@Emrop said in Raspberry Pi4 - Retropie - Retroarch : direct access of the cores repository ?:

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And finally the cores folder is empty.

Oh, yes - that's normal. RetroPie works differently than a standalone RetroArch. Just copy your games into the corresponding systems' folder and then launch them - there's no need to start RetroArch first.

Cores are installed in their separate folders and are automatically loaded when a game is started - you don't have to run RetroArch manually. There's no need to install or update them from RetroArch - you can manage them from RetroPie-Setup.

@mitu over the repository

@DNVB It's an add-on package, it's not part of the RetroPie-Setup script and it wasn't maintained by the project. Sometime ago, the original repository was deleted and we created a copy for it under the RetroPie project, so that it wouldn't disappear completely.

@robmcc83 The only diference from the transmission available on raspbian and pipplware, is that the pipplware one is already pré-configured with sane/common defaults and it runs with user "Pi" to avoid disk user permissions configuration, if you want and configure an usb disk mount point as a download location. It is a kind off "just install and go package".
About your questions:
1- Security issues is relative. If you are really concerned about security, you probably shouldn't be using torrents in the first place.

2- About the config, like most linux programs, transmission has a global config file (for every user) in some place like /etc/transmission... (don't remember at the moment) and a user config file which stays somewhere in /home/$user/.... If a user config file exists, it takes precedence over the global config file.

The Raspbian unmodified is still available, it is just that the pipplware one has a higher release number. If you want, you can "downgrade" and install it with apt for example.

(hmm…) I could've sworn that the 'enable' option was grayed out the last time I tried that.

@semper-5 said in eduke32 and add-ons from subversion repos:

I'm wondering is there anything I'm missing and if/how I can install from these repos

What repos ?

@xadox said in Different Shader Versions:

Is RetroPie using special optimized shaders for the pi?

it uses a curated subset of the shaders that have been shown to work well or work at all. many shaders in the libretro repo will crash or not work right.

@pacmanlives this is fixed in RetroPie if you update. It deletes the broken repo.

@Rydra IMHO putting it on github and providing a script to install it is the best way to provide it to RetroPie users.

@BuZz said in Re-download Optional Packages?:

@billybag You removed part of the RetroPie-Setup script ?

cd ~/RetroPie-Setup git reset --hard

i deleted all things Kodi from the SD Card. Been doing a lot of dumb things this holiday season.

anyway, have not tried the 'git reset --hard' command but will.

EDIT: That worked! Deffinitely bookmarking this