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    EmulationStation inside Retropie on Raspberry Pi B+ does not work with more than 20.000 roms

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      CaelThunderwing @rbaker
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      @rbaker yea it was the second revision of teh Pi1
      @barretta i'd say Mame, NES, GB/GBC Snes (After overclocking otherwise youll norice Sound glitching.) but the Pi1 cant handle anything beyond the SNES. Amiga and DosBox you can count out somewhat early Amiga games should be fine, your going to get Probbly no better than maybe a 20mz 386 -ish performance in Dosbox

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        barretta @rbaker
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        @rbaker really thank you for your answer but i've noticed to have written not correctly because the problem is not on Retropie but on Emulation Station .

        I've updated my post .

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          barretta @CaelThunderwing
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          @CaelThunderwing really thank you for your answer but i've noticed to have written not correctly because the problem is not on Retropie but on Emulation Station .

          I've updated my post .

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          • spannernick1S
            spannernick1
            last edited by spannernick1

            I have a B (not a B+ sorry)and it worked fine on mine and I overclocked it,make sure you have download the right one,not for RPI2 or 3,look for the one for the zero.This one.. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.0.2/retropie-4.0.2-rpi1_zero.img.gz

            You can use Winrar to uncompress it. http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

            I have a RPI3 now and I love it,You should upgrade your RPI to a 3 and you will not regret it..;)

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              spannernick1 @barretta
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              @barretta How many roms are you putting in the roms folder,you put the roms in the folder for that emulator so if you download Sega cd roms you put then in the segacd folder and don't put them in zipped,having them in a zip file they don't run.I uncompress all my roms.

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                CaelThunderwing
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                with your Post reworded i'd agree w/ an earlier statement its the sheer amount of roms you have written to SD, and do you have a Low Speed/class SD in there? if yor going to have sooooo many i'd recommend low less than an Class 4 SD,

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                  barretta @spannernick1
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                  @spannernick1 i'm thinking about that upgrade but i'm worried about the migration fo all the structure becaue i've insatlled retrosmc durectly on a 4TB HD and the last time that i've tried to reinstall i've lost all :(

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                    barretta @spannernick1
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                    @spannernick1 yes the roms are all correct and zipped or unzipped ( it depend from emulator ) .

                    Only Gameboy - Gameboy Color and gameboy Advance were at laest 7K roms.

                    When i erased them the emulation station back to work without flickering or blocking.

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                      barretta @CaelThunderwing
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                      @CaelThunderwing thank you but 'ive installed all on a 4 TB USB external disk so, i think, that that problem does not exist is correct?

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                      • obsidianspiderO
                        obsidianspider
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                        Twenty thousand games?!

                        Just for the heck of it, how does it work when you have "only" a few hundred games? I don't download full sets and my install works fine.

                        Edit: I see you changed your original post and you said with thirteen thousand games it works. I'm guessing Emulation Station is freaking out over parsing those enormous gamelist.xml files that would be required for that number of ROMs.

                        📷 @obsidianspider

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                          obsidianspider
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                          Some looking around on the Internet leads me to believe you're running out of RAM. EmulationStation is just choking on game lists that are that big. Since most people won't ever have anywhere near that number on their system, they won't run into that limit, so I don't see EmulationStation trying to optimize for that as a high priority. You also said you're on a Pi 1, which only has 512MB of RAM, not 1GB like the Pi 2 and Pi 3.

                          📷 @obsidianspider

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                            BuZz administrators
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                            Which ES theme are you running ? Increase GPU memory split and switch to a low memory theme (like carbon).

                            see https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes#white-screen-of-death

                            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              BuZz administrators
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                              or remove some games...

                              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                barretta @obsidianspider
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                                @obsidianspider said in EmulationStation inside Retropie on Raspberry Pi B+ does not work with more than 20.000 roms:

                                Just for the heck of it, how does it work when you have "only" a few hundred games? I don't download full sets and my install works fine

                                It work correctly without problems

                                Edit: I see you changed your original post and you said with thirteen thousand games it works. I'm guessing Emulation Station is freaking out over parsing those enormous gamelist.xml files that would be required for that number of ROMs.

                                Is the same thing that i think so the only solution is to reduce the rom's numbers ?

                                Some looking around on the Internet leads me to believe you're running out of RAM. EmulationStation is just choking on game lists that are that big. Since most people won't ever have anywhere near that number on their system, they won't run into that limit, so I don't see EmulationStation trying to optimize for that as a high priority. You also said you're on a Pi 1, which only has 512MB of RAM, not 1GB like the Pi 2 and Pi 3.

                                Yes it's correct may be a PI3 can be better but how much?

                                I know that is not the best to have so many roms but i'd like to have a big list on emulation station

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                                  barretta @BuZz
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                                  @BuZz i actually use the Carbon Theme :)

                                  I'm starting to think that only way is to have a low rom's number :(

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                                    CaelThunderwing @barretta
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                                    @barretta Unforantly Yes outside changing the memsplit, the Pi1 has significantly less RAM than the Pi2 or 3.

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                                      barretta @CaelThunderwing
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                                      @CaelThunderwing i'll try to change also the Raspberry but i'd like to know how many roms can be inserted without having problems ( i'm just curious ) :)

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                                        CaelThunderwing @barretta
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                                        @barretta not many overload thier SD's in this manner, try skimming down Romhacks, one sin languages you cant read dups, etc.

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                                          barretta @CaelThunderwing
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                                          @CaelThunderwing I've installed all on a 4TB external Usb disk

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                                            CaelThunderwing @barretta
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                                            @barretta well SD or USB it doesnt matter to Emulationstation it's Still having to parse every rom into a list and the act of doing that past WAY so manywill slow things to a crawl to the point it will lock up, you CAN however speed it up a tiny bit by saving only what you will use to SD over USB as the Pi's SD read/write is faster than its USB2.0 access times even w/ a Pi3 (USB vs MicroSD)

                                            The only differences using a newer Pi than you are now in the same setup, will be its Not going to lockup w/ that many roms due to running out of Ram. (that and you'll be able to do alot more than the Pi1/0 can) (the differences between 2 and 3, Dualcore ARM CPU vs Quadcore, 1ghz vs 1.2, the 3 has builtin Wifi & Bluetooth and power consumption (2A vs 2.5A[because of the added internal wifi n bluetooth] ) Both models have 1GB Ram vs the B/B+ only 512MB[256 if your talking the first run of the B's) and Cost. the Pi2 is 35$, the Pi3 is 45$

                                            if your fine using an USB Wifi and bluetooth adapters for wireless connectivity then if your going to get a newer model go the Pi2 but if you want the lil extra Ommph the 3 packs + the built in connectivity then the extra 10$ wont Hurt

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