Could "Retropie" Replace my Media Player Box

lostless

@escc1986 KODI is not very confusing if you use for just playing movies off a usb drive. There’s a menu option called videos. From there you go to the files folder and your usb drive should show up there. If your using a usb hard drive, make sure you have a decent power supply. The official raspberry pi one would be best.
But You can add all sorts of plugins and the sort. Have it organize files on a network drive where it downloads art work and movie information. It sometimes can get Quite confusing.

escc1986

So im trying an Option not listed to test

i do have a question

i just installed Ubuntu on a PC

i just installed Retropie on top

so from Ubuntu i can run Retropie

how to i get to the retropie terminal .. i dont know how ?

lostless

@escc1986 If you are running Unbuntu, there is no retropie terminal. There is just the terminal app built into Unbuntu. In Linux, a terminal is a terminal.

escc1986

@lostless

thank you

and its ctrl Alt T

thats confusing(new to me ) im not good at termanls

escc1986

@lostless

may i ask how do i install KODI from here?

escc1986

@lostless

on Unbuntu terminal how do i get to the retropie main directory

like for example if i wanted to install openbor , i would need to

Enter SSH terminal and type follwing text to choose following versions:
1.1 To restore original OpenBOR script:

wget http://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/OpenBOR-63xx-RetroPie-openbeta/master/scriptmodules/openbor-6xxx.sh -O- | tr -d '\r' > /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/openbor-6xxx.sh

how would i do that ?

lostless

@escc1986 I’ve barely used retropie on a pc, but if it’s anything close to the raspberry pi branch, (it should be) you go to retropie setup in the retropie menu and install Emulators and apps, like kodi and open BOR, from there. The scripts there automatically configure use for emulation station and what not. No need to manually install them from the terminal.

escc1986

thank you for the help

im kind of confused ... i need to edit a file ... could you help me

To use this you need to edit:
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed.sh

Change the section to be like this:
function sources_lr-pcsx-rearmed() {
gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/SindenLightgun/pcsx_rearmed.git
}

escc1986

@lostless

ok after the hassel of figuring out stuff this way/method

kodi couldnt installl , i dont know why it was unable to install

im not very happ with this method , may want to try something else

say is running raspian with a x86 retropie all that worth it , i heard you can play ps2 & wii games ... is that true ?

lostless

@escc1986 said in Could "Retropie" Replace my Media Player Box:

i heard you can play ps2 & wii games ... is that true

If your pc is powerful enough. Most Modern PCs will run wii/GameCube (same emulator) pretty well

escc1986

Thank you for confirming

i dont have a fast enough computer running ubunto , bummer , i tested it and it freezes

Thank you for the info

Clyde

@escc1986 It's Ubuntu with a "u" at the end.

You could try Lubuntu, it's a lightweight variant of Ubuntu.

escc1986

@Clyde

I never heard of lubuntu , Thank you for the suggestion

I should give it a try

escc1986

@Clyde

Hi Clyde

I'm installing Lubuntu now

So I just deleted the hard drive that had ubuntu ... I Decided to Try your Recommendation due to my ubuntu kept freezes and it seemed like it Ate up all my RAM quick when I would run 1 prorgam , when I would run VLC then open another Program it would freeze ... I have at least 2 GB of RAM and it was weird that it would freeze .

I have a question

Can you do everything the same in Lubuntu as to Ubuntu ?

Clyde

@escc1986 I think so. All *buntus use the same software repositories, only their pre-installed software and configuration differs. For example, if VLC doesn't come pre-installed on Lubuntu, you can easily install it afterwards via the package managers Discover and Muon.

That said, there may be rare cases where some configuration or system components may be so different in one Ubuntu variant that a particular feature isn't available on it, but that shouldn't be an issue in most use cases.

escc1986

@Clyde

Been tryIng for hours now and no luck with the installation with Lubuntu

I'm just going to install windows 10

I guess my best media player set will be Windows 10 with VLC player for now

I guess I'm going to need to buy an extra sd card in time to try something on the Pi 2

I appreciate all the help and advice

Thank you guys

Clyde

@escc1986 Just use what fits you best. I wish you success. o/

escc1986

@Clyde

Thanks Clyde , I Appreciate the Encouragement and nice words and thank you for all the help and replies , means a lot

Yeah win 10 is treating us well for the media purposes and gets the job done :D

It's weird same computer I use for the set up says I have 4GB of RAm ... just wondering how come Ubuntu was freezing so much .... win 10 seems to be running so smooth and perfect .... not sure why 🤔

Clyde

@escc1986 That may very much depend of the hardware and drivers. Although Ubuntu/Linux does support way more hardware than any single Windows version, because it leaves older devices behind more rarely, newer and special hardware is often (much) better supported on an up-to-date Windows, because the hardware vendors are more eager to support an OS with ~90% desktop market share than one with ~1-2½.

That said, there may be solutions for your problems, if you ever want to pursue that path again. But I would recommend a forum for Ubuntu or Linux in general for this rather than this specialised retrogaming forum.

escc1986

@Clyde

Thank you Clyde for explaining everything so easily for me ... it nice to have someone explain to me everything so simply ... Thank you for that

i absolutely understand now and i think your right

i do prefer windows for the media options

but when it comes to gaming pi is amazing !!!!