https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

@KM_64

I tried the retropie extras script and could never get it to work either so I used the flatpak version of citra. It’s been a while but I basically made a new system in retropie and changed my theme for the 3DS. My notes may be a little vague but here you go.

Adding new Emu
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg move to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation
Change that file to add systems
In /opt/retropie/configs/ create new system folders and add runcommand script. Basically the start command followed by %ROM%

Here’s an example of my Xbox emu (don’t have access to my computer now to get the 3DS but should be close)

Config Files to create
Opt/retropie/configs/xbox emulator.cfg
xbox = "flatpak run app.xemu.xemu -dvd_path %ROM%"
default = "xemu"

Opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation es_systems.cfg
<system>
<name>xbox</name>
<fullname>XBOX</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/xbox</path>
<extension>.iso .sh</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_xbox %ROM%</command>
<platform>xbox</platform>
<theme>xbox</theme>
</system>

Also if you wanted to use an iPad as the bottom screen this is what I found to get it sort of working. Touch screen is ok but not perfect

iPad as second monitor Citra
Dual monitors using wayland and rdp on iPad logged in through ip address. Separate monitors in citra then move and resize windows.
This is copied from a website:

First, open a Terminal window and run: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.remote-desktop.rdp screen-share-mode extend. This step is needed to enable extendable virtual monitors over RDP. This feature is, at present, a hidden one because this stuff isn’t polished enough for the masses to make use of yet — so be aware!
Next, open the Settings app, navigate to the Sharing panel, and turn on Sharing, and turn on (once it appears) the ‘Remote Desktop’ option. You will want to set up a username and password too, to allow you to connect from a different device.

If nothing else maybe it’ll get you started in the right direction. But it is possible to have citra running through emulationstation on Ubuntu 22.04. And it’s really not that hard to do.

@sleve_mcdichael
Many thanks! that helped!

the whole problems started becasue i am too tidy and have my Roms organized in each console in a seperate "Roms" folder. Now this tihngs makes sense to me.

@kcoconnor76

Slowdowns = lack of performance, your device is too weak to run this at full speed
Latency = delay between pressing a button and its result being displayed on screen
Runahead or preemptive frames = lesser latency at the cost of higher requirements, meaning more slowdowns if your device was already too weak without those features

Runahead and preemptive frames aren't features to remove slowdowns.

Note that some slowdowns can be native to the games (because the real hardware was too weak to run them) and some emulators have the ability to get around this by overclocking the emulated hardware, yet again at the cost of higher requirements.

Your pi4 is simply too weak to run n64, and the only way around this is most likely to use a better device.

@Zentrifuge

Found solution for everything - Batocera - Works like a charm out of the box - Even with my N30 Pro + Bluetooth from internal device.

Thank you

No. No, no, no...just...no.

I don't know if there is a language barrier here or if what else is going on, but you are doing this so, so very, very wrong that it is hard to even know where to start correcting you.

I'm not even convinced you have any console roms at all. The one thing you actually posted, was a disc-image for a Windows game.

See previous answers here(1).

...and here(2).

...and here(3).

RPi4 and Pi 400 are the newer systems and the are faster than RPi3B. You can find a comparison graph with all models here : https://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/raspberrypi-models-comparison

@KM_64 Gnome with Wayland seems to suck with Ubuntu 22.04. Any other Wayland environment does not show this problem.

@mitu no, i only play fc/arcade

@sdepace said in games splash screen disable:

I was playing with some of the options and I accidentally turned on a setting to play a games splash screen while it loads. Can anyone tell me where I can turn this off?

Maybe you enabled launch menu art ?

Secondly, on a prior install, I had an addon that would play a video preview of each game when hovered on the title. Can anyone tell me how to do this again? Presently a low resolution image shows that doesn't look very good.

If you have videos scraped for the games, the front-end can play them if the current theme supports them. There's no 'addons' that need to be installed.

@praetorian55

Hey just trying to fix this issue as well, and came across this old-ish thread. Are you saying the controllers in that Amazon link do, in fact, function as intended, including the left and right d-pad buttons?

Thanks and cheers

In addition to using English, please don't use ALL CAPS for your posts.

As @retropieuser555 said, you don't need to install RaspiOS, if you're a beginner just use pre-built image from https://retropie.org.uk/download.

@Dr_Goggles

I'm about to try the same thing you went through. I tried to update a pi which hasn't seen any updates for the better part of like 5 years, and got errors saying I need to update from stretch. The update finished (with failures) and now the pi boots up the retropie screen, then powers down. So I have to update or else I can't even use the pi.

I have another pi in the house which is basically identical, so I'll be attempting a clean install of buster with the hopes that I don't lose functionality of my very- simplistic use of it. Mostly just watching video files in kodi from an external hdd, and a bunch of roms I can copy from the other pi.

I'll probably make copies of the config and rom folders before I download and flash the new retropie software. But I haven't done this for a few years and I hope it's as easy as it used to be. Any roadblocks you overcame that might help me would be appreciated. I didn't see you make a 'success!' post so I can only assume you got it figured out and are back in business.

@Neo-Rio said in Colecovision defaulting to fbneo-cv:

Any info on what this emulator expects?

https://docs.libretro.com/library/fbneo/

@mitu Thank you - that's sorted it!

Go here:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/esthemes.sh

Click this "three dots" and choose "edit file":

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(It's the second three dots, below the upper three dots.)

It will show you this message or something like it (yours might be worded slightly different, since you don't yet have a fork so you'll be creating it in this step):

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Add your theme to the list here. "YourName" is the name of your GitHub account that hosts the theme and theme_name is the theme name that will be displayed in the theme listing. The repo should be called es-theme-theme_name and when you put it here, leave off the es-theme- part and just write 'YourName theme_name'.

Click "propose changes":

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...this creates your own fork, with the change that you made. Also, it automatically brings you on this page for "comparing changes"; click "create pull request" once to begin the process of creating a pull request:

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Here you can fill in some information about the change, and then after reviewing everything is correct, click "create pull request" a second time to finalize and submit the pull-request, where it can be reviewed by the developers:

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@jhny try reinstalling retropiemenu in core packages and restarting emulation station.

Btw bullseye support is still a wip.

raspi-config should be installed by default even on raspbian lite (it used to be). Please provide more details of your setup (see link at top of forum).

@mitu Yes, thanks. I knew I saw this setting somewhere else.
So I think this problem is now all solved.

Thanks for all your help and I wanna express my excitement: This forum is really well maintained and offers great help quickly, which is not as usual as it should be, when you search for something online. And from what I've read so far you do a lot of it. So props to you!