@mitu When I did use 20.04, there was an issue with the nvidia 390 driver installing. I thought rolling it back would somehow be better for compatibility. I do have dolphin installed with retropie on my laptop, so I believe I will just use clonezilla to clone it to the nvidia build, and sort through the driver issue then. If that doesnt work I will switch away from Lubuntu and try another distro.

@dktpi I have experimented with dolphin on the pi4. Mario kart double dash was almost playable with an over clock. However it did have some issues with graphics. From what I have read Dolphin does not completely support arm processors yet. You can try though.

According to the libretro docs, yes, that folder should be created. However, the same page says that internal Dolphin cheats are not supported, so that step may be useless.

@skyde72 please provide details of your setup as requested.

@lister-of-smeg why didn’t it think of that! :)

@mitu Thanks! I am not hoping towards full speed, just hoping to find ways to improve performance!

@saku00 Well, the addition is now part of RetroPie, so you don't have to edit the file again if you update Dolphin.

@george-spiggott I found the solution:

in terminal type cd /opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu

then type dolphin-emu and it will open dolphin

@mitu
exactly. Besides the base installation and Retropie i only installed git dialog unzip xmlstarlet lightdm openbox and ubuntu-drivers-common. Made that up for a friend of mine who is absolutely clueless when it comes to computers. The idea is "USB stick in, turn on PC = Retropie / USB stick out, turn on PC = Windows"

But i found a solution 20 minutes ago. By accident more or less TBH. I was snooping around in the file manager included in the Retropie menu, actually not knowing what i was looking for and realized that the screen looks different from what i saw on Raspberry Pi. I navigated to dolphin-emu, executed it and voilà, there it is.

Weird... Maybe someone more experienced could satisfy my curiosity and explain why this works through file manager but not through the console.

Bonjour, j'utilise retropie sur ubuntu 18.04 et installé dolphin.
tout fonctionne a part que si je met la langue de la wii en francais , a chaque démarrage du jeu avec emulationstation le jeu change de langue automatiquement et repasse en anglais.
sur la gamecube je n'est pas ce probleme
quand je lance dolphin sans passé par émulationstation la langue que j'ai choisi se met bien et reste tel que je l'ai mise, des que je lance les jeux avec emulationstation la langue se modifie et ce n'est plus celle que j'ai mise
Es-ce que quelq'un a déja eu le cas et a une solution
merci

@yfzdude

Awesome, thanks a bunch dude. This is a good setup, appreciate the help.

@unknown that makes sense. you would have had the 64-bit kernel with the 32-bit userland, confusing things.

@chubsta said in Thinking about getting a mini-pc for emulation:

would this be a decent enough machine to do what I want it to?

With the specs you listed, it's more than enough.

@norstein
See this thread
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/238116
It explains how to launch the GUI for dolphin so you can get in and configure the controller.

Once you get that open you can reference
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/configuring-controllers/
for a more detailed guide to specifically setting up the controller.

Both seem to be from Dolphin. I just searched the web for "UseDiscordPresence" and found this: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-mkw-stuttering

Alas, I have no experience with Dolphin, so I can't help you further with your problem.

@George-Spiggott
Head over to this thread for updates on Mario Kart Double Dash:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30541/dolphin-elumator-running-on-rp4b-64bit

There's been recent work to include Vulkan support in Mesa for Pi. Here are some hopefully helpful links:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/vulkan-update-merged-to-mesa/ https://blogs.igalia.com/apinheiro/2020/06/v3dv-quick-guide-to-build-and-run-some-demos/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=277125

Most of the links go over similar steps for compiling, installing, and testing Vulkan and its demos. Some additional notes:

The older posts point to a developer's fork of Mesa. Now that Vulkan has been merged into Mesa, whereever you see a git clone you'll want to make sure that you're pointing to Mesa's repository (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/) You'll be able to get Vulkan from the master branch of of the Mesa repository. It doesn't look like it's been tagged to a release yet, so there's likely more work to be done and your mileage may vary. You can actually have different versions of Mesa installed on your system simultaneously, as long as you put them in different directories. In order to ensure stability of my Pi systems, I do this, so I can test and play around while not worrying about everything else. Though Mesa is pretty self contained so it's not too hard to get things back to normal if you overwrite the original drivers. If you have compiled Mesa for installation in another directory, then you'll need to add the following line to your launch scripts or your bash profile in order to point programs to your special installation. You do that with the following line: export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=[YOUR INSTALLATION PATH]/share/vulkan/icd.d/broadcom_icd.armv7l.json I've found that Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS (which is what RetroPie is built on) actually uses NVIDIA's Vendor Neutral Dispatch version of Mesa (which uses code from Mesa), and not Mesa's version of Mesa. I have no idea if that will be changing or not, but it at least indicates that there will be more work to do before we see Vulkan drivers as part of Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS/RetroPie as a default.

I've been playing around with Vulkan and so far it's looking pretty good. I have high hopes that as programs begin to adopt Vulkan we'll be seeing some really awesome performance increases. I have not tried Dolphin though. The only thing I've found regarding Dolphin and Vulkan was someone testing it out on a Jetson Nano, which is a different hardware platform. He did compare Vulkan vs. OpenGL and found that Zelda: Wind Walker ran very well with Vulkan where it was choppy on OpenGL. The post is on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/retropieofficial/permalink/1387063751494192/).

I created a scriptmodule for my own purposes to automate building / installation of Mesa with Vulkan. I may create a separate post for that.

I hope this info helps out.

- George

Hey does anyone know a reason why my Controller Input isn't working even though I configured it like it was described?
Launching Games directly from Dolphin works and the Controlls were detected.
Only from Retropi none of the Games work with the XBox One Controller.