Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !

proaudiosoft

Reicast is very picky. If controls are not setup properly, it will have the behavior you describe...
Have you set controls up? Reicast has a Joyconfig for doing this....

Hydro

i followed this tutorial -

is there anything i missing, because i can't still get the game or system manager loading/running.

Huk

Do you have a controller plugged? Keyboard won't work.

Hydro

@Huk said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

Do you have a controller plugged? Keyboard won't work.

i am trying to use it with a venom ps4 arcade stick.

proaudiosoft

I have it setup on an arcade machine with controls via gpio. One thing I had to do was edit the reicast.sh in emulators/reicast/bin/.

A line near the top end with "emu.conf" , Change this to "emu.cfg.autoConf" ..... without quotes.

See if that solves your problem. If your controller is mapped correctly, it should

Hydro

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

I have it setup on an arcade machine with controls via gpio. One thing I had to do was edit the reicast.sh in emulators/reicast/bin/.

A line near the top end with "emu.conf" , Change this to "emu.cfg.autoConf" ..... without quotes.

See if that solves your problem. If your controller is mapped correctly, it should

the file can't be overwritten and replaced.

and i can't find - "emu.conf"

only -

local conf="$configdir/dreamcast/emu.cfg"

?

proaudiosoft

that is the correct line. change emu.cfg to emu.cfg.autoConf (local conf="$configdir/dreamcast/emu.cfg") you need to use "sudo nano /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast.sh" without quotes

use console, or putty to do this (not filezilla). when you are done editing ctrl + o , then enter to save. then ctrl + x to exit file. Your done

proaudiosoft

one more thing, type evtest while you are in terminal, check your device number. Make sure it matches whats in /configs/dreamcast/emu.cfg

Also check that emu.cfg points to the correct file for your controller in the /mappings folder

Hydro

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

one more thing, type evtest while you are in terminal, check your device number. Make sure it matches whats in /configs/dreamcast/emu.cfg

Also check that emu.cfg points to the correct file for your controller in the /mappings folder

done what you said still not loading & i can't find any numbers in the /emu.cfg

here are some prt -

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proaudiosoft

@Hydro ok, so your device is 0, what does your emu.cfg look like, can you post it. Also your controller mapping file that emu.cfg should point to. One last thing, before anything, unplug the keyboard and reboot, then try reicast again

Hydro

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@Hydro ok, so your device is 0, what does your emu.cfg look like, can you post it. Also your controller mapping file that emu.cfg should point to. One last thing, before anything, unplug the keyboard and reboot, then try reicast again

tried unplugging the keyboard and reboot nothing.

where do i find the emu.cfg file & the mapping file.

and which one do i map -

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pimpmaul69

@Hydro said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@Hydro ok, so your device is 0, what does your emu.cfg look like, can you post it. Also your controller mapping file that emu.cfg should point to. One last thing, before anything, unplug the keyboard and reboot, then try reicast again

tried unplugging the keyboard and reboot nothing.

where do i find the emu.cfg file & the mapping file.

/opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast

Hydro

@pimpmaul69 said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@Hydro said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@Hydro ok, so your device is 0, what does your emu.cfg look like, can you post it. Also your controller mapping file that emu.cfg should point to. One last thing, before anything, unplug the keyboard and reboot, then try reicast again

tried unplugging the keyboard and reboot nothing.

where do i find the emu.cfg file & the mapping file.
/opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast

this is what i found in emulators.cfg

''reicast="CON:/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast.sh OSS %ROM%"
default="reicast"

and which controller do i map in mapping -

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proaudiosoft

@Hydro
run in terminal :
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
Here is a script called 'reicast-joyconfig'
run it :
./reicast-joyconfig

Choose your joystick.
Now you can map your buttons.
When all is done it outputs the text for making a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' .
It outputs something like this (numbers are in decimals not hexadecimal such as in other contoller.cfg's(0x13b)):
[emulator]
mapping_name = Your Gamepad
btn_escape = 316

[dreamcast]
.......etc

make a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' called controller_Your Gamepad.cfg and paste the text in this file. (tip, highlighting the text in putty copies it to clipboard)

When you are done, we can create you a emu.cfg file pointing to the new map file...

Hydro

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@Hydro
run in terminal :
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
Here is a script called 'reicast-joyconfig'
run it :
./reicast-joyconfig

Choose your joystick.
Now you can map your buttons.
When all is done it outputs the text for making a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' .
It outputs something like this (numbers are in decimals not hexadecimal such as in other contoller.cfg's(0x13b)):
[emulator]
mapping_name = Your Gamepad
btn_escape = 316

[dreamcast]
.......etc

make a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' called controller_Your Gamepad.cfg and paste the text in this file. (tip, highlighting the text in putty copies it to clipboard)

When you are done, we can create you a emu.cfg file pointing to the new map file...

this is the only file & folder i get after running - ./reicast-joyconfig

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and it can't be edited or transferred.

proaudiosoft

@Hydro You need to use putty or console, and go to the location I specified above. Quit emulation station within retropie, and you will be at the console
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin

Hydro

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@Hydro You need to use putty or console, and go to the location I specified above. Quit emulation station within retropie, and you will be at the console
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin

can't find /home/pi/.reicast/mappings folder on winscp or putty.

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are you on skype & can you sort it out for me by team-viewer.

Hydro

@proaudiosoft said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

@Hydro You need to use putty or console, and go to the location I specified above. Quit emulation station within retropie, and you will be at the console
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin

bump ...

BuZz

Please wait patiently for an answer - bumping posts will not help, and will just get your post downvoted.

The folder does exist - in your screenshot it even tells you it "Is a directory". However, as you didn't use cd, it didn't change to that folder (you told the system to try and execute the directory hence the error)

Hydro

@BuZz said in Ri3 - Reicast (Dreamcast) Emulator Not Playing !:

Please wait patiently for an answer - bumping posts will not help, and will just get your post downvoted.

The folder does exist - in your screenshot it even tells you it "Is a directory". However, as you didn't use cd, it didn't change to that folder (you told the system to try and execute the directory hence the error)

What's the fix ?