Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date

TwoGuidosGaming

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dthree36

What was your fix?

Folly

Here the fix how you can get past this date/time screen.
You have to configure your joystick.

run in terminal :
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
Here is a script called 'reicast-joyconfig'
run it :
./reicast-joyconfig

Choose your joystick.
Now you can map your buttons.
When all is done it outputs the text for making a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' .
It outputs something like this (numbers are in decimals not hexadecimal such as in other contoller.cfg's(0x13b)):
[emulator]
mapping_name = Your Gamepad
btn_escape = 316

[dreamcast]
.......etc

make a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' called controller_Your Gamepad.cfg and paste the text in this file.

now enjoy !

senkun

so what's the fix for the screen time/date setting always coming up then?

misslehead3

@Folly Getting past it istn the issue. the issue is it comes up every single time and I dont want it to. I am not sure if OP is having the same issue.

senkun

@misslehead3 said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

@Folly Getting past it istn the issue. the issue is it comes up every single time and I dont want it to. I am not sure if OP is having the same issue.

exactly, guess no way round this for now. All the so called "fixes" eg: date/time ntp issues, setting it 5 mins and save etc., don't apply to retropie I guess.

TwoGuidosGaming

SNES USB controller:
this is the USB SNES config file it needs to go in configs/dreamcast/mappings
you can access the configs folder over network "just like adding roms"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qit97cm2oa02qkk/controller_usbgamepad.cfg?dl=0

Thanks to ETAPRIME for this on youtube

Twitch0815

@Folly
Had been looking forever to find a way to do a custom controller config in Reicast I added it to the Reicast wiki entry on retropie
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Dreamcast

misslehead3

@Twitch0815 said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

@Folly
Had been looking forever to find a way to do a custom controller config in Reicast I added it to the Reicast wiki entry on retropie
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Dreamcast

Do you mean to say that after the controller is configured correctly it will stop showing the Set time screen every time I start a ROM?

lcsjuniorsi

Hi,

The problem is not with the configuration controls, so I've done, I can play the games.

The problem is the setup screen date/time to start any game.

Folly

@Twitch0815
Nice to hear my information was of any good. Perfect that you placed this info on the wiki.

Folly

@senkun said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

@misslehead3 said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

@Folly Getting past it istn the issue. the issue is it comes up every single time and I dont want it to. I am not sure if OP is having the same issue.

exactly, guess no way round this for now. All the so called "fixes" eg: date/time ntp issues, setting it 5 mins and save etc., don't apply to retropie I guess.

Indeed i was aware of this, i was helping dthree36 and TwoGuidosGaming.

Folly

The problem that the time and date isn't remembered could be an RTC issue.
I think reicast looks for the real time clock (saw some source-code Get RTC). And in the '/home/pi/.reicast/emu.cfg' the text Dreamcast.RTC = 2092685318. Probably it doesn't work because Raspberry PI has no Real Time Clock. Perhaps it would work on a Raspberry Pi with a RTC addon board.

Can anyone, with a RTC addon board, test this ?

dthree36

So, If I am reading all the posts correctly. The Date Time screen will pop up every single time you try and play a game and there is no way to save these settings so this doesn't pop up every time? Its not a big deal just a bit annoying.

Drakaen391

Would the auto save on exit fix it?

lcsjuniorsi

@Folly I also think that may be the issue with RTC. I will try to work in this line.

lcsjuniorsi

@dthree36 Well, playing is not the problem. But it is not legal.

Folly

Here's the deal.
When you run reicast from the therminal like this :
/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast
And if you keep the original date and time 11/27/1998 00:00 it won't ask every time.
So perhaps change the way it starts from the es_systems.cfg in 'etc/emulationstation/'
So next to the RTC issue there could also be a runcommand.sh issue.
See if it works by changing :
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS dreamcast %ROM%</command>
into this :
<command>/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast %ROM%</command>

misslehead3

@Folly No dice, it still asks for time and randomly it makes roms run about 5x faster then they do when the command is the origonal way.

caver01

@Folly said in Every time I play dreamcast, displays the setting screen time/date:

make a file in '/home/pi/.reicast/mappings' called controller_Your Gamepad.cfg and paste the text in this file.

now enjoy !

Ok, so I am trying to follow the instructions above. I use an IPAC-4 keyboard interface controller.

I ran ./reicast-joyconfig and selected it, went through the mapping process, received my configuration text. Created a file in the mappings folder called "Ultimarc I-PAC Arcade Control Interface .cfg" because that's what the config program output: mapping_name = Ultimarc I-PAC Arcade Control Interface .
So, I have this config file in the mappings folder. How do I tell reicast how to use that config file? When I launch the emulator, I get to the date screen, and I can't do anything! The clouds are animating, and it's just waiting for my input, but none of the keys I setup are doing anything. I need to login remotely and restart the pi.

I must be missing a step. Right?