@mitu

Tested with symbolic links as discussed by Parabolaralus here, seemed easier, and for anyone running my specs they should have no issue running gamecube games. Runs flawlessly so far.

@norstein said in pcsx2 won't install // unable to locate package pcsx2-unstable:

Maybe installing add-apt-repository should be included in the base installation, since it is used for several packages?

software-properties-common is installed by any *-desktop meta-package, what options did you choose during installation ?

OK so should anyone encounter the same:
Changing from opengl to sdl2 did resolve that last issue.
A Pentium G3258 at 3.2 Ghz has some speed issues, but it works fine with 4.6 and up.
Skylake or newer Processors should do with less frequency.

@mitu Apologies - I thought because it was on archive.org it was fair game, and the script was from further up the thread. I've removed it now.

Either way, as always grateful for any pointers from anyone, thanks in advance.

@k3001993 said in Best x86 emulation:

But honestly, do you think it can be done with a decent frame rate? Here's some gameplay:

I don't know, I don't have any experience with Box86 and I don't have it installed.

@pillbug22 said in My modified ROM loading process (launch images, bezel overlays, pause):

@johnodon perfect - thank you much!

I'll go on record as saying that I have abandoned most of this approach...well...half of it. I still use the 2 different overlays but I don't pause the ROM at start. I switched around the gameplay-overlay and the control-overlay and just tell people to push the Play/Pause button at any time to pause the game and see the controls. But the ROM starts straight away as normal.

John

@metal_slugger said in Redream not not visible in any packages:

But it's not there for me. Is this because I am using x86 machine and not a Pie?

The standalone redream emulator is available just for the Pi 4 at the moment.

It works !!!!!! but only when i launch ES in a terminal :-(

This is exactly what I said in my first reply. This is how it's configured the RetroPie launcher - as outlined in the docs.

Last question : does ES and Retropie need sudoers ?
If not, i should modify authorization in /opt/retropie/configs : actually all files are for root:root and not for my user "pi"
As runcommand try to write in the .cfg file, it couln't !!!

The /opt/retropie/configs shouldn't be owned by root - there's something that you maybe changed, because the RetroPie-Setup scripts ensure the folder is owned and writable by the installation users.

The sudo rights for the install user is needed for installing additional packages and for adding the necessary configurations needed for RetroPie. This is one of the first steps outlined in the installation docs.

Thank you very much! I had the same problem (installed RetroPie on top of Xubuntu 18.04 LTS 32 bit on top of an old Asus EEE PC. Took me some time but finally RP installed fine.

However, ES gave me the white screen. Based on your advice I found out it was caused by the same issue, the GPU not supporting OpenGL 2.

After following up your advice, ES starts just fine. As such this EEE system has a new life: a retro gaming station! Awesome!!!!

@imcade What problems do you have to install it ? Isn't the emulator appearing in the list of installable packages ?

@mitu
yeah, it's optimus. Here is the output

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 800mm x 450mm 3840x2160 30.00 + 29.97 23.98 4096x2160 29.97 24.00 23.98 1920x1080 60.00* 59.94 29.97 23.98 1680x1050 59.95 1440x900 59.89 1360x768 60.02 1280x1024 75.02 60.02 1280x960 60.00 1280x800 59.81 1280x720 60.00 59.94 29.97 23.97 1152x864 75.00 1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00 800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 720x480 59.94 640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94 59.93 LVDS-1-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm 1920x1080 60.01*+ 60.01 59.97 59.96 59.93 1680x1050 59.95 59.88 1600x1024 60.17 1400x1050 59.98 1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82 1280x1024 60.02 1440x900 59.89 1400x900 59.96 59.88 1280x960 60.00 1440x810 60.00 59.97 1368x768 59.88 59.85 1360x768 59.80 59.96 1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91 1152x864 60.00 1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74 1024x768 60.04 60.00 960x720 60.00 928x696 60.05 896x672 60.01 1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82 960x600 59.93 60.00 960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82 800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25 840x525 60.01 59.88 864x486 59.92 59.57 800x512 60.17 700x525 59.98 800x450 59.95 59.82 640x512 60.02 720x450 59.89 700x450 59.96 59.88 640x480 60.00 59.94 720x405 59.51 58.99 684x384 59.88 59.85 680x384 59.80 59.96 640x400 59.88 59.98 576x432 60.06 640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32 512x384 60.00 512x288 60.00 59.92 480x270 59.63 59.82 400x300 60.32 56.34 432x243 59.92 59.57 320x240 60.05 360x202 59.51 59.13 320x180 59.84 59.32 VGA-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-1-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-1-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1680x1050 (0x50) 146.250MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0 clock 65.29KHz v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089 clock 59.95Hz 1280x1024 (0x58) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew 0 clock 63.98KHz v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066 clock 60.02Hz 1440x900 (0x59) 106.500MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1440 start 1520 end 1672 total 1904 skew 0 clock 55.93KHz v: height 900 start 903 end 909 total 934 clock 59.89Hz 1280x960 (0x5c) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 1280 start 1376 end 1488 total 1800 skew 0 clock 60.00KHz v: height 960 start 961 end 964 total 1000 clock 60.00Hz 1280x800 (0x65) 83.500MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew 0 clock 49.70KHz v: height 800 start 803 end 809 total 831 clock 59.81Hz 1024x768 (0x6d) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.00Hz 800x600 (0x7c) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.88KHz v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.32Hz 640x480 (0x8b) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.94Hz

i feel stupid, thanks alot

EDIT: wow performance is absolute garbage, how can this be, i looked in some forums, and everybody is like "oh you need dual core" dude i have a quad core 3.4 Ghz i7? Is it the settings or is it ubuntu itself?

Batocera Linux has a x86 and x64 distribution image. I don't know which linux distribution it is based on.

@eddygenotype You're welcome! I have been sort of obsessively documenting things in RetroPie lately, and your question was well-timed. :)

@BuZz
Haha no worries mate!
Thanks for the help!