Raspberry pi 3 b+ and pi2scart problem

r_g_b_life

Hello all. For several days I have become a happy owner of raspberry pi 3 b + and pi2scart. I have a rvb monitor jvctm-h1950cg for each of my stationary consoles, that's why I bought pi2scart. So yes:

I uploaded the image from pi2jamma.info to the sd card and copied the roms to individual folders on the sd card. I have a few questions that I can't find a simple and specific answer anywhere. Here they are:

How to set parameters in advance options in the retropie / retroarch configuration first? I have all the emulators I need installed.
Virtually all roms work well but ultimate mortal kombat 3. Rom only fires on lr-mame2010 but unfortunately it works slowly and very silent. The sound is also so jagged ...
The retroarch version of the image I have from pi2jamma.info is 1.7.6. Reteoarch can't see my core. I am looking for target folders for specific platforms and cannot see files. They turn on easily from the ES menu. I need a specific description to configure retroarch.
Not exact geometry is something I expected :) with crt it's normal. Here, however, things get harder. In retroarch I can move the image up / down and left / right and reteoarch will save these settings. Unfortunately, when setting the ratio width and ratio height settings do not save when I reset the raspberry ... What do you need to do here to save video settings?
The last thing is the MAME system. It's about the screen position. Lr-mame is in a horizontal position for every game for lr-emame emulators. I've tried everything in the retrop configuration menu and the screen does not change. Video rotation false or 0 gives nothing. The worst part is that after changing settings and returning after resetting raspberry, changes in video rotation and allow video rotation return to what they were, i.e. true and 1. As if he did not remember the changes in the configuration.

mitu

@r_g_b_life said in Raspberry pi 3 b+ and pi2scart problem:

Note - we don't support 3rd party images, I'd recommend starting with a fresh RetroPie image and add the necessary configs to enable Pi2Scart support.

Virtually all roms work well but ultimate mortal kombat 3. Rom only fires on lr-mame2010 but unfortunately it works slowly and very silent. The sound is also so jagged ...

That may be just that the PI does not have enough power to properly emulate the said game.

The retroarch version of the image I have from pi2jamma.info is 1.7.6. Reteoarch can't see my core. I am looking for target folders for specific platforms and cannot see files. They turn on easily from the ES menu. I need a specific description to configure retroarch.

See the Docs on how RetroArch configuration file(s) are used.

Not exact geometry is something I expected :) with crt it's normal. Here, however, things get harder. In retroarch I can move the image up / down and left / right and reteoarch will save these settings. Unfortunately, when setting the ratio width and ratio height settings do not save when I reset the raspberry ... What do you need to do here to save video settings?

Are you saving your configuration from the RetroArch menus ? The RetroArch configuration in RetroPie does not enable 'save on exit' (nor do I recommend it). If you want to fine tune - per system or per-game - the settings, then you can use the corresponding retroarch.cfg for the system/game and add your options there.

The last thing is the MAME system. It's about the screen position. Lr-mame is in a horizontal position for every game for lr-emame emulators. I've tried everything in the retrop configuration menu and the screen does not change. Video rotation false or 0 gives nothing. The worst part is that after changing settings and returning after resetting raspberry, changes in video rotation and allow video rotation return to what they were, i.e. true and 1. As if he did not remember the changes in the configuration.

That might be because the settings are not saved automatically, are you setting those as core options or as RetroArch video options ?

r_g_b_life

@mitu Ok, so umk3 still silts ... Somehow it worked fine once ... As for the cores, it works already. He sees all the games. The online updater option was hidden in retroarch options. Screen settings have started to save. Up / down and extension. Unfortunately for example Castlevania blodlines on genesis looks bad when the character moves. At 320x224 resolution is normal but the picture comes out behind the screen. I save each item in the retroarch menu under the save current settings option. I'm doing something wrong? You mention retroarch.cfg I have no idea how to edit it and where to change anything that would happen there ... Any tips?

mitu

@r_g_b_life said in Raspberry pi 3 b+ and pi2scart problem:

I'm doing something wrong? You mention retroarch.cfg I have no idea how to edit it and where to change anything that would happen there ... Any tips?

If you wish to use RetroArch only, then why are you using RetroPie ? RetroPie already installs and pre-configures the cores from the setup script, that's why the online update option is not available by default.

You can edit the .cfg files with a simple text editor and add your options - unfortunately there's no exhaustive reference for it, but you can take a look at the default skeleton - commented - RetroArch config to see what options are available.
As an example config, you can take a look at a similar CRT setup (for RetroTink) here. Each system has a special config with the viewport resolution (here is the one for Genesis/MD).

Honestly, if you're just using RetroArch and you're familiar with it, you can try out Lakka's special CRT distro - MME4CRT.

r_g_b_life

@mitu Retropie is already in the installation image and wanting to not turn on at the start :) I look at this configuration of MD, I see the same options as in settings / video in retroarch. So no better to play with retroarch? I noticed that changing any of the options in retroarch settings video also saves it for the retropie. I would like to play only retroarch but as I wrote in another post, the playstation emulator cuts very much when it starts from the retroarch level and it starts up well with the retropie ..

mitu

@r_g_b_life As I said, RetroPie takes care of the RetroArch configuration so you don't need to do it manually. However, for this special case - using Pi2Scart - additional settings for the video image can be added through the configuration files.
If you want to continue using RetroPie, then I'd start with a fresh image and then add the Pi2Scart configuration in /boot/config.txt and continue from there. Otherwise, ask the image authors for support since they might have done some modifications to the image that we're not aware and cannot support directly.

If you want to use something like Lakka, then ask for configuration information from the Pi2Scart team - I don't see any on their site, though they mention you can use other images and configure them to work.

r_g_b_life

@mitu I did so ... I uploaded the whole image from pi2jamma.info again and entered Bob's retrorgb data into the config.txt file. There is one more thing. Scripts from Frank Skilton. I downloaded the content but damn I can't run it. Sudo files chmod + x set_video.sh
Sudo bash ./set_video.sh They won't turn on. I uploaded the scripts to a pendrive. Raspberry sees these files from position F4 but these commands cannot be turned on.

mitu

@r_g_b_life said in Raspberry pi 3 b+ and pi2scart problem:

Sudo bash ./set_video.sh They won't turn on. I uploaded the scripts to a pendrive. Raspberry sees these files from position F4 but these commands cannot be turned on.

I'm not familiar with those scripts, don't they have any documentation attached ? Try copying them first locally, on the SD card, instead of trying to execute them from the USB drive. After you copy them, make sure they're executable - run chmod +x <file_name> beforehand.