Reicast Won’t Load

mitu

What format are your ROMs/Games ? Can you also install the lr-flycast emulator and see if it works ?

GreatSyxsuke

@mitu The ROMS are .cdi files. I tried installing lr-flycast and it does the same thing. Obviously there’s no “Start Reicast” for that but the ROMS just crash back to the select screen.

My main issue is that I haven’t even been able to do the setup of the date and VMUs like every guide mentions before even starting to play a game.

mitu

Any errors logged in /dev/shm/runcommand.log ?

GreatSyxsuke

This is my /dev/shm/runcommand.log file

Parameters:
Executing: bash "/home/sasuke/RetroPie/roms/dreamcast/+Start Reicast.sh"
/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast.sh: line 89: 28460 Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) "$rootdir/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast" "${params[@]}" > /dev/null

mitu

@GreatSyxsuke I was looking for the Flycast log, it should be more detailed if you use the Runcommand launch menu and choose `Debug logging'.
For Reicast, what are the BIOS files you copied to the BIOS folder ? Are you sure they match the ones described in the docs ? I think that with the latest version you're not required to change the date/time anymore.

GreatSyxsuke

This is the log after running Flycast. I don't see an option for Debug Logging when I select "Run Command Configuration" in the RetroPie menu.

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-flycast/flycast_libretro.so </dev/null --config /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/retroarch.cfg "/home/sasuke/RetroPie/roms/dreamcast/E-SPAWN.CDI" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

The BIOS files are dc_boot.bin and dc_flash.bin. I checked the md5 sums again and they match the ones in the docs:

e10c53c2f8b90bab96ead2d368858623 for dc_boot

0a93f7940c455905bea6e392dfde92a4 for dc_flash

I know they are good files because I am able to use them to run Reicast via RetroArch on the PS Classic.

Even if I don't have to update the date and time, I would still need to format the VMUs, right?

mitu

@GreatSyxsuke said in Reicast Won’t Load:

Even if I don't have to update the date and time, I would still need to format the VMUs, right?

No, that's not required. I don't see a detailed log - did you choose 'Verbose Logging' before starting the game with 'lr-flycast' ?

GreatSyxsuke

This is the log after running it with Verbose Logging.

https://pastebin.com/nAtxDAhx

mitu

You GPU seems to be the problem, it doesn't support OpenGL 3, needed by Flycast.

[INFO] Requesting core OpenGL context (3.0).
...
[INFO] [Video]: Using HW render, OpenGL driver forced.
...
[INFO] [GL]: Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center, Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) G41 .
[INFO] [GL]: Version: 2.1 Mesa 19.0.8.

I'm not sure why Reicast doesn't work, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was the same type of error.

GreatSyxsuke

@mitu Oh ok, that’s a bit of a bummer. At least I know why it doesn’t work though. No big deal, I mainly use it for MAME anyways. Thanks for all your help!