Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.

AssCabbage

@Zering

Does it look like this:

Or this:

Zering

It looks more like the second one.

quicksilver

@Zering that's a pi 4. Note the blue USB 3.0 ports and the two micro HDMI ports instead of the one standard HDMI port.

AssCabbage

@Zering OK. I wanted to see if it was just an issue with the smaller board for some reason.
I used a pi 4 image by accident quicksilver, but I think it's safe to assume Zering has the 3 B+.

Confirmed the official PSU didn't help.
Trying rewriting the image to the card now to see if it's a file system issue, then I'm going to try the old retroarch build with the command helpfully given to me by @mitu

EDIT: Kinda regret trying this rewriting idea, between reading, writing and validating the image it's taking nearly three hours -_-

AssCabbage

Confirmed the exact same behavior in 1.8.4 ;_;

What on earth is going on? Anyone any other suggestions?

Zering

My board doesn't look like either of those pictures. It's got two other smaller boards attached to it, if that makes sense? But structurally it looks more like the second one.

Also, today I actually managed to swap discs successfully, on Alone in the Dark : The New Nightmare. But if I try to exit the game, the system hangs. The only way I can work around it is to swap disks, save state once I'm on Disc 2, turn off the RPi, then turn it back on again. If I reset, the save data is gone and reverts back to whatever was there when I first turned it on. (Not that I'm complaining as that gave me an excuse to stop playing this bloody game)

Also, there's something I forgot to mention : my version of the RetroPie-Script is out of date I think. I didn't update for two years. When I updated last month, as I described, it failed to install some dependencies. I assumed it was related to the message I get, every time I start the file manager, that says my version of the script is no longer supported. Maybe that ties into the issue somehow?

AssCabbage

@Zering said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:
Yes, you're experiencing the same as me alright. It does work the odd time and I could probably get past this with some sort of save. However I'm putting this together for a friend who's stuck in quarantine and I'd like it to work properly :/

I've signed up to the retroarch forums to make a post there, but it seems like I can't....

mitu

@AssCabbage said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

I've signed up to the retroarch forums to make a post there, but it seems like I can't....

It's a restriction in the Libretro forums - you can't post immediately after you register, you need to get certain number of points by participating/reading the forums. It's explained in one of their pinned topics.

mitu

@Zering said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

Also, there's something I forgot to mention : my version of the RetroPie-Script is out of date I think. I didn't update for two years. When I updated last month, as I described, it failed to install some dependencies. I assumed it was related to the message I get, every time I start the file manager, that says my version of the script is no longer supported. Maybe that ties into the issue somehow?

Could be, but looks like you're running an unsupported/old version, based on Raspbian Jessie.

Zering

@mitu said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

@Zering said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

Also, there's something I forgot to mention : my version of the RetroPie-Script is out of date I think. I didn't update for two years. When I updated last month, as I described, it failed to install some dependencies. I assumed it was related to the message I get, every time I start the file manager, that says my version of the script is no longer supported. Maybe that ties into the issue somehow?

Could be, but looks like you're running an unsupported/old version, based on Raspbian Jessie.

Yes, that's it, on one of my two cards anyway. I haven't tried on my second one to see if the issue persists.

AssCabbage

Right next up. Completely fresh install?

I'm hesitent to do this as I've spent a few days configuring everything...

Can I do a fresh install and migrate everything across?

quicksilver

@AssCabbage do you have a spare SD card you can image with the stock image just for testing?

mitu

@AssCabbage said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

Can I do a fresh install and migrate everything across?

You can back up your ROMs and gamelists via file shares and then restore them on the new system.

AssCabbage

@quicksilver No spare SD card unfortunately.

I already have the card imaged from when I rewrote the image, so everything's backed up.

What's the plan here.

download stock image.
Install six axis drivers
install sky scanner.
move across config files.
see if it's still broke

Or should I do this differently?

AssCabbage

OK, this is working! However this is NOT the 1.8.4 version. The version being reported in the bottom of the quick menu is "1.7.6 - PCSX ReARMed R22 cadb995"
The disc swap notification is completely different as well!

@mitu can you give me commands for downgrading to this version and I'll move back to my original image and see if this version work? Cheers for your help.

mitu

@AssCabbage said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

@mitu can you give me commands for downgrading to this version and I'll move back to my original image and see if this version work? Cheers for your help.

Sure, but humor me and first try an upgrade just for RetroArch to the latest version - you'll need to upgrade the RetroPie Setup script first. You can save the previous version by backing up the /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch.

AssCabbage

I don't mind helping to figure out what's wrong with this.
Now, I did update this only.. 2 days ago. Has there been commits that change the change disk behavior since then?
Testing it now.

EDIT: I updated from source, is this what you wanted?

EDIT2: This is taking far too long to update from source, I'm going to have to try the binaries.

AssCabbage

@mitu
Updated from Binary (from source was taking forever) and it's still the same. Trying to switch back to disc 1 in MGS instantly hangs the system.

xXRiseEmpireXx

i had the exact same problem has you ever since i updated the retropie script. have you tried to update the kernel? i did it and it worked fine after with final fantasy 9. you update the kernal in the retropie setup because its supposed to downgrade the kernal because of issues

AssCabbage

@xXRiseEmpireXx

Does running update do this? I'm sure whch is the kernel option?