@misterbo42 said in Black screen after few minutes of gaming:

I don’t know where I can find a log of these errors but if someone can tell me I would look at it.

The runtime log is usually in /dev/shm/runcommand.log. You can also try running dmesg from the command line after this happens to see if any warning/errors are shown in the system log.

Can you give more details - as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ? Which emulator, what RetroPie version (don't say latest), how did you install it, etc.

Does it happen for all games or just for a particular game/system ? Did you overclock your PI ?

Amazing! This did the job!

I believe that is a Windows only device

@v-roshpi Contact the seller ? You can download RetroPie from our site, and try and get that to work but you will need to contact them for configuration unless you know what it's using to interface etc

@TANKARD @mitu

Custom configs for CRT using the built-in composite out

You can also tweak the runahead settings for 8bit/16bit consoles to further improve the input lag and use wired controllers.

You can check using the jstest utility if the buttons are registering correctly in Linux, outside or RetroPie. Attach a keyboard and exit Emulationstation (F4), then run from the command line:

jstest /dev/input/js0

It will show you the gamepad buttons/joysticks and you can press them one by one to see if the input values change on the screen. You can exit the test by pressing Ctrl + C.

If there is no reaction when pressing a button, either the wiring is faulty or the controller.
You can also try connecting the encoder to a PC and test it there also.

@BuZz my bad. I’ll update my post or create a new one with the relevant information.

Thanks, this was the file I'm looking for ...

Actually, Emulationstation has had some scripting added recently (see the docs about it), but it currently doesn't have any related events for screensaver start (the wake event might be used when stopping the screensaver).

@therexershow You're replying to a 3 years old topic - if you have a specific problem please open a new topic instead and add the info asked inhttps://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@sniper22b said in Cannot get Hatari Emulator to show up:

es_systems.cfg

You seem to have a customized es_systems.cfg - how did you install RetroPie ?

By "UI" you mean EmulationStation? Are the input devices being seen as two separate things or the same thing in Retroarch?

I had the same problem as you, to fix it I disabled the Dynamic recompiler in the quick menu settings.

It stopped the "micro stuttering" I was getting seems the PI4 can run the interpreter pretty well.

http://www.2600-daptor.com/

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/#samba-shares

@mitu that worked! Now I'm getting an error "1v10: VolumeControl::init() - Failed to attach to default card!" But the sound is working, so I dont know if it's a big deal or not.

@mitu when you say path to file do you mean CD (change directory) to get to omxplayer?

No, I mean the path to the video file

rule #5? I don't understand?

It's easy - did you download the image from this site or not ? My question was to provide more details about your installation - what Pi model, what RetroPie version, etc. You've not mentioned anything about that. Did you buy the kit with the image included ?

@mitu Oh ok, that’s a bit of a bummer. At least I know why it doesn’t work though. No big deal, I mainly use it for MAME anyways. Thanks for all your help!

@traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78):

For some reason there were only 3 wav files inside that zip.

You probably swapped your samples file with your roms file.

@traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78):

As far as I can tell everything is good now.

Might as well mention it even if some people prefer it that way or don't care : dkong colors are wrong in mame2003, as an example the red stages are supposed to be pink like this :
dkong real colors

If you are interested in getting the game to run with real colors, they are fixed in the recent mame cores (2015 onwards) and the FBNeo core.