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      Splashscreen Video not playing every time

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      mituM

      @Manukan said in Splashscreen Video not playing every time:

      @mitu It is still only playing every time, can I start this service earlier in the boot-process to make it more consistent?

      Not sure what you mean, the splashscreen service is already started pretty early during the boot sequence.

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      EmulationStation fails to launch after update on Pi4

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      Thank you @mitu!

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      Press a button to configure at game start

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      nunna78N

      @dankcushions great i'll try thanks

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      ES Config Slow?

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      mituM

      @agrajag Yes, that's the one.

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      User Menu > Entry is not saved

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      @mitu
      I have now managed to get the test script to read the following data.

      mame-libretro lr-mame2016 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/galaga.zip /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2016/mamearcade2016_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/galaga.zip"

      Test script:

      system=$1 emulator=$2 path=$3 commandline=$4 echo $system > /home/pi/test.txt echo $emulator >> /home/pi/test.txt echo $path >> /home/pi/test.txt echo $commandline >> /home/pi/test.txt

      Where do I enter the option Y for the game and how do I read this option into my script?

      E.g:
      if type = Y then ./script1.sh
      if type = X then ./script2.sh

      Edit:
      Now I have a solution.
      My script:

      ############################################################### # 4 oder 8 Wege Joystick von runcommand-onstart.sh aufgerufen # # (C) 2021 treki # ############################################################### # Namen der 4-Wege Games in /home/pi/4way.games eintragen #system=$1 #emulator=$2 #path=$3 commandline=$4 echo $commandline > /home/pi/game.name.txt #Name des 4-Wege ROMs in diesem File, welches in 4way.games geschrieben werden muss var=$(echo $commandline | grep -o -f /home/pi/4way.games) if [ -z "$var" ] then echo "8-Wege Joystick" > /home/pi/test.txt else echo "4-Wege Joystick" > /home/pi/test.txt fi

      In the file /home/pi/4way.games are the names (.zip) of 4-way games.
      My 4way.games file looks like this:

      asteroid1 astdelux bzonec pbobble2u dkong dkong3b dkongjrb fantsia2 galaga galaxian mspacman pacman pengo phoenixt popeyebl qbert qixb spacedx supertnk tankfrce atetrisa tetrisp tron4 uniwars

      Entry in /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh :

      bash "/home/pi/4or8way.sh" "$@"
    • H

      Speeding up boot time and the necessary commands

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      mituM

      @hairdyeguy said in Speeding up boot time and the necessary commands:

      Tried it along side to disabeling bluetooth and rainbow splash screen + inserting the quiet flag to kernel. Booting time is now 28 seconds!
      Are there more things you'd recommend?

      The EmulationStation settings I mentioned in my first post - they should speed up dramatically the front-end startup.

      Other services that are not strictly needed - raspi-config(?), hciuart (which you don't need if you disabled Bluetooth), rpi-eeprom-update (the Pi zero doesn't have an EEPROM).
      You can also disable the swap service (dphys-swapfile) and test, but the Pi 0 has limited memory and swap may be useful if you want to install from source or run other things.

      I'm not sure why the dev-mmcblk0p2.device takes so long, maybe the sdcard is not so fast (?).

      There may be other - more radical - options

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      Emulationstation crash on startup - segfault (PC - Lubuntu)

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      Well, It turns out that my sound problem was probably due to the display refresh rate not being on sync.

      After many reinstalls (both OS and Retropie) I was able to make sense of all this and I now can enjoy Retropie again on my old laptop with Lubuntu 20.04.

      Thank you mitu for your time, this is really appreciated.

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      Emulationstation not showing up after recent update (it was working with root)

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      I've "solved" by keeping "pi" as login user and disabling password when doing sudo
      thanks

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      ubuntu retropi start up issue in terminal

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      mituM

      On a PC (Ubuntu & forks, Debian, etc.), EmulationStation should be started from a desktop environment, not from a terminal.

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      Pi 400 problem

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      BuZzB

      @redpiperbob Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

      Please provide more details of your set-up - which image you downloaded and so on.

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      Retropie won't load after initial startup script

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      mituM

      hdmi_safe will set the resolution to 640x480, if your monitor supports a higher resolution, you can set it by using hdmi_group=2 and hdmi_mode set to one of the values detailed in https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md. You'll probably have to add hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080, my guess is that your monitor supplies a wrong EDID and the Pi tries to set the video resolution to an unsupported value.

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      Startup/splash screens

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      @mitu not until now, let's see if it works!

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      Retropie fastboot?

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      lostlessL

      @lilbud basically it’ll just continue to boot then next part of the os without waiting for a WiFi signal and will connect when it’s ready in the background . Without it, It’ll wait either for an connection or just timeout and then continue to boot. No need to to have a solid WiFi connection on a retro pie setup. Where you would want it is if your project requires internet or WiFi to run your project so it has WiFi before the whole OS boots.

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      cant start retropie from osmc kodi interface

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      Just as I posted this I managed to figure it out. It seams that when kodi in osmc starts a script it starts it in root directory where it has no privilages. Adding "cd /home/osmc" at the beginning of "/home/osmc/RetroPie/scripts/retropie.sh" solved the problem!

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      Are startup / shutdown buttons safe?

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      Awesome. I will check out that link. Thank you.

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      RetroPie will not start after being shut down the first time.

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      Hi all! I just wanted to say that I got an answer to my issue! My particular problem was due to my using a VGA to HDMI converter to use with my old VGA monitor. What fixed my problem was to edit the config.txt file and uncomment the line "hdmi_force_unplug=1". Works perfectly now. Again, thank you all for your time.

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      What is supposed to start emulationstation?

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      @mitu Thanks, that fixed it!

      Also, for anyone else who ends up here, it's important that you run raspi-config as sudo raspi-config from the pi user. If you're already root and you run it it won't know which user to configure for autologin.

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      Script doesn't boot when I start my Retropie

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      someone asked about this on reddit a few weeks back, and i told them to add it to:
      /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh

      expressvpn connect &
      emulationstation

      it seemed to work for them. here's the thread for reference.

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      Startup fail after an update

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      @mitu I made it! I have deleted whole scummvm folder, rebooted and the ES finallt works!

      Thank you everyone. The problem is officially solved.

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      Delay startup until vpn is available

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      BuZzB

      @ericdave you should not edit that file but the autostart.sh. the file you edited is not meant to be user editable and will be overwritten.