Thank you guys! After a few more hours of tinkering, I was able to resolve my user error issues. Got it all set up and playing through my childhood again.

@TeknoRaver said in DOSBox-Staging (install from source error when launched):

And you add more swap ram via using the vram method you mentioned before right?

No, that's for telling EmulationStation it can use more VRAM from the allocated GPU memory.

If not, how do you add more swap ram?

You create a swap file (see https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-22-04#step-3-creating-a-swap-file ) or modify the default swap file size (see https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=46472).

@sleve_mcdichael Thank you!
In this case I will skip it this time.
Hopefully a Stratagus update will solve it.

(4 years as a math major, and I couldn't recognize the negation symbol. Well, it was a long time ago, but anyway, shame on me!) :)

Thanks for your help @ByteThis . I tried for about 3 hours yesterday and simply couldn't get it to work. I have decided to abandon the Powerblock and build my own from scratch. thanks agin for you help. regards Cliff

@mitu ok I can confirm that I am a dumb dumb haha… I actually have an pi3, for some reason I thought I had a pi4 which is why I was selecting the pi4 image. It now worked by selecting the correct image.

Thanks again for the reply. I’m going to leave this here so others can learn from my stupidity haha

@Darksavior
Also I have experimented a problem about gpu_mem, when you set it to 256 (which i don't really think is reasonable for pi zero 2, but I have tried) then emulationstation is not loading, instead it is in a constant 104% cpu using state.

@mitu well that was a good hint. Even though tracert and ping tests checked out, a faulty network cable was still the culprit. Must have just been enough to connect somehow.

@sleve_mcdichael this worked perfectly. Thank you! Hopefully this makes its way up to imager soon.

My user is "hollywoodarcade", so everything's located here: /home/hollywoodarcade/RetroPie

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I'm guessing I'm probably in the wrong directory

Hi @asksolutions01 !

It was fixed using the information in the thread above. I had to disable the EDID detection and add manual configuration settings on my display via the config file.

This is also the info from the online documentation:

hdmi_ignore_edid
Setting hdmi_ignore_edid to 0xa5000080 enables the ignoring of EDID/display data if your display does not have an accurate EDID. It requires this unusual value to ensure that it is not triggered accidentally.

Link to the documentation website

I've created a script in the RetroPie-Extra repo for adding the Pico8 as its own system to your RetroPie install: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/master/scriptmodules/emulators/pico8.sh

Hi,

this is what I've done over Raspbian

git clone --branch fkms_rpi4 --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh
Perform basic install
After Installation, exit and to start Emulationstation

Note that if you installed the Desktop version of Raspbian you can't launch Emulationstation from it. You have to quit the desktop or set your pi to start under console instead of GUI ( you can set this from raspi-config )

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