Drastic crash

PiKiller

I downloaded drastic and it brings me back to the home screen when i launch a ROM, even after a reinstalling the package. I then reinstalled the Retropie OS and it still doesn't work. I've played on it before and it was only after a fresh install of Retropie that this started happening. It's not the ROMs because I played the on lr-desume, but desume is super slow and i want drastic

SuperFromND

@PiKiller Try checking the logs in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (you can easily check this file with a program like WinSCP), that usually has some form of error message that indicates what's wrong. Posting it here will likely help as well.

mitu

@PiKiller said in Drastic crash:

I then reinstalled the Retropie OS

RetroPie is not an OS - not sure how exactly did you re-install it. Please add some info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
The log file, as @SuperFromND mentioned, would show the actual error - post its contents in the forum, surrounded by code tags (``` on a separate line, before and after the contents of the log)

PiKiller

@SuperFromND
Reinstalled meaning that I wiped the SD card and imaged Retropie to it again.
I am using a brand-new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and a Kingston SD card
Contents of '/dev/shm/runcommand.log':
'''
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic.sh "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nds/LEGO Indiana Jones

The Original Adventures (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Da)/LEGO Indiana Jones - The Original Adventures (U
SA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Da).nds"
/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic ~
ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such fi
le or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5047:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
drastic: pcm_params.c:2354: snd_pcm_hw_refine: Assertion `pcm && params' failed.
/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic.sh: line 3: 976 Aborted /opt/retropie/emul
ators/drastic/drastic "$1"
'''

mitu

Looks like the error is related to the audio configuration - there's no audio card detected. How did you configure the audio on your installation ? Does the audio work with other emulators ?

PiKiller

@mitu Using a Pi 0, I don't have audio. I never used it when I gamed on my Pi 4, though, and it worked on that. Is there some way to fake an audio card?

mitu

@PiKiller said in Drastic crash:

Using a Pi 0, I don't have audio.

How so ? Audio via HDMI is supported and even the analog audio would work (via the GPIO pins, since the Zeros don't have an analog jack).

Is there some way to fake an audio card?

You can configure a 'dummy' sound card if none are available, load it with the command sudo modprobe snd-dummy.

PiKiller

@mitu Do I just type the command or do I have to download a git repository? I can't use GPIO or HDMI because I'm using an Adafruit Touch Kippah.

mitu

Post your /boot/config.txt.

Do I just type the command or do I have to download a git repository

You can modify the autostart.sh from /opt/retropie/configs/all (also available via file shares at \\retropie\configs\all) and add a command before the emulationstation starts:

sudo modprobe snd-dummy
emulationstation #auto

PiKiller

@mitu It worked! Thank you for helping me.