@time-bandit said in Help with setting up my first rp 3b+:

With or without vibration isn't a big thing for me. If it works great if not no biggie im more interested in replaying some of the old classics.

We've seen reports where the controller would not start vibrating because it's not properly recognized by the OS, event if it works. I think you should consider another controller, but hey !, it's your money.

So far, I only added exe files to Steam.

Maybe you can use a .bat to .exe converter and try it again. Or you try to call it through the interpreter, something like cmd.exe /c path/batchfile.bat. Which means you include cmd.exe to Steam and set commandline options to /c path/batchfile.bat.

@hooperre

Yeah, I wonder how that would play out... It's an interesting idea.

@rjotter Generally folks here don't like to help those who are using a pre-made SD image as the best source of help tends to the person who setup that image because who knows what they did with all the configs and setup.

BUT... you may need to look into using the xboxdrv?
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Universal-Controller-Calibration-&-Mapping-Using-xboxdrv

I experimented with it at one point but never got it to solve my input issues. Turns out there were simpler issues at hand.

There is also this: http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/search/?bbp_search=steam

These remakes and ports are a quick cash grab aimed at aging nostalgic nerds. I have nothing against aging nostalgic nerds seeing that I am one, but these games serve no real purpose.

The Secret of Mana remake is in the same category. It has the production costs nearer to a crappy mobile game, but priced at 40USD. No thanks.

I opted to skip on the Achievements for right now and am in the process of making this now. As all themes I've ever made, I'll give people the files and info if they care to make it a theme, but I manually create all my gamelist files and make all my own screen shots/start screens/sprite files, so unless you're going to take the time to do that, theme won't look good.

Here's a looping GIF of what it looks like so far. I've only grabbed 1/2 my SNES sprites so far and am using start screens for the screen shot until I get it fully set up and then I'll replace them with actual screen shots.

I think it came out pretty nicely, I may look into the Pegasus avenue, and need to really buckle down and improve any coding knowledge before I can even come close to my end goal.

PiTheme

Things that I plan on fixing is the GAME INFO box, and the Title Box. I'll have them expand to the size of the text inside, but I don't believe there is a way to pad the edges, so I don't know how I'll like the look.

@zerojay that's a cool idea, I hadn't thought of that angle.

I'm focused on making a single script that does everything i need and adding support for several of the more popular themes.

If you have the files, then you could run them under dosbox.
Such as, if you had the files to run I dunno, Jazz Jackrabbit. You could run it on DosBox.

@mnmagri

I'm not sure how far you got when setting up Moonlight but you need to find your controller's ID number and the correct corresponding button numbers by using jstest /dev/input/js0

Then you add this information into /usr/share/moonlight/gamecontrollerdb.txt

This is because Moonlight decided to use an SDL gamecontrollerdb.txt format to be able to make common game controllers work out-of-the-box. Here's the official template file:
https://github.com/irtimmer/moonlight-embedded/blob/master/gamecontrollerdb.txt

Here is the information for my wireless Xbox 360 controller. Warning: my d-pad settings are not correct and I've been meaning to fix this but I'm too lazy to do it right now!. They differ a little depending if you're using the Xpad driver or the Xboxdrv driver.

Xpad version:

030000005e040000a102000007010000,X360 Wireless Controller,a:b0,b:b1,x:b2,y:b3,leftshoulder:b4,rightshoulder:b5,lefttrigger:b6,righttrigger:b7,back:b8,start:b9,guide:b10,leftstick:b11,rightstick:b12,dpleft:b13,dpright:b14,dpup:b15,dpdown:b16,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightx:a2,righty:a3,platform:Linux,

Xboxdrv version:

030000005e040000a102000007010000,X360 Wireless Controller,a:b0,b:b1,back:b6,dpdown:b14,dpleft:b11,dpright:b12,dpup:b13,guide:b8,leftshoulder:b4,leftstick:b9,lefttrigger:a2,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,rightstick:b10,righttrigger:a5,rightx:a3,righty:a4,start:b7,x:b2,y:b3,platform:Linux,

More information here (Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver mapping chart):
https://github.com/irtimmer/moonlight-embedded/issues/514#issuecomment-310163270

@kaltinril I'm not currently working on this, but I found a trick that maybe you like to know:

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/SYSTEMS.md#steam

The problem I'm facing is that when I exit the game, the steam keeps running. There's no window, but its icon is on my Linux Mint Cinnamon systray and EmulationStation windows keeps hiden. If I close Steam (right click on that icon and exit) the EmulationStation goes back.

Maybe a small hack to kill steam after exiting a game can be easy to do, but I'm not giving attention to this currently. Just sharing the trick on that link. :-)

I'm running into a similar issue as well. Through searching through the moonlight github it seems the move to SDL2 has caused some issues with RetroPie. The developer of Moonlight has stated that they wont bother with fixing the problem as it comes from the way RetroPie handles controllers using SDL2 framework. Something around how the buttons are mapped and what the system sees. I'd love more help trying to track this down as well.

I've only recently updated my system to the new moonlight-embedded package yet I am having the same error, different controller ID but the same error. I've followed the steps you outlined and cleared the controller configuration but still no dice. Each time I launch moonlight, it finds the controller, yet never loads the correct configuration. Only falls back to the default configuration at the top, which isn't correct. Any help?

Ok so I hooked the pi up to a wired connection this morning. I continued my testing with Fable and was able to play this morning for about an hour with no problems even with Netflix going in another room.

Later tonight I'm going to change the moonlight launcher script I wrote to see how it runs at a full 60fps rather than the 30fps I started testing at.

Over all I'm very impressed with it.

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Any thoughts? is there a debug log that i can upload? if so, how to find it? As said, installed successfully with above script, paired successfully with my win10 gamestream / gfe. can select “steam” from retropie and select resolution. but then after a few sec back to resolution screen.

your help hugely appreciated!!!

@Charononus Might be useful thanks. And the es_input.cfg would be useful for comparison.

@techwiztime Sorry for the ignorance, how would you do what @rpf16rj did in his script? That is putting a text file with the game name. For example what I am trying to accomplish is I have a non-steam game let's call it ABC, I can't add it as a nonsteam game in the steam client and use your script as it will not launch the game. So I figure the alternative was to have a ABC.TXT file and let moonlight run it directly.

Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

Hi, did you have any luck with getting the Steam controller to work?

@trantornator If you are using a pre-setup retropie image, then all you have to do is click "Start" "Quit" and chose "Quit Emulationstation" ... done. You are now command line.
You do not need a desktop environment, like Pixel or anything like that to install moonlight or edit anything for Retropie.