Working Dreamcast games

[ninuzzu]

RPi3 B+ no overclock. I'll try to raise frameskip and report
Here more info about Wacky Races (they say it's fixed but maybe not on the Pi,going to test it on my phone) :

https://github.com/reicast/reicast-emulator/pull/1448

[barbudreadmon]

@ninuzzu said in Working Dreamcast games:

no overclock

That's an issue, if you intend to play 3D games on a raspberry you should really consider overclocking, the following values should be pretty safe and will improve 3D emulation dramatically :

arm_freq=1450
gpu_freq=500
core_freq=500
v3d_freq=500
sdram_freq=500
sdram_schmoo=0x02000020
over_voltage=6

You can read more about rpi3b+ overclocking in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21138/overclocking-the-pi3b-gpu-results

[ninuzzu]

Wow thanks, let's do some test :D
Would you mind sharing with me you lr-reicast core ? Maybe mine is different.

[shavecat]

• lr-reicast -
  just going back to the emulation station after i pick a rom.
  any idea why ?

[ninuzzu]

@shavecat said in Working Dreamcast games:

• lr-reicast -
  just going back to the emulation station after i pick a rom.
  any idea why ?

Yes, see post by BJRetro (some posts above)

basically you have to edit /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/emulators.cfg and add
< /dev/null
at the very end of the line inside the last quotation mark in the line that says lr-reicast=

[WarC0zes]

@shavecat
in /config/dreamcast/emulators.cfg edit and add < /dev/null at the end.
lr-reicast = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-reicast/reicast_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/retroarch.cfg %ROM% </dev/null"

[shavecat]

No,
still not launching the games...
try to remove and install again couple of times.. didnt help :\

[quicksilver]

@ninuzzu Looks like that fix was for GLES 3 devices. Pi is GlES 2 so that fix is not likely to work.

[barbudreadmon]

@quicksilver nope, this fix also works on raspberry, i had to do it on mine, however it seems it wasn't needed with earlier version of retroarch (i didn't have the issue with my previous RA from mid-december)

@shavecat did you follow all instructions, including bioses ?

@ninuzzu i destroyed my sd card last week so i can't send you a copy of my core

[ninuzzu]

@barbudreadmon Metal Slug 6 and Wacky Races (lr-reicast) run much better with your oveclock settings. Crazy taxi is now running almost perfect ^^
Thanks

[quicksilver]

@ninuzzu On a pi3b+ the bottleneck for dreamcast/N64 is the GPU. Specifically getting the core_freq as high as possible (and be stable!) will give you the best possible results (on your pi).

There was some recent discussion in regards to overclocking and stability testing here that may be helpful:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21519/opinion-on-overclock-settings/4

[shavecat]

@barbudreadmon
Yes i did it did work ... and then stop working...
the reicast works fine.
any ideas ?

[barbudreadmon]

@shavecat said in Working Dreamcast games:

any ideas ?

If it just stopped working without any action from you, then you have a corrupt file somewhere, or maybe worse (corrupted sd).

[hermit]

@shavecat said in Working Dreamcast games:

@barbudreadmon
Yes i did it did work ... and then stop working...
the reicast works fine.
any ideas ?

did you put all the bios in the folder /bios/dc/ ?

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21031/working-dreamcast-games/47

[shavecat]

yes the bios files in the folder.
and no didnt touch the and dont have something wrong with my sd card , everything else work's fine even dreamcast with the lr - emulator .

[barbudreadmon]

@shavecat Well, programs don't just "stop working" without a reason, and the reasons can only be :

• change of settings
• corrupt file
• corrupt hardware

Sorry but i won't be able to help you if you are telling me none of those happened.

[Efriim]

So is anyone nice enough to upload their reicast binary, pre-update, from around retropie 4.4?

[quicksilver]

@Efriim https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17378/what-is-your-favorite-shoot-em-up/144

There is a copy here

[shavecat]

@barbudreadmon
really nothing that is the problem ,
even try to uninstall it and install from the stat.

[pjft]

@shavecat what's the log in /dev/shm/runcommand.log when you run it?