@mitu There hasn't been a reply on that thread in months...

I'm getting both an 'xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused' response to StartX
and a response " *failed to add service - already in use?" to emulationstation.

Do you think it is related to autologin settings? It's as though both the services are started but I'm outside them (I guess because George's script itself called Xinit ... though I uninstalled Meso, Box86 and Wine).

@sleve_mcdichael
Ok, since I had only seen the directories when starting Skyscraper, I wasn't aware of the symlinks. In the end, this also means that I don't have to change anything in the configuration and I leave it as the default. I just want to have everything in the four directories so that I have everything together when I switch to a new version.

Maybe another question about the update, I can run Retropie-Setup-Script-Update and Basic Install from time to time without having to change or pay attention to anything else. So I'm not overwriting anything of my existing custom configuration, right?

I make backups of the whole sd-card as an image. But can I also mount the image without any problems in order to copy only the data from the four directories out again? Or do I save the image just to use it again as a whole and should I save only the directories again just in case?

Ok, so having spent quite a bit of time on this, I would have to downgrade my assessment to semi-successful - ha! I ended up having to install alot of emulators that I thought would still be on there as they were on my old build, and nearly all the other emulators had binary updates for me to run.

My RetroPie build is very basic really, with the only tweaks being those detailed in the official docs, so looking back I think if I was to do this process again, I would just start completely clean and go through each system one by one to check all is working correctly and updating/tweaking as appropriate. At least then I would know what needed to be done, rather than finding some things had copied over and other bits hadn't. This is most definitely due to errors on my part I'm sure.

On the plus side, on my 4.4 build my Sega CD and ZX Spectrum games wouldn't work (Sega CD would jump back to ES, and ZX Spectrum would crash the Pi) but now they do, so not sure what happened there but it's all good now - ha!

@mitu Thanks a lot for your help.

@deejay1974 If you had any BIOS files there, yes.

@papinist I've literally updated from 4.4 to 4.7 yesterday. See my post here about the steps I took:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29033/upgrading-to-retropie-4-7-1-are-these-the-correct-steps?_=1609350446790

It might help a bit?

Right finally got this working :)

To confirm, 3rd party images at the moe dont seem to be supported, but just wanted to highlight the official ''image'' download of 4.6 (found under pi4, https://retropie.org.uk/download/) also does not work and you will get a boot error occur

You can however get RP 4.6 to work! From official Raspberry Pi page, download the imager app: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

Using the app, there is an option to choose the op system you want to install, so retropie for us and then let it do its thing. It will format disk/write image in one go. Once you put the SDcard in Pi, it will boot, no errors whatsover straight into Retropie!

Note: If you use windows 10, there is chance the imager will fail to write, its a windows setting thats the issue and this is the fix: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=267364&sid=f6d32a82c84ebcfacdc2b3f1536cc4c1&start=25#p1664662

With Pi up and running! just needed to load roms which are on my external ssd. (indeed, the following is correct proc: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/). The SSD was again working painfully slow and needed the fix mentioned (https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=245931) to sort that out.

Finally got RP working! in for a long scrape now for artwork before i can get onto some tweaking :)

@mitu said in Retro-Bit Sega Mega Drive/Genesis 2.4 GHz Wireless Controller incompatible/issues:

Start the gamepad in a different 'mode' and see if the button is recognized as a gamepad input.

I have found 6 different wireless modes:

Key Mode LEDs Y Switch Strobe X Mac 3,4 Z ? 2,3 A Android 1 B D-Input 3 C ? 1,3

Switch pairs and is recognised as a controller in configure input, but holding down a button doesn't do anything, so I can't bind anything.

Mac mode, holding down home shows 'keyboard' but when I go in to key binding it lets me bind the home button. It doesn't let me bind the Z and C buttons.

Z,A,B,C mode all have the same issue with the home button as described above.

There is a wired X-Input mode (LED 2) which allows me to bind all buttons but I can't figure out if there's a wireless version of this.

There is a wired PS3 mode which also allows me to bind all buttons, but I also can't figure out how to get it to pair wirelessly in this mode.

Is there no way to manually bind whatever keyboard button it thinks it is?

Is this a bug with anything else, or a fundamental issue with the hardware?

@Tim-s-up The retropie weekly dev builds are usable and nowhere near as buggy as lakka. For example, Lakka still crashes endlessly with the ozone theme since July. Also, retropie uses retroarch as well...

Until there isn't a firmware/kernel update in the Raspbian Foundation repo, it can be workarounded with this:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19328/testing-kodi-18-0-leia-beta-versions-now-available-for-retropie/123

@DrSubsonic said in Updated Packages and now system shuts down before launching retropie:

@mitu the seller sold me the arcade system.. just came with retropie installed thats all.

If RetroPie came with the system, it was sold with the system.

@DrSubsonic said in Updated Packages and now system shuts down before launching retropie:

ran sudo raspi-config and it did not ask for a username or password...

That is normal in RetroPie. It's less secure than in most other Linux systems, but I guess it's just a compromise for convenience.

guess i need to do a full flash of a fresh install

That may be the best course of action if you neither can fix it by yourself nor get support from the seller.

Thank you @mitu
You're a star :)

Rob

@mitu said in Update RetroPie-Setup Script Fails - is not a GIT packfile:

git clone github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup

Brilliant that Idea worked well got me on the right path. So the 'git clone github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup' part did not work but what I did was 'git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git' (same Idea) and it worked. So you where right it must of been corrupted. So now I am able to update my script and get 4.4.

Thank you for your time and effort!