Paper Mario issues

LavenderVix

I'm trying to play Paper Mario for N64. Mupen64 runs it, but very choppy at points so I switch to parallel64, it runs at full speed but... There's, like, a black layer over the game or something. I can hear and I see it for maybe a frame or two but then it goes black and I can not see it unless I open the retroarch menu. I can see the screen then until I close the menu. I'm good with windows computers but I have zero experience with linux, and even less with something like retropie. So pretty much assume I have no idea what I'm doing and explain it to me in baby steps please. I bought this thing pre built and just wanted something I could load games on, plug a controller into and play without too much fuss. And it's been that until this.

markyh444

@LavenderVix https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

3rd party images aren't supported here dude. Fully loaded images are profiteering off the project as well, so you'd be better starting from scratch with the official image from the site of you want support with it.

LavenderVix

@markyh444
Images? You mean my profile picture? I can remove it. But that really doesn't help with my problem

markyh444

@LavenderVix the Retropie image mate. The one on the SD card that's in your Pi. If you read the link I posted above, it's all explained in there.

LavenderVix

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LavenderVix

@markyh444
I am running retropie on my SD card. I'm not running something else. It's a raspberry pi 3 running retroarch cores on emustation on retropie. I have no idea what version as I have no idea where to find that. I just didn't install or put it together myself, as I don have the know how or confidence to do so. I paid someone else to do it and put it in a case.

mitu

@LavenderVix said in Paper Mario issues:

I paid someone else to do it and put it in a case.

Then maybe ask that someone for help ?
The 'image' refers to the RetroPie installation - we can only support the installation images from retropie.org.uk/download, since we don't know how other installation are configured or put together.

LavenderVix

@mitu
So basically what you all are saying is you can only help with the base retropie and not anything that it runs, right? So I should find somewhere else to ask with people who know more about how retropie works?

mitu

@LavenderVix said in Paper Mario issues:

So basically what you all are saying is you can only help with the base retropie and not anything that it runs, right?

We can offer support for what is included in RetroPie, when you're using the base image. We can't offer support for something we don't know.

So I should find somewhere else to ask with people who know more about how retropie works?

You can install the base image from retropie.org.uk/download and we can help if you have issues. As for people who know more, sure, you can ask someone else.

LavenderVix

Nevermind, I managed to do some digging and found the answer here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/14448/n64-emulators-not-loading-textures/31

mitu

And that's exactly the reason we don't offer support for 3rd party images.

LavenderVix

@mitu I've been trying to tell you I am using the base image this entire time, don't need to reinstall it. I just want the n64 emulators I installed on it to run this one game. I don't understand what the problem is or how to tell someone what's wrong because I don't know. That's why I explained what's happening so if someone else is experiencing it and maybe figured out how to fix it, they might be able to tell me how to do so.

LavenderVix

@mitu How is retropie a 3rd party image, I don't understand... I thought this forum was for issues with retropie.

mitu

@LavenderVix How can we know if you're using the base image if you haven't installed it yourself ? You said you don't know which RetroPie version you're using - so how can we know if you're using an outdated or problematic version ? This problems are usually spotted when you're offering the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

LavenderVix

@mitu how do I reinstall it without erasing all my games? Also my computer can't read the file system the raspberry pi uses so how do I put the new image on the SD card?

LavenderVix

@mitu And I apologized. It took me a bit to finally figure out what you meant I thought by "3rd party" you meant "not retropie" and by base image you meant "retropie without any emulators or roms installed" instead of "installed by someone else" and "not the latest version" perhaps telling me to make sure I was updated to the lastest version would have made more sense and make things go more smoothly. I'm sorry for this misunderstanding

mitu

@LavenderVix said in Paper Mario issues:

@mitu how do I reinstall it without erasing all my games? Also my computer can't read the file system the raspberry pi uses so how do I put the new image on the SD card?

You can't reinstall without loosing what you already have on the sd card. You can backup your image and your ROMs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/#backup-option-2 - and then transfer your ROMs back on the new installation.

It took me a bit to finally figure out what you meant I thought by "3rd party" you meant "not retropie" and by base image you meant "retropie without any emulators or roms installed" instead of "installed by someone else"

No, you're missing the point a bit. There's no guarantee that what you have installed is a stock RetroPie image and it doesn't contain any other system modifications that we don't/cannot support. We can't play detectives here to find out if/what is changed and it's incompatible/badly configured.

EDIT: installation and configuration instructions (including videos) can be found in the Docs, there's a special section for first installations.

LavenderVix

I am now running retropie 4.6 did a reinstall. That fixed nothing

notthesame

@LavenderVix did you try other emulators when launching your game, we can help you with your settings, we will try to help you.

Check emulator your using.
Go into that emulators options and change video, and settings/video.
If video settings is not helping try to switch to next emulator.

Best emulators that will help is mupen64plus and mupen64plus-next.

Also make sure you update your retropie script and emulators(offical retropie)

mitu

@LavenderVix Can you show a screenshot of the issue ? You can take one from the RetroArch's menu, then you can find in \\retropie\configs\all\retroarch\screenshots. I briefly started the game with lr-mupen64lpus-next and it seems to run ok (slowdown in places), I don't see something similar to the black layer you're describing.