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

jonsim

So I was able to take @Toxicshadow's fix and merge it into a local clone of the RetroPie fork of Reicast, then build it successfully on my Raspberry Pi. It now properly saves the NVRAM settings and no longer prompts for date settings after the first time you set them.

I'll post a binary shortly (it's a drop-in replacement for the Reicast binary that RetroPie installs), and I'll try to get a PR to the RetroPie fork so this can be fixed in an official RetroPie Reicast release.

spud11

@jonsim Well done!

jonsim

Here is the replacement reicast binary, which I compiled for Raspberry Pi:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dh1umn50tqgxrg1/reicast?dl=0

It's a drop-in replacement for the file in /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin. It contains @Toxicshadow's Linux fixes so Reicast can exit cleanly and save NVRAM settings.

To use it, download the "reicast" file above, copy it to the root of a USB stick, and plug the USB stick into your Raspberry Pi. Then from the Raspbian shell, run these commands:
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
sudo mv reicast reicast_old
sudo cp /media/usb0/reicast reicast
sudo chmod 755 reicast

This will go into the directory and rename the previous "reicast" file to "reicast_old", then copy the new file in, and then change the new file's mode to be executable.

If you want to put the old one back (if for some reason the new one doesn't work right), run these commands from the shell, which will delete the new file and replace it with the old one:
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
sudo mv reicast_old reicast

I'll work on getting this pulled into the RetroPie/reicast-emulator GitHub repository in the next few weeks.

Let me know if this works for you!

-JonSim

zerojay

@jonsim It would be really great if you created a repo with the required changes added in already. I've been trying to make headway with git cherry-pick for a while now and have gotten nowhere. (I also cannot use your binaries as I'm looking to run this on the ODroid XU4.)

jonsim

@zerojay Done.

Give https://github.com/jonsimantov/reicast-emulator/ a try.

Note that I pushed the changes into the "retropie" branch of my fork, not the "master" branch.

dhp

@jonsim this works perfect on my setup. Thanks for doing this!

darknior

WOAW excellent :D
Do you think there are some other fix for games you can add to improve this emulator on PI ?
Thanks

spud11

@jonsim Hi jonsim. I updated reicast via retropie's setup manager, then copied your new reicast executable into the correct place, plus made sure it was executable. However, it won't work for me and runcommand.log provides the following error:

/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast.sh: line 88:  2239 Segmentation fault      aoss "$rootdir/emulators/reicast/bin/reicast" "${params[@]}" > /dev/null

I then reinstalled reicast via the setup manager to check that there is no problem with my "stock" setup. That worked. So your executable doesn't seem to work for me.

I see you've got your changes on github now. Could I ask please what the commands are to install your version of reicast from the github repository? Thanks.

And if it is Christmas Day in your neck of the woods, Happy Christmas!

jonsim

@spud11 What platform are you running on? Raspberry Pi 3?

Assuming you have development tools installed:

git clone https://github.com/jonsimantov/reicast-emulator.git
cd reicast-emulator/shell/linux
(now you need to edit the Makefile to uncomment the NO_VIRTUAL_CFG=1 line)
make platform=rpi2

zerojay

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

@spud11 What platform are you running on? Raspberry Pi 3?

Assuming you have development tools installed:

git clone https://github.com/jonsimantov/reicast-emulator.git
cd reicast-emulator/shell/linux
(now you need to edit the Makefile to uncomment the NO_VIRTUAL_CFG=1 line)
make platform=rpi2

You should probably send a pull request for it to the RetroPie fork.

Shizzmoney

@jonsim this worked like a charm for me (I used Filezilla instead of the USB Raspbian method, renamed the old file, dragged in the one you made, and made sure to change the file permissions of the new file to 777).

Thanks!

jonsim

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

You should probably send a pull request for it to the RetroPie fork.

Done. https://github.com/RetroPie/reicast-emulator/pull/6

darknior

@jonsim Great thanks for this work :)

Nuts

@jonsim Worked perfectly for me, drag and drop it in directory with ftp client and changed permissions manualy. Thanks a lot!

HurricaneFan

@jonsim There are some comments attached to your pull request about cleaning up indentions.

Hex

@jonsim Please cleanup the request so it can be merged.

madmodder123

@jonsim Has this been merged yet? If it is/when it is do I have to compile reicast from source to get it or will it be in the binary obtained from the retropie script?

HurricaneFan

@madmodder123 It has not been merged yet. Still needs some things to happen before it will be merged.

timekills

While this may be obvious to those with Linux experience, a simple wget from the command line will allow the download and copy of the @jonsim updated reicast files rather than downloading to a USB stick etc.

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
sudo wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/dh1umn50tqgxrg1/reicast?dl=0
sudo mv reicast reicast_old #if you want to be safe and backup your old reicast file
sudo cp reicast?dl=0 reicast
sudo chmod 755 reicast

P.S. thanks @jonsim it works perfectly.

Kaltinril

@timekills said :

While this may be obvious to those with Linux experience, a simple wget from the command line will allow the download and copy of the @jonsim updated reicast files rather than downloading to a USB stick etc.

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin
sudo wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/dh1umn50tqgxrg1/reicast?dl=0
sudo mv reicast reicast_old #if you want to be safe and backup your old reicast file
sudo cp reicast?dl=0 reicast
sudo chmod 755 reicast

@timekills this doesn't work on raspberry pi3, with a completely updated retropie, and freshly installed reicast. Tested today. Selecting a game just goes back to the main menu. Yes, I made sure file permissions were correct.