Simple enough stuff being hard to find.

Xeon

To be honest.. i love the hell out of this project and think everything done so far is really great work.
Could not be more proud of it's community.

Xeon

Downvoted.. no argument made.
No reason given.

The butthurt is over 9000

Xeon

Not even going to try help.
Please delete this thread i don't care anymore.

Xeon

For example.. AGAIN.. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Sound-Issues/
These guides do not work.

But you can just downvote and achieve less.

Xeon

This was what ended up working
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11847/rpi-usb-audio-woes-and-other-zombies/18

I was told after this that this is wrong too with no explanation why and no explanation how to do it correctly.

I am not un thankful to those that helped, i really appreciate all the guys that make a effort to assist.

edmaul69

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Hex

@Xeon I can help you out with your sound issues. Can you elaborate on that or paste a link to another post if already posted.

Xeon

@hex
Just using this as a example.
You did the best you can to help.

Hex

@Xeon yea I remembered you asking and I helping. Were you able to get it running. ?

The thing is we do not have many "doccumentors" and devs would rather code than explain. Devs see world in a different color than users. This makes devs generally the worst people to document. What is obvious to devs is not obvious at all to users. You can help solve this problem for us.

If you would like to volunteer I would gladly explain to you all my contributions to ES in depth so you can pen them down.

Xeon

@hex
Sounds like a great plan.

We can meet on teamspeak or create a retropie dischord group too.
The community is growing.

I did get it to work but afterward i had a glitch, i just need to verify if it was the power supply or messing with usb devices that created the problem afterward.

Hex

@Xeon we have an irc channel on freenode #retropie.

Fix a time mutually and let us know. Devs can help you out. Make a thread for this so devs/users can tag along

Xeon

@hex Cool
Will get something planned.

Hex

@Xeon I understand the frustrations of not having good documentation. I am writing an emulator interface for Nokia mobile games and the framework has non existent documentation. Still things looks promising once you gain traction.

Why did you need Moderators/admins for ?

pjft

The video screensaver uses the videos from your gamelists. A simple question will get the answers.

Documentation is on my TO DO list.

Hex

@pjft I bet nearly every dev says this.

pjft

@hex TO DO is the short version for "to document".

EctoOne

where do i put files for the video screen saver?
How do i enable usb sound?

I don't know but I also don't care. So I can't help with that.

What files are supported?

That is no Simple Stuff. What files do you speak off? Video Screensaver files (probably most that Linux supports), Roms (that's mostly covered in the Docs) or what?

Why do bios files just get dumped into a single folder for all emulators?

I guess for simplicity. At least for me that was easy to understand. Bios in the Bios folder, games in the roms folder.

Another thing is that you have downloaded a recent build... but you need to update.. and changes can make what worked before suddenly not work... so now you try endless guides with no luck.

Show me any OS nowadays that doesn't wants to update after a fresh installation. And you don't NEED to update if you don't want to. I personally update only once in a while when I know there's something that I want and then I'm willing to take the risk of breaking things. Good thing is that it is pretty easy to simply backup/restore a SD card.

Eventually this leads to a lot of topics made.. none are indexed when solved...

That's not the fault of the Retropie Devs, it's more a general problem today. People just want to get answers without searching for it. And when they have it they don't care anymore.

My personal opinion is, that this community is pretty awesome when it comes to helping and general caring for the project. Yet this project is for the biggest part maintained by like two people in their free time, plus some individuals which do their own magic to make things better. So I'm not surprised that not everything is documented but I also see that as a challenge to figure something out.
And then there is the wiki where everyone can contribute. But if it is kinda obvious that people don't use it to gain information I can understand why no one wants to keep updating it (I've seen that before when I soly was writing guides on a site and still every day there was a question in the forum that was covered in the wiki).

glennlake

All I can say is "https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first"

glennlake

@xeon said in Simple enough stuff being hard to find.:

For example.. AGAIN.. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Sound-Issues/
These guides do not work.

But you can just downvote and achieve less.

Because you know so much, have you updated the docs to correct the issue?

RetroFreak89

@xeon curious i was just reading this topic but got me thinking what did you do with your pi? Did you do some sort of a project with it ? What was it :P i always like to see what people do with there Pi's
And sorry this has nothing to do with your topic..