ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4

BuZz

@a_netanel do not mention sites which host images with ROMs.

lephro

Hi, i appreciate all the effors went into this project, ~~but no eMMC support is a huge disadvantage and pretty much a killer for this project (at least for me).~~ I mean guys seem really to put some effort into this... ~~and then you release it as a shitty sd image that runs on like 30% of the speed of an mmc? Just why do you force people to shot themselves in the legs? O_o~~

Many people that use this image are noobs and wont know much about what they are doing, so its on you to guide them to the best solution.

Sry .. reading about this made me angry. ~~I could write a book about how bad this decision is.~~

~~I haven't tried it but if anybody gets this image to work on a mmc, let me know.~~

EDIT: eMMC is working...

Shakz

@lephro said in ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4:

Hi, i appreciate all the effors went into this project, but no eMMC support is a huge disadvantage and pretty much a killer for this project (at least for me). I mean guys seem really to put some effort into this... and then you release it as a shitty sd image that runs on like 30% of the speed of an mmc? Just why do you force people to shot themselves in the legs? O_o

I am running the image on emmc....where was it posted that emmc is not supported...maybe I missed it?

EDIT: Was it in the pdf? I cannot look as I am at work and they block everything.

lephro

That sounds promising. Tomorrow i'll get a spare MMC ... i give it a try...

PDF page2 point 10: OS Installation Media: This image has been designed to be run with a MicroSDand not currently on EMMC due to the expense that EMMC incurs. Changes will need to be
made to the boot files if you wish to convert to EMMC. This has not been tested as of yet.

Shakz

@lephro Ah well might be time to update this thread then. I am on the dev team for it....I run it on emmc and I know one of the testers does as well. I'll point this out to the guys this evening. I think it may have been a simple matter of we didn't have an emmc to test with. That has since been rectified but I DID have to do some extra flashing to get the hardkernel emmc working. On of the other guys did nothing more than flash the image to his emmc and off he went. I posted the steps in discord (which is also blocked here) but I'll make an effort to get them posted here as well in case you run into any issues.

lephro

Ok ... its booting... but my keyboard-controller-thing (chinese piece of *) is not working properly... going to upgrade via ssh now... iam pretty sure that will fix the keyboard issue... i used the image linked in this thread which is probably not up to date... ... but i have to say that things are looking good afa i can tell so far.

reesk92

with regards to the emmc

before i start it works now

but at the time of release we was foccused on releasing a fully built and configured release of retropie
extra features were planned and ultimatley did come later
if a emmc is really a deal breaker then your best and only option at the time would have been ....

well no retropie at all in any form

whilst i do not expect you to understand but this stuff doesent magically just happen for us it takes many many hours of work and trying and failing and trying again before we get it right with our small team as it is we must set prioritys in order to remain on schedule towards the final push for release we looked at what did and did not work and made decisions on what wed focus out time on specifically

after much deliberation we had decided that whilst we wanted to get emmc working we wasnt about to start delaying release just for the sake of making it work especially since the general concensous amongst our team and our community was that whilst emmc is nice many preffered sd cards as odroids emmc modules are fairly expensive for what they are and most never bothered with buying them

once the image was out the door we discovered the solution to writing emmc images and later found it required no extra modification to the image

this solution came from a member of our community who much like you had a verry big interest in making the emmc image and took the initiative to do the leg work himself to fix the problem

wifi was also a simmilar thing and like emmc came down to money its all well and good asking for every wifi module under the sun to be supported but we dont have the cash to start testing every module known to man the eventual solution to this was we teamed up with our verry graciouis supporter ameridroid who donated us 1 of each of there wifi modules as well as several emmc modules which we used to add in wifi wupport and test with and now we have a decent spread of supported wifi modules ranging from 2 or 3 dollars up to 30 dollars

so yes emmc now works and turns out always had

but as a side note more people should be like the guy i mentioned above if something isnt to your liking then fix it change it make it how you want it instead of complaining about it on the forums for example

we wanted odroid for the xu4 as a ready to go image but we didnt sit there saying things like its not a ready to install image so were not interested and the projects dead we gathered our guys together we set a plan in motion and we worked hard and delivered on what we set out to do

fnkngrv

We released our latest public image today which is v1.1 based on 4.3.9. We have the changelog as the first page of the release notes and can be found on our website Odroid Arena.

To make it clear this is a base very similar to the official RetroPie release. No games other than the opensource ports are included.

Support for the Odroid branded WiFi adapters has been baked in and the drivers for many other chipsets are on the image however if you have a 3rd party adapter then some coding may be required however we can discuss on our FB page or Discord. We noticed as of yesterday, at least for the XU4, that PPSSPP is now broken with the upstream scripting so people should be aware and not uninstall is from our build if they use it otherwise if they want it back we are not seeing an ETA on when it will be able to be successfully compiled again.

We honestly have another several hundred hours into this update and it just strengthens the point that the RetroPie dev team itself puts a tremendous amount of time into this distro which means that people need to appreciate the efforts that they have and are putting into something that is free.

On a side note we are more than happy sharing our work with RetroPie itself to assist in providing more official support if so desired. All we need is for someone to reach out to us to discuss.

bollwerk

Tried it out over the weekend and it's looking good. I look forward to more features being added.

dankcushions

great work!

@fnkngrv said in ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4:

On a side note we are more than happy sharing our work with RetroPie itself to assist in providing more official support if so desired. All we need is for someone to reach out to us to discuss.

could you not just submit the necessary PRs to https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup ? if you're unsure if they're appropriate changes for retropie, here is as a good a forum as any to discuss them.

steeeb

PRs to RetroPie-Setup would be ace then everyone can benefit of changes that aren't just for odroid benefit.

fnkngrv

@steeeb said in ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4:

PRs to RetroPie-Setup would be ace then everyone can benefit of changes that aren't just for odroid benefit.

Pretty much everything that we had to make for modifications where specifically targeted at the hardware that the odroid xu4 as on board. There's really not anything at least that I can think of after several minutes of contemplating that would be a benefit otherwise for other Hardware. If I do think of anything however will be sure to address it.

fnkngrv

@dankcushions appreciate the feedback. I myself personally I'm pretty new to get hub so I've had a little bit of a interesting time trying to wrap my head around how it all works. We do have our own GitHub however because we do want to remain transparent of course. I'll have to discuss it with the Gent that has been taken care of it so that we can see about doing what you're suggesting here down the road once we feel completely confident that the various compilations are truly stable. My team is a small one so a lot of the general public will end up being guinea pigs of sorts.

dankcushions

@fnkngrv great! i guess one thing you should be careful of is to make sure that any changes specific to XU4 are only applied to XU4 installs. you can see examples of that kind of thing here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/58fa73e22b5e816cf05ca9877749a2250e562458/scriptmodules/emulators/amiberry.sh#L38

another thing is that i would advice limiting each change ("pull request") to single changes (or groups of related changes) as they are easier to evaluate, test and accept.

spitfyre1085

I have been unable to configure any of my controllers via USB. It detects both my dualshock 3 and my Switch Pro controller, but when it prompts you to hold a button to configure it nothing happens. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.

bollwerk

@spitfyre1085 said in ORA Retropie image for the odroid Xu4:

I have been unable to configure any of my controllers via USB. It detects both my dualshock 3 and my Switch Pro controller, but when it prompts you to hold a button to configure it nothing happens. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.

This is not unusual. Lots of controllers are not yet baked into the build. I had the same issue with my XBOX One controller. Just need to be patient while they add support for more. I'm not sure what controllers currently work with the build though.

spitfyre1085

Is there a way to enable SSH currently?

reesk92

@spitfyre1085 its enabled by default the only thing different is we changed the login details to
username:root
password: odroid
for the root acount
and
username: pigaming
password:retopie
for the default account

all out images enable this by default because the biggest complaint we see is people needing to use ssh and being unable to do so even worse is when they cant interface with the pi with keyboard and monitor then there left having to mess around with sd cards and changing files just to enable it so we enable it by default so you can use ssh from the moment you burn the image

if you wish to disable ssh then your welcome to as its easier to disable ssh than it is to enable it in our opinion

spitfyre1085

@reesk92 Thank you so much. Great work on the image BTW.

darky2003

@reesk92 i just got my xu4 today and installed the retropie build,
but when i connect it to my bartop (that has a 1400x900 pc monitor) it won't show any screen.
It says "Input Signal Out of Range" than after a few seconds the monitor goes off and switches back on to the "Input Signal Out of Range".
Any idea how i should get my screen to work? (worked before with my raspberry)

When i connect it to my tv it works but the screen is a bit stretched so i can't read half of the buttons on the bottom screen. (maby has something to do with it)

I have been searching for some options how to change resolution or output but can't seem to find anything.

Also a big thank you for your work!!!!
Keep it up ;)à