Few questions about retropie

Majekaz

Hi,
Just start using retropie so im completely newbie. I have raspberry pi 5. On pc retroarch i always used mensen for nes. Is it mensen available on retropie as well?

mitu

@Majekaz Yes, it's available as Libretro core (lr-mesen) in the experimental packages section.

Majekaz

@mitu how to download this one?

sleve_mcdichael

@Majekaz https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/#updatinginstalling-individual-packages

Majekaz

@sleve_mcdichael downloaded but how to set games to run on this core?

mitu

@Majekaz said in Few questions about retropie:

but how to set games to run on this core?

You can choose the emulator used for a particular system and/or ROM from the runcommand launch menu.

Majekaz

@mitu thanks, its working. Is it any possibility to get better quality of boxart?

mitu

@Majekaz said in Few questions about retropie:

Is it any possibility to get better quality of boxart?

Can you be more specific - what are you referring to ?

Majekaz

@mitu use scraper download image, boxart and quality very low

mitu

@Majekaz Which scraper ?
Artwork is usually coming from the a website like screenscraper.fr/thegamesdb.net/openretro.org, some of them have higher resolution artwork, but most of them are not. You can use an external scraper (like Skyscraper/AARM) to choose a different artwork source, but ultimately the source site (where the artwork is hosted) is responsible for the images/videos provided.
Of course, you can replace the images with your own - if you have it - just by overwiting the scraped images or just adding your own. See the docs for the format of the gamelist file which holds the path to artwork/video/metadata/etc.

Majekaz

@mitu i found how to add manual through raspberry os, but it takes very long to do every single one.

mitu

@Majekaz Try to use ARRM (Windows only), it has an interface to edit the gamelist which could be faster and less error prone.

Majekaz

@mitu do you have raspberry pi and using as emulator? If yes do you bother to put better quality images?

mitu

@mitu do you have raspberry pi and using as emulator? If yes do you bother to put better quality images?

I don't care that much about high quality images on the front-end.

Majekaz

@mitu can i ask you about active cooler? I have one but it spins only on startup and after this it stops. Is it alright if it not spinning?

ExarKunIv

@Majekaz it's programmed only to turn on once it hits a certain temperature. Till it does. It will just sit there

Majekaz

@ExarKunIv thank you

Majekaz

@ExarKunIv few times i got crash emulationstation on startup. Its saying try to set carbon theme back or set gpu on high. I have pi5 raspberry OS 64bit

ExarKunIv

@Majekaz sorry. No idea.
As it's been mentioned in different posts. Retropie support for the pi5 is not complete yet. So there is and will be issues.

I know mine will just lockup for 5 min for no reason.
They are working on it. I can't even start to tell you where look for what's going on in your system

Majekaz

@ExarKunIv okay, i thought its just i have this problem. I know how to make run retropie on startup but is it possible to run it through desktop? In terminal i tried emulationstation but doesn't work. Do i need to write in something else?