I made an original game for RetroPie

[pjft]

@j-e-f-f you're absolutely right, that's retroarch, meaning it's the game. I can't say I experienced it myself as I haven't benchmarked it in detail on my end. Would you share your retroarch config file though - maybe there's something to look into? I'm not with my pi this week so I'll likely not have the chance to test it on my end but would gladly look through the settings just in case. Are you running lookahead for the game and using more instances for it? It's under the latency menu in retroarch.

Apologies for not being able to help further without more details and without my pi but maybe someone else can?

[j.e.f.f]

@pjft Happy to help! This game is a lot of fun, and my kids like playing it with me, although my oldest is NOT happy with my current score of 97!!

Do you have an email I can send my retroarch.cfg file to? I can't post the contents here -- it makes the post too long -- and I can't attach it as a file, as it says I don't permission to do so.

• Jeff

[quicksilver]

@pjft I have noticed this behavior as well and reported a few months ago. The CPU is slammed even when on the main menu. No run ahead for me. Who would have thought that flappy birds would work my pi harder than quake 3? 😂

[pjft]

@j-e-f-f You could use pastebin, but if @quicksilver is also experiencing this then I'd imagine that's not related. I don't know if @Rincewind still drops by every now and then - his profile says he hasn't logged in in the past 11 days so I don't know - but it could be worth reporting it on his github page here.

I'd also be envious of your 97 score - I usually settle around the 30s before losing my focus :D How old are your kids?

One thing you may choose to try to reduce the CPU overhead might be to change the video mode and render resolution to, say, 640x480 in the runcommand menu (the one between ES and the game). See if that'd help. Not ideal, I know, but maybe a workaround for now?

[j.e.f.f]

@pjft they're 7 and 10 years old, and quite competitive. Also quite whacky!

I'll try reporting the issue on his github page.

[quicksilver]

@j-e-f-f I went ahead and opened an issue already

[herb_fargus]

I put up a bounty to have it added to the retroarch downloader. We'll see if anything happens with it.

[pjft]

Just saying that if you're playing this on a pi4, explicitly disabling threaded video and reducing resolution to 720p will help with overheating and the CPU getting slammed.

Still a fun game to play with the kids :)

[andy1m]

Just found this very interesting game. Why there is not sound effect during game play. Only when crash has sound effect?

[top-specci]

Just installed and seems a funny game, thx a lot !!

But is it possible to skip the need to enter players name at the end?
Have always to move: left-left-left-left-left-left-down-down-key

Maybe a "Hotkey" to jump direct to "End" or cancel the whole hightscore process?