@abj said in Import ROMs into Mame:

@jak75

This message is the runcommand launch menu, it's not an error message. It's appearing every time you start a game. More info here : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/.

Ok regarding the message I saw, but I can't get the audio, I reset the audio to default settings but nothing to do, it works well with other operating systems, any advice?

@Retrodade You're welcome! :D

@drog1998 There might have been a misunderstanding about my suggestions, they were to either :

use a recent version of retroarch with the "Core provided" aspect ratio (aspect_ratio_index = 22) which is the default and recommended value if you are stuck with an older version of retroarch, use mame's TATE mode if it's available in mame2010 (instead of manually rotating through Setting > Video > Output > Video Rotation) if you are stuck with an older version of retroarch and TATE mode is not available, set the aspect ratio manually to 3:4 (alongside the manual rotation from Setting > Video > Output > Video Rotation)

If setting the aspect ratio manually to 640:480 (which is equal to 4:3) ends up with retroarch displaying it as 3:4, then you are using a recent version of retroarch (older retroarch wouldn't rotate it to 3:4 automatically, which is the bug i mentioned).
In that case, my recommendation is to let the core decide the correct aspect ratio by using "Core provided". The problem with enforcing an aspect ratio as you are doing is that some games are not meant to be played with a 4:3 (rotated to 3:4 or not) aspect ratio.

@windg
Thank you for the suggestion I will try that!
Sincerely
Brian K

@jamrom2 said in Any change in the Price of Pi's expected?:

I'll keep an eye on that website as well. I don't really need all the extra crap, just the Pi. I intend to put it in a RetroFlag NES case anyway.

Hope your monitoring rpilocator. More Pi4B (4gig) were added to Adafruit this morning.

@brown7 Thanks for your reply. I have since tested Argos €60 steering wheel and pedal combo and these are recognized by the system. It is a 180 degree wheel and works perfectly on N64 Ridge Racer etc. However when I tried to configure some other of the buttons I seem to have lost the original configuration and am having difficulty matching the pedal signals to the Go and Stop coordinates. This might take another bit of head scratching to correct but at least it was right starting off. Might need to configure more games to use the same signals though the wired Nacon multi system generic stick controllers I’m using for other games seem to use the same controls for most racing games...

@franek1709 Thanks for that simple fix. I've been loving playing the old Amiga games but that issue with the mouse pointer had made it such a pain loading in the disk images. Works perfectly now :)

@Spinjunkey-0 said in Picade Sound stuck at Max Volume:

[..] I actually get nothing. My .asoundrc file is exactly like Ultra-Magnuss' and have even renamed and deleted the file. Nada. Volume is still 100% even if I edit with the PICADE on screen controls. [...]

Post your $HOME/.asoundrc.

@benmclean

The Raspberry PI 4B with 8 GB of RAM. The performance gain is small for gaming because RAM is usually not the bottleneck

Eh? The performance gain past 2GB is zero. Retropie uses around 1GB with swap and all. The extra ram might help with installing emulators from source or if you want to use it as a desktop someday.

You need a compatible power adapter and lots of companies make them.

I only recommend the official psu due to reliability. They are $8US so there shouldn't be a reason to get a 3rd party psu that no one knows how reliable they are.

If you're going with a plain pi4, for a case, I recommend the argon one v2 if you don't want that nespi. It has a fan and converts the microhdmi ports into normal sized ones.

@dankcushions Thank you that did the trick, I uncommented the #disable_overscan=1

This inexpensive device capture card is what I used.
https://www.amazon.com/Winkoox-Camcorder-Broadcasting-Streaming-Conference/dp/B08FBH69X3/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=HDMI+Capture+Card+usb+3.0&qid=1618182020&sr=8-4

@shootemupy2k I bought the Vilros clear case with the fan on Amazon. Overclocked my Pi 4 to 2100/750 CPU/GPU. Had it for over a year, even dropped it a few times. Never had a problem.

Ubuntu 20.10 isn't supported on the Raspberry Pi by RetroPie.

@dankcushions said in [RESOLVED]It's possible to put ES in somethigs like "second level" or minimize it in some way?:

@djdiabolik said in [RESOLVED]It's possible to put ES in somethigs like "second level" or minimize it in some way?:

Wait... if i understand correctly the -rc it's stands for "readconfig" and in theory if you want to use a different config than the default one.
However it is actually yes... when mame it's executed it is he who automatically loads the mame.ini in the same path.

it's all documented here: https://docs.mamedev.org/commandline/commandline-all.html

i don't even think readconfig takes an argument. but anyway, you don't need to use it because you know where mame.ini is stored.

it's just the same as I read :)
I guess you're right... exactly here:
https://docs.mamedev.org/commandline/commandline-all.html#configuration-options

I guess the only thing you can do is disable or enable reading of .ini files....

I re-read the documentation better.... I had probably read and translated badly English-> Italian :)

@mitu said in Pi4 - How can safe remove USB Pendrive ??:

You can exit EmulationStation and then, from the command line, run

sudo umount /media/usb0

If your USB drive is mounted on another folder than /media/usb0, substitute /media/usb0 with the proper folder name.

It's apparently the best solution... what i have do:
F4 to exit from ES.
mount (to found corrent usb)
used sudo umount
copyed all my news roms from pc and now also the image snap and some gamelist.xml from my personal system
type exit from console to restart es and....

all now works whitout any issue.

Thanks for all.

@mahoneyt944

Hi......

i was about to open a new thread when i can reuse this instead....

You can suggest because the HOME button of XBOX 360 Wired Controller it's can not recognized and i can't bind it anythings to him ?

@nyvram said in N64 question...something overwriting my changes to mupen64plus.cfg. What is it?:

/configs/n64/emulators.cfg included hard-coded resolutions (1920x1080) for widesceen monitors and this was what kept overwriting the [video-general] section in the mupen64plus.cfg file.

That's strange, there shouldn't be any hardcoded values there with a default RetroPie install - unless the user has manually modified the launch scripts. How did you install RetroPie ?

@lostless You’re right - it works instantly now. I was looking for a solution before posting, but somehow this post didn’t come up. It probably should be pinned somewhere.

Thanks!

@leanne No problem. The unallocated space will actually be expanded on first boot of Retropie and brought into use. The image you download is compressed you see, so that there is not wasted empty space in it.