@skidiver Cool. Glad you found a solution. As a courtesy for other users (and search engines) please mark your subject post with something like [solved].

@stmacy Windows cannot read the Linux- formatted partition and therefore thinks it's not formatted at all. It's fine, just eject it & put it in your Raspberry.

@mitu thank you. i understand all.

@RapidEdwin08 said in Emulationstation video previews on Raspberry Pi 5:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/RetroPie-Setup/master/vlc-downgrade.sh -P ~/
chmod 755 ~/vlc-downgrade.sh
~/vlc-downgrade.sh

Hi @RapidEdwin08 ,
I'm trying to go back to the old VLC version but it doesn't' work. It works in the past, but now it stop working. you can see my log here

https://pastebin.com/xmmUjQkr

It stop to work when I tried to install the older version of Dolphin.

Any Idea to fix that?

NEW EDIT: Solve with this - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=373298

@sugarfree the game works well, except for the map only showing black screen,, which was supposed to have been fixed in newer versions, only doesn't seem to work on pi5.

@mitu, No, it's just that the button mapping is different. For example, if you use dbar4gun with a Wiimote connected via Bluetooth or through a DolphinBar, the directions on the Wiimote and the A button will be mapped to specific keys on the keyboard. All the mappings are detailed in the table I sent earlier.

@RapidEdwin08
Thank you so much for the help! Either of those options will probably work for me.

Also that makes sense now why the doom1.wad wasn't working properly but the Doom.wad I have from buying doom on steam works.

Thank you.

Please add some info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Did you configure your gamepad in EmulationStation ? Usually this is all what's needed in order for the correct auto-configuration profile for RetroArch to be generated. Did you reset/changed your RetroArch configuration so that the configuration profile cannot be changed ?

Cannot use the Bluetooth and RetroPie-setup menu in Armbian, any input and it crashes while trying to navigate. If you preset Bluetooth connections within the OS, it runs all games and controls really well.

PSX, all runs well
N64, mid range games run well.
Dreamcast, lower end games run well.

Sadly not perfect yet due to Bluetooth imperfections in the menu and need N64 resolution manual preset when swapping to different quality monitor... Just that :(

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Managed to install RetroPie successfully on Dietpi OS.
Still working out:

[solved] why the N64 hotkey doesn't work, can't exit
... Disabled '0' mupen64plus hotkey in ~/all/autoconf.ini
... Added J0B12/B11 at emulation Stop in ~/N64/autoconf.ini [solved] why PSX doesn't launch, black screen
... Replaced all my BIOS files [solved]why NES doesn't run, returns to ES
... Used corrupted roms without headers [solved] why Dreamcast won't show in ES
... Had .7z files in the rom folder. Unzipped the files

The scriptmodule is thought as a "ease of use" / for default setups, if you want to unleash the full potential of Skyscraper use the command line.

Within the scriptmodule you can only alter the (output) gamelist (-g) folder and media folder (-o).

With Use ROM folder (Enabled) (see generate options in the menu) the gamelist location is
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<platform> and /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<platform>/media.

With Use ROM folder (Disabled) the gamelist location is
/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<platform> and /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/<platform>/media.

The inputFolder is in any case picked up from the config.ini, however, the scriptmodule only uses $romdir which is currently taken from the default RetroPie value (which is /home/pi/RetroPie/roms). See _list_systems_skyscraper() in the scriptmodule skyscraper.sh.

TL;DR: Using a symlink as you did is the right way.

OK so this worked:

I added the following to runcommand-onlaunch.sh

rm /opt/retropie/configs/ps2/Config/cache/vulkan_pipelines.bin && rm /opt/retropie/configs/ps2/Config/cache/vulkan_shaders.bin && rm /opt/retropie/configs/ps2/Config/cache/vulkan_shaders.idx

It did not appear to like them on separate lines. Now when a game launches, it deletes those three files, and if I'm loading a PS2 game with AetherSX2 it re-creates them once the game loads, but then deletes them before the next game.

So this way those files never get bloated and not hog down any other games.

@mitu Thanks guys - I'll give it whirl

@Gryphandor78 I'm struggling with the same issue. I went into mame menu using tab, and set the X+ X- Y+ Y-, the INC and DEC settings, and the trackball worked. I haven't been able to get it working without using mame settings instead of Retroarch. The trackball is a little sloppy dong this, and it has to be done for every game? Is this the way you did it? By moving the trackball in MAME UI to register the positions? Also, did you change any of the sensitivity?

@sebalberico said in How deactivate the option to shut down with F12 ?!:

I do the changes (save) restart the system to see if something has changed..and nope...all gone.

That's strange and can't find an explanation for this - if the information added by scraper is the same thing, so one is saved, the other should also be saved.

@mitu said in Unable to install gamecondriver-package:

db9_gpio_rpi/releases/tag/v1.3.

Thx, mitu. The install worked fine:

pi@retropie:~/db9_gpio_rpi $ sudo apt install -f ./db9-gpio-rpi-dkms_1.3_all.deb ... Building initial module for 5.4.72-v7l+ Done. db9_gpio_rpi.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/5.4.72-v7l+/updates/dkms/ depmod..... DKMS: install completed. Module build for kernel 5.4.72-v8+ was skipped since the kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.

Thx, skidiver