@JimmyFromTheBay said in Catastrophic lr-VICE failure:

Ah, found it:

sudo chown pi:pi /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-vice

Did that for the main and subfolder and managed to replace the crappy broken new files with the working old ones. All fixed. Thanks for the reply :)

I see how you have done it otherwise you would not be able to replace the files.
If you don't mind you can leave it that way.
However, notice that these folders normally have root user rights.
In principle you should turn them back to root.

@mitu
Thank you again -that helped a lot.
Now I've managed to play C64-Games with the wireless-controller.

@AwesomeKingClem don't remove your posts, makes the replies you got seem out of place and breaks the topics. That's not how a forum works.

@yserra Hmm, shoot. I wonder if I have a greater issue. I did as you instructed for the C64 and the keyboard is still having the same issues. FWIW, the same issue exists when I connect a straight up PC USB keyboard. I also notice the Scoll lock made no difference.. then again I test that after I edited the cfg, so maybe it doesn't work because I set it to "nul".

@Retro-Arcade-Fan which retroarch config files are checked and applied when present can be seen when you start any libretro emulator with the verbose logging (select verbose logging in the runcommand menu, this menu can be entered when the screen "Loading xyz.file ... Press any button to configure ..." screen is shown).

Not all folders and files must be there, but if they are, they are processed.

For instance this is shown on my side when I start Beach Head II with verbose logging:

[INFO] [Overrides]: Core-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/VICE x64/VICE x64.cfg". [INFO] [Overrides]: No content-dir-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/VICE x64/c64.cfg". [INFO] [Overrides]: No game-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/VICE x64/BEACHHD2.cfg".

Check the output with less /dev/shm/runcommand.log on the commandline. It will give you hints where to put the files on your setup.

HTH

@dankcushions hiya, I seam to be able to configure everything as far as I know and can test, I am actually thinking the game is not loading properly, how long should it take before the game start screen actually shows? and should I get the loading scribbles in the background?

@mitu Hmm, that booted up with a Super CPU bootscreen, but then just did the same as running in lr-vice (testing it with Metal Dust, which goes through the intro then gets to an options screen then just dumps you back to the C64 OS when you hit Return to start the game, whichever options you choose).

@billydent no problem. Glad I could help.

@ashpool LOL -- great minds think alike! I tried the virtual keyboard, too, and it works PERFECTLY! For some reason, S, Z, and a couple of other keys don't work on the hardware keyboard, but honesty as long as everything works on the virtual keyboard, I don't mind.

Thanks for helping me figure this out! Off to save Skara Brae...!

So it's a libretro core? Can't you just map it in the Retroarch menu (hotkey+X -> controls -> port 1 controls), or do I misunderstand?

@jamrom2 said in Quick question about lr-vice:

Do you still have vice loaded? Did you try Vic 20 games in that?

Yes. It's completely messed up. Most of my games were saved as snapshots to avoid endless messing around with RAM settings etc, and the new one has completely wrecked the snapshot format so none of them work. Cartridges don't work either.

@jamrom2 Yes Space Taxi was definitely the biggest jump to nostalgia for me with the C64. I installed lr-vice from source. It's a bit clunky but ultimately I got it to work. Thank you for your suggestion. Load time was about 2 minutes. Had to hit select/coin to bring up the virtual keyboard just to get past the cheat menu. Then I was finally able to use the joystick.

Thanks again for your help!

@buzz Sorry my bad :-( Guess I'm already late for the train since stretch is being removed.
I can survive the rest of the "stretch days" with the vice X64 emulator.. Anyways thanks for all the great work you've done with RetroPie. It is much appreciated :-)

@chris3535 as @mitu said, I needed to go into the retroarch settings for lr-fuse and set the control 3 option to keyboard, works fine now.

@saccublenda yeah, it wasn’t a very good game but it was kind of forbidden which is why i liked it back in the days :)

Sorry the quality is so bad. Hopefully you can see the signal blanking out as I switch between the menu and the running system. The monitor's HDMI2 input notification appears in the top-right each time this happens.

The output resolution is 1080p@60 in both the system and the menu (I tried to show this but it's hard to see the monitor's OSD).

It feels more like the SDL window(?) is being recreated as I switch between the system and the menu.

With the FKMS driver, the monitor never blanks out and switching between the running system and the menu is instant.