Horrible Issues
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Hi.
Does anyone else feel configuring these pi and retropi is like playing wackermole ?
Simply copied a new rom and now had to start from scratch literally.
Days spent fixing one issue to then face a new one! I'm not a beginner but now powered off for a while!!
Surely I'm not the only one!?!
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@nickread if you have a problem please detail the issue and provide information about your set up.
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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I have no idea how copying a rom could cause such issues that someone has to rebuild from scratch:/
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@nickread said in Horrible Issues:
Hi.
Does anyone else feel configuring these pi and retropi is like playing wackermole ?
Absolutely, as soon as I finish one project (or sometimes even before!), it seems I've found another one that's captured my interest!
Simply copied a new rom and now had to start from scratch literally.
Oh, well then no, that's not a regular occurrence at all...
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maybe he copied the source-code of a rom into the config.txt???
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Hi...
So I've had a working system for a good year without issues. Pi connected to 2 joysticks with a picade hat. Nothing out of the ordinary. I copied a new rom then launched when neither that or any other games would work until alt f4 to force quite the processes! Wow..!! So I tried to update the existing installation without any luck. The next few days have been spent reinstalling three new latest retropie OS's each time adding say the picador hat drivers would kill the sound, redirect hdmi port or not manipulating the config.txt did nothing. The usual hashing or setting various options well detailed online didn't fix the sound.
Another fresh install this time installing the desktop (startx) also killed the sound until I changed the value to hdmi on the speaker icon then I could hear navigation clicks in emu but when launching a rom the sound is overdriven and awful.
This is all between flaky wifi setups and not always seeing the repositories to fetch files.
I appreciate open source but still seems like wading through treacle to get back to a working system. It seems fixing one issue casues others to appear.
So I now have a part working system with the desktop installed but sound is the problem either not working or when forcing to hdmi in the UI causes the sound to be distorted in the game.
I could talk about other odd things like running psx roms, going to install the lr optional package to be told it doesn't support the version of retropie anymore...weird!
Any thoughts on the sound or if I could upload my config.txt would be appreciated.
Cheers
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... copied a new rom then launched when neither that or any other games would work until alt f4 to force quite the processes! Wow..!!
Never heard of this kind of issue before - but without log file it's difficult to say what happened.
So I tried to update the existing installation without any luck. The next few days have been spent reinstalling three new latest retropie OS's each time adding say the picador hat drivers would kill the sound, redirect hdmi port or not manipulating the config.txt did nothing. The usual hashing or setting various options well detailed online didn't fix the sound.
That's not an RetroPie issue, it's a problem with your Picade drivers or their installation and configuration. If they're not well supported on newer Raspberry Pi OS version, they won't work in RetroPie. Note that RetroPie is not an OS in itself, it's just a pre-configured Raspberry Pi OS (Rapbian) Lite installation.
Another fresh install this time installing the desktop (startx) also killed the sound until I changed the value to hdmi on the speaker icon then I could hear navigation clicks in emu but when launching a rom the sound is overdriven and awful.
Can't help you here without more details about your audio configuration and a log file from the emulator log (see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#launch-with-verbose-logging). Note that running RetroPie from the desktop environment is not a supported or tested configuration, if you're using this setup then try running EmulationStation outside the desktop environment.
Note that recent Raspi OS version install PulseAudio when you install the desktop, this might affect the audio performance - you can disable it from the RetroPie Audio menu.I could talk about other odd things like running psx roms, going to install the lr optional package to be told it doesn't support the version of retropie anymore...weird!
What's weird here ? RetroPie is based on Raspberry PI OS, whenever the underlying OS is no longer supported, there is a transition period after which RetroPie is no longer providing binary packages and - after another period - support for the old OS version. Some emulators have dependencies which are updated and no longer work/compile/install on old versions of the OS, it's not some arbitrary decision and hardware support (Pi4 for instance) needs an up-to-date upstream OS.
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you forgot to mention to this user that all of this and all the support and everything you just about RetroPie is done by a whole load of people that just enjoy the hobby and do it all...for free.
This user needs paitence and some attention to the docs that are provided. Sure...it's not an immediate plug&play for some of the emulator versions, but on a whole...RetroPie is the easiest, well-thought, most customizable, and vast emulation support system most of us have ever seen. I'm up to 50 working systems now... For free.
Great answer to his issues...never expected anything less.
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Try this...
- Take a step back and don't force things into RetroPie that don't work.
- Load something simple so you get familiarized with how RetroPie works. Like NES, Atari 2600 or Sega Genesis.
Dowload WinSCP, Putty and get familiar with how to use them and how to interact with the folder structure of RetroPie. Some emulators need very specific BIOS files that have to be named correctly and placed in specific folders. When you want to add a system...read the docs first. Then get aquatinted with it.
Learn how to add and remove themes, files, configs...etc. Each emulator can use it's own retroarch.cfg that has specific settings...all customized to each application.
Use the search function in the forum because many users have had similar problems and are sorted now.
You're not the first, and won't be the last...but it's not often someone that comes here and gets sorted says this system is bad.
Start with a simple controller like a SNES style and build-up from there. You'll learn that once you understand how this all works, there is A LOT you can do with it and how many systems it supports. I'm now up to 50 including laser disc games, arcade, Amiga and several systems that run in the new MESS/MAME conversion.
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@jamrom2 To summon it all ... build your own image, back it up, and develop it further and further ....
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