MKDD Tint Issue RPI5

[retropieuser555]

@TPR not really no. Emulationstation's names are SDL which aren't necessarily the same device names you'd get from evdev. 8bitdo might use the same names as a manufacturer but trouble I've found is SDL doesn't seem to have universal names. So SDL names are different on dolphin compared to emulationstation. Otherwise the script would've been miles easier and could just make a dolphin config for SDL mode when mapping a controller in ES. So I ended up using evdev as that is at least consistent between dolphin and Linux itself.

The names come from /proc/bus/input/devices which you can see for anything connected to the machine using

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

If I have time I'm tempted to use the I: identifier to check the connected devices against the ini files. That way it'd avoid any possibility of a controllers special characters on the names screwing things up. I've got a tribute 64 controller that has a comma in the name so I can test with that

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@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

If I have time I'm tempted to use the I: identifier to check the connected devices against the ini files. That way it'd avoid any possibility of a controllers special characters on the names screwing things up. I've got a tribute 64 controller that has a comma in the name so I can test with that

Weird... my Tribute 64 identifies as an "XBOX 360 Controller." This one right?

I really do hope there is a fix for this. It's crazy to me that Dolphin doesn't auto detect the connected controller like every other emulator core seems to do!

On the plus side, at least connecting it via bluetooth does seem to help. And I've got a Mayflash USB Receiver on the way so I'm curious to see if the 8Bitdo is assigned a different device ID with that one.

I've managed to get something like 20 different controllers to work with it now swapping them in and out so the script works great for everything but that one Retro Receiver. I'd had to go in and re-configure the D-Pad on some controllers and add back the hotkey but it all works once I re-save the profile!

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@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

If I have time I'm tempted to use the I: identifier to check the connected devices against the ini files. That way it'd avoid any possibility of a controllers special characters on the names screwing things up. I've got a tribute 64 controller that has a comma in the name so I can test with that

I did just come across one with a comma in it that didn't work. Even though the file name and the ID name are the same, it still didn't load the profile:

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@gvx64 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@sugarfree m3u (multi-disc) support was added to dolphin in 5.0-9343 (https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/1d3e3de44b177eb7bdd07a02afefb83ac9ba5812/ - committed on January 15, 2019). That was about 1.5 years after the commit date for 5.0-4544. So no, dolphin-rpi does not support m3u files at this time.

A couple of questions for you now that I'm coming back to figuring out GC...

1. So RE4 is playable, you just have to manually swap discs in the backend, correct?

2. Where does rpi pull the game configs from? Is it the same /opt/retropie/configs/gc/local/GameSettings folder as the normal dolphin core?

3. I've noticed that RVZ files do run, but they don't appear in my listing of games. Is that normal?

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@retropieuser555 Something else I just noticed about the script. If you have two controllers connected, they both work, but only controller 2 has the ability to exit out of a game with the hotkey. Controller 1 no longer does this.

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@retropieuser555 The script does not seem to work with .m3u files. Neither Metal Gear Solid or Medal of Honor Rising Sun worked with the controller.

EDIT: Nevermind. Got the M3U file to work. Seems like the discs have to be visible in the same directory as the m3u to work correctly.

I had my disc files as .Metal Gear Solid - The Twin Snakes (USA) (Disc 1).rvz so they wouldn't appear in the listing and then I also tried putting them in a different folder and neither worked.

But if the .rvz file is visible in the same folder as the m3u, it seems to work.

[gvx64]

@TPR

1. Yes, my experience with multidisc iso's in dolphin (Baten Kaitos) is that when you reach the end of disc 1 the save file should get updated, then you can close the emulator and reopen with disc 2. RE4 should be fully playable on a Pi5 using dolphin-rpi.

2. /home/pi/DolphinConfig5.0/GameSettings/ (if you installed using the script or using the instructions in post #42 of this thread).

3. Thanks for letting me know, is this the game-list inside the main dolphin gui window? I will look into it.

Adding m3u support to dolphin-rpi is still on my to-do list.

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@gvx64 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR

1. Yes, my experience with multidisc iso's in dolphin (Baten Kaitos) is that when you reach the end of disc 1 the save file should get updated, then you can close the emulator and reopen with disc 2. RE4 should be fully playable on a Pi5 using dolphin-rpi.

2. /home/pi/DolphinConfig5.0/GameSettings/ (if you installed using the script or using the instructions in post #42 of this thread).

3. Thanks for letting me know, is this the game-list inside the main dolphin gui window? I will look into it.

Adding m3u support to dolphin-rpi is still on my to-do list.

1. Perfect, thank you!

2. Found it!

3. Yes, the main game-list. Only my iso or ciso files appear.

Also do you think @retropieuser555's controller detection script will work with your version?
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/301107

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@gvx64 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

Adding m3u support to dolphin-rpi is still on my to-do list.

Oh man that would be incredible!

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@TPR said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@retropieuser555 The script does not seem to work with .m3u files. Neither Metal Gear Solid or Medal of Honor Rising Sun worked with the controller.

EDIT: Nevermind. Got the M3U file to work. Seems like the discs have to be visible in the same directory as the m3u to work correctly.

I had my disc files as .Metal Gear Solid - The Twin Snakes (USA) (Disc 1).rvz so they wouldn't appear in the listing and then I also tried putting them in a different folder and neither worked.

But if the .rvz file is visible in the same folder as the m3u, it seems to work.

@retropieuser555

Nope, I was right the first time. .m3u files don't work. I was fooled into thinking it did because I had loaded Metal Gear Solid - The Twin Snakes (USA) (Disc 1).rvz on its own so it saved my XBOX 360 profile to the config, and then it kept loading that up every time I would load that game again, but then on other games, the .m3u file didn't work.

I went back to Metal Gear and tried another controller and it poped up with XBOX 360 even with a different controller connected.

So the .m3u files don't currently work correctly.

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@gvx64 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR

1. Yes, my experience with multidisc iso's in dolphin (Baten Kaitos) is that when you reach the end of disc 1 the save file should get updated, then you can close the emulator and reopen with disc 2. RE4 should be fully playable on a Pi5 using dolphin-rpi.

Does this work from launching a game through emulationstation or just through Dolphin?

[retropieuser555]

@TPR if you're unsure and have a copy of tales of Symphonia you can test it by setting the m3u to go disc 2 then disc 1, as the game behaviour on a real GameCube is it tells you to swap discs and waits for the user to swap, then carries on from disc 1

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@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR if you're unsure and have a copy of tales of Symphonia you can test it by setting the m3u to go disc 2 then disc 1, as the game behaviour on a real GameCube is it tells you to swap discs and waits for the user to swap, then carries on from disc 1

Let me try that right now.

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@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR if you're unsure and have a copy of tales of Symphonia you can test it by setting the m3u to go disc 2 then disc 1, as the game behaviour on a real GameCube is it tells you to swap discs and waits for the user to swap, then carries on from disc 1

So that totally worked! I got the message that it was auto changing discs in the normal version of dolphin-gui.

I still can't get the controller detection script to work with .m3u files though.

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@retropieuser555 said in MKDD Tint Issue RPI5:

@TPR if you're unsure and have a copy of tales of Symphonia you can test it by setting the m3u to go disc 2 then disc 1, as the game behaviour on a real GameCube is it tells you to swap discs and waits for the user to swap, then carries on from disc 1

Looking into this more...

If I have the .m3u file with the disc 2 being loaded first, it auto swaps the disc when loading the .m3u file from emulationstation.

If I load the disc 2 .rvz file on it's own from emulationstation I get this:

But the .m3u file doesn't update the controller setting in the game id file.

I see in your script there is a check for the .m3u file but is there a certain way I need the m3u file created or named so that it works with the script and updates the game id file with the current controller I have connected?