Quick Setup Arcade X-Men Vs Street Fighter

[sadtraxx]

@mediamogul I must acknowledge that I am coming from a completely Pi-ignorant perspective, and probably haven't been helpful to this process, but experienced, knowledgeable users are replying to my question simply to tell me that I got ripped off, and you are posting completely unrelated movie facts... I'm all for silliness, but that is not support, so the cost of it is irrelevant... @dankcushions though has been great. I'm hoping we can all move on from this as stronger people, and that I have a long and fruitful Raspberry Pi career

[mediamogul]

@sadtraxx

@dankcushions though has been great.

Truer words were never said.

[dankcushions]

<3

@sadtraxx I think if i'd sooner realised you had brought a pre-loaded system I wouldn't have been so helpful :) what you have to understand is: you're paying someone else for this community's hard work, and then coming back to this community for help when it doesn't work.

i'm sure you didn't realise this when you bought it, but the end result is the same; they're getting paid for our voluntary work, and then getting their customers to come to us for free support. the best thing you can do is reinstall your system with the official image, as per https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation - then we can at least know what you have and how to support it.

for example, the romset i suggest you get will only work on current versions of retropie, which i guess you won't have.

[sadtraxx]

@dankcushions I totally didn't realise, I thought the Raspberry Pi was a copyrighted/trademarked product... maybe I will return it

[sadtraxx]

@dankcushions could you please shoot me a link to purchase the correct system? I am in Australia

[TMNTturtlguy]

@sadtraxx Hey man, in all seriousness, I do like to help people, and if you are willing to be cool and start fresh i am good with that.

You have everything you need right now to start fresh and do it the correct way. First thing is to download sd formater, or any other formater and reformat your SD card they provided you. sd formater

Then download the official and free retropie image from this site: download link You will want to download the pi2/3 image.

Then download 7-zip download link

Unzip the retropie image

Then download Win32 DiskImager download Link

Use win32diskimager to write the image to the SD card.

When that is complete, put the SD card into your pi and you have an official retropie install and we will all be very excited and happy to help you.

Refer to the docs here: Docs Link for all the info i just shared above as well as step by step instructions on how to load roms, set up your keyboard and controller, and everything else you need to know to get started. It should go a lot smoother for you if you take this approach. I guarantee if you take the time to do this, we can get your street fighter game running in no time!

[sadtraxx]

@TMNTturtlguy looks like I have a late night ahead of me! thanks for that info, very much appreciated. peace

[red2blue]

Once you finish doing what TMNTturtlguy says to do, when you have a FBA rom (if you downloaded the romset dank told you to download) you put all those ZIPPED files into the folder FBA under ROMS.

Once you do that, you are done. you can boot up any rom. You do not unzip arcade roms, their compressed for a reason. You also cannot put MAME roms in FBA emulator folder and visa versa. so make sure you get the right rom set.

[sadtraxx]

@tmntturtlguy halfway through downloading retropie link it stopped: "Failed - Forbidden"...?

[sadtraxx]

@tmntturtlguy just downloaded... weird

[sadtraxx]

@tmntturtlguy ok I got this error:

end kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)

I use a Mac so had to find replacements for your links...

I used disk utility on Mac to format SD to MS DOS (FAT)

Keka (7Zip for Mac) to unzip

RPi-sd card builder v1.2 to write image to SD card

By the way I am using a Lexar C10/UHS-1 32gb SD card

please tell me where I screwed the pooch :(

[pjft]

@sadtraxx for a Mac, I'd use either etcher or apple Pi Baker to install the image.

And just to clarify, the raspberry pi is a product you can buy anywhere, for sure :)

RetroPie is a different thing, though, and that's what they can't sell or distribute.

Keep us posted on how things go, we'll do our best to sort things out!

Welcome.

Edit: maybe you downloaded a wrong image (wrong pi version) or maybe the download was incomplete?

[sadtraxx]

@pjft thank you very much for your help- Apple Pi Baker worked! I now have Retropie up and running.

I still don't have the use of the roms though, is there anything I need to do after plugging the USB containing the roms in?*

*I have a "configuration" icon flashing under the Retropie logo on the main screen FYI

[pjft]

@sadtraxx I wouldn't know much about that icon, as I've set it up about a year ago, but I'd refer you to these:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive

Depending on what you're trying to do.

I've personally been running then off a USB stick, based on the manual method described in the second link, as at the time there was no automated method.

Works like a charm.

[sadtraxx]

@pjft tried the automatic mount option for using rom from USB link, tried to update retropie setup script and get

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git': Could not resolve host: github.com

:(

[dankcushions]

@sadtraxx is your pi connected to the internet?

[red2blue]

@sadtraxx

Do it this way, After you use SDFormat download and place PINNS onto your SD Card

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=142574 go there

Download PINNS LITE (on bottom of post or click this link http://sourceforge.net/projects/pinn/files/pinn-lite.zip)

Extract it to your SD card

Place SD card into raspberry pi.

Install RetroPie on the list, and whatever else you want.

After installed, it'll run retropie, and boom youre all set.

[sadtraxx]

@dankcushions this gets better and better hahaha... probably not. I setup the last version I had on, but didn't re-setup after loading new image. apologies everyone

[sadtraxx]

@dankcushions thanks everyone for your help, I have progressed to the next stage it seems.... I now have FBA on my Pi, but when I click on the romset in FBA it gives me a load screen for 5 seconds, and then comes back to the FBA screen... any tips?

[pjft]

@sadtraxx You probably have the wrong romset, but there's a good way to troubleshoot that:

Get us the content of /dev/shm/runcommand.log. It should state what the problem is.

But likely you have the wrong romset for the emulator you're trying to use.