@sleve_mcdichael said in Guide: AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) on Pi 4:

I'm gonna look into creating a custom SDL2 map (I think that's what I'm looking for?) for the gamepad and see if that does anything.

@G30FF this worked for me:

git clone https://github.com/retropie/sdl --branch retropie-2.0.10 --recursive # I'm not sure if "--recursive" is needed but it doesn't break anything so I left it in cd sdl/test ./configure make controllermap ./controllermap 0 # I ran this command from SSH so I could copy/paste the output string. # replace "0" with the controller you want to configure if you have more than one connected. # run "./controllermap" with no arguments to list attached controllers.

Press the buttons on your controller when indicated on-screen. Use Spacebar (on a connected keyboard, unfortunately this doesn't appear to work over SSH) to skip a button that your controller doesn't have. Use backspace to correct a mistake.

When you are done it will output a string like 030000001f08000001e4000010010000,USB gamepad,platform:Linux,a:b1,b:b0,x:b3,y:b2,back:b8,start:b9,leftshoulder:b4,rightshoulder:b5,dpup:-a1,dpdown:+a1,dpleft:-a0,dpright:+a0,. Copy this string.

Edit $HOME/.profile and add the line:

export SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG="<string>"

...where <string> is the string output by the controllermap tool.

Relog or reboot.

After this, I was able to use the generic SNES pad in both my GMLoader games. Also works in Hurrican (non-GMLoader) which was not reading "Start" correctly on the generic pad.

EDIT: this only worked when launching the games from terminal. To make it work when launching them from ES I had to add the same line to autostart.sh (before "emulationstation #auto".) To have it work by both methods, I need it in both places. Currently looking into that.

@lolonois I am really sorry. I finally got back to playing with the Pi today. I was all set to try out your hard work here. I thought I should begin with an updated ScummVM release, so I did that first. Lo and behold, TLJ works! I was able to boot and play the prologue scene.

I definitely appreciate your help, though!

created a "new" Defender box for AdventureVision if anyone needs it. I didn't like the one that was out there and I used the other boxes as the baseline to create an improved version. I think this was a pack-in game so it didn't have an actual box.

The scene is taken from Extex's hand-held version, as was the original. I just didn't like how many times it said Defender on it and kept it cleaner looking.

Use for whatever you need it.

Advision Defender.png

Try to see if the program doesn't search the current folder for the file needed. This way, you can cd to the game's folder and run it from there.

@Protocultor said in New scriptmodule for Master System & Game Gear emulator:

Seeing that I've created a second scriptmodule for another Sega 8 bit core, this time I've opted to do a PR for both:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3170
I hope this one has a future.

Just in case, Gearsystem, the new core, is not better than SMSPlus-GX, but has SG-1000 support.

SMSPlus-GX looks interesting. Thank you for submitting a PR and keep submitting them and don't be discouraged! 😊

ok it's mean more logic, but i saw openbor-6xxx-4rpi3.sh in scriptmodules. So I would launch it ( like a stupid noob who I am ^^ ).

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@Gazmeister Can you give more details about your system, as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?

@ExarKunIv try to use dos2unix scriptfile.sh
I think you've wrong line endings.... Because for me the script runs flawless and if it spit out errors then there is likely something wrong with the interpretion of the script caused by wrong LE.

Edit:
Okay nevermind!

@mitu @BuZz @Efriim I finally got it working! :D

local bin_file local bin_files local default local id local index local version ... some other code ... for index in "${!bin_files[@]}"; do default=0 [[ "$index" -eq "${#bin_files[@]}-1" ]] && default=1 # Default to the last item in 'bin_files'. version="${bin_files[$index]}" version="$(echo $version | cut -d'_' -f 2)" addEmulator "$default" "$md_id-$version-$id" "godot-engine" "$md_inst/${bin_files[$index]} --main-pack %ROM%" done

So it seems like the error had something to do with the index variable (previously it was named i). Either it needed to be initialized as a local variable or the script didn't like that it was called i... I really don't know. But I got it working :)

Another thing that I found and maybe it's worth mentioning (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that when I run:

sudo ./retropie_packages.sh godot-engine configure

the config file:

/opt/retropie/configs/godot-engine/emulators.cfg

seems to just add the new stuff on top of the previous configs that were already there. I mean, it doesn't delete the file and creates it again with the new configs.

Shouldn't "deleting the old file and creating a new one" be the "correct" thing to do?

Thanks! :)

@ziggurat I've managed to install ok, but login doesn't seem to work. Could you advise on how to login with usr/pqd or with code? Thank you!

@cyperghost Glad to hear but the Jazz Jackrabbit scriptmodule is not ready yet. Since i managed to find out how to create a scriptmodule it will be a lot quicker to get it done. :-)

I will very soon begin to create the scriptmodule for Jazz Jackrabbit, but first i will make a pull request and then release it on its own page for manual cloning from its github page.

@mitu Thank you so much. You were right. I had mixed line endings from editing it on Windows. It install and runs. It runs really slow on the Pi, but I'm sure I'll figure that out.

@hhromic I have changed my script module to include the sources_superflappybirdsfunction as you have suggested. I'll also set it up under the ports folder.

I am hoping to get the game added to zerojay/RetroPie-Extra repo, once it is working well.

Cheers!
Great package and it works very well for streaming the video part. What I don't get is the audio part.

I read that Moonlight defaults to PulseAudio nowadays which may be the culprit. I installed PulseAudio but got problems with my controllers, no sound in Retropie and a feeling of instability.

There should be an option to tell Moonlight to use ALSA but I don't know how.

It would be nice if somebody could point me in the right direction because I would like to be able to use the "official" Retropie package. I got it running with PulseAudio with this project from @Vegz78 :

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26984/announce-moonlight-qt-embedded-integration-in-retropie

I'm running Moonlight-qt instead of Moonlight-embedded.

Regards!

According to this process inspection, it worked :)

23595 ? Ss 0:03 tmux 23596 pts/1 Ss 0:01 \_ -bash 24946 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ sudo ./retropie_packages.sh builder chroot_build module lr-mame 24947 pts/1 S+ 0:01 \_ bash ./retropie_packages.sh builder chroot_build module lr-mame 6155 pts/1 Sl+ 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/sudo PATH=/usr/lib/distcc:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin 6157 pts/1 Sl+ 0:10 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /bin/bash /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh builder module lr-mame 7921 pts/1 Sl+ 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/make OSD=retro RETRO=1 NOWERROR=1 OS=linux TARGETOS=linux CONFIG=libretro NO_USE_MIDI=1 7984 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/make -R --no-print-directory -C 3rdparty/genie/build/gmake.linux -f genie.make 8827 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /bin/sh -c gcc -O2 -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -pipe -MMD -MP -MP -DND 8833 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 | | \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/lib/distcc/gcc -O2 -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -pipe -MMD -MP 8860 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /bin/sh -c gcc -O2 -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -pipe -MMD -MP -MP -DND 8863 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/lib/distcc/gcc -O2 -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -pipe -MMD -MP 8854 pts/1 Rl+ 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/python scripts/build/msgfmt.py --output-file language/Vietnamese/strings.mo language 8878 pts/1 Rl+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/python scripts/build/msgfmt.py --output-file language/Burmese/strings.mo language/Bu 2681 ? SNs 0:00 /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file=/var/run/distccd.pid --log-file=/var/log/distccd.log --daemon --allow 127.0.0.1 --listen 127.0.0.1 --nice 10 2682 ? SN 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file=/var/run/distccd.pid --log-file=/var/log/distccd.log --daemon --allow 127.0.0.1 --listen 127.0.0.1 --nice 10 2690 ? SN 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file=/var/run/distccd.pid --log-file=/var/log/distccd.log --daemon --allow 127.0.0.1 --listen 127.0.0.1 --nice 10 2691 ? SN 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file=/var/run/distccd.pid --log-file=/var/log/distccd.log --daemon --allow 127.0.0.1 --listen 127.0.0.1 --nice 10 2692 ? SN 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file=/var/run/distccd.pid --log-file=/var/log/distccd.log --daemon --allow 127.0.0.1 --listen 127.0.0.1 --nice 10 8848 ? SN 0:00 | \_ gcc -O2 -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -pipe -Wall -Wextra -Os -o /tmp/distccd_20ddb5c9.o -c /tmp/distccd_230bb5c9.i 8849 ? RN 0:02 | \_ /opt/retropie/admin/crosscomp/stretch/libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/6.4.0/cc1 -fpreprocessed /tmp/distccd_230bb5c9.i -quiet -dumpbas 8850 ? SN 0:00 | \_ /opt/retropie/admin/crosscomp/stretch/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/6.4.0/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/as -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfl 2693 ? SN 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file=/var/run/distccd.pid --log-file=/var/log/distccd.log --daemon --allow 127.0.0.1 --listen 127.0.0.1 --nice 10 8875 ? SN 0:00 | \_ gcc -O2 -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -pipe -Wall -Wextra -Os -o /tmp/distccd_befeb5cc.o -c /tmp/distccd_a1dab5cc.i 8876 ? RN 0:00 | \_ /opt/retropie/admin/crosscomp/stretch/libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/6.4.0/cc1 -fpreprocessed /tmp/distccd_a1dab5cc.i -quiet -dumpbas 8877 ? SN 0:00 | \_ /opt/retropie/admin/crosscomp/stretch/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/6.4.0/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/as -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfl 2694 ? SN 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file=/var/run/distccd.pid --log-file=/var/log/distccd.log --daemon --allow 127.0.0.1 --listen 127.0.0.1 --nice 10 menion@Menionubuntu:/etc/default$

I have heard about distcc but I have never looked into it in the details, I have to study it :)

@paradoxgbb thanks for reporting back verbatim. Did I get it right that the retropie provided binary does work well? (I assume yes, as the binary [1] relates to the lr-scummvm git from 2021-12-27, it runs ScummVM 2.1.1 IIRC)

[1] https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/buster/rpi4/kms/libretrocores/lr-scummvm.tar.gz

The diablodiab hit-and-miss results leave me somewhat unsatisfied, but I can not put research at this atm. FTR: I am on RA 1.9.7, GCC 8.3 and for me (as stated earlier) the build of 9703372cc8 runs fine on a RetroPie 4.7.19/Rpi4.

@meleu you are the best! I will test when I return from my trip!

I want to create a scriptmodule for OpenBOR to add version 6315. I see the flag rp_module_id="openbor" that makes the module visiable into script screen. To avoid confusion I want annother name like rp_module_id="openbor_6xxx but want to use the old pathes.

Now all instances of $md_id, $md_config... uses the name that is given by rp_module_id so how to change names? I can include a function strip () { }that sets internal variables to openbor but this is not good code. So how to achive this?

Again: the goal is to use one config directory and one directory that contains several versions of OpenBOR.

Besides thank you BuZz for the platforms flags, I may exclude 6xxx for rpi1.
Is there a dedicated WIKI about script modules?

yeah tried that a few days ago. It was still looking at the old path for some extra files (digital audio if i remember). I presumed the defaults are each set as full paths , instead of relative paths of the data folder.
Its also possible i did something wrong so ill try again tomorrow