@mitu I followed the exact steps here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/35355/unable-to-set-control-mapping-in-dolphin-dolphin-emu-not-loading/8?_=1714924854335

and it all worked but I was left with that login screen.

I reverted back to my SD card backup just before I did those steps and followed the instructions @abj gave me above and it worked perfectly fine!

@abj Thank you SO MUCH, I was super lost when it came to this but it worked <3

Modify the emulators.cfg file from /opt/retropie/configs/wii and add a new emulator entry for the distro's version of dolphin. You can then choose this version from the runcommand launch menu and make it the default for running Wii games.

@BuZz said in Retropie On Debian:

@NY152 you will need to run retropie under the desktop on your system. Please post logs for any error you got installing as @mitu mentioned. Thanks.

Astonishing ...

NO error during installation.

The problem with Debian is that you can not run EmulationStation in console mode (it does not detect a display)

Under ArchLinux, no worries without any desktop environment. EmulationStation starts and runs the emulators itself without any problem.

So saying that an office environment is mandatory is a totally false.

I will look for myself since without thinking more than that, the office environment is for you indispensable, you consider this as normal, not me

thanks anyway

Thank you @mitu for the quick and, arguably, more importantly, accurate information. Too many times I have been given a solution that just leads me down a rabbit hole that never ends but this was a one-stop solution.!

@vykyan retropie does have a patched version of sdl, but not sure how much is specific to the pi. I believe it's also used on x86 builds

@Nickelino
I did the same as @cresfang using Lubuntu but with a quick Google search, I found this on another forum:

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/223
derlehmann commented on Aug 22, 2014

found a solution that work for me. i install openbox and run this sh script:

#!/bin/bash #!/bin/sh xboxdrv -l 3 -s --dpad-as-button --trigger-as-button & openbox & emulationstation killall openbox killall xboxdrv