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    Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date

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      misslehead3
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      I am watching this because I am having the same issues. The reicast wiki suggests opening the BIOS and changing the time, but we cant do that in RetroPie so I dont exactly know how to move forward.

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      • TwoGuidosGamingT
        TwoGuidosGaming
        last edited by TwoGuidosGaming

        same here, I cant get past this screen
        UPDATE: Finally have this resolved But i only have the mappings for usb snes controller.

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          TwoGuidosGaming
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            dthree36
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            What was your fix?

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              Folly
              last edited by Folly

              Here the fix how you can get past this date/time screen.
              You have to configure your joystick.

              run in terminal :
              cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
              Here is a script called 'reicast-joyconfig'
              run it :
              ./reicast-joyconfig

              Choose your joystick.
              Now you can map your buttons.
              When all is done it outputs the text for making a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' .
              It outputs something like this (numbers are in decimals not hexadecimal such as in other contoller.cfg's(0x13b)):
              [emulator]
              mapping_name = Your Gamepad
              btn_escape = 316

              [dreamcast]
              .......etc

              make a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' called controller_Your Gamepad.cfg and paste the text in this file.

              now enjoy !

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              • senkunS
                senkun
                last edited by

                so what's the fix for the screen time/date setting always coming up then?

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                  misslehead3 @Folly
                  last edited by

                  @Folly Getting past it istn the issue. the issue is it comes up every single time and I dont want it to. I am not sure if OP is having the same issue.

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                  • senkunS
                    senkun @misslehead3
                    last edited by

                    @misslehead3 said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

                    @Folly Getting past it istn the issue. the issue is it comes up every single time and I dont want it to. I am not sure if OP is having the same issue.

                    exactly, guess no way round this for now. All the so called "fixes" eg: date/time ntp issues, setting it 5 mins and save etc., don't apply to retropie I guess.

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                    • TwoGuidosGamingT
                      TwoGuidosGaming
                      last edited by TwoGuidosGaming

                      SNES USB controller:
                      this is the USB SNES config file it needs to go in configs/dreamcast/mappings
                      you can access the configs folder over network "just like adding roms"
                      https://www.dropbox.com/s/qit97cm2oa02qkk/controller_usbgamepad.cfg?dl=0

                      Thanks to ETAPRIME for this on youtube

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                        Twitch0815
                        last edited by

                        @Folly
                        Had been looking forever to find a way to do a custom controller config in Reicast I added it to the Reicast wiki entry on retropie
                        https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Dreamcast

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                          misslehead3 @Twitch0815
                          last edited by

                          @Twitch0815 said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

                          @Folly
                          Had been looking forever to find a way to do a custom controller config in Reicast I added it to the Reicast wiki entry on retropie
                          https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Dreamcast

                          Do you mean to say that after the controller is configured correctly it will stop showing the Set time screen every time I start a ROM?

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                          • lcsjuniorsiL
                            lcsjuniorsi
                            last edited by lcsjuniorsi

                            Hi,

                            The problem is not with the configuration controls, so I've done, I can play the games.

                            The problem is the setup screen date/time to start any game.

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                              Folly @Twitch0815
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                              @Twitch0815
                              Nice to hear my information was of any good. Perfect that you placed this info on the wiki.

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                                Folly @senkun
                                last edited by

                                @senkun said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

                                @misslehead3 said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

                                @Folly Getting past it istn the issue. the issue is it comes up every single time and I dont want it to. I am not sure if OP is having the same issue.

                                exactly, guess no way round this for now. All the so called "fixes" eg: date/time ntp issues, setting it 5 mins and save etc., don't apply to retropie I guess.

                                Indeed i was aware of this, i was helping dthree36 and TwoGuidosGaming.

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                                  Folly
                                  last edited by

                                  The problem that the time and date isn't remembered could be an RTC issue.
                                  I think reicast looks for the real time clock (saw some source-code Get RTC). And in the '/home/pi/.reicast/emu.cfg' the text Dreamcast.RTC = 2092685318. Probably it doesn't work because Raspberry PI has no Real Time Clock. Perhaps it would work on a Raspberry Pi with a RTC addon board.

                                  Can anyone, with a RTC addon board, test this ?

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                                    dthree36
                                    last edited by

                                    So, If I am reading all the posts correctly. The Date Time screen will pop up every single time you try and play a game and there is no way to save these settings so this doesn't pop up every time? Its not a big deal just a bit annoying.

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                                    • Drakaen391D
                                      Drakaen391
                                      last edited by

                                      Would the auto save on exit fix it?

                                      RPi B & RPi 3B OC (Now Raspberry pi 4b 8gb)
                                      Retropie (Latest Stable)
                                      PiBox with Wind Tunnel Cooling System

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                                      • lcsjuniorsiL
                                        lcsjuniorsi @Folly
                                        last edited by

                                        @Folly I also think that may be the issue with RTC. I will try to work in this line.

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                                        • lcsjuniorsiL
                                          lcsjuniorsi @dthree36
                                          last edited by

                                          @dthree36 Well, playing is not the problem. But it is not legal.

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                                            Folly
                                            last edited by

                                            Here's the deal.
                                            When you run reicast from the therminal like this :
                                            /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast
                                            And if you keep the original date and time 11/27/1998 00:00 it won't ask every time.
                                            So perhaps change the way it starts from the es_systems.cfg in 'etc/emulationstation/'
                                            So next to the RTC issue there could also be a runcommand.sh issue.
                                            See if it works by changing :
                                            <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS dreamcast %ROM%</command>
                                            into this :
                                            <command>/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast %ROM%</command>

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