@Darksavior ok. Thanks for your suggestion. I will follow it.

That did the trick.....installing lr-flycast, the controls working perfectly. Thanks!

@BobHarris Of course they need to read first, minimum requirements are MAME romset from at least 2006 (advance mame linux) and a FBA romset with CPS3 games runs well. Retro CM3 can be my first option for arcade only games and I'll be ok, and then wait for CM4 for better performance and add home port consoles of PSP and Dreamcast home and their based arcade boards. I can wait for Raspberry Pi 4 Module in mid 2020 at least. Nintendo Switch Lite its a plan B one...also I will buy an ipega with gamepad to make my recent smartphone or my 2017 one looks like a Vita but with Android.

@BJRetro I confirm you'll need a gpu which is vulkan capable (and it's drivers). Currently i don't think there are many SBCs who have vulkan support (probably jetson nano ? maybe odroid N2 ?).

@SingingCoyote13 said in Is it possible to read Dreamcast/Ps2/Gamecube discs into an emulator directly via the DVD drive on Retropie/PC or need they all be dumped to a .cue/.bin/.chd/.cdi etc, and how do i dump these discs anyway ?: i was wondering if dreamcast ps2 and gamecube discs need to be dumped to a file for use with retropie pc version, or if they can be read via the dvd/br drives in pcs directly in some of the emulators ? As far as I know, pcsx2 can read the DVD drive directly, for reicast/dolphin, you'll need a disc image if they need to be dumped,. i believe dreamcast discs have a different layout than normal cds, can those be dumped with a regular dvd drive ? Or is it so that if someone wants to play these in an emulator he/she has to download official dumps of these discs ? with what program and drive do i need to dump any of dreamcast/ps2/gamecube discs anyway ? Look around for instructions on how to backup your discs, there are no 'official dumps' provided by the vendor/publisher (though they're plenty 'unofficial' ones). Here are some pointers: Wii/Gamecube - https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/ripping-games/ Dreamcast - http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=GD-Rom_Dumping_Guide

I don't think the SD card capacity has any role in this, more likely the emulator versions are different on the systems you're testing. Reicast seems to have issues in the latest versions with controller inputs - configurations that worked before are not working at all right now.

@hooperre Shame thanks :)

got it fixed - [input] MouseSensitivity = 100 VirtualGamepadVibration = 20 device1 = 0 device1.1 = 1 device1.2 = 1 device2 = 0 device2.1 = 1 device2.2 = 1 device3 = 0 device3.1 = 1 device3.2 = 1 device4 = 0 device4.1 = 1 device4.2 = 1 maple_/dev/input/event5 = 0 maple_/dev/input/event6 = 1 maple_/dev/input/event7 = 2 maple_/dev/input/event8 = 3 THE only thing now left to fix the lr-flycast... still after like five min' after the logo dreamcast and the sega logo , im getting a black screen looks stuck ( i can quit or go to retrorach okay ).... any help ? :) thanks

yes, it seems to me that mitu is right. That is not enabled for ARM devices

@quicksilver hey pal. Thanks for the advice! That did the trick. :) Cheers!

@sirhenrythe5th the pi4 with a arm cortex a73 and * TWO * videocoreIV GPUs. Comes with either 2gb or 4gb internal ram. Not really, I was trying to make a joke, not funny... Record of Lodoss war, no longer crashes. It is a big hunk of lag art once you get top-side, there are a lot more enemies and polygons. Still playable, (I OC'd for this one) Jet Grind Radio, with the option to turn off shadows in the GUI can get decent performance, but I imagine there are still those levels that run like butt. TimeStalkers, The analog deadzone seems to have been fixed with the latest update, as well as the connection being able sync into play, which is great, I might find some time for this one.

I am having issues as well. I tried configuring the joystick.cfg by manually mapping as instructed and I also reset my emulation station controller inputs (so it auto configures reicast) and it still didn't work. This has been an ongoing issue for years now, they should update this emulator. My only other alternative is to overclock my pi and pray lr-flycast performs better. Otherwise, I am stuck.

In this case, I don't know why it's not working. It's possible that I've added something else besides the step I enumerated in my previous post, but I don't think so.

Just in case anyone stumbles across this in the future, I never did get that to work correctly. I ended up wiping my card clean and starting over. This time it all works right, as far as I know, I did everything the same.