

@addison give it a try again. sometime github is flakey.

i just gave it a try and i was able to install it with no issue

@folly said in Has anyone managed to get sound from the TRS-80?:

@jimmyfromthebay

I found this info on a blog :

Many games did not include sound effects, as audio output was not an intentional feature of the TRS-80's design, but many games used a trick to produce sound effects.

The trick was :
Back in the day, we had to hook a little speaker up to the cassette out line to pick up the audio

So that could be the reason why you don't have sound.

No, these are definitely games with programmed sound and speech, because I've seen YouTube videos of them (and MESS does refer to the machine's sound hardware, as seen in the above pics). It's very strange that the maximum sound output level in MESS is set to 0dB.

I've no idea what the technical machine differences are. There were a whole bunch of systems around at the same time that appear to use extremely similar hardware/OSes, and run identical-looking ports of the same games (I think the Genie is another) but I don't think they're compatible.

I'll investigate adding memory. It was a massive faff to get games working across all three formats, and lots of stuff that seemed like it SHOULD work didn't work because the files were in some sort of different formats despite having the same file extension. If I can get sound working I'll do a little tutorial.

(Planning one for the Dragon 32/CoCo2 as well, but so many things to do and so little time. Currently having an absolutely brutal fistfight with a couple of incomprehensible ZX Spectrum Next emulators.)