@terr0rgasm Enabled is the default, otherwise RetroArch's controller profile would not be created.

@sleve_mcdichael

@sleve_mcdichael said in Going from Pi 3 to Pi 4 and keeping all settings, high scores, and so on:

Yeah, probably the controller profile was in this "configs" folder, which didn't get copied over with the other three.

I did that - synced the config directory. I've run into a problem and, since I felt it really wasn't a part of this topic, I started another thread on it. In short, all the controls on my arcade cabinet work except the spinner. I'm hoping there isn't some timing issue or something with the Pi4 that doesn't get along with the spinner.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Going from Pi 3 to Pi 4 and keeping all settings, high scores, and so on:

Aye, then yeah will have to copy them over the new system.

One thing I just love about Pis is that you can do that. You can pull a card or USB stick out of one and plug it into the other and it'll work fine - or you can pull the "drive" out of one and easily plug it in another and copy all the data to the new system.

@PCKid thanks will give that a go. No it's not the libretro version.

@mitu Thank You

@ZemaDuvant fast forward is what you're looking for. It's in settings > input > hotkeys. Natively it's set to space on a keyboard. I usually get rid of reset as I don't use reset much and find select + B is better for fast forwarding RPGs or cutscenes

Only Drastic running well in Raspberry hardware. You can install melonds from RetroPie-Extra repo : https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra

@jdriscol The file is called es_settings.cfg and - as said before - it's saved when you exit EmulationStation. Please open a separate topic though and make sure you add the info from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@iLouzze I don't know if there's any way to turn it on automatically without an external timer. You could probably set up a "cron job" to shut it down (I don't know how to do that, though, I have only heard of it as a way you can set up scheduled events.)

@mitu Thanks! I forgot, that individual controller settings can be done by the quick menu. I set it to "---" now an it works.

@stealthbushido increasing resolution via launch menu won't help PSX - the underlying emulator renders at a resolution set internally. you can adjust it via: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#video-double-internal-resolution

alternatively you can apply shaders: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Shaders-and-Smoothing/- i say alternatively, because you wouldn't want CRT shaders AND double resolution, as by doubling the resolution you would ruin the scanline effect and it would look a mess. however the video smoothing effect would be fine to apply.

@mitu I just figured it out moments ago after a lot of testing this morning. I have a third party music player that fades the volume before starting a game. I think what happens is it fades the system volume to fade the music before starting emulation. Then, when returning to ES, the System Volume remains what it was faded to prior to emulating the game.

This can be marked as resolved. I'll report this bug to the creator of the music player. Thank you!

@mitu the thing i should know do is to open the retropie datas in which the retropie folders are is it right?

I'm not sure what you mean. If you're referring to the installation of the Nintendo HID driver I mentioned before, that can be done outside of any RetroPie folders, since it's not directly related to RetroPie.

@stignasty we only support the latter.

can you please post your /boot/config.txt

@shadyaw

I would like to know this also!

Filed it nevertheless as it is useful if one does not have additional "safe shutdown hardware" or don't want to fiddle with triggerhappy.

@mitu Awesome, thank you!

If you have a 4k TV, try setting the video resolution of your Raspberry Pi to 1080p - you can modify the /boot/config.txt file on the sdcard and set

hdmi_group=1 hdmi_mode=16

then reboot your Pi.

So, i am not sure what happened. Like i said i made a hotkey for the fast forward button in the retroarch settings. After running games from other systems i was running into all kinds of problems, and had to restore my image, thanks for the input.

@dankcushions well, I have edited a few more configs and its all working fine. There is an option for resetting permissions - which I thought may have been the solution - if it happens again, that's what I'd probably try - because once it created the file itself it seemed to me ok.

@scoularis said in What input lag reduction settings are you using on your Pi 4?:

For me if I used swapchain = 2 in conjuction with runahead, even with threaded video still left enabled, I'd get severe hitching in several games that I tried. Alien Soldier and Disney's Aladdin being the two that I tested that made it clear to me that I just had to leave runahead and swapchain at 3 for that core. Video threaded being disabled seems to be fine with those settings though.

Disney's Aladdin is an interesting rom (and nice to play :) ) - there seem to be 4 frames of internal latency in the game [edit: no, there is only 1], so the lowest latency working configuration that I had was to set threaded video on (the default), swapchains at 3 (the default), and use 4 frames of runahead (which I tested in single instance mode/second instance = no)
[Edit: It plays OK with 4 frames removed, but when I stepped through a frame at a time I can see that removes 3 frames of animation after the button press]

That's with a shader running (I'm trying zfast_crt_standard.glslp - thanks for the suggestion)

I haven't found any situation on a Pi4 where zfast_lcd_standard.glslp allows me to run anything that crt-pi didn't yet.