[SOLVED] trying to install reicast on pi3B+

blueagent004

"On RetroPie 4.0+, not everything is installed by default. The pre-made images contain the best working emulators for each system supported by the hardware.
Software can be installed from the RetroPie-Setup script - which is accessible from the RetroPie menu on EmulationStation. Once there you can navigate to "Manage Packages" where you will see various sections. In each section are lists of packages that can be installed (and it will show what is currently installed). Stable additional packages are under the "Optional" section, with more unstable packages listed under experimental. The packages are ordered first by type (emulators / libretro cores / ports), then alphabetically. By selecting a package you can choose to install it, or remove it. Some packages also have additional configurations."

so as you can see, i have indeed read the beginner's guide and and have followed the instructions word for word, but when i tried to install the reicast emulator using the package manager in RetroPie is v4.5.1, the installation has completely failed.

i tried the auto installation option, in which retropi began to auto-installing all the emulators by itself, except the process fails.

so i tried manually installing one emulator by itself, but the installation fails yet again.

i've searched through the forum there's not been one instance of this being reported.

since i have followed the rules and read the guide, and there is not a single present thread which covers this latest issue nor is there a solution offered by anyone as of yet, i've decided to post this question in hopes that someone will look into this and tell me what's going on.

i'm using RetroPie is v4.5.1 on Pi3B+, my SD-card is a genuine kingston SDHC 16gb, i also tried on a high quality SLC microsd card and i have already properly used etcher to flash the image properly, but still it doesn't work!

PS: my pi is disconnected from the internet.

again i have read and followed the guide, WORD for WORD. since this doesn't work i think it definitely warrants a question to be asked. please help me with this and thank you!

dankcushions

@blueagent said in All emulators failed to install on latest retropi release:

PS: my pi is disconnected from the internet.

you can't install an emulator without it being connected to the internet. otherwise you are stuck with what is pre-installed (which should cover you for most systems)

blueagent004

@dankcushions

i honestly did not know about this, i've never seen a single person or website, not even this website, explicitly mentioned that the retropi distro would requires a connection to the internet for it to work during first bootup.

i've seen hundreds of youtube videos since the pi2 days where people show off the pi2/3 and all the emulators are already present during their retropi bootup, so naturally i held a longtime belief that retropi distro is like any other linux distro where all the essential files are already included for offline installation.

is there a distro of retropi that i can just flash to my sd card and use offline without needing the pi3 to be connected the first time?

dankcushions

@blueagent said in All emulators failed to install on latest retropi release:

i honestly did not know about this, i've never seen a single person or website, not even this website, explicitly mentioned that the retropi distro would requires a connection to the internet for it to work during first bootup.

it doesn't? sorry i'm really confused by what you're trying to do. retropie ALREADY has almost every emulator you'd ever want to use preinstalled. you only need to connect to the internet if you want to reinstall one (eg, to update it), or install one of the optional or experimental emulators.

i've seen hundreds of youtube videos since the pi2 days where people show off the pi2/3 and all the emulators are already present during their retropi bootup, so naturally i held a longtime belief that retropi distro is like any other linux distro where all the essential files are already included for offline installation.

they only appear in the menu when you have games on your system for the emulators to play. it says this in our installation guide: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

When you first see EmulationStation you may wonder why you don't see systems like the SNES or Game Boy- worry not- they are installed on the system, roms just need to be added to their respective rom folders before they will become visible. Transferring roms are described in the following steps.

blueagent004

@dankcushions

let me explain again.

i went into retropi's package installer/manager.

i selected reicast from the list of packages that are already there.

i click install.

it doesn't install.

also tried to use the auto install all emulator option, nothing is installed.

all i see in the homescreen is a emulator for god knows what, and the retorpi icon.

dankcushions

@blueagent reicast is not pre-installed. if you want it, you need to connect to the internet. 90% of emulators are preinstalled.

also tried to use the auto install all emulator option, nothing is installed.

yep, you're asking it to reinstall a bunch of emulators, many of which are already installed on your system, but to reinstall them (for whatever reason), it will need to connect to the internet.

all i see in the homescreen is a emulator for god knows what, and the retorpi icon.

please see my bolded quote in my previous post.

blueagent004

yeah i had a dreamcast backup game image with the dreamcast bios on a usb stick, just like the guide told me to, then i put it in the pi, but reicast didn't show up. then i look at the guide and it says to install the emulator you want using the package manager and whatnot. so i guess that's what happened.

thank you so very much for your help!