Dolphin Controller Not Working

90sgamer

@sugarfree okay thanks. tried that. Dolphin editor is there! But, after launch, It crashes...goes back to emulation station screen. Is there anything else I need to do?

sugarfree

@90sgamer
It should work. I don't know how to troubleshoot this emulator. If you have a spare SD card, try it with this unofficial image that I've uploaded. It has everything set up : https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/298705

retropieuser555

@90sgamer said in Dolphin Controller Not Working:

@sugarfree okay thanks. tried that. Dolphin editor is there! But, after launch, It crashes...goes back to emulation station screen. Is there anything else I need to do?

After it crashes what does /dev/shm/runcommand.log say?

90sgamer

@sugarfree not going to do that. Defeats the purpose of me building my own img. But appreciate the thought.

90sgamer

@retropieuser555 how would I know what that says? Do I need to go into GUI command script or something.

It's just a black screen and then crashes

retropieuser555

@90sgamer /dev/shm/runcommand.log is the log file that tells you what error you got when it crashed.

You can either SSH into your pi and read it or from the pi itself press F4 and sudo nano to read the file that way

90sgamer

@retropieuser555 You have to explain it to me like a child. I'm not familiar with this kind of coding.

I'm at the pi

I hit F4

I enter the terminal

I type in:

sudo nano /dev/shm/runcommand.log

Nothing happens...

90sgamer

@retropieuser555 can you help please

Kiron

@abj said in Dolphin Controller Not Working:

@Nut-Nibbler

Support for RPi5 is in heavy development, so for now, to have access to the Gui, you have to do this :

Run from terminal window:
nano /opt/retropie/configs/gc/emulators.cfg
Add this line:
dolphin-editor = "XINIT-WMC:/opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu"
In the end, the file it will be like this:
dolphin = "XINIT-WM:/opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu-nogui -e %ROM%"
dolphin-gui = "XINIT-WM:/opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu -b -e %ROM%"
dolphin-editor = "XINIT-WMC:/opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu"
default = "dolphin-gui"
Press ctrl+o and ctrl+x to save and exit from terminal.

Start a game and choose from runcommand menu the dolphin-editor. This will open Dolphin GUI, where you can change the parameters of the emulator and configure the controller

@abj Lifesaver! worked like a charm, any suggestions on how to set the hotkey to exit dolphin back to emulationstation ?

sugarfree

@Kiron you can do this from Options > Hotkey Settings.

Kiron

@sugarfree Thanks! Working great now.

pedee

@sugarfree Hi, I’ve already tried everything possible and haven’t gotten any results so far. With this method, the runcommand menu only shows me "dolphin," "dolphin-gui," and "dolphin-lr." I’ve tried all three, but no editor or anything similar opens up. The game starts normally, and I have to quit with ESC. Any ideas?

sugarfree

@pedee

What are the results from this command? :

nano /opt/retropie/configs/gc/emulators.cfg

pedee

@sugarfree Thank you for the respond. I've already found a solution. When starting a Wii game, the editor wasn't displayed. However, I tried with a GameCube game, and there I was able to launch the editor via the runcommand, allowing me to configure the controls for the Wii as well. :)

sugarfree

@pedee
You can add the GUI for the Wii games, it's the same instructions with a small change

Run from terminal window:

nano /opt/retropie/configs/wii/emulators.cfg

Add this line:

dolphin-editor = "XINIT-WMC:/opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu"

Press ctrl+o and ctrl+x to save and exit from terminal.

pedee

@sugarfree That makes sense. I could have thought of this earlier. Big thanks!

maliclandrea

@abj @sugarfree

First off not a coder here. I was also having a problem with your solution not working noticed that your extra line of code had "XINIT-WMC" where the original lines only had "XINIT-WM" so I removed the C and it worked.... no idea why.

sugarfree

@maliclandrea
I am glad you found the solution to your issue. To tell the truth, I don't remember what the -C does. I summarized the instructions from this topic here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/35203/dolphin-gamecube-wiiware-wii-compatibility-on-pi-5/79?_=1736877049462

retropieuser555

@sugarfree it changes line 950 below in runcommand.sh's matchbox parameters.

If it's XINIT-WMC the window opens with a cursor visible. XINIT-WM it hides the cursor

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh

Totally off topic, I'm debating experimenting and seeing if I can use Labwc as the window manager instead seeing as X11 isn't as efficient and outdated. You can even see it in things like the Ocarina or Majora's Mask PC Ports, using matchbox it's slower in the title menu than if I use a different window manager.

I doubt it'd affect dolphin much as most of the slowdowns it feels are caused by certain effects that the Vulkan or opengl drivers on raspberry pi don't have a handle on