O2 Joggler running Retropie .

[hawsey]

@BuZz after all these years i am still a Linux fool ha I'm not sure what you mean by 'You can update retropie-setup and it will install the dependency for you now.'
I just opened a terminal and typed in what you suggested above , now I've gone back in to Retropie and am installing Retroarch after cleaning it first .
I hear what you say about the Joggler but I'm just messing really to see what i can get going .
The main Retropie GUI is surprisingly smooth , nice work on the Ubuntu port :-) this is what you have been up to .

[hawsey]

Great well that successfully installed Retroarch :-) however i may have just discovered the limitations of the Joggler .
It tries to open then at the top of the screen i have RetroArch then Frames 256 then Terminal .
Everything seems slow and i cant close anything down :-( ... Ah well

[hawsey]

Ok BuZz i worked out about the set up script , last night i did an update all packages and the screen greeting me this morning was " unable to install Kodi Binary "
Also there is a log
Apologies it's a Dropbox link , my laptop is broken and I'm just doing this on my phone and the Joggler .

https://www.dropbox.com/s/swcib15htpdxfm6/rps_2017-04-28_234040.log.gz?dl=0

Thanks

[hawsey]

@mediamogul i just noticed your answer , sorry , yes i used the update script .
Thanks for helping out :-)
The version of Xubuntu 14.04 for the Joggler i am using was made by BuZz especially for the Joggler .
The device is pretty old now but i would dearly love to get this going if only for older systems , it would be a great cheap Retropie Ubuntu set up for messing about with .

[BuZz]

@hawsey Kodi won't work. Ignore that. I do custom Kodi builds for joggler already. I'm unlikely to have time to look into RetroPie on this platform. There are not many users left either. Get a RPI :-)

[hawsey]

@BuZz ha ha I've got a Pi 3 and Zero W thanks , i didn't want you to waste any time , thanks for the help though , at least it installs and the GUI works ...

I have been trying to get the Pi Zero installed in Gadget mode on this build on the Joggler also and use Pi on the Zero and the Joggler just as a screen ,
But got stuck on that too :-(

[hawsey]

Messing about with Retroarch now , i can by changing the emulator , get the sound from the game starting up also i got some graphics for a few seconds , then the music kind of jittered then stuck , at which point i sniggered , Mrs Hawsey then stuck her head in the room and said " are you ever going to grow up " .....
I'll keep messing

[hawsey]

I got no further forward really other than it all installs including Retroarch now , all menus etc seem to work and Roms can be added which show up in their relevant console in the dash , also scraping seems to work .
The games just won't boot , I'm trying NES only at present .
Would there be any point in trying other systems at this juncture ?
Is it likely to be the limitations of the hardware or the missing graphics stuff as previously mentioned ?
I realise that Pi 3 is where it is at now so don't want anyone wasting any time on this unless it is feasible.
That being said I'm sure a Joggler could be found for any DEVs wanting a bash at it :-)

Thanks for the help people

[BuZz]

@hawsey retroarch is crashing on the joggler. I tried a few driver backend but it may require workarounds in retroarch. It's likely due to joggler gfx driver problems.

[hawsey]

@BuZz thanks for delving a bit deeper , i appreciate it , would that likely be worth sorting ? And would it be a lot of work ?

Looking on YouTube i found an old vid of Streefightet 2 working off MAME which looks great , also Quake3 on another so it looks like stuff should run ok obviously there would be limitations and i realise Retroarch is not MAME .

[hawsey]

Is this likely to be something someone in the Retroarch forums could help with BuZz or do you not think it would work anyway ?