• Atari SplashScreens

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    @Timmiejane You should submit a pull request to retropie on github for this.

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    johnodonJ

    I was seeing the same and it was the errors being thrown by the audio issues introduced with Raspbian Buster: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26628/audio-issues-after-latest-raspbian-updates

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    I did.

    I actually managed to solve the problem. I needed to do a sudo reboot and reApply the video, but then the video would start to play and crash and then the pi would be frozen. It would still work with ssh and with a bunch of tinkering I realized it was my overclock causing the freeze. I removed the oc on gpu memory and dropped the GPU and v3d clocks to 700 and it works fine now.

    Not sure what made me try tinkering with the oc, but I'm glad I did...

    Now if I could only get psp games to show up and n64 games to play decently I'll be set.

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    @mitu I do apologise, I didn't know it was against your licence but I can see why.

    Thank you for your help, I will start over and hopefully it will fix my problem.

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  • [Splash Screen] Clean

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    dionmunkD

    @herb_fargus Yes! I love your splash screen.

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    C

    @mitu that's true. thank you very much

  • Need help! No sound on splashscreen

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    mituM

    @mitu when you say path to file do you mean CD (change directory) to get to omxplayer?

    No, I mean the path to the video file

    rule #5? I don't understand?

    It's easy - did you download the image from this site or not ? My question was to provide more details about your installation - what Pi model, what RetroPie version, etc. You've not mentioned anything about that. Did you buy the kit with the image included ?

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    sergioadS

    @Sepsism maybe KOF 94 or 2003, I love the falling letter

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    @bc320 I'm with you on this. With such a versatile machine like the Pi (any model) you don't know what you'll be using it some years into the future. Furthermore, Retropie runs on Linux which uses free memory to buffer I/O operations to speed up file access etc. You can see the memory allocation with the command free -h.

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    Couple comments:

    When using a USB drive through the auto-move capability of RetroPie, the entire RetroPie folder is read from the USB drive; i.e. it "replaces" the RetroPie folder on the boot sdcard. The videos you place in the USB folder of RetroPie/splashscreen (which becomes "/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen") can be read by the Splashscreen functionality, and even randomized - with some caveats I'll note below. You can always move the video splash screens to the sdcard folder of "opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen" and use them from there as well. You can do that in a number of ways: from the command line (F4) then copy or move the files from the "/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen" folder to the "opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen" or do the same through SSH or through the built-in File Manager application from the RetroPie settings subfolder. Hint: sudo cp "/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen/whatever your video.mp4" "/opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/whatever your video.mp4" wil copy the file. Replace cp with mv if you want to move the file. You must do this as SU (sudo) because the opt folder allows only root read/write access Caveat 1 for randomizing: Best to append the video files to the splashscreen list, and then randomize off that list Caveat 2 for randomizing: Frequently the very first file name on the splashscreen list will be multiple files all in one long line. Recommend deleting that entire line and manually typing in the first line. Editing the splashscreen list is fairly easy.
    A. In the Splashscreen settings, go to "Append splashscreen to list"
    B. Choose Own/Extra splashscreens (if your files are in the home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen folder) or RetroPie splashscreens (if you moved them to the opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen folder)
    C. Select the line you want to append (add to) the list and hit OK.
    D. Hit Ok again to confirm the appended line
    E. Repeat B-E for all the files you want to add to the list. Again - I recommend after you're done appending the files that you go back to "Manually edit splashscreen list" and make sure that first line has ONLY the one file on it. I also again recommend you manually type that one in. It might be easier to do this after you've appended a few files because you can just copy one of the lines you appended as the first line, and then delete the original (now duplicated line.) Once your splashscreen list has all the videos you want in it, one vide per line, go back to Disable splashscreen randomizer and enable it (or disable and then re-enable it.) You'll want to select the "Randomize /etc/splashscreen.list" selection.
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    @TheBossT said in Retropie 4.4 HDMI Problem: Garbled Sound When Playing ANY Console/Emulator:

    Also if anyone can maybe give some alternatives to bluetooth audio as the lag ain't great, that will be greatly appreticated!

    There aren't many solutions out there and it seems this solution not only breaks other audio outputs but also is unusable due to the lag. I'm almost certain the Pi dosen't have enough horsepower to emulate games and stream bluetooth audio, as per the tutorial above I have completely removed it and I recommend that you should too. Let me know how you get on and if you find an alternative that doesn't stutter.

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    I decided to do some experimenting. I formatted the SD card and put a fresh 4.4 install on it. I updated the RetroPie scripts and then copied the splash screen to the appropriate directory on the SD card. There was nothing else done to the system.

    Even with this configuration I can reproduce the problem although it appears to be a timing issue.

    If I try to restart the system within 5 seconds of emulation station starting it always displays that error. This sometimes happens between 5 to 10 seconds as well. It can also happen (although not as often) if I begin the restart process (Start, Quit, Restart System, Really Restart?) but don't click "Really Restart?" right away. I can let the system sit for 20 or more seconds and when I do confirm the restart it will happen.

    I need to re-image my SD card with my last backup to see if these times are extended by making changes in other areas.

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    Huh. Now that's weird.

    I tried what you described (thank you very much for that!), and while the script works like a charm, for some reason fbi fails to load the 1920x1200 splashscreen. It literally returns a black screen with

    /home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/retropie-extra/rookervik-pixel-16x10.png: loading FAILED

    written at the bottom. The weirdest thing is that if I run

    sudo fbi -T 2 -once -t 20 -noverbose -a -l /etc/splashscreen.list >/dev/null 2>&1

    after start up, mimicking the syntax in /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh, the image is shown normally!

    So close, yet so far! Any ideas?

    EDIT: UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE! That was happening because I’m using USB auto-mount for loading roms into the system. For some reason, that option also overwrites the splash screens directory, but the pendrive is only mounted AFTER the splash screen is actually shown on startup. Hence, when I moved the stretched image into the directory, I was actually moving into the pendrive, which is ignored by the Pi on startup! All I had to do was unmount the pendrive, copy the file into the SD card and it worked! 😁 Thank you very much once again for all the help!

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    @Efriim

    It did thanks :) and now that I’m in the right direction I know enough to play around with it till it works anyways