@markyb2021 said in pi 4 gaming kit:

One other thing is heatsinks and fans
Ive read you don’t need either , and also that you do need them

I have my Pi 4 in the "official" (red & white plastic, said not to have the best in terms of ventilation) case with the official fan & heatsink.

The fan is set to come on at 80 °C to cool it down before thermal throttling occurs at 85.

The fan never comes on.

It does work, it just never gets that hot.

It idles around 55-60 depending on the season. While playing it creeps up into the mid-high 60s, and even reached into the low 70s this past summer when the temperatures were up but I've never seen it higher than, like, 74.

I don't overclock, or play much in the way of N64.

Anyone with ideas?

Is it even possible to stream off a Rpi4?

Thanks

@pscotto1234 THANK YOU
That did the trick!

You saved me perhaps a weeks time. I would have been playing around with this, reinstalling the RetroPie image, starting from scratch, trying this that and everything. Then maybe if I was lucky I would have come up with the answer.

Thank you for saving my time and giving me the answer!
I wonder why some games are for Joystick 1 and some for Joystick 2.

@dodonpachi Yes, both horizontal and vertical games played vertically with these overlays shown when playing the game. Some think the game area is to small, but I like it.

@vpelss said in Failed to find mixer elements error after latest system update/upgrade. Kernel bumped to 4.19.118:

These steps worked for me. Pi 4.

snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=1 in /boot/cmdline.txt ran emultionstation-setup script and selected Headphones in emulation station I set:
Audio Card : default
Audio Device : master
Omx Player: Local

No I get sound through my external speakers + I have the mixer working in emulationstation

I registered just to give a heads up to this solution.

I too was affected by the "failed to find mixer elements" nag error before running a rom.
There are a LOT of forum post about this issue, all with different solution with mixed results.

This solution worked for me too on my Pi 3B+
Installed RetroPie on top op Raspian
I want the audio from the headphone jack, not HDMI

snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=1 in /boot/cmdline.txt selected Headphones in RetroPie Setup selected ALSA in Raspi-Config

in emulation station I set:

Audio Card : default Audio Device : master Omx Player: ALSA

Hello, had a quick question, what is the best way to execute an OS command with this emulator? I have the following but it falls short of executing:

OS.execute("bash", ["~/RetroPie/scripts/killgodot.sh"], true, output)

the script contents are:

ps -ef | awk '/godot-engine/ {print $2}' | xargs kill

it simple looks for the emulator in the process list and kills it, so I can switch games with it being a custom launcher.
Figuring this out would also help in launching games :)

Thank you,

@mitu ah perfect that worked too, thank you very much!

@mitu Thx. Never thought of that. Exiting one will just start the other and each will shutdown/save properly. Nice :)

Upgrading the OS is not supported by Raspbian nor RetroPie. You probably have found some instructions on how to upgrade using apt and updating its configuration files in /etc/apt, but it's not a recommended process, especially for a beginner.

If you wish to use an up-to-date/current version, use the image from http://retropie.org.uk/download. We don't support 3rd party image, as outlined in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@sleve_mcdichael thanks for the report, it should be ok now :)

Got it, someone from the official ppsspp-forum had the final hint.
I share this here for everyone running in the same issue (which should happen if you updated recently):

"RE: graphical issues since last update
Turn off the vertex cache setting.

It used to be accidentally disabled in code, but we re-enabled it recently. It seems to be malfunctioning on some devices now, though. It was accidentally broken for several stable versions."

@binarymessiah said in Low volume on videos with OMX+PCM:

Yeah not using OMX leaves me with no sound in the video snaps

That means the vlc built-in video player doesn't have the right audio settings. I remember now a while back a similar topic with the audio output from the Picade, the issue was that the I2S card doesn't have a volume control exposed to ALSA, so the volume slider has little effect.

Does alsamixer show any volume control for your card ? I assume that the configuration for the Picade has disabled the on-board audio, otherwise in-game sound wouldn't have worked.

@deguzler please fill out the requested information on this page so somebody can better assist you

@dteam

Thanks for the feedback.

Indeed I have to work on it, structuring it better.
This is basically caused by the fact that I am working on it.
First I want to make sure things are working correctly.
When I am done adding/testing stuff I will try to reorganize.
Perhaps we can discuss this later on, to make it simpler.
Or indeed add a diagram in the first post.

Perhaps you have noticed, the forum lists are now in two sections. (old and new)
The list can now be build up from the new database we created.
Basically this means I can remove it from the old section, where it used it's own data.

Well, I have noticed now, working on it, that there is still much to be added and things that have to be changed.

Btw.
You can experiment with making some sorting lines, if you want.
That way we can build the new lists that are important to be in there.
You can add it between lines 86 and 107, and share them if you like.

@mitu after removing this package, steamlink still works. I have no idea what happened.

Xorg.0.log no longer contains anything about Allwinner or fbturbo 🤔

I'll resurrect this if the problem returns. But for now... thanks for your help!

@sage-freke Weird, on my computer nestopia is slower on Alien Syndrome, but yeah there could be discrepancies between games since they use hundreds of different mappers (some kind of special chip in nes cartridges, with different levels of complexity, the emulator needs to emulate it)

@lister-of-smeg said in Buggy settings menu:

"I really dont have time to read that all, sorry."

I'll also add https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29316/how-can-you-play-with-this-input-lag to his best-of.

@nemo93: Thanks for the Info about Staging and about DOSBox ECE (just heard of it in the context of DOSbian before and wasn't aware that it features Glide support)!

Feel free to share any feedback if you give these a try.

I'll try to remember that, but as both games I've mentioned are in fact Windows Games (9x) I am doubtfull about any (playable) success . But inspired by this MagPi Article about installing Win98 on a Pi4, I am eager to give it at least a try ;)