ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4

cyperghost

@reesk92 @ExarKunIv
If you are a owner of the N64 case you can make the left button work

#!/bin/sh
# by cyperghost

[ -z $1 ] && leftswitch=24 || leftswitch=$1

echo $leftswitch > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$leftswitch/direction

until [ "$status" = "0" ]; do
    sleep 0.5
    status=$(cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio$leftswitch/value)
    echo "Status: $status - GPIO: $leftswitch"
done

echo "I am done! Resetting GPIO $leftswitch now!"
echo $leftswitch > /sys/class/gpio/unexport

It will output 1 if button is not pressed and 0 if button is pressed. So we can kill running emulators or do annother crazy things. GPIO 24 is button key ;) Barly no documents are available so it was a bit try and error. Finally found the little nasty....

EDIT: EXECUTE script with sudo otherwise echo export will fail!
This is just proof of concept! It works of course but gives an entrypoints to other coders outside world - so enjoy!

ExarKunIv

@cyperghost that is really cool.

i dont have a case for mine yet, but there is a guy on facebook working to get a gamecube case going. that i might pick up. but great info none the less

cyperghost

@exarkuniv said in ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4:

@cyperghost that is really cool.

i dont have a case for mine yet, but there is a guy on facebook working to get a gamecube case going. that i might pick up. but great info none the less

The N64 is AFAIK the only gaming case for the odroid. I like the small screen ;)
But the left button (looking from the back wiring!!) is not invoked to any action.
I tested some scripts to terminate emulators - even non libretto ... They can all closed by pressing button ;)

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv Is there a ORA forum?
I removed the display usage out of runcommand and replanted it in the place it should be ... inside ~/ogst/ogst.sh
We can use runcommand-onstart/onend to give script right direction for setup. I think runcommand should be kept untouched ...

https://github.com/crcerror/XU4-ORA-scripts/tree/master

normchomsky

@Ryuzaki1986 I'm having the same issue. ""For NAOMIS's roms, you must have two files by game, one .lst and one .bin"" I found this quote on AP but not sure what I need to actually do. Perhaps a different romset? I'm still digging

reesk92

ok to clear some things up i dont work for the ORA team on a official capacity no longer we cane to a agreement and i just sit in the background and test stuff out from time to time and work on the odd theme i dont own nor work on the ogst case ogst case is owned by odroid and the os ogst is owned and developed by meverick

ill pass on that script suggestion to adrian taur (slappymcphee) for his attention

now discord the new discord is available on the website http://odroidarena.com/

we dont have a forum we simply dont have any real desire to maintain one especially when we cant even get some people to go read the damn wiki to have questions that were already answered answered so what hope do we have that they would check for other forum threads that are the same as there own we have a facebook but were moving away from it to mainly discord because its easier for the developers to answer questions because there in there every day

wifi is the easiest thing on earth to fix just buy pretty much any of the wifi modules from ameridroid they are baked in for compatibility and range from 5 -30 bucks depending on which one you want wed love to make others work but before that happens everyone needs to sit down and agree on what dongles most people use because WE WILL NOT be doing support for every dongle under the sun just because you bought a one hung low dongle off ebay or some obscure website

bluetooth if it says csr 4.0 it will work why because for some reason linux really really likes that dongle and it just works flawlessly so why mess around when its like 10 bucks and lower

2.0 IS TABLED no one is working on it its not even a priority at best someone takes a poke at it every couple weeks but as it stands there is no plans for the time being to release 2.0 it has issues said issues are awaiting fixes and untill then 2.0 is shelved

1.5 is the current release it is a long term release ergo it will be suplimented with over the network updates for a while to keep things moving along without the need to reflash a sd card

reesk92

@astal79 said in ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4:

hello the sega saturn will be presented in the next update for the odroid xu4 a dev has been paid by the community odroid for it works on the compatibility in 32bit on the odroid xu4 how is it that on raspberry while the community is bigger there is nothing?

ill give you the same answer i give my community when they ask this

raspberry pi is not a odroid xu4
odroid xu4 is not a raspberry pi

raspberry pi uses a broadcom chip
odroid uses a exynos chip

to expect one to work like the other is like expecting a stroller to go 90 mph just because it has wheels like a car

if you think your hard done by just remember your a bigger community shit you guys get as standard weve had to fight for to get working because we have a far far smaller community

weve only had the divine blessing of a xu4 compatible build for 1 year and its because of this and the small comunity weve had to work just to get as far as we have

you guys have mehstation and attract mode we do not because it has no recent 32bit compatible build

saturn DS and a couple others didnt even have compatibility we had to raise money to be able to make it worth the developers time and to purchase them hardware so they could develop there emus for us

anyway to summarise like buzz said your not a xu4 your hardware is different theres stuff that simply cant be done

but before you feel sour we cant do things you guys can for the same reason

cyperghost

@reesk92 Changed some scripts and make reset button work proper to terminate emulators and restart ES!

#!/bin/bash
# Make right button work
#
# if emulator is detected is kills the process
# if no emulator is running ES will be restarted (properly!)
#
# by cyperghost

https://github.com/crcerror/XU4-ORA-scripts

lordcrammy

@cyperghost i was wondering what to do with your script, does it go in a startup script somewhere? do you just run it once from a terminal? i am somewhat new to linux and just not completely sure what to do with your script but i really like tge idea. i just bought the OGST n64 case but have yet to set it up

cyperghost

@lordcrammy Edit the autostart with nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and add line sudo /home/pigaming/button.sh & before the emulationstation call. Then it will work

Change the path and the name of the script as you like but don't forget the &

lordcrammy

@cyperghost thanks! i'll try it out this weekend

cyperghost

@ExarKunIv
Created a script to enable/disable WIFI connection according to this thread posting #2 even the title is a bit misleading (because it is not rfkill) ;)

What is the purpose? Because Wifi and BT interfere together and with a simple toggle dialog you can disable Wifi and BT inputs are lag reduced or even better signal distances ;)

Silent_Gunner

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ExarKunIv

@cyperghost i gave this a try, i love it. works like a charm. thanks for it

cee123

This might sound like a stupid question. But would it be possible to port Irata Jaguar and Real3doplayer to the Odroid Retro Arena?

Since both Irata Jaguar and Real3doplayer emulators run perfectly and at proper FPS on Odroid using Android.

cee123

Also another quick question. What happened to eduke32? This was available in the earlier versions of ORA but I noticed it's not there now. Strangely enough I was able to copy the files from the Raspberry Pi and it worked.

Also no quake 3?

Danielsan

Hi All,

I just bought an O-XU4 and the OGST case, I flashed the latest iso XU4-ORA-Base-RP-Pub-v1.5.2.img and everything works fine, even if haven't test any rom yet, but my wifi dongle and the right button.

About the wifi if the Retropie ORA is Debian/Ubuntu based maybe I could try to find the firmware, about the right button I would like to know if I can customize it and how, probably I would like to add a reboot to use when something gets wrong.

boobslappy

I have the new image working with roms but my configuration section is empty except for "Arena toolbox"
configuration page

Danielsan

Hi guys,

I hope someone can help me, I am not sure if there is a real connection, however after I used the internal utilities to scrape the games I noticed the Dreamcast games are getting slower. For example Sonic Advance is one of the most affected, the first time I started it was without any lags but now is quite laggy even if playable. Where can I investigate to fix it?

Thanks!

Danielsan

Hi there,

I am pretty confused about the ORA... I screwed up the 1.5.2 and installed 3.0.6 available on the website while the one posted here is not available as well as the documentation and the usual ssh passwords don't work. Can anyone redirect to the last stable release and documentation, thanks!