@daubsi You shouldn't delete /opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg without re-installing a megadrive emulator after. We include a default config which includes the global retroarch configuration (from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg).

If you remove the megadrive retroarch configuration and then run a megadrive emulator RetroArch will create a new configuration with it's defaults and that will contain incorrect paths and other settings.

the default config for /opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg is

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/megadrive" #include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

(I assume you mean /opt/retropie not /opt/retroarch in your post - i copy and pasted some paths and then realised so have corrected my post)

@exitkioskmode looks like you managed it 👌🏼 but yeah the usual way is people will upvote your comments if they're very helpful, interesting or creative

That's a really cool feature!

@Lolonois said in Very short descriptions don't wrap.:

Feel free to report back if the effect is still present in the snes-mini theme after test-driving the PR.

Unfortunately I still see the issue in be99449:

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pi@retropie:/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev $ cat retropie.pkg pkg_origin="source" pkg_date="2022-08-14T00:41:47-07:00" pkg_repo_type="git" pkg_repo_url="https://github.com/Gemba/EmulationStation" pkg_repo_branch="fix_short_desc_wordwrap" pkg_repo_commit="be9944921e47ebfa57acae8200d495f356774c2b" pkg_repo_date="2022-08-13T18:37:11+02:00" pkg_repo_extra=""

@mitu thanks for the reply. I turned off my shader preset to see what would happen, and it does improve performance to "mostly" 60fps. The global shader I use is just "sharp-bilinear-2x-prescale" which afaik isn't supposed to be demanding at all, so I'm surprised performance tanks so badly with it on.

Unfortunately I've screwed up the video settings for all the snes cores by attempting to remove the global shader preset from bsnes, while keeping it in place for snes9x. Shaders don't work at all for snes, and different resolutions in the runcommand menu aren't even working... I don't know why that happened.

Bsnes is causing me too much trouble, so i'm just gonna uninstall it once I restore my backup...

@TeeEl can you please share more details according to the forum post guidelines? Also specify your hardware (monitor), emulator and game. If you have a video, even better.

@exitkioskmode Upload the video somewhere and then post a link to it.

It didnt work it just booted up like usual.

I got retropie image from the raspi imager presets should I go to the image from that website?

No, it's the same image - it doesn't matter how it's installed.

Unfortunately I don't know much about the various 3.5' models for Waveshare's displays - the above config was taken from one of their images, but it looks like there's more than 1 model with this resolution (and supported with different drivers).

I suggest looking at their Wiki page and try one of their images to see which one works (and then replicating the config.txt from the image onto the RetroPie installation) or trying their install script from https://github.com/waveshare/LCD-show/.

@TPR any chance of a video as someone like me learns by watching videos an step

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The logo wasn't too hard, but the cloudy background and rocks were a challenge!

@MSP430 /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_settings.cfg, if I remember correctly!

Here's a realistic Arcade Bezel for Demon Front with the Mega Bezel Reflective Shader for Retroarch

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@StonedEdge said in EmulationStation Crashed!:

I did install mesa-vulkan drivers from piKiss but I don't think that would be causing this issue...

Didn't this also update the mesa packages ? Most likely that's the issue - you may want to re-install the distro's packages if you don't wish to reflash the image.

I decided to change the title to make it more relevant. I wasn't sure where to post the following yet as I was keen to share it in case this helps others.

We ran into a very painful issue while testing a recent build of DOSBox Staging. The sound was crackling like hell in almost every games tested and only pi4 platform was affected (pi3 was ok). Builds for macOS, x86, etc didn't have the issue either. After a long and rather difficult debugging session the culprit has been found (thanks to @kcgen!) > SpeexDSP's floating-point API is unreliable on current (32-bit) Buster. After compiling our own version everything went back to normal.

@Ghastly64 yes :)

Thank you @petrockblog , I found out the switch I used was a normally on momentary switch, and I expected it to be normally off. I've had those switches forever in my components to reuse bin. I never bothered to measure with multimeter based on the fact that pressing it did shut down Retropie as I expected. This one's totally on me and sorry to bug you, I appreciate you helping out.

@dookieshooter said in compiling mame on ubuntu 22.04 fails:

So I hacked around and THINK I got the mame 245 binary installed properly. I basically hacked up the mame.sh script in retropie setup to skip the compile step and only take the precompiled stuff from stickfreaks.

Ok, It probably can work if you did it correct.

This is how I do it when mame has been already configured earlier :
Extract the .7z in /opt/retropie/emulators/mame .

This is how I do it when mame has NOT been configured earlier :
Extract the .7z in /opt/retropie/emulators/mame .

Commands for installing the dependencies and configuring :

cd RetroPie-Setup/ sudo ./retropie_packages.sh mame depends sudo ./retropie_packages.sh mame configure

@Yaszuthemage said in HELP! Emulation station broke on rpi display!:

@mitu how would I use either the fkms or kms overlay? how would I load Gpu drivers? I tried using the built in spi panel overlays but it didnt work

The default RetroPie (or Raspberry Pi OS) images have the fkms /kms overlay already enabled, so you don't need to add anything for this part. What you need is to add the configuration for your display to config.txt, which can be different depending on your display model and capabilities.

@usb3pt0 said in Video Splashscreen - No video or audio with OMX Player, but videosnaps work normally:

Based on that advice I installed emulationstation-dev through retropie setup, rebooted, and got into it. Pressing START lists the version as 2.11-DEV so I assume it worked. Hit Select, hit Start...omxplayer still running.

Hm, weird, can't reproduce the issue with current -dev (or stable). omxplayer always stops when starting the game from the screensaver. Can you also post your es_settings.cfg file, from $HOME/.emulationstation ?

Is there a way to get game info working with VLC btw? or is that still a 100% broken feature?

Using the built-in video player (based on vlc) the game info is shown.

@sleve_mcdichael ok, I was just making sure there wasn't somewhere obvious I was missing on handing fr HDMI to headphones. Or if there was a general location where this would typically be saved, such as in a config file somewhere. It may be easier for me to just install another separately from the beginning