Qix (lr-2003-Plus) .78 roms (unmerged)

Agrajag

@mahoneyt944 Grrr. Discussion of this entry includes this:

https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-plus-libretro/issues/721

In it the poster mentions that another user sent him a fix for it, but doesn't mention where, how, etc....

It does mention @grant2258 as the one that provided the fix and I hoped we'd be able to get his attention here, but apparently he was banned. Blocked at every turn.

dankcushions

@agrajag it’s still using the wrong save path... can you please upload

/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg (again)
and check to see if there’s a qiz.zip.cfg if the arcade roms path. something is clearly wrong here.

Agrajag

@dankcushions

Here's the /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg (which is huge like the other one):

https://pastebin.com/AXn48rG6

The /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg is still mainly the skeleton file except for the last few lines (hmm, maybe make the first one match):

https://pastebin.com/A06pkwEH

Regarding .cfg's in the /home/pie/RetroPie/arcade path, Not a one. Currently I have 118 roms in there and they're all as expected. The only qix file is qix.zip. Same for defender and foodf.

mahoneyt944

@agrajag defender and food fight preload nv files at launch. Indiana jones saves on exit. So that's the difference.

Probably this file, the default is not huge.
/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg

Agrajag

@mahoneyt944 said in Qix (lr-2003-Plus) .78 roms (unmerged):

@agrajag defender and food fight preload nv files at launch. Indiana jones saves on exit. So that's the difference.

Question: IF it's permissions, wouldn't Indy (and maybe Road Runner) still not be able to write those files and that would show up (or not show up) somewhere? Wondering if that could be a test for this.

dankcushions

@agrajag said in Qix (lr-2003-Plus) .78 roms (unmerged):

@dankcushions

Here's the /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg (which is huge like the other one):

https://pastebin.com/AXn48rG6

my same comments before apply. you need to reinstall the emulator, and replace it with the /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg.rp-dist

it will be an even smaller file. it shouldn't match the /all/retroarch.cfg file

forget the permissions of this bogus directory - fixing your configs will fix this issue.

Agrajag

@dankcushions Reinstall what exactly this time? (sorry, just want to be clear on what step exactly to take next.)

dankcushions

@agrajag update lr-mame2003-plus so it generates retroarch.cfg.rp-dist in your /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/ directory, and use that to replace the messed up retroarch.cfg in the same place.

Agrajag

@dankcushions Process completed.

I can report that Qix, Defender and Food Fight all now run flawlessly (well, at least as flawlessly as expected)!

Thank you guys for all the assistance. I have NO idea what step created those huge .cfg files. I'll have to keep an eye out for that.

I also, just after fixing this, noticed that I still had some symlinks for rom paths and a couple MAME cores (mame, lr-mame, lr-mame-2016) that didn't need to be there so I uninstalled the latter and deleted the symlinks which fixed ANOTHER issue which was that my ES boot time would hang at "Configuration" for upwards of 80 seconds. I'm now rebooting almost instantly, so double-win.

mitu

@agrajag said in Qix (lr-2003-Plus) .78 roms (unmerged):

Thank you guys for all the assistance. I have NO idea what step created those huge .cfg files. I'll have to keep an eye out for that.

You used 'Save Configuration' in RetroArch's RGUI. Either that or you enabled 'Save Configuration on Exit' from the RGUI.

Agrajag

@mitu said in Qix (lr-2003-Plus) .78 roms (unmerged):

@agrajag said in Qix (lr-2003-Plus) .78 roms (unmerged):

Thank you guys for all the assistance. I have NO idea what step created those huge .cfg files. I'll have to keep an eye out for that.

You used 'Save Configuration' in RetroArch's RGUI. Either that or you enabled 'Save Configuration on Exit' from the RGUI.

That is ABSOLUTELY it. I've been trying to figure out (without luck) through trial and ERROR, how to get to where I can cut off the initial post period of some of the roms (like Defender) and auto-load the "clean" state as I used to do on my PC version of MAME.

Wow. Glad to have a solution and a reason.