Working Dreamcast games

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?

shavecat

@pjft
lr-reicast

tried also to make a folder in the usb roms/dreamcast/dc/data , and its just give me black screnn and stck on it.
but with the reicast omx works fine

Efriim

@pjft @quicksilver
Thanks for the binary, that is exactly what I was asking for.

Efriim

Is there an idea of a script for when your ps3 controller timesout in the middle of a dreamcast game and when you resync it to the pi, the control doesn't go back through to the emulator; to resync with reicast or anything?

barbudreadmon

@shavecat A lot of issues here, again, if it worked previously, it's impossible it came to this without any action from you

First issue :

creating dir: /media/usb0/roms/dreamcast//dc/data
mkdir(/media/usb0/roms/dreamcast//dc/data) error: No such file or directory

The actual path it's trying to create is system_directory/dc/data, where system_directory is your RA bios folder, since it thinks your bios folder is your rom folder, it means system_directory is not defined in your retroarch.cfg, which is pretty bad because it'll also search for your bioses in /media/usb0/roms/dreamcast/dc/

Second issue :

find blahblahblah: No such file or directory
again
again

It's failing on spaces in names, so something isn't set right in your retropie setup and i've no idea what it is. Are you sure you copied the hack in /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/emulators.cfg properly ? A quick fix would be to remove all spaces from the name of your dreamcast isos.

shavecat

@barbudreadmon
this is really wired i guess, cause the lr emulator works just fine :\

mitu

@shavecat Let me guess, you didn't modify anything and it started working ?

shavecat

@mitu
what do u mean ?
i did everything by the intersections couple of times...
the reicast just quit the games..
the lr-reicast works just fine before and still now.

barbudreadmon

@shavecat said in Working Dreamcast games:

the reicast just quit the games..
the lr-reicast works just fine before and still now.

?

shavecat

@barbudreadmon
the reicast dont work ... just quit the game .
the lr-reicast works fine.

for the new install reicast dont work for me for some reason .

hermit

@shavecat said in Working Dreamcast games:

for the new install reicast dont work for me for some reason .

hypothesis: with the latest updates the path for the bios has changed from /bios/ to /bios/dc/ ;
is not that the dc_boot.bin and dc_flash.bin files are in the bios folder?

p.s. in the wiki someone has modified the path :(

shavecat

@hermit
yes also notice it , yes its there.
if it wasnt the dreamcast (lr) also will not work ... :\

mitu

@hermit Actually the path is ok, the standalone Reicast uses that path, the Libretro core uses bios/dc. The wiki is correct, it only covers the standalone Reicast.

hermit

@mitu said in Working Dreamcast games:

@hermit Actually the path is ok, the standalone Reicast uses that path, the Libretro core uses bios/dc. The wiki is correct, it only covers the standalone Reicast.

I have a February 8 version and it works with the bios files under the DC folder
I know little about these scripts, but in the reicast.sh file it is written:

# symlink bios
    mkUserDir "$biosdir/dc"
ln -sf "$biosdir/dc/"{dc_boot.bin,dc_flash.bin} "$md_conf_root/dreamcast/data"

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/emulators/reicast.sh

mitu

@hermit You're right, although that only symlinks the BIOS files found under BIOS/dc. The help text for the module mentions the new location, but it's not updated in the Wiki - it was updated (at the same time as the symlink code) - when lr-reicast was added.

George Spiggott

Does anyone know how to change the Bios language in LR-Reicast? I am soft reset to get to the Bios screen and change the language but it does not save. I assume it does this when you exit back to the game but when I do this it goes back to a blank screen.