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    Retropie on Raspbian Buster

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator
      last edited by mitu

      Well, now that Raspbian has released a Buster version, I've gave it a try and a basic installation seems to build fine, except for mupen64plus.

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        geekinchief @mitu
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        @mitu How did you do it exactly? I had tried and failed before.

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @geekinchief
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          @geekinchief Using the manual installation instructions from the Docs.

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            geekinchief @mitu
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            @mitu I had tried that a few days ago and it failed. I'll try again.

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              hhromic @geekinchief
              last edited by hhromic

              @geekinchief just to clarify, @mitu refers to the newly released (yesterday!) official Raspbian Buster from the foundation, not any of the experimental images. Get it from the RPI website.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @geekinchief
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                @geekinchief Without any logs, it's hard to diagnose what's the problem. As @hhromic said, use the newly released image when trying to install RetroPie. Please provide any error messages/logs if you want assistance, just saying 'it failed' it's not going to help.

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                • quicksilverQ
                  quicksilver @mitu
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                  @mitu were you able to build lr-mupen64plus-next? Slightly off topic but I supposed with the release of the pi 4, the mupen64plus.sh file will need to be re-examined and modified. Im not sure that the resolution will still need to be locked to 320x240 anymore for gliden64 (hopefully) and the blacklist will need to be re-examined as well. Though I think its primarily Gizmo that maintains it, if hes still around.

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
                    last edited by mitu

                    @quicksilver No, I only have tried the basic install (which installs only the main and optional sections). Since it took a while, I just left it overnight on a 3B+ system and checked in the morning for errors.
                    I'll give lr-mupen64plus-next a try later this evening, I just want to see if a quick fix is available for mupen64plus.

                    EDIT: heh, it looks like the error is already reported upstream - https://github.com/ricrpi/mupen64plus-video-gles2n64/issues/25.

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                      geekinchief
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                      I am getting this error message upon completion of the install:

                      error-at-end.png

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @geekinchief
                        last edited by mitu

                        @geekinchief Yes, I think I got the same messages, but since the building of packages (except one) was successful, I just treated them as warnings.

                        • libavdevice-dev has a hard dependency on libsdl-2.0.9 (required by retroarch) and it fails installation.
                        • libusb-1.0-0-dev is installable, we'll have to see why it's not installed (required by retroarch, dolphin and xboxdrv
                        • libxkbcommon-dev is installable, similar like before (required by retroarch).

                        EDIT: I see now that retroarch is not installed because of this, somehow I missed it in the log. Excluding libavdevice-dev from the dependencies makes the compilation work, probably with disabled recording capabilities.

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @quicksilver
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                          @quicksilver lr-mupen64plus-next builds fine, I just loaded 007 to test (ran horribly) and it loaded ok.

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                          • quicksilverQ
                            quicksilver @mitu
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                            @mitu Yea, that game doesnt run well using lr-mupen64plus-next on my overclocked 3b+ either. Im hopefully getting a pi 4 this friday, if my microcenter near me gets some in stock and will try to test then on the new hardware.

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                              geekinchief @mitu
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                              @mitu How do I exclude libavdevice-dev?

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                              • mituM
                                mitu Global Moderator @geekinchief
                                last edited by mitu

                                @geekinchief Update your RetroPie-Setup script and try again to build RetroArch.

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                                  geekinchief @mitu
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                                  @mitu said in Retropie on Raspbian Buster:

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                                  Maybe I'm dense, but I can't find any reference to libavdevice-dev in my setup script.

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @geekinchief
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                                    @geekinchief Please re-read my previous reply.

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                                      geekinchief @mitu
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                                      @mitu So it seems that with the latest Buster everything installed but muplus64. However, emulationstation shows a black screen. Any idea if there's a workaround?

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                                      • mituM
                                        mitu Global Moderator @geekinchief
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                                        @geekinchief I didn't experience the black screen. What display/system do you have ?

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                                        • BuZzB
                                          BuZz administrators @geekinchief
                                          last edited by BuZz

                                          @geekinchief are you using a rpi4 ? Buster is not yet supported anyway yet, so I'm not sure how useful this thread is - unless you are able to code/debug and work on the support yourself.

                                          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                            geekinchief @BuZz
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                                            @BuZz I am using a Pi 4, yes, so was hoping to find a way to at least try some of the emulators on it.

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