Raspberry Pi, Xbox online gaming, and Xkai

Addison

I'm not exactly quite sure what I'm doing here. :(

I currently have 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch flashed on a 32 GB SD card after using Etcher for Windows.

I don't have an extra Micro SD at the moment.

Can I boot this in RetroPie if I plug it into a USB port on my Pi?

mitu

@addison It's not clear what you want to install: RetroPie or this software (Xkai) ?
If it's RetroPie, then https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/, if it's the other, then follow the instructions on their site.

Addison

I already have RetroPie on a 64 GB micro SD card.

Their instructions are to flash the Raspberry Stretch also on a micro SD card, which I don't currently have an extra one as of now.

I'm asking if I can use a SanDisk Ultra 32 GB Class 10 SDHC UHS-I Memory Card with the USB port instead.

If not, I guess I'll buy another micro SD card online, and switch it out with the one I have using RetroPie every time I'd like to try this on my Xbox.

I was hoping for a more convenient solution than that though.

Does that make any sense?

Cheers. :)

mitu

@addison said in Raspberry Pi, Xbox online gaming, and Xkai:

Their instructions are to flash the Raspberry Stretch also on a micro SD card, which I don't currently have an extra one as of now.

Try using the OS you already have and make a backup first. Note that RetroPie is not - yet - supported on Raspbian Stretch.

Addison

Okay.

So after scanning my 64 GB Micro SD card that I'm using with RetroPie, it appears that I currently am using 45 GB of data on it.

There should be enough room to also add Raspberry Stretch on this, yes?

But if I flash that image on the card, I'll lose everything previously stored on it, correct?

It would be really great if there was a menu icon in Emulation Station like I have with Kodi or with any of the emulators.

I could simply choose Rasberry Stretch from the selection screen and go from there.

Is there an easy solution in getting it to work like that?

mitu

@addison said in Raspberry Pi, Xbox online gaming, and Xkai:

Is there an easy solution in getting it to work like that?

No. Raspbian Stretch is the OS itself, you cannot start it as a program from Emulationstation.
As I said, leave aside the Stretch dependency and see if the program installs on the current OS you have.

Addison

Okay.

I'm sorry for needing to be baby stepped on something that should be fairly simple.

Anyway, it states to extract the Xkai download to /home/pi/Downloads

There wasn't a Downloads folder so I made one and placed that kaiEngine-7.4.31 folder at that spot.

I'm doing good so far, yes?

It then wants me to right click the kaiengine file and change the permissions.

Since I'm skipping out on using Stretch, I'm left with using WinSCP on my Windows computer.

So here is what I'm currently looking at.

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What all check boxes need to be clicked on that Properties popup thingy?

Thanks ahead for being so kind with me on this. :)

mitu

@addison To make it executable, check the X permission (eXecute).

Addison

Config directory: /root/.xlink/
Initializing XLink Kai engine...

Kai Engine: The engine is rocking
Connect to: http://127.0.0.1:34522/

I'm slowly getting there.

I'll post more if I finally get all the way through this.

Thanks again! :)

Addison

I think I've done everything correctly so far and finished all of the steps up through #5.

When I start my Pi now, it hangs on the following screen:

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Based on #5, step 11: Your Raspberry Pi will now automatically start XLink Kai when turned on and will restart kai if it crashes.

So I guess that means I no longer have Emulation Station with this method. :(

Any ideas on how to resolve for that?

mitu

@addison said in Raspberry Pi, Xbox online gaming, and Xkai:

So I guess that means I no longer have Emulation Station with this method. :(

I guess the /etc/rc.local script no longer exits and blocks the start sequence. Can you post the contents of the file ?

Addison

@mitu Sure. :)

sudo screen -Dms kaiengine /home/pi/launchkai.sh
exit 0

mitu

@addison said in Raspberry Pi, Xbox online gaming, and Xkai:

screen -Dms kaiengine /home/pi/launchkai.sh

What happens if you replace the line above with

screen -dm /home/pi/launchkai.sh

Addison

@mitu With your exact replacement line, and also removing the previous sudo command that it had, I'm back in Emulation Station. :)

Addison

What exactly did that do though?

I would like for the script to only execute when I click on an icon or something of it in Emulation Station.

Sorry if I'm still being a pain on this. :(