@Lolonois I was with you all the way up to the word "binaries".

@mitu Alright then, good to know.

Huzzah! After a little bit of grep and quite some trial-and-error, I found:

$ xinit -- vt1 -keeptty

(Side note: while this works, it uses a small corner of the screen. How to make this full screen?)

With that, I was able to use xinput list and list-prop and get the device name and properties unique to my setup. This led me to:

$ xinput set-prop 'USB Optical Mouse' 'libinput Accel Speed' -0.25

This immediately slows the on-screen pointer by roughly 25% (acceptable values seem to range -1.0 to 1.0, and default is 0.0).

Alternatively:

$ xinput set-prop 6 275 -0.25

...also works, if I were confident the device number won't ever change. I don't know what happens if I reboot, or plug/unplug additional devices etc., though, so I stick with using the name.

Now, starcraftr.sh:

#!/bin/bash xset -dpms s off s noblank xinput --set-prop 'USB Optical Mouse' 'libinput Accel Speed' -0.25 matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar no & cd "/opt/retropie/ports/starcraft/data" && ./starcraft.sh

(The trailing & used in the example was not necessary)

This worked, but still a little fast and so I dropped it down again to -0.5. Now that feels more like what I'm used to.

Now, let's say I am a user who can't or don't want to alter the root-owned starcraftr.sh in the install folder. Or, maybe I just don't want to lose my custom setting to a reinstall. So I copy it into config dir at /opt/retropie/configs/ports/starcraft/starcraftr-slowmouse.sh, make the edits there, and then edit emulators.cfg like:

default = "starcraft-slowmouse" starcraft-slowmouse = "XINIT:/opt/retropie/configs/ports/starcraft/starcraftr-slowmouse.sh"

@Gabbo999 you can install the desktop environment packages from the server install. Eg. Installing the ubuntu-desktop/xubuntu-desktop package (or another of your choice)

I'm not sure what exactly I touched, but it seems to be working better now.

I found that my /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg had sdl2 driver set as default ... I changed that to udev. Now, both my controllers seem to work.

I had originally thought that my old PC had a legacy BIOS/usb option that was doing something ... but didn't prove out to be anything useful. I think the change from sdl2 to udev in the default config was what did it. I don't have a verbose logging or capture of files to prove that, but my verbose logging now shows that udev device being used. Spot check of a few other games seems to have good results. I have a feeling that my install for some reason defaulted to sdl2 driver and what was my issue.

Thanks for the help

@Ashpool (memo to self & @Folly FYI) some notes/details I've encountered during the manual setup of the Desktop Environments (Debian 11).

some are (pre-)populating their panels/menus with icons to applications which aren't installed by the minimal DE setup itself (e.g. webbrowser in xfce) [note: removing orphaned start menu entries]. even if the network itself works fine, cinnamon integrates the network-manager into the desktop but that one is only managing interfaces not setup in /etc/network/interfaces and therefore always showing not connected/no connection [which may irritate most users] (?options?: any way to remove the network-interface from cinnamon? comment out the interface in above config and let the network-manager handle the connection?) some Desktop Environments aren't preinstalling a display manager (lxqt, mate). Stick to lightdm (as all other installs are using it), or is lxdm for lxqt a reasonable alternative?
At least configuring an autologin for lightdm is pretty easy and sticking to it would eventually avoid the need for different (2be documented) approaches towards that option. weird issues with the soundcard/sound-device: on most(/all manual installed) DEs it is muted on 1st startup and with the exception of mate simply unmuting it and raising the volume solve the no sound issue. For mate, the install of the package mate-media was neccessary [edit: and raising pcm value slider in alsamixer afterwards]: Further research needed why installing alsa-tools wasn't sufficient. Any benefits by using VMWares "shared folders" capability? IMHO SSH and RetroPies Samba shares are far more convinient ways of transfering files between host&guest. (VMWare Tools copy&pase somewhat the worst option as it is leaving most of the time its junk within the hosts temp folder(s).

@eje211 said in Dolphin works from the GUI but not from Emulation Station:

There are still a few more things to configure, such as getting RetroPie's shortcuts to work in Dolphin, but at least the games start!

If you are referring to the Hotkeys, you would have to be running lr-dolphin for that to work. The standalone emulator does have the ability to configure hotkeys, but you will need to do it through the dolphin settings menu.

@eje211 https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Add-a-New-System-in-EmulationStation/#step-31-launch-roms-with-the-runcommand-script

You need to edit the launch command in your emulators.cfg at /opt/retropie/configs/gc/emulators.cfg and/or /opt/retropie/configs/wii/emulators.cfg. Replace the command (or add a new one) to use your installed binary instead of /opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu

Thanks for that advice, yeah I did install openbox, but not lightdm, I did already set up an autologon pre-x, so I just use xinit to start openbox, this works nice.

Now I just need to configure some things in openbox, for instance runcommand and retropie-setup scripts run in a very small window in the center of the screen (I have a 4K screen), I guess I need to force fullscreen for everything, set larger font un xterm and/or set higher dpi at the openbox level.

But Redream and PCSX2 run full screen so I'm almost done, I'll try to add more stuff like xemu, kodi and whatever I can now that there is an x server, this actually makes everything a lot easier... My mistake.

@joelf said in What stops the update retropie script???:

How do I tell this thing to stop trying to update?!?

The setup script will automatically try to download missing packages if they're not present, so deleting packages.sh will not help. The 'update' you're experiencing is built-in the setup script.

If you know which version you had before the update, just rewind the RetroPie-Setup script at that version using git.

cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup git fetch --tags # print the release tags git tag # Checkout a specific version git checkout <tag>

@mitu Thanks for the reply. I apologize, I'm rather new to using RetroPie on Ubuntu. I was just going by what the default value was on the emulator selection screen when you press a button while the ROM is launching.

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I ended up installing lr-mupen64plus-next as you suggested, and the difference is amazing :) This is what I was hoping for. Thanks!

No, RetroPie cannot be installed on the SteamDeck, it's not using a compatible Linux distro.

If you have a SteamDeck you may want to take a look at EmuDeck for something similar to RetroPie.

@roslof said in Retroarch not registering MIDI Soundfont Files for DosBox-Pure:

@testudo said in Retroarch not registering MIDI Soundfont Files for DosBox-Pure:

@roslof Thanks for the suggestion. I removed all but one SoundFont file from the <system> folder and also removed the Gravis Ultrasound folder/files from the <rom> folder as an added check. Unfortunately, no change. Retroarch is still not registering the single remaining .sf2 file.

I don't want to steer you wrong, but this still sounds like the same problem I had. It was scanning other folders (not just the pc folder) and finding .sf2 files. One of which was 512MB and its mere existence prevented the pull-down from displaying properly. Are you certain there isn't a lingering .sf2 hanging out in a scummvm folder or something?

@roslof I do have other .sf2 files spread throughout usr/share/sounds/sf2 and scumm/extras folders. I'll give renaming them a go and see if that does the trick.

@gizmo90

if you're using a Windows based PC, grab WinSCP. Use that for working with the file and folder structure. It will help you learn quickly where things are and make it easy to load/delete files

Then Putty to work with the permissions and other issues you will come across that require "sudo" based commands.

@Crush Proton is not new and has reached version 7. It is based on WINE and DXVK and some other stuff. You can find out what is compatible in Steam: https://www.protondb.com/

I use Proton on my desktop PC instead WINE. It can be used without Steam running too. But the Proton version needs to be downloaded from Steam UI first. I recommend Proton Experimental. Here is a script, you can try: Proton script Or you can try one of the forks, who added some more stuff and made it a bit better.

@zombie_ryushu said in Issues with local Screenshots and Migration:

AARM and Skraper appear to be Windows Specific Applications

Yes, but that doesn't mean they can't run on Linux. For Linux, you can try Skyscraper, has a lot more flexibility than the built-in EmulationStation scraper.

@k-bit said in Raphnet Dual N64 usb adapter with RetriPie:

I tried to create the udev role, but that didn't worked for me and i actually dont know why it has to be this specific file name for the rules.

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

The filename's extension is important since this is how udev recognizes it as a configuration file. The name itself doesn't matter, as long as it's in the right folder and having the correct extension.

What error are you getting when you're trying to create the file ?