@mitu I was just messing around with all of this. I don't have a RP4 yet, but plan to get one. I just wanted to get familiar with the different gaming-centric OSes before I got mine. I'm running this on a laptop that's running Windows 10. I need the ability to have Windows 10 running while I play around with this RP and emu stuff for the time-being. Using VirtualBox gives me that ability. I checked the '3D Acceleration' checkbox and now RetroPie runs. However it's really slow and beyond the configuration menu, I don't see anything else. I've got a VM that only loads an SD card (no 'host' VM OS) of another gaming front-end and the speed of it is great. I'm guessing the slowness has to do with running a system in a system in a VM (or something like that). That's cool. I just wanted to see it.

lrbarrios

@kmancali , on top of what @mitu said, if you want to have some systems directories in different mount points (or partitions) symlink just those directories:

/mnt/roms/amiga to $HOME/RetroPie/roms/amiga

while $HOME/RetroPie/roms remains in the main partition

Are you sure your USB drive is mounted as /mnt/Retro Drive ? Is the user that's running EmulationStation (RetroPie installation user) able to access the driver and its contents ?

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

@norstein
See this thread
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/238116
It explains how to launch the GUI for dolphin so you can get in and configure the controller.

Once you get that open you can reference
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/configuring-controllers/
for a more detailed guide to specifically setting up the controller.

@dankcushions it’s about performance. On 2016 I can play eg. Die Hard Arcade with minimal slowdowns during QTE but overall game is pretty playable. With current mame it works in around 10 fps. Apart from that I have Mame2016 romset and don’t need to find another source for that.

Thanks, that seems to get rid of that console error. Now the games just hang, will do some more troubleshooting :D

I removed cfg file from arcade folder and I'm back on RGUI. Still having some problems as keys set in ES does correspond to those in RetroArch but I guess I have to do some further steps removing "broken" retroarch.cfg files from few places and then reinstall RA from setup script and hope it will fix it.
Thanks a lot for your help!!!!!!!

You're right, I've edited my post accordingly.

@k3001993

One further thing, I found by changing Terminal=false to true, then a terminal window will popup asking for a password, enter the password and it works.

So only conclusion I can draw is that it must be permissions related.

Sory for bumping old topic but i've encountered the same problem. For people that may have the same problem in the future i think starting script is bust.

To repair it i've created a new script: /home/pi/.scummvm/start.sh
with content:

#!/bin/bash game="$1" while read id; do echo "$id" done < "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/$game.svm" /opt/retropie/emulators/scummvm/bin/scummvm --fullscreen --joystick=0 --extrapath="/opt/retropie/emulators/scummvm/extra/" --path="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/$game/" $id

and changed content of /opt/retropie/configs/scummvm/emulators.cfg
to:

scummvm = "bash /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/+Start\ ScummVM.sh %BASENAME%" scummvm-game = "bash /home/pi/.scummvm/start.sh %BASENAME%" default = "scummvm-game"

.svm files cannot have "newline" character at the end of game name.

Hope this will help people in the future.

@warpath0007 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

Yes, you rock !

it works with this change
indeed in the file /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh

changed the line : id="$(echo "$line" | awk '{ print $2 }' | grep "([0-9]\{1,\}x[0-9]\{1,\})")" with this line id="$(echo "$line" | awk '{ print $2 }' | grep -o "(0x[a-f0-9]\{1,\})")" And the line : mode_id[1]="$($XRANDR --verbose | grep " connected" | grep -o "([0-9]\{1,\}x[0-9]\{1,\})")" with this line mode_id[1]="$($XRANDR --verbose | grep " connected" | grep -o "(0x[a-f0-9]\{1,\})")"

Now the video mode selection is working great
Many thanks

Had the same issue on Lubuntu 20.04, the symbolic link was missing for /usr/bin/python

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

Just to confirm I had email confirmation that the change was merged into master, so post-update I tested again anyway and all works fine.

Thanks for sorting this so quickly.

Cheers

@RunsOnRum No, but you can create your autostart script to start Kodi first, then start EmulationStation - 2 lines instead of one.