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    Launching Retropie & EmulationStation from Bookworm Desktop (not Lite) + Vertical (Portrait) Mode + GPIOnext

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      Hi Folks, discussion started here with a question from @dirtykid about the "error initializing SDL! Wayland not available" error.

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/34951/error-initializing-sdl-wayland-not-available/20

      After a bit of toying around, here is how you can quickly get RetroPie running from Bookworm Desktop (not Lite) in Portrait Mode.

      For ease I have set the Bookworm Desktop Screen Configuration to rotate right via:
      PI Icon (top left)->Preferences->Screen Configuration->Orientation->Right.

      First I installed the RetroPie-Setup script via the terminal:

      https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

      After installing RetroPie I then went back and launched the RetroPie-Setup script and installed "All Core Packages"

      I then copied over all the appropriate ROM folders from my old Buster install, including the Scraper and High Score data.

      For EmulationStation I have to launch using the following launch parameters every time (as I could not find an autostart.sh file to configure, it was not on the retropie folder) after exiting wayland to terminal (ctr-alt-F1) ...

      emulationstation --screensize 1080 1920 --screenrotate 1

      Once launched into emulationstation I went into the retroarch menu and set

      settings->video->output->video->screenresolution->1920x1080
      AND
      settings->video->output->video->videorotation->270
      AND
      settings->video->output->video->aspectratio->16:9

      Important! Remember to go back to the main menu in the retroarch dialogue and go to configuration and save configuration, so that changes you made are written to the retroarch config file.

      It stretches all games to full screen on my monitor but I can live with that.

      Performance does seem a bit better compared to the standard buster release of retropie.
      Yet to try 1280 x 720 but there should be a few performance gains there.

      Sound is also working.

      GPIOnext

      For GPIOnext using my dual stick arcade controller, I needed to install evdev which after a few goes got it all setup.

      6 Button Controller setup is as follows

      3 5 6
      2 1 4

      Works good for Hyper Olympics.

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