@jamrom2 True. Maybe he was thinking exclusively of Pi4/Pi5 spec devices. The Zero generally lags behind by a generation or so, currently being similar in spec to the Pi3. I've never really seen the point of the 'A' boards especially when the compute boards exist.

Having gone back to my old pre 5.4 build Retropie I found I needed to downgrade my Kernel due to glitching graphics. Since I have done this I am convinced that Retropie, especially N64 is still running slightly smoother than it did before.

There are some good instructional vids out there. Unfortunately some of the most popular ones are not always too accurate. Need someone who is clued up to make more.. eh @herb_fargus ;-)

@herb_fargus I agree with @AndersHP, if it's weekly, a quick mention about the MAME ROW game would be cool.

Also, I think it would be nice to mention the most interesting stuff discussed on the forums in the previous week.

@herb_fargus Users who wish to contribute but have no coding experience could help with this.

@herb_fargus said in Retropie Youtube channel ??:

I got tired of enabling people to rip off the project with stupid proof tutorials

I dont know how to tackle this but we can try.

This is a nice idea in concept. While it doesn't at the moment support it, it wouldn't be a stretch to implement.

That being said, VLC on the Pi is already quite sub-optimal, having it stream a video from YouTube, unless we can specify the quality of the stream to be one of the lower ones (and even so) might be a bit more resource intensive than ideal for the little Pi.

Might be worth testing out rendering a random videogame snap that would come from ArcadeItalia via VLC in the command line, and see how it'd perform, and then decide whether it's worth investing in it at the moment. That'd be my recommendation.

OMXPlayer also allows for that, but it requires a bit more tweaking.

Anyway, for non-Pi systems, and for users who'd be permanently online and have good bandwidth, that would be a welcome addition I imagine.

That being said, a bit of a cautionary tale: given that neither VLC nor OMXPlayer are using any sort of official API, things might break at a moment's notice if things change on the YouTube side of things. Been there, had that happen a few times with such things.

Thanks!

@audreycrist you've just joined the forum and your first post is advertising an app... I'm wondering if your account was created only for spamming. Do you have something to say about it?

@rufus looks good!

@dankcushions Twitter works for me :-) I just like getting my news delivered to me in some fashion. Cheers.