Asus Tinker Board

[hannibal]

@baileus
unless i am mistaken (which is probable) in that guide anothervictim posted it was for ubuntu. i do not know how to install emulation station directly to tinkerOS

[Baileus]

@hannibal
"A guide to build the RetroPie setup on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x86 and Debian based distros."
Tinker OS is Debian based, so you would just follow the guide exactly the same way

[hannibal]

@baileus
man if your right im gonna be so mad.... ive been messing with ubuntu for 3 days.

[Baileus]

@hannibal

It says Ubuntu x86, so I'm pretty sure I'm right haha... Sucks you've spent so much time on it.

[hannibal]

@baileus
you are 100% correct. Thanks brother i appreciate your help.

[Baileus]

@hannibal
No problem, good luck. Let me know if you get it working.

[Baileus]

I have retropie running on TinkerOS 2.0.4, n64 runs really poorly though.

[oca159]

@baileus what about NES, SNES and another emulators? I want to play some SNES and PS1 games. I just bought my tinker board a couple of days ago but I am still awaiting for the power supplier so I can't test it for now :(

[hannibal]

@baileus
hey bro how did you get the controller to pick up? i have tried a ps4 controller (by bluetooth) xbox controller. ps3 afterglow with a usb dongel. and 2 or 3 wired controllers and my TB wont pick up any of them.

[hannibal]

@Baileus
nvm i guess i have a bad usb port on my tb. i swtched ports and all are working now

[craigerator]

@baileus @hannibal Try these settings in retroarch.conf:

video_fullscreen_x = 1280
video_fullscreen_y = 720
video_fullscreen = true
audio_driver = alsathread

That should get older emulators working well on TinkerOS Debian 2.0.4, but I have no idea how @anothervictim got N64 running smoothly. Changing the resolution doesn't help its performance much.

[hannibal]

@craigerator
i cant get n64 to launch at all. now after trying every emulator.... i cant get any to launch. might be back to pi3 for me

[craigerator]

@hannibal I had that problem the first time I built, but it worked when I tried again a few days later. Maybe update retropie-setup, and try again? It is also possible that I installed an important dependency while building RetroArch from source. The part where you grab retroarch's dependencies is worth a look.

I strongly recommend that you install ccache if you haven't already. It can significantly reduce rebuild times. Also make sure the emulator is using the "gl" driver.

[Baileus]

@craigerator

Did all of the N64 cores install for you?

[craigerator]

@baileus Only mupen64plus. There are fewer cores and ports available in this version than my Pi has access to, but I don't know why.

[Baileus]

@craigerator
Yeah same here, any idea of how to go about adding them manually?

[craigerator]

@baileus Not at the moment. I tried building one with libretro-super, but it didn't work when I dropped it into the appropriate directory (/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mupen64plus/). I will need to spend some time reading Retropie-Setup's code to figure out what it is doing differently, and why it only installs libretro cores on the Tinkerboard.

[Baileus]

@craigerator
Sounds good, I'll take a look too when I get a chance

[hannibal]

@baileus @craigerator
ok just did a update and rebooted my system and i got a "it looks like your systems configuration file has not been set up or is invalid. You'll need to do this by hand unfortunately."
you guys ever seen this or have any idea what to do to fix it?

[jonnykesh]

@hannibal It means your es_systems.cfg file is missing / corrupt / invalid.