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    • windgW
      windg
      last edited by

      Does someone has test the standalone Dolphin ?

      My English isn't at a good level.

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      • retropieuser555R
        retropieuser555 @windg
        last edited by retropieuser555

        @windg I did try it, but could only get it working on the desktop environment for now. I wondered about some roundabout solution using wayfire configs to load dolphin then close it when it's done, but that seems silly to do when ultimately someone will fix the underlaying video output problem?

        @mitu I got dosbox-staging working btw, it needs the core option set to auto from dynamic here inside /home/pi/.dosbox/dosbox-staging.conf

        [cpu]
        #      core: CPU Core used in emulation. auto will switch to dynamic if available and
        #            appropriate.
        #            Possible values: auto, dynamic, normal, simple.
        
        core = auto
        cputype   = auto
        cycles    = auto
        cycleup   = 10
        cycledown = 20
        

        I did only test Championship Manager 93 though, so I can't vouch for what games will and won't work

        Pi 5 4GB

        Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

        Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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          mbrennock @windg
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          @windg I was wondering if there was a way I could help test Retropie on the Raspberry Pi 5? I don't have a lot of Retropie programming experience, but I am a programmer. I can work my way through problems if I have enough information to get a handle on things. I should also receive my Raspberry pi 5 in the mail soon.

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          • windgW
            windg @mbrennock
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            @mbrennock If you like to test RetroPie with Pi5 you have to do a a manual install on top of Bookworm Lite : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/ . Then you can report here the issues or in the github page, and if you have the knowledge to help developers to fix them.

            My English isn't at a good level.

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              pi5gamer
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              Will the 64-bit bookworm lite work with the Dev version of retropie if I install it via ssh

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @pi5gamer
                last edited by mitu

                @pi5gamer said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

                Will the 64-bit bookworm lite work with the Dev version of retropie if I install it via ssh

                Yes. But there's no 'dev' version of RetroPie, just the regular one. Read on the rest of the topic to see what configuration are needed on the Pi5.

                NOTE: Support for the Pi5 is a work in progress, so some things will not work or be broken - don't expect them to be fixed immediately. Also, unless you have Linux or some prior RetroPie experience, I'd recommend to wait until something stable/more polished comes up.

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                  pi5gamer @mitu
                  last edited by pi5gamer

                  @mitu

                  Can I download Retropie 4.8 image for the pi 4 from the GitHub and use that and also emulation station keeps on crashing when I load it up and I think its because of the amount of ram available to my GPU how do I fix this.

                  Thanks in Advance for your help

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @pi5gamer
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                    @pi5gamer No, that won't work. The Pi5 needs a newer OS and kernel/firmware which are not included in our images (Pi4 or not).

                    You need to install the latest RasPi OS Lite (bookworm) first and then install RetroPie manually on-top of it. As I said, if you're not familiar with Linux and haven't worked with RetroPie before, then it's better to wait for an actual release.

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                      moio
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                      The only minor issue I encountered (manual install on top of Lite) is an error installing Kodi from packages:

                      Sorry, but kodi is not installable for your OS/Platform via RetroPie-Setup
                      

                      apt install kodi worked.

                      Should I open a GitHub issue?

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @moio
                        last edited by

                        @moio said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

                        Should I open a GitHub issue?

                        No, it's a known issue with kodi and RaspiOS Bookworm. Has been reported to the RaspiOS folks. Also, Pi5/Bookwom support is preliminary, so there's no use to open issues for it.

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                        • retropieuser555R
                          retropieuser555
                          last edited by retropieuser555

                          Has anyone seen a query on raspberry pi forums, bookworm or dolphin GitHub why you can load Dolphin, AetherSX2 via GUI but not while in terminal/CLI and you get that QT5 error above?

                          It seems odd and I'm not quite sure where the issue is, as it occurs on Ubuntu 23.10 & raspberry Pi OS Bookworm. So it doesn't seem a problem specific to the OS? Or it's purely hardware (pi or arm64) specific? As it seems to occur on pi4 using bookworm as well

                          edit: managed to get it almost load turning on X11 and using startx

                          Pi 5 4GB

                          Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                          Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                          • windgW
                            windg
                            last edited by

                            Without have the knowledge, maybe the package for qt5 or qt6 is missing (qtbase5-dev). I haven't check this emulators yet, so the above is just a guess .

                            My English isn't at a good level.

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                            • mituM
                              mitu Global Moderator @retropieuser555
                              last edited by

                              @retropieuser555 said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

                              Has anyone seen a query on raspberry pi forums, bookworm or dolphin GitHub why you can load Dolphin, AetherSX2 via GUI but not while in terminal/CLI and you get that QT5 error above?

                              Because they need a desktop env to run ? Not all application can run outside a desktop environment (dolphin for sure does not).

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                              • windgW
                                windg
                                last edited by

                                It's look similar then with the duckstation standalone when the dev droped the no-gui option.

                                My English isn't at a good level.

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                                • retropieuser555R
                                  retropieuser555
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                                  Okay I've got it figured out,

                                  startx /opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu-nogui -e /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<rom name>
                                  

                                  This works happily from Terminal/CLI. It doesn't need a desktop environment, just a window to be opened (and x org installed etc). I also fixed the tiny window issue by using this fix below, which you'd need to use for your particular display and then rebuild dolphin, I've only tested it on a 1080p display though.

                                  https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-small-fullscreen-on-linux

                                  So now adding startx to the emulators.cfg won't work as startx in the runcommand.sh will always turn that into xinit, but xinit doesn't work from the command line for me.

                                  Anyone had any success getting xinit to run from command line? If we can get that working this will load fine, I'm already playing with genuine wiimotes using my dolphinbar, which is all kinds of awesome on a Pi 5 RetroPie setup.

                                  Pi 5 4GB

                                  Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                                  Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @retropieuser555
                                    last edited by mitu

                                    @retropieuser555 said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

                                    Anyone had any success getting xinit to run from command line? If we can get that working this will load fine, I'm already playing with genuine wiimotes using my dolphinbar, which is all kinds of awesome on a Pi 5 RetroPie setup.

                                    Yes, but I had to remove xorg-server-legacy xserver-xorg-legacy first, seems that on Bullseye is buggy and prevents xinit from properly starting.

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                                    • windgW
                                      windg
                                      last edited by

                                      It's not better to try with wayland instead of xorg ?

                                      My English isn't at a good level.

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                                      • retropieuser555R
                                        retropieuser555 @mitu
                                        last edited by retropieuser555

                                        @mitu So apparently I don't have that installed so that's not the issue, I'll put up a proper error log in a bit:-

                                        pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-legacy
                                        Reading package lists... Done
                                        Building dependency tree... Done
                                        Reading state information... Done
                                        Package 'xserver-xorg-legacy' is not installed, so not removed
                                        The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
                                          libdecor-0-0 libdecor-0-dev libdecor-0-plugin-1-cairo libpisp0.0.1
                                          libwayland-bin libwayland-dev
                                        Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
                                        0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded.
                                        

                                        Xinit error log: https://pastebin.com/Yr9BcCuT

                                        I think the problem is here:-

                                        Fatal server error:
                                        [  9540.595] (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied)
                                        

                                        Pi 5 4GB

                                        Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                                        Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator @windg
                                          last edited by mitu

                                          @windg said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

                                          It's not better to try with wayland instead of xorg ?

                                          For Wayland there's no similar mechanism in RetroPie like XINIT to instruct runcommand to start the emulator in an Xorg sesion. For Dolphin in particular, there's no native Wayland support so it would run under XWayland and use the x11 API anyway, so there's no benefit in running it under Wayland.

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                                          • mituM
                                            mitu Global Moderator @retropieuser555
                                            last edited by

                                            @retropieuser555 without knowing the command that started this, the error log is not much help. Regardless, I'll add at some point support for dolphin to be run directly from EmulationStation, you can wait until then to test again.

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