My fork of RetroPie-Extra, allowing you to install even more ports

sleve_mcdichael

@PiBoyyy EK's repo is still quite active. I don't understand why you don't just submit the changes there instead of forking off and promoting your own version?

AwesomeKingClem

@PiBoyyy Idea: try porting citra and cemu to the extras repository. It probably won’t work well on a Rpi5, but it would be nice to get to test it.

abj

I doubt that Pi5 can run WiiU (cemu) games..

ExarKunIv

@sleve_mcdichael i was wondering the same thing, yes i might not be busting out more scripts, but im still doing things

PiBoyyy

@sleve_mcdichael Yeah I'll give Citra a try. I don't know how well it'll work, but it's worth trying I guess.

PiBoyyy

@sleve_mcdichael Because, I am working on improving Exarkuniv's repo with a wider variety of scripts, emulators, and ports. I'm not sure he'll try adding Citra to his project for example (wink wink @AwesomeKingClem!).
EDIT: Exarkuniv already has Citra in his repo.

ExarKunIv

@PiBoyyy said in My fork of RetroPie-Extra, allowing you to install even more ports:

I am working on improving Exarkuniv's repo with a wider variety of scripts, emulators, and ports.

So by improving you mean just building off the work I and @sleve_mcdichael have done already. instead of submitting a PR request to mine, why Im not working fast enough or the fact that I have not made anything new in a bit, makes me seem like I have stopped.

Sorry i have other things that Im involved with, and with the PI5 everyone wants software that works on that, I have yet to get one.

But you do what you want, since I cant stop you, But now I see why ZeroJay stopped doing anything here, (yes I do talk to him)

AwesomeKingClem

@ExarKunIv And that's the very reason forks exist. Just grab another .sh and chuck it into RetroPie-Setup manually, and your golden.

sleve_mcdichael

@PiBoyyy said in My fork of RetroPie-Extra, allowing you to install even more ports:

@sleve_mcdichael Because, I am working on improving Exarkuniv's repo with a wider variety of scripts, emulators, and ports.

I just mean you could submit your changes in a PR and if approved, they'll be merged into the main repo.

PiBoyyy

I've added Spotify to this project, and made a version of kodi-extra.sh that doesn't install as a separate system (some themes won't play nicely with Kodi as its own system).

AwesomeKingClem

@PiBoyyy Nice!

Retrodade

will this install and work on a pi5? Thanks

AwesomeKingClem

@Retrodade Which .sh are you talking about?

ChaosEffect

Hey, I have a few I'm interested in for Pi 5 with Bookworm:

lr-play: your repo does have a script for it, but it builds from the /libretro/Play- repo that hasn't been updated in 5 years. The upstream jpd002/Play- repo from which the Libretro one is forked compiles fine from the same script and is maintained but apparently requires RetroArch to be compiled with a specific flag relating to GLES because it won't boot for me with how I have RetroArch compiled:

[ERROR] Requesting OpenGL context, but RetroArch is compiled against OpenGLES. Cannot use HW context.
[ERROR] [Environ]: SET_HW_RENDER - Dynamic request HW context failed.
[ERROR] [Video]: Cannot open threaded video driver..
Exiting..
[ERROR] Fatal error received in: "video_driver_init_internal()"

The original zerojay extras repo has a fofix.sh for Frets on Fire X that also compiles on Pi 5 for me, but again, I can't actually boot the program. This may be due to how it's configured in emulators.cfg.

Lastly, I have heard of some using AetherSX2 on a Pi 5, but I don't see a script for that one anywhere. I am woefully inept at installing things manually. Is there a script out there for this one too?

PiBoyyy

@ChaosEffect If you didn't notice, my readme.md states that lr-play is for x86 only, so I don't think I'll be messing around with getting that working on a Pi 5 anytime soon. As for PCSX2, I'll try the best I can to get it up and running.

PiBoyyy

@Retrodade Yes, these scripts should work on a Pi 5.

ChaosEffect

@PiBoyyy I did not notice that. I should read the manual 😅

Some discussion on lr-play's upstream GitHub repo has the author mentioning building for ARM32 and ARM64. The emulator does indeed build for me on Pi 5 with Bookworm using that exact script in the extras repo (and changing the URL to direct to the upstream repo), but RetroArch itself seems to be the snagging point. I wouldn't expect great performance, but the existence of support for PS2-based arcade games is intriguing.

PCSX2 is the one that I think currently only exists in x86 form, but I would gladly like to be wrong about that! AetherSX2 is either inspired by PCSX2 or an offshoot of it. It kind of has an Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton thing going on.

PiBoyyy

@ChaosEffect I'm pretty sure AetherSX2 is an offshoot of PCSX2. And no, as far as I know PCSX2 does not support arm64. ☹️ Also, AetherSX2 can be installed and run as an AppImage in the desktop, but it's not possible to use it as an emulator/libretro core. Sorry!

Retrodade

@PiBoyyy you have anything for WASM-4 by chance?

PiBoyyy

@Retrodade I don't.