What tweaks do you make to your RetroPie setup?
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@meleu Please don't forget the mass of Windows users :D :D :D
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I add a delay to the boot in order for my external HD to have enough time to power up - surprised this isn't an option in the RetroPie setup menu :(
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@robertybob why are you surprised by that ? did you submit a PR ? (not that I think it's needed anyway - there is an option to manually edit the autostart script, so just a matter of putting a sleep in there - which can be documented on the wiki if it isn't already)
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@BuZz I'd be surprised if I wasn't the only person using an external HD where this is an issue. Of course, if I had the expertise to do a PR for this then I would do so - I think I'll just add a wiki entry.
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Well, true, but that doesn't mean it should be expected that there is a GUI for it. We can't do GUIs to cover every admin task for every use case - Something like this also differs depending on drive etc. Its best just added by the user if they need it imho, but if I ever do a GUI for using USB drives/sticks for storage I may consider it.
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Hi all,
Would you have step by step instructions Floob?Dwarfboysim
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I've just made a tweak to my setup which has evolved with my use of Retropie. I now create a directory for saves and add a subdirectory for each console, rather than have the save files created in the rom directory. I then point the retroarch.cfg for each emulator to the relevant save directory, and finally create a Samba Share to the saves directory so I can easily back them up - or move them to another RetroPie device (ie my handheld build). I find it gives me a cleaner roms directory for each console and makes it much easier to back up any saves, should I need to rebuild. I now also do the same with screenshots.
Other tweaks include forcing the analogue stick on for most of my consoles (I use a PS3 controller), enabling rewind and associated hotkey, use @Floob's tool to enable shaders/overlays for handheld consoles and add a crt shader for 'normal' consoles.
There's probably tonnes of other tweaks I make when going down the RetroPie rabbit hole!
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Here's my list:
Install the img:- Open first time and wait for file system to expand
- join wifi and enable ssh and disable overscan in raspi-config - post install options
- Install my custom theme
- set theme by going into the start menu UI Options
- Set other UI options (no fast switching, turn off on screen menu prompts)
- get IP address for ssh
- retroarch.cfg under ALL
- turn off save on exit
- turn off video smoothing
- turn off on-screen type display (search for “font”)
- go into controller setup and disable all special keys other than exit
- upload roms (romlist contains gamelist and image folder)
- adjust special emulator settings
- master system and GG use Genesis GX emulator
- SNES overclock the super fx chip in retroarch menu options
- turn off FCEUM overscan setting in retroarch menu
- Install powerblock drivers (and adjust the script to retropie safe shutdown script)
- Add bluetooth controllers
- Set splash screen to "WINNERS DONT USE DRUGS"
- Disable runcommand launch prompt
There's probably more things, but this is what i had written down.
@obsidianspider i read on yours stretch to 16:9.... ARE YOU MAD?!
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- I use a python script for background music in emulation station. I am at 183 tracks of 8 - 32 bit console video game music (can't think of any more). Such great music that I often spend a little more time lingering over the game list before I start one. :-)
- I use a custom crt shader (one without the vertical lines artifact)
- I'm a big Street Fighter fan, so I made a custom collection filled with all my Street Fighter games (snes, megadrive, psp, ps1, fba) and in Street Fighter 3 second impact I made two save states (Ken vs Ryu and Ryu vs Ken: both their final battles in arcade mode) so I can right away jump into my favorite two battles.
- Enabling enhanced resolution for Crash Bandicoot 1,2,3, Wipeout 3 and Wipeout 2097. (I prefer the crt shader and lower resolution for my other ps1 games.)
- I also added joystick control in almost all of my emulators, so I can use whatever i feel like for each game.
- Most of the stuff already mentioned here. A lot of time went into setting up proper controls and visuals for each system.
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@capeman Hi what steps do you use to disable the overscan. When I disable it Emulation Station no longer fits on the screen properly and the bootup screen of the Pi doesn't either. I have used the overscan scale option in config.txt to overcome the onboot up options but how do you overcome ES not fitting properly?
Thanks,
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@dwarfboysim I had the same issue when i disable overscan on mine, it stretched outside the bounds of my TV... then i remembered i had a stupid Samsung TV and it had it's own setting for overscan compensation. After i set my HDMI input on the tv to recognize as a PC input (which disables tv specific "features"), everything fit just fine. It's likely your TV, the pi puts out perfect 1080p resolution over HDMI with overscan disabled.
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@capeman I had the same exact problem with my Samsung. It was cropping the image some, so I had to set it to a custom picture size (which worked automatically) that was't the built-in 16:9 even though it was that AR. Silly, but whatever.
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2 Questions Here:
@Capemanturn off video smoothing
Care to share why you do that? Is that an ES or RA option?
@meleu
Is there any way to have the video font (for Cheevos) to sit on top of my overlays? I use some of the overlays mentioned here and they block any Cheevo notifications.Thanks lads, cheers.
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@hooperre said in What tweaks do you make to your RetroPie setup?:
Care to share why you do that? Is that an ES or RA option?
It's a RetroArch option, it's under the 'Video' group (see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Shaders-and-Smoothing).
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@mitu said in What tweaks do you make to your RetroPie setup?:
@hooperre said in What tweaks do you make to your RetroPie setup?:
Care to share why you do that? Is that an ES or RA option?
It's a RetroArch option, it's under the 'Video' group (see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Shaders-and-Smoothing).
Doy. Thanks. I didn't realize the default was set as true. I'll have to experiment with that a bit more.
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@capeman took some fiddling with my LG TV but found the option and it works :)
Happy days!!
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@hooperre said in What tweaks do you make to your RetroPie setup?:
@meleu
Is there any way to have the video font (for Cheevos) to sit on top of my overlays?Unfortunately not. :/
At least none that I'm aware of.
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@meleu What exactly are you doing to update retroarch from source?
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@40wattrange RetroPie Setup > Manage Packages > Core Packages > RetroArch > Update from Source.
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@jonnykesh Thanks, didnt know if there was some other command line kung fu.
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