Pi 5 Neogeo launching lr-fbneo

barbudreadmon

@Dopedtoinfinity said in Pi 5 Neogeo launching lr-fbneo:

[INFO] [Video]: Graphics driver did not initialize an input driver. Attempting to pick a suitable driver.
[ERROR] [Video]: Cannot initialize input driver. Exiting ...
[ERROR] Fatal error received in: "video_driver_init_internal()"

It seems like some kind of issue with your retroarch video or input drivers. I suppose some driver you used on pi4 doesn't work on pi5

Dopedtoinfinity

@barbudreadmon
Thanks,

I'll have a fiddle with the drivers in my override config.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rob

barbudreadmon

@Dopedtoinfinity I'm not familiar with pi5 or your config, but i think you are using x as input driver while xorg is not running. Maybe try udev instead.

Dopedtoinfinity

@barbudreadmon
input_joypad_driver = "udev" is in my main retroarch.cfg, and nothing relating to my joypad driver is in my override config.

lr-fbneo works fine from the arcade system collection.
Launching a neogeo game from the arcade system collection results in a blue screen.

Rob

mitu

@Dopedtoinfinity said in Pi 5 Neogeo launching lr-fbneo:

Launching a neogeo game from the arcade system collection results in a blue screen.

That's normal since you didn't copy the bios (neogeo.zip) to the BIOS/fbneo folder, but instead you copied it to the neogeo folder:

....
 [libretro INFO] [FBNeo] Romset found at /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/fbneo/neogeo
....

The core can't find the neogeo.zip romset and it tells you that you're missing the BIOS files.

EDIT: actually, the neogeo.zip file is placed in BIOS/fbneo, so that's not the reason why the Neogeo games are not working.

Dopedtoinfinity

@mitu
Cool,

I copied the rom and neogeo.zip to roms/arcade, but I will try after work with neogeo.zip in BIOS/fbneo too and run the rom from the roms/arcade folder.

I will also try running from the roms/neogeo folder with the neogeo.zip in BIOS/fbneo.

Thanks,

Rob

mitu

Actually, I was wrong - the neogeo.zip is in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/fbneo/ already. This means the bios file is correct, but there's a different error. The log file should probably tell you what's wrong.

barbudreadmon

@Dopedtoinfinity said in Pi 5 Neogeo launching lr-fbneo:

input_joypad_driver = "udev" is in my main retroarch.cfg, and nothing relating to my joypad driver is in my override config.

input_driver and input_joypad_driver are 2 different settings, your logs are complaining about input_driver, which seems to be set to x.

This isn't a romset issue.

Dopedtoinfinity

@barbudreadmon
I thought that seemed weird, but I see what you say now. I solved it by completely deleting my neogeo.cfg override. It's weird because my neogeo-cd.cfg override still has the line input_driver = "x", as does my arcade.cfg override, but they both work fine?!
Anyway, thanks for helping. All sorted now.

Rob

barbudreadmon

@Dopedtoinfinity said in Pi 5 Neogeo launching lr-fbneo:

It's weird because my neogeo-cd.cfg override still has the line input_driver = "x", as does my arcade.cfg override, but they both work fine?!

"x" is a valid value if xorg is running. I can only guess that xorg is running when playing neogeo-cd or arcade but not when playing neogeo for some reason (different launch commands ? different video drivers ?).

Again, i'm not familiar with pi5 or your config, so making a more precise diagnostic is impossible. I'm not even that much knowledgeable about retropie, it has been years since i last plugged my pi3, i'm only here as a FBNeo dev providing support.

Dopedtoinfinity

@barbudreadmon Thankyou, I really appreciate your help. 😀