Thanks again for doing this!

@BuZz Prior to the most recent binary update (or maybe the one before it), I was able to play Tekken 6, Soulcalibur Broken Destiny, and Ridge Racer 2 at full speed on Pi 4 with no frameskip (Tekken 6 and Ridge Racer 2 had to be non-buffered however, and Tekken 6 experienced some lag in the matchup screen, but gameplay was fine). Now, after a recent update, Tekken 6 constantly runs at 30 FPS, Soulcalibur runs at 60 with random drops into 30 (sometimes not recovering back to 60), and Ridge Racer 2 mostly runs like it used to but will drop to 30 at certain sections of track.

I'm not sure if an update to PPSSPP caused this, or the recent 5.4 kernel update (I don't think I'd played anything on PPSSPP since before 5.4), but these issues were definitely not present say, a month ago.

EDIT: I edited the ppsspp.sh scriptmodule to go back to v1.10.2 and the problem is gone. So it's definitely a change that was made in the last month.

@mitu - thanks for the reply.

To answer your questions:

Are you sure ? Do you have the latest RetroPie-Setup version installed ?

Yep, absolutely. I downloaded the standard image from the site, deployed it, checked and it says 'installed from source'. I then updated the setup script and it stays the same.

Manual installation will not install the package - it's installed explicitely on the Pi images.
But, about the installation from source - are you looking at the same platform (Pi) when comparing the available options ?

Yep, same platform (my Picade), Rpi 3. The buster image I used on this was from back in Jan and was from the weekly builds, so it was an image (not manual). I have two SD cards - one which is 'production' (which has been subsequently updated) originally deployed back in Jan with a buster weekly image - and another SD with a brand new image which I put on there yesterday to test. So am using exactly the same hardware and setup. In theory, the buster image back from Jan should have installed usbromservice as it wasn't a manual install. It also had the source files in the tmp/build folder, but the script was suggesting it wasn't installed. Perhaps I removed it but I don't think so. This isn't an issue though, as we are only really fussed with how the 'current' image behaves.

To replicate the source install thing, all I need to do is deploy a fresh image (current is April 28, 2020, Pi 2/3 variant) and that's it (updating script post install doesn't change anything). You can then see in the package manager that usbromservice appears to be 'installed from source'. You can also click 'update from source' and it'll update. However, as I mentioned above, if you remove it, the install from source option goes away, and you can then only install via pre-compiled binary, which I assume is what it should be displaying in the first place.

Yes, that's an oversight, should be fixed.

Great, no worries!

There are other modules that are binary only, but they're not packaged since there's no point in doing so (i.e. ports that install through .deb files or 3rd party emulatorts which supply binaries). It's normal.

I see. Currently my picade is only running the main/core packages, nothing 3rd party nor any ports. I only mention because none of the other binary packages installed on the system display like this, they all say 'you are running the latest binary'. This one is the only exception in terms of showing the message 'Binary update may be available (Unable to check for this package)'. So I wanted to ask, just in case that was another bug of sorts.

Sorry, i've just noticed entering in each package menu that a few ones can just be downloaded from source and compiled.

Thanks.

PS. BTW, the Debian install links from opensuse.org appear to be broken on the .sh script as there is only a folder for Debian 9.0 now - Debian 8.0 isn't there anymore.

Nice, but so where is this advanced speed hacks menu then?

Looking at the menu source at https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/blob/40c380a8e8080ecb38159ee5aad1ce149e9889fc/frontend/menu.c , there seem to be a ton of options missing, such as plugin selection, memory card options, advanced speed hacks etc.

It looks like these options were part of a native menu system of the standalone emulator which is disabled/unsupported in Retroarch. I made an issue here: https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/issues/176
You can see on this blog how the menu options in the original emulator looked. They appeared on a press of ESC.
https://retroresolution.com/2016/01/01/playstation-emulation-on-the-pi-enhancing-the-experience-with-the-options-menu-part-one-basic-features-and-save-states/

Since the native menu system is based on a menu rendering library not available in Retroarch (libpicofe), the solution is to map all the missing options into the Retroarch Quickmenu. Currently, only some of the options are mapped to the Quickmenu.

rsn8887 created this issue in libretro/pcsx_rearmed open No way to access all the advanced options #176

@quicksilver Yeah, I did the same. Took those that were already converted, the rest I went for bin/cue formats. Converting myself never went right.

Thanks for the guide! I'll give it a try later. So far I'm only interested in PCE-CD and Sega CD games.

Ok, so I've created separate emulator.cfg for each version of CSBwin I'm using and that works fine.

But now I have troubles with Der Clou again. After a reboot I can't start it from ES anymore, I get:

Executing: /opt/retropie/ports/theclue/theclue ERROR: Module Dsk: Open :./pictures/bubble.fnt

And it seems to be a path issues, because I get the same error when I try to run the binary from the menu in Raspbian.
I can run it when I go to the directory manually at the command promt. So my guess is that the script not goes into the directory and thats why it can't find the datafiles anymore. Weird thing is, that I can run it from ES after I started it once from the command promt.

Also i just noticed that I can't save because of restrictions. D:

Also noticed that I don't have to add lots of games. Simply adding more and more systems to retropie will also chew up ES's RAM until it can't launch anything.

I might try playing around with the memory split to see if this helps at all, and allocating more VRAM to emulation station... but it may not work. Currently I have the memory split at 128.

@herb_fargus @pjft thanks for the information guys. looks like the easiest way is to update all from binary than update ES from source, or update each individually.

I have to go now... sorry! I wish you luck!

@dualshock0101 Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first