RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues

Wolfman100

Ok...so now I've messed something up,I think I turned on the HW Bilinear Filtering (mistakingly thinking that was the smoothing setting!) in RetroArch PSX and now the games won't boot...can I just delete the config files so that it goes back to using the default global settings and then make a new config from there?

Wolfman100

These are the files I have in my PSX configs folder:

content_history.lpl emulators.cfg libretro.cfg libretro.so.cfg retroarch.cfg

dankcushions

@Wolfman100 said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

Ok...so now I've messed something up,I think I turned on the HW Bilinear Filtering (mistakingly thinking that was the smoothing setting!)

it is

Wolfman100

@dankcushions ahhhh,thats what I thought.....very wierd in that case then as the games wont boot,just returns back to emulation station.I haven't had any issues with turning on smoothing in PSX emulator before

dankcushions

@Wolfman100 said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

@dankcushions ahhhh,thats what I thought.....very wierd in that case then as the games wont boot,just returns back to emulation station.I haven't had any issues with turning on smoothing in PSX emulator before

but of course HW Bilinear Filtering is what it's called in the retroarch GUI, not the configuration editor, so if you've been messing about in RGUI who knows what you've changed :) you could start with /tmp/runcommand.log to see the crash.

also, weren't you asking about shaders? the config editor tells you not to use video_smooth if you're using shaders.

Wolfman100

@dankcushions yes I'm aware about not using shaders with smoothing.Something has changed in the Retroarch config that it doesn't like,but I can't access the retroarch editor now because the game quits before it has a chance to load....I think I need to do it in the main retroarch and load the psx core

dankcushions

@Wolfman100 what does games not loading have to do with the configuration editor? It's a script. hadn't we covered this? :)

Riverstorm

@Wolfman100 said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

the game quits before it has a chance to load....

Backup early and often...restore when needed...sometimes it's just easier and quicker! :)

Wolfman100

ha..also a 'hear hear' for that!as I mentioned though,shouldn't I be able to simply delete the config files for PSX I changed and it'll revert to default 'global ' settings?

Wolfman100

well I've managed to ascertain that its something in my

/opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg

that it doesn't like,as when I remove the file the game boots fine,but without BIOS

BuZz

@Wolfman100 said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

Unless I'm going blind I definetly can't see that in there...

http://pastebin.com/wTkPZks9

How did you edit this file ? via saving in retroarch RGUI or manually ? Because the include needs to be at the end, or the settings in the file wont take effect. When using #include RetroArch will use the first config it sees, so any of the configuration options in this file that are also in the configs/all/retroarch.cfg will be ignored

the default per system configs have a comment that mentioned this and the configuration editor will make sure the include is last.

Wolfman100

@BuZz

I edited in RetroArch....

Crisis now averted though as I pulled in the Config files for a setup I had on another card.This made the Retro-Pie emulation station menu change,as that build was still on 3.7..but it's working all good besides that.Not sure why it went so crazy though.

I did also manually edit the include to be at the end incidently,as I read that somewhere else,and strangely it didn't make any difference at all....

meleu

@Wolfman100 said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

ha..also a 'hear hear' for that!as I mentioned though,shouldn't I be able to simply delete the config files for PSX I changed and it'll revert to default 'global ' settings?

I noticed when I (re)install a core using retropie_setup, it creates a retroarch.cfg.rp-dist in the respective config directory. You can use it to "restore factory settings".
;-)

Riverstorm

@meleu said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

I noticed when I (re)install a core using retropie_setup, it creates a retroarch.cfg.rp-dist in the respective config directory. You can use it to "restore factory sertings".
;-)

Good tip! I see the file there and I have always just kind of overlooked it, never opened it. :)

Wolfman100

@meleu said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

@Wolfman100 said in RetroArch Config Confusion and Issues:

ha..also a 'hear hear' for that!as I mentioned though,shouldn't I be able to simply delete the config files for PSX I changed and it'll revert to default 'global ' settings?

I noticed when I (re)install a core using retropie_setup, it creates a retroarch.cfg.rp-dist in the respective config directory. You can use it to "restore factory settings".
;-)

Handy-Dandy Indeed!