@Scraperdude cool. One more thing: Please edit the subject of the very first post of this thread and add [solved] or similar. Thanks & happy scraping!

@TPR said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@retropieuser555 The script does not seem to work with .m3u files. Neither Metal Gear Solid or Medal of Honor Rising Sun worked with the controller.

EDIT: Nevermind. Got the M3U file to work. Seems like the discs have to be visible in the same directory as the m3u to work correctly.

I had my disc files as .Metal Gear Solid - The Twin Snakes (USA) (Disc 1).rvz so they wouldn't appear in the listing and then I also tried putting them in a different folder and neither worked.

But if the .rvz file is visible in the same folder as the m3u, it seems to work.

@retropieuser555

Nope, I was right the first time. .m3u files don't work. I was fooled into thinking it did because I had loaded Metal Gear Solid - The Twin Snakes (USA) (Disc 1).rvz on its own so it saved my XBOX 360 profile to the config, and then it kept loading that up every time I would load that game again, but then on other games, the .m3u file didn't work.

I went back to Metal Gear and tried another controller and it poped up with XBOX 360 even with a different controller connected.

So the .m3u files don't currently work correctly.

@Folly said in Development of module-script generator for lr-mess, lr-mame and mame standalone:

@TPR

Tried elite and elitea from bbcb_flop.
Saw these graphic glitches also.
Mame warns for "graphic issues".
I think there is noting you can do about it.

Gotcha. If I end up coming up with some sort of solution or work around I'll post it!

@DTEAM you can just download it off RPCS3 official website, that's all I did. No need to worry about scripts. Although I did run it in the desktop environment, I didn't bother to see if it ran in the framebuffer or needed a window manager etc

@DaniAngel said in Wireless dongle controller issue:

Does this observation help out?

Sort of, in the sense that it shows it's not a power issue, as I was suspected. If you have spare sdcard, can you install the latest RaspiOS from raspberrypi.com and see if you get the same behavior (i.e. dongles doesn't get detected during re-boot/power on) ?

@TPR said in Does the Pi keep in ongoing log in case of a crash?:

@retropieuser555 Still trying to figure this one out. Any help on how I can get verbose logging in retroarch to stay on when I load a game?

Just in case anyone ever needed the answer to this, I added the following to my retroarch.cfg file in my /config/gc folder and this worked:

log_verbosity = "true"
log_to_file = "true"
log_to_file_timestamp = "true"

Note this was the only fix that I found that would force logging verbosity stay on for me.

FYI anyone reading.

I added a sleep 1 to the ydotool script at launch and a sleep 1.5 to my emulationstation auto launch script for a more stable result.

@sugarfree Well, I wasn't quite sure what I did was right and I don't know the terminology too well, but I cloned the Raspberry Pi kernel, modified only the lines of code mentioned in the workaround (the file being vc4_v3d.c), then compiled and installed the kernel. It might have been just dumb luck that this worked, and my problem may have been something else entirely.

If I can add my contribution... I recently tried (like 2 weeks ago) to Update the RetroPie (I'm on 3B+ and had it since 2020 like you). I even had a message stating that my version (Stretch, I think I was on 3.8) was not supported anymore, but I still did it.

Unfortunately it took hours (building from source was the only option) and broke everything.

So I flashed and restarted from scratch (made a copy of my configs and bios/roms folder first), using latest image from the RetroPie website... now it looks like a charm but I need to redo all the custom setup I had. I use the configs backup only as a reference since configs parameters might have changed and didn't want to break things again.

I wish you luck :)

@mitu Sorry I didn’t see your reply.

I am using the official 4.7.1 retropie build from the GitHub site using Win32DiskImager. As stated earlier the problem didn’t arise until I had to run the update script In order to install a working updated version of Skyscraper. Anyway I can help you troubleshoot?

@sugarfree That makes sense. I could have thought of this earlier. Big thanks!

@mitu awesome thank you for your responses.

@mitu
I think I must have hit the audio settings script module several times. with a healthy amount of reboots before it did anything in the way of successfully setting up ALSA

I'm still lost on this one. I know a clean install after installing retropie it did have audio, somewhere i lost audio updating and configuring pretty early on. I gave up on it several months back only to come back to it today.

I'm starting to lean towards it being some issue with argon one HDMI daughter board. But in the end it is working now, and i admit it is very unlikely that my "fix" did anything.

I just remembered I installed Kodi, from optional packages, somewhere in this attempt too. I feel really dumb, but at least there is always something to learn

Here's a SwanCrystal bezel for Retroarch

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@Arrafart https://gemba.github.io/skyscraper/CONFIGINI/#index-of-options-with-applicable-sections. There especially the video* options and maybe addExtenstions. However, before using addExtensions review the peas.json (/home/pi/.skyscraper/peas.json - or when accessing from Windoge Explorer \\retropie\configs\all\skyscraper) file which formats (=extensions) are used by Skyscraper out-of-the-box for your platforms/systems. Also, remember to update the platform's gamelist and media after scraping/downloading the data into the cache (leave out the -s option, i.e. run Skyscraper -p psx)

@sleve_mcdichael Great, thank you. I’ll give it a try☺️.

@mitu said in Large File in .git Folder on RetroPie. Is it safe to delete?:

@Didyman said in Large File in .git Folder on RetroPie. Is it safe to delete?:

... but after I indeed updated assets and shaders in RetroArch, but as far as I am concerned, those are .zip files that are then extracted.

Shaders and assets for RetroArch are also handled by RetroPie and they don't need to be updated from RetroArch's menu.

Did you copy the config folder from another installation ? I think a long time ago (not sure how far) the assets folder was cloned from https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets.git, but that's been changed and only a minimal set of assets for RetroArch are downloaded and installed by RetroPie.

I did a backup of the configs folder, but I didn't copy it back. I keep it as a reference point. I didn't want to "corrupt" the configs as they were coming from an old build (Stretch). I did copy the the bios and roms folders from my backup tho.

@mitu

After some research i noticed that the .log was outputting:

Parameters: Executing: xinit /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc -- vt1 -keeptty (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. (EE) (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. (EE) XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" after 7 requests (7 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

So i headed to

nano /opt/retropie/configs/nds/emulators.cfg

where i saw that DraStic was using this command:

"XINIT:/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic.sh %ROM% kms"

changed it to:

drastic = "/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic.sh %ROM% kms"

Now works like a charm!!!

(Again for future reference - if anybody needs it - i'm using RetroPie under Twister OS 2.1.2)

@mitu One more question related to Drastic. Why is the menu of drastic "unusable"? I'm on an RPI4b. It just doesn't seem to 'register' the buttons correctly. Is there any fix regarding this issue? I'm guessing i'm not alone.

Thanks!

I have been using a Seagate 8tb external hard drive for about a year now formatted to exfat and I'm constantly pounding on that thing and I have yet to have any files corrupt or any issues. Everyone's mileage may be different but I've at least had very good luck using exfat.