Pls Help. Retropie is lagging and the sound also lagging. What should i do ?

Cooloring

Hello everybody

So I put together a GameboyZero.
I bought the button board with sound from Tinkerboy (https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/product/game-boy-controller-v2-0-for-game-boy-zero-3/).

I downloaded the software from the page with the already configured GPIO pins (https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/retropie-sdcard-image-with-built-in-gpio-controller-support/).

So I soldered everything and the buttons, sound and the picture is good. I wanted to try a game and noticed that it lagging. And the sound was bad too. I googled how to overclock the Pi configs changed the settings:

arm_freq = 1000
gpu_freq = 500
core_freq = 500
sdram_freq = 500
sdram_schmoo = 0x02000020
over_voltage = 2
sdram_over_voltage = 2

I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W

I noticed that the sound was still bad and wanted to see how many FPS I have. I had to plug the Pi into the TV. When the Pi boots you will see an image on the TV and on the Gameboyzero screen. But as soon as I start a game switches to the view from the Gameboyzero and I no longer have a picture on the TV. A short time later the Pi was warm even though I had a heat sink on it and the PI hung up.

I am a person who copies and pastes but I know nothing about programming.

I would be very, very happy if someone could help me.
So the problem with the sound, overclocking and the picture problem.

Just as info I'm a German and I wrote it all with Google translator, but I'm not bad in English

I've been looking for help for months

Your cooloring

mitu

@Cooloring said in Pls Help. Retropie is lagging and the sound also lagging. What should i do ?:

So I soldered everything and the buttons, sound and the picture is good. I wanted to try a game and noticed that it lagging. And the sound was bad too. I googled how to overclock the Pi configs changed the settings:

Usually that happens when the emulation is not full-speed - i.e. the system is not powerful enough. You didn't specify which emulator/game are you trying - the PI 0 is a small system, don't expect it to emulate N64 or SNES full speed.

Also, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, we don't support 3rd party images, one of the reasons is that we don't know how they are configured and might deviate from a normal RetroPie image. Try using the RetroPie image from retropie.org.uk/download and then re-apply the configuration for your hardware - install the RetroGame utility (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame) and modify the config.txt with the sound settings they show on the support page.

Cooloring

I dont find a file for Pi Zero on the Website

mitu

Are you referring to the RetroPie website or the vendor site ?

Cooloring

@mitu said in Pls Help. Retropie is lagging and the sound also lagging. What should i do ?:

( https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame )

( https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame ) what is that ? where is the file

mitu

@Cooloring There is no file, you'll have to follow the installation instructions to install it - it's linked from the project page: https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi.

You didn't specify what game/emulator are you using - as I said, the slowdown may be normal for that with a Pi0.

Cooloring

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Cooloring

I would like to use a Pi2 B

But the software (https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/retropie-sdcard-image-with-built-in-gpio-controller-support/.) Is only for the Pi Zero.
So if you want to use the Gpio Pins you have to set that when I download Retropie from the Retropie side. How do I do that best? Could you please change the Gpio Pins on a file for a Pi 2.
I have no experience with programming

mitu

@Cooloring said in Pls Help. Retropie is lagging and the sound also lagging. What should i do ?:

But the software (https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/retropie-sdcard-image-with-built-in-gpio-controller-support/.) Is only for the Pi Zero.

Probably because their device only supports a Pi zero.

So if you want to use the Gpio Pins you have to set that when I download Retropie from the Retropie side. How do I do that best? Could you please change the Gpio Pins on a file for a Pi 3.

The PI 0 and Pi3 have compatible GPIO pins, so it might work replacing one with another - but that's up to the device you've got (the Tinkerboy).

I have no experience with programming

I'd suggest you ask the image/device author about this issues then, it doesn't look like it's a simple plug-and-play work to replace the Pi 0 with a Pi 3. Or maybe the PI 0 is not powerfull enough to run ALttP good enough and this is how it should work.

Cooloring

I have now tried a Pi 2 B and it works. I just have to activate the Gpio pins for the controller and audio.
How do I do this? Because the Tinkerboy file has an additional file for the Gpio Pins. And the audio pins have also been added to the config. Can I simply insert this into the file for the Pi2 and change it in the configs. Wouldn't that work?

mitu

I just have to activate the Gpio pins for the controller and audio.

As I said earlier:

... re-apply the configuration for your hardware - install the RetroGame utility (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame) and modify the config.txt with the sound settings they show on the support page.

Cooloring

I do not understand what I have to do on the retrogame adafruit page.
I have a link here (https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/retropie-sdcard-image-with-built-in-gpio-controller-support/) and on this website are the pins that I need. And I use the file for the pi2 with the Gpio changes. And I want to know how I do it. I have no idea about programming as mentioned. What would my code look like?

Cooloring

And on the page I linked is that you can configure it with this command: /boot/retrogame.cfg.
Where do I enter that?

mitu

@Cooloring That is not a command, it's a configuration file you need to edit (I recommend you use Notepad++ to edit the file) and add the corresponding configuration. Some sample configurations are available at https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame/tree/master/configs, you just need to match it to the way your devices's controller is wired to the GPIO pins.