Setup Failed - Some Emulators Could Not Build

CalamityChasm

Hi all,

I am relatively new to Raspberry Pi, RetroPie etc. so please be kind. Thank You!

Specs:
RasberryPi 5
Power: USBC 5 volt
macOS Sonoma
RetroPie Version 4.8.7
Built on top of RaspberryPi lite-64
Connected to Internet

My main problem is that RetroPie Setup failed to install some emulators namely the N64. When I run RetroPie-Setup, I get an error saying: "
Could not successfully build mupen64plus - N64 emulator MUPEN64Plus
(mupen64plus-video-gles2rice/projects/unix/mupen64plus-video-rice.so not found)."

I click OK

It then reads: "
Please see:
/home/-------/RetroPie-Setup/logs/rps_2024-05-28_183201.log.gz for more in depth information regarding the errors"

Here is the log when I run:

hexdump -C rps_2024-05-28_183201.log.gz

I originally tried to open it in nano but got a message saying that the log was in binary. I followed the instructions here (xxd lead to bash: xxd- no such command).

Other emulators work fine (ie nes works perfectly fine) but others don't. N64 also doesn't show up under RetroPie/roms. I have tried to manually install from manage packages - main packages - mupen64plus but got the same error message from before. I have also run "clean source folder"

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

sleve_mcdichael

@CalamityChasm the logs are compressed to save space. You can decompress them with gunzip (this replaces the original) or view them in-place with zless.

For N64 on Pi5, I think you need to add kernel=kernel8.img to your /boot/config.txt and then reboot.

CalamityChasm

@sleve_mcdichael said in Setup Failed - Some Emulators Could Not Build:

For N64 on Pi5, I think you need to add kernel=kernel8.img to your /boot/config.txt and then reboot.

@sleve_mcdichael Does it matter where you add it within the file? if not then it reads the same error as before.

CalamityChasm

I got it to work by researching kernel. I ran lr-parral64 and edited a line in retroarch config. Thank you for your help!