Libretto shows no video on N64 (lr-mupen64plus)
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I've spent a lot of time setting up a RetroPie machine. N64 is by far the most recent console on my system (most other ROMs are for older systems.) It's the only one with analog input. So I set up a different configuration file for it that gets input from a different device. I think it worked.
The problem is this: if I select the Libretto-wrapped emulator I get no video during gameplay. If I type F1 during gameplay, the current frame is displayed behind the GUI menu. But if I press F1 again, once more the screen goes black. There are three non-Libretto emulators: gles2n64, GLideN64 and gles2rice. The last one does not show graphics either. GLideN64 seems to work best. But the thing is that neither of those have the easy-to-use configuration menu. I'd have to write a config file for them myself. And even then, I would not be able to call the Arch menu with F1.
I tried several configuration options and all produce the same result: with lr-mupen64plus as the emulator, the screen is black except during the F1 menu. Also, over the black, the existing inputs are listed at startup.
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Try updating your packages. I know for sure that the black screen on rice was fixed months ago, and was included in the 3.7 binaries. I haven't heard anything about problems with the lr- version, but it's possible installing these emulators again will solve the problem.
Most people use the standalone mupen64plus- emulators because they are more powerful and more accurate at emulating n64. The lack of configuration menu is obviously not the best, but I'd rather have a smooth game of Mario Kart after doing 5 minutes of manual controller configuration rather than always dealing with choppy graphics and audio.
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I think I updated everything (with
apt-get) a couple of weeks ago. I'll try again just in case. Unless I need to update using a different tool.If most people prefer another emulator, then I suppose I'll do the same. I now have to figure out which file I need to edit for one of the other emulators...
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Well I think apt-get won't help unless you apt-get update as well. I believe the standard method is just to go into the retropie_setup script, update that script, then go to Install Individual emulators and install from there.
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I just figured that out. I'm using the Retropie script to update.
I'm used to the Linux command line, so I just went to apt-get directly. The Retropie interface has its own system for the emulators.
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Doing the regular update (as opposed to just
apt-get) did indeed fix the issue. My bad.
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