Thank you both.

Your comments lead me to explore the emulator settings more and I found that it was set the keyboard for control. As soon as I set it to controller all the settings mapped correctly.

@HavronL Can you post a link referencing this? I am curious and want to take a look. I imagine it would have to be compiled from source unless a binary specifically for Raspberry Pi (and specifically for Buster in my case) exists.

@mitu Spot on - I had to manually update the controls too (select the controller type in PCSX2), but now working completely as before - thanks so much for your help :)

Regards,

The Gent

@Crush said in Request: update pcsx2 install script to show CHD:

(PS: Is this the right place to make such requests?)

Yes, thanks for bringing this up, we'll add the extension to the ps2 system.

The latest appimage seems to boot games as well. But gamepad config is broken unless you edit some files.

The PSCX2 team has completely removed the plugin System in the newest version. They stated that they will readd the ability to rebind the controller via gui in later updates.

You could have kept the newest version of PCSX2 using the method i stated above.
But good that you have found a way to get the old version of PCSX2 so it works for you again.

@george-spiggott I didn't know there was a Libretro version of pcsx2. I'm using the standalone version downloaded from the "experimental" section of retropie setup. Works great on my Linux Mint box. Just doesn't have support for CHD files. I'll keep my eye out for an lr version.

Alright, update, it is still possible. I modified the code in the original post to create folders based on the game name instead of relying on ps_iso_tool to extract a game ID and creating folders based on that. Seems to be working perfectly.

(I have absolutely no idea how to code, so I'm kinda shocked I was able to figure this out.)

@derebo RetroPie logs every installation in $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs, can you look into the last log file to see if the xboxdrv installation was successful ? You can also re-run the installation to generate a new log file and then post the log file on pastebin.com.

I found this can be done with the -nogui parameter using the nightly build of pcsx2. Not sure if this applies to the version Retropie uses. I had a hard time finding this solution when searching the web.

In pcsx2 I set a hotkey for Shut Down Virtual Machine. With the -nogui parameter pcsx2 will exit when you press the shutdown hotkey.

See also:
https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Command-line_support

@mitu

alright, thats good to know,
i read that some others had issues playing other emulators afterwards, thankfully i didnt get no problems.

@norstein said in pcsx2 won't install // unable to locate package pcsx2-unstable:

Maybe installing add-apt-repository should be included in the base installation, since it is used for several packages?

software-properties-common is installed by any *-desktop meta-package, what options did you choose during installation ?

@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.

I solved the issue.

If anyone else has this problem, you need to make sure which WM you're using. Apparently if your WM is Wayland, and RetroPie tries to use X11 to run the game, it won't work. Disabling Wayland solves this particular issue. To do so do the following:

sudo /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

Find

#WaylandEnable=false

And uncomment it by changing it to

WaylandEnable=false

Save, exit, and reboot and Ubuntu will use X11 instead of Wayland and that solved the problem for me. I'm not sure that this is a common problem, and I'm not entirely sure how I ended up using Wayland, but if anyone else has this problem the solution will be here.

@vincedj your question was answered. A Pi4 is a Pi.

I have solved the audio issue. I looked back at my es_systems.cfg file in my .emulationstation folder. I noticed that it points to the RetroArch executable in D:\ (my microSD card). I double clicked it and went to the Audio driver section/Output to make sure that audio was turned on. The Audio was also changed from xaudio to dsound. I also went to the Driver section to make that Audio was identified as dsound there as well.

@ringnutz said in PCSX2 Exit Emulator with Gamepad:

Should be fairly easy to modify for other emulators as well

@ringnutz how would one do this lets say for the Dolphin emulator? I have to say it works great for the PS2

I posted an update on here a while back, you can try https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/24420/pcsx2-exit-emulator-with-gamepad?_=1577816439296
Basically a Python wrapper that listens for a key combo that just kills the pcsx2 process