unofficial Retroarch 1.8.1

[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.