@Ashpool said in What gaming OS to install on PI 5?:

any specific reason to use the 64 bit instead of the 32 bit one?

With the new RaspiOS, the 64bit variant is recommended by the RPI folks for both Pi4 and Pi5. Furthermore, Pi5 cannot run a 32bit kernel so you'd end up with a 64bit kernel and 32bit OS/userland, which will

cause confusion for source installation, since most emulators/ports assume that if the kernel is 64bit, the OS is also. As a consequence, some source installations will outright fail since they compile for aarch64 (64bit ARM), but that won't work since 64bit dependencies are not installed.

break the installation of kernel modules, because dkms doesn't know how to handle 64bit kernel modules on a 32bit OS.

TL;DR - if you have a Pi5, 64 bit is the recommended OS.

Welcome @unclehmm ,

Start reading here :
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

Video smoothing often makes the picture way too mushy for my taste, especially if the original resolution is very low. I prefer good crt shaders like the zfast shaders from @ghogan42.

As for other video settings, I prefer the "core provided" aspect ratio, because I don't like, say, a 4:3 picture stretched to today's common 16:9, or the 3:4 ratio of many classic vertical games stretched to the native 4:3 on my DIY cabinet, making all game characters appear a little overweight to outright obese.

@agtrigormortis Yeah, I have that problem with several games I'd like to have. The 1992 X-Men beat 'em up is a prime example. Apparently I missed the boat for it being on XBox and Google Play. It's too bad companies don't do more collections and ports for those who can't afford to be arcade collector enthusiasts and don't want to be pirates. But on the bright side there are a lot of options for many of the best arcade games in the collections that do exist.

[just whispering and OT]
@clyde And the Sega Megadrive & Genesis Classics where already mentioned/discussed in that thread more then once :P maybe it would be time to split that one into "collection of sources" and "announcements for sales" for items from "sources" %^]

@agtrigormortis that is cool.

@squirrelraccoon Good to hear that you've solved your problem.

Nobody here (of consequence) will hold your inexperience against you. It's just that most beginners' answers are already covered in the very comprehensive documentation of this site. In your case, the link that @dankcushions gave you leads to a page with a section called "Boot to EmulationStation“ which for its part links to the FAQ with exactly the instructions you ultimately needed.

A typical approach of many veterans not only in this community is to help others at helping themselves by pointing them in the right direction, but at the same time expecting them to do the (usually manageble) learning by themselves.

Just trying to calm the waves a little. Welcome to this forum, and have fun with RetroPie. 😁

(@dankcushions beat me about his link while I was typing this.)

@Skervix Enable your tv's game mode. That's the best you can do. Run the pi4 at 1080p. I also recommend rtings.com. They measure the input lag of many tv's.

My PPSSPP version on the RPi4 is older than on my Batocera laptop.

There's a new option "Render duplicate frames to 60Hz" that improved smoothness significantly on my laptop, but I cannot test it on my Rpi4 at the moment.

Note: if you implement my GPU Hard Sync tweaks from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/27431/howto-major-performance-boost-on-retroarch-based-emulators you'll need to keep both shaders and bilinear filtering disabled.

@Orionsangel said in My Console & Game Themed Bezels for Retroarch:

@duglor Ah yes, many plans. Ah, the to do list. I think I see those.

:D hehe

Sure you can. Check the docs.
You can find overlays and launching images for many arcade classics in my Repo.