unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1

mitu

@tobas said in unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1:

edit: it DOES actually explain why attract mode breaks, but never expressly references attract mode. as a matter of fact, my inquiry on that very thread was dismissed as not being relevant when it was in fact, very relevant.

We suggested numerous times to upgrade your Setup script first and them update your binaries - in fact that's the normal procedure outlined in the Docs. You ignored that - among other things - and now you're just acting like you've discovered yourself the answer and you never received any guidance. This seems petty and slap in the face of the people that tried to help you in this topic and the forum.

tobas

@mitu I did not ignore that at all. I absolutely upgraded my setup script and binaries. it still did not work. I indicated this in my responses. I did receive guidance, unfortunately it led me nowhere and when I indicated so, I was told to give up and start from scratch.

tobas

@tobas said in unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1:

@mitu I followed your advice and updated via retropie setup and its installing dependencies, which seems like a good thing perhaps?

edit: emulation station boots! halfway there, but attract mode does not even after install. damn.

dankcushions

@tobas updating packages does not update the script. if the script was updated, it wouldn’t look in the old locations for the libraries. you can see it in the attract mode script update linked above.

tobas

@dankcushions I updated the script before I updated anything else. that was the first step in every thread with any sort of instructions that involved steps. I did exactly what I was advised to do.

edit: I'm not sure what we're arguing about here. I followed every bit of advice I was given in this thread to the letter. I posted my results, which were that it did not fix attract mode. this was the response to that,

@mitu said in unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1:

Aha. So I guess the number of people telling you that upgrading a Jessie install to Stretch is not supported and doesn't work reliably is not something you're considering.
In this case, I wish you good luck figuring this out.

I don't understand. are you telling me I was told how to fix my problem, or even given a hint in the right direction and ignored it?

grant2258

@tobas said in unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1:

I don't understand. are you telling me I was told how to fix my problem, or even given a hint in the right direction and ignored it?

First of all well done on fixing your issue most people would give in and install a new image not many people see things through.

You have to understand the nature of the number of people that need support here the mods and users pick a quick solution that works to help the users get there setup working again.

When you go against this grain it doesnt sit well as there are know solutions that will fix the issues. Anyway hats off to you it is good getting to know how something works under the hood.

dankcushions

@tobas
you were told to give us the version of retropie-setup script here:

@BuZz said in unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1:

@tobas please can you go into RetroPie-Setup and tell me what it says at the top of the menu. And see if you get a dialog window first. It should inform you your version is unsupported.

you never did... if you did that, we would have seen you didn't update your script and that would be a problem. i'm fairly sure you didn't, since the script has been updated to solve the specific library problem you encountered...

tobas

@mitu said in unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1:

@tobas said in unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1:

edit: it DOES actually explain why attract mode breaks, but never expressly references attract mode. as a matter of fact, my inquiry on that very thread was dismissed as not being relevant when it was in fact, very relevant.

We suggested numerous times to upgrade your Setup script first and them update your binaries - in fact that's the normal procedure outlined in the Docs. You ignored that - among other things - and now you're just acting like you've discovered yourself the answer and you never received any guidance. This seems petty and slap in the face of the people that tried to help you in this topic and the forum.

I'm honestly baffled by this response. Even if I did completely ignore this advice I would have been correct in doing so as far as fixing attract mode is concerned. The actual solution had absolutely nothing to do with upgrading the setup script or following normal procedures.

I'm not trying to slap anyone here. I did actually discover the answer and nothing I was told to do would have made a lick of difference as far as fixing attract mode. I am grateful for those that tried to help and I said so. Ultimately though, the conclusion was 'you're a fool for not trashing your image and starting from scratch, good luck fixing your problem'.

I just wanted to learn, so I did the work and I learned. again. no one could explain to me why jessie-->stretch = broken attract mode. no one even had an inkling, and if they did, they weren't telling me about it. I had to compare countless forum reports referencing other broken software to get an idea as to what was actually happening.

and to be clear, the script update did not solve the problem. I explained this,

"It’s tricky though, because newer versions of stretch tried to mitigate some of these issues by adding libEGL.so back into the library. Problem is, attract mode doesn’t play well with this new lib."

the solution they implemented did not solve the attract mode dependency. several other programs were not restored after this 'fix', maldita castilla is one example that stood out to me since I do like that game and had no idea retropie could run it in the first place.

matchaman

This has been one of the friendliest message boards I've ever been part of. There's no hostility and if something like that starts, moderators will warn and eventually ban any members with malicious behaviour.

What really happened here is a misunderstanding but the outcome is good. In computing, you either follow the guidelines and save time, or do it yourself and expand knowledge from mistakes or analysis of a problem. This is exactly the case here.

herb_fargus

I'm locking this now. It's gone on too long.