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    Retropie on Raspbian Buster

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      geekinchief @mikem
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      @mikem So you had a working Retropie image running Stretch and then used in-place updates to get to Buster?

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        mikem @geekinchief
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        @geekinchief yeah. To be exact, I had a working Jessie image running (had no time to play in a while now), updated it to stretch for a game night (there I had some upgrade issues with some libs, but could sort everything out) and a few days later Raspbian Buster was announced and I thought I give it a try, to see what works.
        Debian upgrade was working fine. But I need to say, that I always do a quite conservative way in upgrading: Updating dpkg/apt/aptitude first. Then upgrading a lot of packages step-by-step to see which package upgrade pulls in which dependency (and manually avoid some recommended installs). But I checked the output of 'dist-upgrade' and seemed reasonable.
        Then updated RetroPie, which rebuilt some libs (mostly SDL) which took some time. Then it failed because of mupen64plus (described in my previous post). And then I needed to remove the old build-files of usbromservice/usbmount (do not have the logs anymore), because of a repo-cloning issue (something like: 'expected a folder, but was a regular file').

        I can provide a list, which emulator I have installed (using only snes and sega megadrive).

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          mikem @mitu
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          @mitu the fix [1] to build mupen64plus-video-gles2n64 has just been merged and the referenced issue [2] is resolved. So the basic installation should work now.

          [1] https://github.com/ricrpi/mupen64plus-video-gles2n64/pull/26
          [2] https://github.com/ricrpi/mupen64plus-video-gles2n64/issues/25

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            romanbsd
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            I'm unable to start emulationstation on buster:

            Linux retropie 4.19.57-v7+ #1244 SMP Thu Jul 4 18:45:25 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
            

            log:

            lvl2: 	EmulationStation - v2.8.4rp, built Jul 14 2019 - 23:22:03
            lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml"...
            lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamebioses.xml"...
            lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamedevices.xml"...
            lvl2: 	Creating surface...
            lvl0: 	Error initializing SDL!
            	
            lvl0: 	Renderer failed to initialize!
            lvl0: 	Window failed to initialize!
            

            Tried rebuilding emulationstation.
            I even tried sdl2 from this PR: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2770

            ii  libsdl2-2.0-0:armhf                  2.0.9+dfsg1-1+rpt1+videocorerpi1      armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer
            hi  libsdl2-dev                          2.0.9+dfsg1-1+rpt1+videocorerpi1      armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
            

            Still doesn't work. What can it be? What can I check?
            Thanks!

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              mitu Global Moderator @romanbsd
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              @romanbsd Are you using a PI4 ? Then see @buzz's previous reply.

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                romanbsd
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                Nope. RPI 3B+

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                  mitu Global Moderator @romanbsd
                  last edited by mitu

                  @romanbsd What variant of Raspbian are you using ? The full (desktop) or the lite version ? Are you starting Emulationstation from the console or from the desktop environment ?

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                    romanbsd
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                    I upgraded the retropie's raspbian to buster by changing /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list

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                      mitu Global Moderator @romanbsd
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                      @romanbsd Buster is not supported at the moment - as it's stated through this topic. If you'd like to test RetroPie on Buster, then you should start from scratch and perform a Manual Installation.

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                        romanbsd
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                        I understand that. Unfortunately I learned that after the upgrade. Having said that, I'm willing to do some debugging before I reformat and reinstall :)

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                          mitu Global Moderator @romanbsd
                          last edited by mitu

                          @romanbsd Did you re-install from source all the RetroPie's packages ?

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                            romanbsd @mitu
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                            @mitu I did. Did the complete update from the RetroPie-Setup
                            Since then I recompiled emulationstation with:

                            1. retropie's sdl2 (installed by RetroPie-Setup)
                            2. buster's sdl2 (modified sdl2.sh to return version as "2.0.9+dfsg1-1+rpt1" for that)
                            3. sdl2 from this PR: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2770
                              All behave the same.
                              It's interesting that the reason for error is blank.
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                              mitu Global Moderator
                              last edited by mitu

                              I forgot about the version bump - but I think it should work with variant 1. I don't have a buster install at the moment on the RP3, so I can't confirm.

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                                psyke83 Global Moderator
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                                I haven't been focusing my attention on testing the legacy driver on RPI3 + buster yet, but I did verify that my SDL2 PR branch works correctly at least with emulationstation (when re-compiled after the videocore version of the SDL packages are installed). I re-checked again, and it's still working fine.

                                I'm testing from a buster desktop image; perhaps the dist-upgrade from stretch has caused compatibility issues. A full log of the SDL2 build might be helpful in diagnosing the issue.

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                                  romanbsd
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                                  Silly me. The HDMI cable was disconnected.

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                                    POPEYE
                                    last edited by POPEYE

                                    I connect Pi over Composite, and I have problem with overscan. If I don't use overscan_scale, then screen size is fine in Console and Desktop, but it doesn't fit screen in EmulationStation and RetroArch. If I use overscan_scale, then screen size is fine in EmulationStation and RetroArch, but there is black frame around the screen in Console and Desktop. In RetroPie 4.3 (Raspbian Jessie) I only configured overscan in config.txt and everything is fine everywhere.

                                    I installed all optional packages, but three of them refused to install: snes9x (snes9x-RPI), love-0.10.2, uqm (it seems, it installed packages from Source, even though, I selected to install from Binary; may be it is normalfor this kind of installation).

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                                      POPEYE
                                      last edited by POPEYE

                                      Forgot to say: it is Pi 3 B+ and RetroPie 4.5.3 (according to RetroPie Setup Script).

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                                        BuZz administrators
                                        last edited by BuZz

                                        Buster isn't officially supported yet by RetroPie so not all packages will work. There are firmware issues related to composite out that may be related - eg https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1285 and https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1201

                                        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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                                          POPEYE
                                          last edited by POPEYE

                                          I connected composite audio and I have wheezing and, like, slow sound in RetroArch. I have changed audio settings in raspi-config and in RetroPie options. In VLC and Kodi sound seems to be normal.

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                                            POPEYE
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                                            It is not only sound slow, the whole emulation in RetriArch is slow (around 30 fps).

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