@doctordruidphd said in Retropie setup script update fails --:

Just wondering if anyone else had run into this.

Yes, I did. The solution at the time was to disable git compression, hence my reply.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Why do some versions of Retroarch look so different?:

@TPR that's the "menu driver" setting. RP default use the rgui driver cause it lightweight and perform well on low powered hardware like RasPi. I think the blue one in your picture is xmb. Other choices are glui or ozone.

retroarch.cfg excerpt:

# Menu driver to use. ("rgui", "xmb", "glui") menu_driver = "rgui"

Found it! Awesome... thanks! For some reason I never knew this was an option.

I have now gained new insights into the VSync problem, because it seems that the TV or the HDMI detection is really to blame. I just had my Raspberry Pi connected to my 13-year-old Panasonic 3D TV and the VSync option works exactly as it should. What I also noticed is that the screen modes are swapped in the video setup menu, which you can select when selecting a game before starting Amiberry via Retropie. On my old TV, the 50 Hz modes are first in the list and only then do the 60 Hz entries follow. On my Philips TV from 2014, it is the exact opposite, so that I have to set the correct mode every time I change TVs. However, it does not seem to take the 50 Hz modes into account at all or does not switch despite the selection and only runs at 60 Hz instead of 50 Hz, which I find very strange, because the TV is definitely capable of handling both refresh rates. This also works with all other emulators, whether with VICE (C64) or all RetroArch cores such as NES, SNES, Mega Drive, Arcade, etc. Just not with Amiberry, which I find very unfortunate. The Retropie team would probably have to release an update to detect the connected screen in the Amiga Setup Menu. I actually thought that HDMI screens were all standardized by now and the only explanation I can think of is that it has something to do with an error in the setup script for Amiga core.

@mitu It looks like Emulation Station is crashing now on boot.
Disregard.

I was able to reset the

@a1eg said in Unable to install joy2key after update Retro-Pie Setup script:

I only want to upgrade my Atari800 emulator from version 4.0.0 to current version 4.2.0

Is there any way to do it without doing an update of Retro-Pie Setup script?

The 4.2.0 version is related to the the setup script version - the 4.2.0 version for the Atari800 emulator was added in version 4.6 so you'll need to update to at least that version to be able to install 4.2.0 using the RetroPie-Setup script.

You can manually change the scriptmodule and modify the version, then install the emulator from source, but as I said, there's no guarantee it would work.

@reverieware give it a shot. it cant hurt.

as for adding things to the Retropie setup. as far as i have read from the devs. just submit the script through the github and they review it. but i think they are more worried about getting things running smooth then adding more ports. at the moment at least

that why i just hold on to anything i make. maybe one day ill send them in

@bluestang I am curious to know what exactly is using Vulkan right now on Pi4?

@mitu Thanks for the pointer on the docs. I've gone through a lot of research and reorganizing since my last post, but it now appears to be working! There were two issues at play: bad rom directory structure and bad install of vldp2.

For reference to the curious, here's the problem I was having with vldp2. Every time the emulator started, it would give this daphne error saying ERROR: could not open the VLDP2 dynamic library (file not found maybe?):
daphne-error.png

For the sake of testing, I ran the following from the command line to see the console output:

/opt/retropie/emulators/daphne/daphne.sh $HOME/RetroPie/roms/daphne/lair.daphne

And at the end of the output, I saw this:

libvldp2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Could not load VLDP dynamic library!!! Shutting down sound system... Shutting down video display...

Well the install script for daphne is supposed to install vldp2 for you, but in my case, it wasn't doing that.

You can manually install the Linux x64 version of it by running the following in a temporary directory:

git clone https://github.com/DavidGriffith/daphne.git cd daphne/src/vldp2 ./configure --disable-accel-detect make -f Makefile.linux_x64 sudo cp libvldp2.so /lib

My theory is that the script was compiling vldp2, but then failing to copy it to the /lib directory that it's supposed to get installed to (that last line in the command above).

I tried fiddling with the script a little to get it to work automatically, but gave up because it was hard to debug. If I can gather the motivation, I'll try to fix it properly and then send a PR to include the changes in RetroPie-Setup.

@hokielyfe Your solution works perfectly on Ubuntu 20.04

(Note Press ESC on the keyboard to configure your controls)

@mitu yeah, pretty sure. I’ve tested them all that were available for this emulator, lr-bettle and fbneo.

Funny thing. I was just trying to check if this is related to some specific package - and now everything seems to be fine again... ?!

@rarelyseensheep said in RetroPie setup issue:

From a ready made image

Then we can't support it - you'll have to ask the authors for support.
See also https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Yes :), that is the reason. I have changed video driver to gl, also under /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/all location, and that solved the issue. Thank you very much for support, BTW I learned a bit more around the configuration thanks to that .

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

@voyagerxp If you downloaded the image from retropie.org.uk/download, this message wouldn't appear - where did you get your image ?
Please note that we don't support 3rd party images, especially the ones bundled with ROMs - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@rontra74 said in Can no longer save game data, retain Favorites category, or update setup script.:

It looks like it is an SD card space issue. I was able to pull up:

Indeed it does. :) One quick way to make some space is to invoke the pre-installed file manager Midnight Commander by entering the command mc in the console. It is rather self-explanatory. With it, you could delete some files you don't need to make the system at least usable again.

To keep files off the SD card I changed the .emulationstation to link else where. I did the update all option and saw it changed the symbolic link too. I guess the reasoning is to recreate a clean slate for those who have broken their existing setup.

@greenhawk84 The binary package is based on an older version than the current source. You probably updated from source FBAlpha (or lr-fbalpha) and the 'update all' operation took the last binary version (from the RetroPie site).