help: I ​​can't install retropie on orangepi 3b

[Renetrox]

Retroarch does not install from source, upon completion it indicates that retroarch cannot be found. Emulationstation and Mupen64plus if installed correctly.

[Thorr69]

@Renetrox Retropie, as presented here at this website, is not for use on an OrangePi. It's for Raspberry Pi only. The RetrOrangePi project exists for Orange Pi, but it was pretty much abandoned a few years ago.

[mitu]

@Thorr69 said in help: I ​​can't install retropie on orangepi 3b:

It's for Raspberry Pi only.

That's not true, we support other SBCs, though the Orange Pi3b is not one of them.

@Renetrox the SBC you're using is not officially supported and I don't know if anyone has tested RetroPie on it. You can still try to install RetroPie on it, but unless you have some Linux experience, it's not going to work.
What OS are you using on the OrangePi ? What's the build error from RetroArch - can you post the compilation log ?

[ExarKunIv]

@Renetrox are you using this
https://www.retrorangepi.org/

?

[Renetrox]

@Thorr69 I have retropie an other OrangePi and although it is true that it is not the same as in raspberry pi, I prefer retropie. RetrOrangePi has been dead for years, and Batocera leads today as an option among the SBCs because people don't want or don't have time to learn. As I see, it is not only a matter of installing retropie, but also of the software support itself for the board. I managed to install it by changing distro, but the result is currently unfortunate. The only thing that retropie does not have and batocera does in terms of emulators in the orangepi are: NDS, OpenBor, and the libretro emulators for n64.

[Renetrox]

@mitu thanks for your help as always! Retropie currently if you manage to install runs at 8fps "emulationstation" and 15fps the emulators.
Distro: Debian Bulseye
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-mcXPDx1QpE9ZI8oTivmJ1Nd5HfU5nFv

[mitu]

@Renetrox said in help: I ​​can't install retropie on orangepi 3b:

. The only thing that retropie does not have and batocera does in terms of emulators in the orangepi are: NDS, OpenBor, and the libretro emulators for n64.

All of these are present in both Batocera an RetroPie. Batocera may have multiple versions of OpenBor available, but for the rest they're similar.

@mitu thanks for your help as always! Retropie currently if you manage to install runs at 8fps "emulationstation" and 15fps the emulators.

That means the GPU drivers are missing hardware acceleration and everythings is done by the CPU. I'm not familiar with Orange Pi3B and I don't know if the OS distributed by the OrangePi folks has any kind of GPU acceleration included, but I suspect it does not.

[Renetrox]

@mitu

[mitu]

@Renetrox Although it says the Direct rendering: yes, the driver used the SW renderer (llvmpipe), so I suspect there's no GPU acceleration available. AFAIK, for the Mali GPU included, the panfrost Mesa driver should be used.

EDIT: However, that's the glx extension for Xorg, what does es2_info says ?

[Renetrox]

@mitu don't get me wrong my dear fellow, I know that emulators are present and can be installed in certain cases. The Libretro emulators for n64 do not work on the orangepi 3lts, which is the previous board I mentioned I have with retropie working. Openbor is not installable and Drastic is exclusive for Rpi, therefore, in my case, if something I didn't achieve with retropie it was that, and I also tried batocera and all those emulators were working, I don't know why.

[Renetrox]

@mitu I don't know how to access that information. Give me some time and I'll give you the data

[mitu]

@Renetrox said in help: I ​​can't install retropie on orangepi 3b:

The Libretro emulators for n64 do not work on the orangepi 3lts, which is the previous board I mentioned I have with retropie working

I wasn't referring to support for Orange PI 3b, since this is non-existent in RetroPie, but to the availability of emulators/ports. When a certain SBC has support in RetroPie, the packages are configured/changed in order to support that platform - so there's no comparison term here since the OPI 3b hasn't been either supported nor tested so far.

[Renetrox]

@mitu I managed to install retropie by changing the distro to armbian!! It's going very well, on n64 only glide64 works, with small screen, the rest, no problem so far

[mitu]

That's great ! I assume Armbian has the accelerated GPU drivers installed ?
Since we recently added some Armbian support, can you tell me if you're able to install any of the drivers included with RetroPie (like xpad or xpadneo) ?

[Renetrox]

@mitu I think everything was installed as is on an rpi or PC, I just hit basic install and it ran everything without error. I haven't installed psp or flycast yet, I'll try desmume too. What I don't know how to install is openbor, any suggestions to try?

[spannernick1]

Just found this post for the Orange PI 3 so Retropie does work on it.. https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Install-RetropieEmulationstation-on-OrangeP/

I am at the moment tying to get Emulation Station working on a THEA500 Mini, (it has a H6 on it PCB so is like the Orange PI 3 but it keeps crashing when I run it, its kernal it uses is..
Kernel: Linux version 3.10.65 (chris@puck) (gcc version 4.9.3 20150113 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.9-2015.01-3) ) #32 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 12 10:48:03 GMT 2021 64-bit aarch64
it uses Buildroot as its Linux and has 512 mb ram.
and its a sun501i arm64.
It a shame the Orange PI 3 is not supported, it does not have a lot of support for things like this, like Retroarch and that, it should.

[Renetrox]

@spannernick1 Dude, retropie works without doing all that... only install with the script for debian and derivatives