retropie-like script for Windows 7, 8, and 10. RetroCake

oldpainless

Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for this - life saver!!.

One thing you might be able to help with - the scraper crashes after it scans a couple of games. I though maybe it might be down to an older version of emulationstation, so I tried option 2 on your script to update it to the latest version but the script just closes.
Any idea's?

Cheers

K

Update - Figured it out.

Update 2 - nope, not sorted. any one have any ideas?

Update 3 - beside the scraper issue, seeing every sega saturn game I've thrown at this run in high res with the crt-pi shader at a rock solid 60fps is a sight to behold!!! Thanks again.

Final Update - I managed to fix the scraper issue. It looks like the version of emulationstation that the script installs has this bug.

So, for anyone else having the same issue, download and run the script with full option (full). Then. go to https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/ and download version 2.2.2.220, extract and copy the contents over emulationstation in programe files.

Right, off to play some Dreamcast :-)

Flerp

@oldpainless
Heya sorry for the late response, I've been swamped.
It looks like it just a bug in the current windows build of emulationstation.
I recommend using sselph's scraper.
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases.
It scrapes over 10 times faster and is more accurate in my opinion.
I used it to scrape everything and it took only about 2 hours (For 176,076 items).

flop

@flerp said in retropie-like script for Windows 7, 8, and 10. RetroCake:

The second is meant for a dedicated Windows PC connected to a TV or other. This one differs in several key ways.

Omg, looks like a Mini-PC media center will come, retropie+ps2 games/dreamcast+kodi.. :_D

Maybe a little start menu for select OS (WIN-Retro-Kodi?)

Thanks to this great community!, keep working on!

oldpainless

@flerp said in retropie-like script for Windows 7, 8, and 10. RetroCake:

@oldpainless
Heya sorry for the late response, I've been swamped.
It looks like it just a bug in the current windows build of emulationstation.
I recommend using sselph's scraper.
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases.
It scrapes over 10 times faster and is more accurate in my opinion.
I used it to scrape everything and it took only about 2 hours (For 176,076 items).

Yeah, just a shame it seems to no longer scrape mame roms.

K

Sashby

I can't install anything with the batch script. It just spits out a bunch of red text. Example below:

Invoke-WebRequest : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Admin\cores\44.zip'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/windows/x ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Invoke-WebRequest], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

oldpainless

@sashby said in retropie-like script for Windows 7, 8, and 10. RetroCake:

I can't install anything with the batch script. It just spits out a bunch of red text. Example below:

Invoke-WebRequest : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Admin\cores\44.zip'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/windows/x ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Invoke-WebRequest], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

Works fine here - are you running RetroCake_setup_Desktop.bat as an admin?

K

Flerp

@sashby

UPDATE
I have reqritten the entire directory structure from scratch.
This should resolve any issues with downloading and extracting.
It also make everything cleaner, as everything is contained within C:\RetroCake

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It looks like there is a problem with the %USERPROFILE% variable on your PC.
It's trying to write a ZIP file to Admin\cores\44.zip
It should be writing to C:\users\Admin\cores\44.zip or your drive letter equivalent

I'll do some testing and see if the username is an issue.
Can you also let me know what Windows OS you are running, if it's 32 bit or 64 bit.
I'll create the same OS and test the script out.

oldpainless

Fantastic - will download ;-)

K

Update - works perfectly here! many thanks bud - dream come true...Dreamcast, Gamcube, All PSP games, heck, even Ridge Racer at 60fps in Mame2016...now if they could turn pcsx2 into a RA core :-)

Thanks again.

Sashby

@flerp Wow, I didn't expect you to go to such lengths but it is greatly appreciated. Now it works flawlessly!
Windows 10 Home 64bit
You are right. I do believe my PC's user accounts have been improperly implemented. I'll do a clean install of Windows and setup the user accounts again.
FYI to anyone curious as what you should see happen when installing:

@oldpainless Exactly what I tried the first time. RetroCake_setup_Desktop.bat > right-click "Run as administrator".

oldpainless

Can you check something in the new bat/install - I can no longer save per core (ppsspp etc),

Is that working your end?

I managed to fix it as i made a copy of my original retroarch folder and simply copied back over the new folder.

K

Flerp

@oldpainless
UPDATE:
Think I got it.
As some point I broke retroarch.cfg, and I didn't take into account weird permissions.
I now have a permission check/set.

Download the new script.
It'll fix permissions on the first launch.
You can fix any retroarch issues by going to Manage RetroArch -> Generate Clean RetroArch.cfg
It's fixed for all future installations.

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Looking into it, I am also having issues.
I have narrowed it down to the RetroArch Installation.
Something seems to be going wrong there with both the nightly and stable builds.

oldpainless

@flerp - great, will take a look.

K

august

Was excited to try this but Windows Defender says your zip contains the trojan Fuery.A!cl and deletes the whole thing.

august

@Flerp any idea why WIn 10 is reporting this as malware?

BinaryBubble

Hmm

I think that BINARY is a mistake...because the BATCH is still up and running..I don't know..I'll try that binary in a VM and check what it really does...

BinaryBubble

seems to be a valid batch...he just made an executable binary of it..but it's the same and nothing scary or unwanted processes found after executing...I'd still use the batch..

one hell of a batch ;) not soooo complex...but many, many entries...;) I appreciate his skills and patience making it..

roidz

Hi, Just launched script and everything installed fine. copied over some megadrive roms and got the error "d3dx9_43 was not found". Did I miss a step in the install?

mitu

@roidz I think the error comes from RetroArch or from one its Libretro cores - see the Libretro forums topic here

roidz

@mitu Thanks mate installing direct X 2010 fixed the issue. Maybe Direct X could be included in the Bat file? That way its an all-in-one setup for noobs.

jinxerfelix

Does this setup allow for N64 Hi Res textures?