Suggestions for ports #2

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 gigs of ram.

ExarKunIv

@Folly ok i tested it on my Pi4 4gb, and it compiled and installed fine. on my end
i did see that it does not make a folder for the bios, so i needed to make a folder for it.

when i tested a rom, it starts with a gray screen and a popup says that it cant start the game due to missing files, but i dont know what files its missing.

i did go into the setting and manually set where to fine the bios, and still same error

UPDATE
i tried a few different versions of the bios and a few differeent roms, and still nothing. just a gray box and a error popup about missing files

Folly

@ExarKunIv

Copy cdimono1.zip (or .7z) in (see mame-merged) :
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/same_cdi/bios
(Indeed perhaps a good idea to create the directory in the module-script)

The bios has to contain (sha1sum filename) :
d961de803c89b3d1902d656ceb9ce7c02dccb40a cdi200.rom
53360a1f21ddac952e95306ced64186a3fc0b93e cdi220b.rom
5d757ab46b8c8fc36361555d978d7af768342d47 cdi220.rom
fdf8d78d6a0df4a56b5b963d72eabd39fcec163f zx405037p__cdi_servo_2.1__b43t__llek9215.mc68hc705c8a_withtestrom.7201
56d0acd7caad51c7de703247cd6d842b36173079 zx405042p__cdi_slave_2.0__b43t__zzmk9213.mc68hc705c8a_withtestrom.7206

That should work.

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly Any suggestions on the initial install of lr-samecdi for me since I can't seem to install it at all?

Folly

@Retro-Arcade-Fan

Not yet,
As @ExarKunIv also uses a 4gb rpi4 it's hard to tell what the problem is.
I assume you use 32 bit OS, right ?

I had the same problem on my Apple M1 running debian11 (aarch64) in UTM.
But manually compiling it worked.
If you are able to compile it manually, then we can see if that works.

instructions are here :
https://github.com/libretro/same_cdi

Retro Arcade Fan

@Folly Yes I'm using the 32bit OS. And I'm afraid manually compiling goes beyond my skillset. I don't want to keep bugging you on this. And I don't know what to do with those files on the page you sent.

If I wanted to try the original install again via ./install-extras.sh, what would be the cleanest way to do so? Remove any files first?

Folly

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Suggestions for ports #2:

@Folly Yes I'm using the 32bit OS. And I'm afraid manually compiling goes beyond my skillset. I don't want to keep bugging you on this.

Fair enough.

And I don't know what to do with those files on the page you sent.

Which file the bios files ?
You need the cdimoni.zip bios file from the mame-merged set and place them in the proper place, otherwise the emulator won't work.

If I wanted to try the original install again via ./install-extras.sh, what would be the cleanest way to do so? Remove any files first?

You have to ask @ExarKunIv, I never used that.

ExarKunIv

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Suggestions for ports #2:

If I wanted to try the original install again via ./install-extras.sh, what would be the cleanest way to do so? Remove any files first?

what are you trying to do.

i have not updated any of the scripts since yesterday, and the CDi one i have not touched since i put it in my repo.

so if you have it, thats the latest one out right now till @Folly tells me that he has updated his

but if you run

cd ~
cd RetroPie-Extra/
./update-extras.sh

it will look for a update, as long as you are running the version with our GUI menu, but since you are messing with the newest scripts i put in it, im going with you have the GUI menu

WhiteT982

@ExarKunIv
Tried to install lr-citra and got the error

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [src/tests/CMakeFiles/tests.dir/build.make:291: bin/Release/tests] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1517: src/tests/CMakeFiles/tests.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:146: all] Error 2
Could not successfully build lr-citra - 3DS emulator - Citra port for libretro (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-citra/build/src/citra_libretro/citra_libretro.so not found).

The full log is here. Was able to get several others to install but did have a few fail. Citra being the one I cared about the most.

I am running retropie on top of Ubuntu 22.04 x86. As always any help is appreciated and if nothing else thanks for the extras.

ExarKunIv

@WhiteT982 sorry that you are getting a error.
unfortunatly i dont have a x86 to test these on, so your best bet will be to open a issue ticket on the github for that libretrocore. they should be able to help you way more then anything i can do.

https://github.com/libretro/citra.git

JimmyFromTheBay

@sleve_mcdichael said in Suggestions for ports #2:

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Suggestions for ports #2:

Can you please remind me how to update RetroPie-Extras?
cd ~/RetroPie-Extra

git pull origin

I've done this and it seemed to work fine, but when I go into RetroPie-Setup none of the new additions appear in the RetroPie-Extra section of "Manage experimental packages". What have I forgotten?

sleve_mcdichael

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Suggestions for ports #2:

What have I forgotten?

./install-extras.sh

JimmyFromTheBay

@sleve_mcdichael I just remembered that after I posted, and I ran it and selected a couple of the new additions, but alarmingly it's totally killed my RetroPie-Setup.

When I try to run RetroPie-Setup now it crashes with this error:

The only way to get it back is to completely delete the RetroPie-Extra folder from the ext directory. (Just renaming it doesn't work.)

JimmyFromTheBay

@ExarKunIv said in Suggestions for ports #2:

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samtfe- Serious Sam Classic The First Encounter. - Installs, and plays great

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samtse- Serious Sam Classic The Second Encounter. - Installs, and plays great

Solved my RetroPie-Setup problem, phew :D

What files do we need to add to make the Serious Sam games work? I have the Gold Edition CDs, but the install from those doesn't include a "Classes" folder, which is what the RP-Extra install crashes asking for.

JimmyFromTheBay

@ExarKunIv said in Suggestions for ports #2:

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lr-samecdi - Philips CDI - same_cdi port for libretro - Installs, Dont have games to test

Been trying this out. Seems to load and run everything so far, although a lot of games run slowly with horrible sound. The solution is to fiddle with the overclocking option on a per-game basis - on Tetris, for example, setting it to 60 results in nice smooth play, but if you set it lower than 80 on Hotel Mario you lose all the spot effects and keep only the music.

ExarKunIv

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Suggestions for ports #2:

Been trying this out. Seems to load and run everything so far,

Nice. Glad you got it to work. Guess I was using the wrong files. But for me no matter. I was just testing. I have other fish to fry if you know what I mean. Lol

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Suggestions for ports #2:

What files do we need to add to make the Serious Sam games work?

I believe you need the classic edition for both the first encounter and second encounter.

JimmyFromTheBay

@ExarKunIv said in Suggestions for ports #2:

I believe you need the classic edition for both the first encounter and second encounter.

That sorted it, ta :)

ExarKunIv

@JimmyFromTheBay i will put that in the help for i. make it easier every one else

Retro Arcade Fan

@ExarKunIv Ran this and it says it's up to date. But every time I try to install lr-samecdi, it halts at about 15 minutes in at the section starting with "Compiling src/emu/drawgfx.cpp" and doesn't go any farther.

IMG_0334 (002).jpg

ExarKunIv

@Retro-Arcade-Fan
Maybe @Folly can take a look at this, i have no idea. as i didnt make the script.
i did test it and it installed fine for me.