Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?

nestor1924

@roslof so playing it normaly with mp3 was crasghing alot so i decided to play with no sound, its plays smoother but it crashes too... anyway of fixing this???....

roslof

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@roslof so playing it normaly with mp3 was crasghing alot so i decided to play with no sound, its plays smoother but it crashes too... anyway of fixing this???....

Unclear without more data. You're using a Pi5? Default settings? gl video? 1080P or 4K?

nestor1924

@roslof no its a pi 3b+ version 4.8 and it hasnt been updated in 3 years cause i dont wanna break anything, sorry im pretty new at this

roslof

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@roslof no its a pi 3b+ version 4.8 and it hasnt been updated in 3 years cause i dont wanna break anything, sorry im pretty new at this

Gotcha. I haven't used a 3B+ in several years, and I'm unfamiliar with how the performance of the new emulator behaves on the older hardware/drivers.

I'm certain though that the Pi5 arm64 .so works fine. Sorry I can't help more. You could run the game with verbose logging turned on and check the log generated at /dev/shm/runcommand.log after a crash and see if it gives clues.

nestor1924

@roslof hmmm ok ill go and see how to do that thanks!

nestor1924

@JimmyFromTheBay im having a similar problem but for me its always at the end of the second level boss that i get kicked out, once it tells you to press start after your rated score it sends me to the game selection menu...

TPR

@RapidEdwin08 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

For now (until the changes are pushed upstream) you can use this fork of Genesis-Plus-GX-Expanded-Rom-Size to compile from source.
Simply download into "/home/$USER/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores"
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/Genesis-Plus-GX-Expanded-Rom-Size/master/builds/lr-genesis-plus-gx-EX.sh -P ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/
Then use RetroPie-Setup like normal to install from Experimental Section.
This will install an Additional Core [lr-genesis-plus-gx-EX] that you can use just for Paprium and SegaChannelRevival.

This worked perfectly fine for me. Thank you.

nestor1924

@TPR will there be any updates for the genesis plus gx ex? Where do we follow this updates?

TPR

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@TPR will there be any updates for the genesis plus gx ex? Where do we follow this updates?

I have no idea. I didn't make the update. I just installed what was already posted here. This is how I did the process...

I went to this URL (that was posted from the wget instructions above)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/Genesis-Plus-GX-Expanded-Rom-Size/master/builds/lr-genesis-plus-gx-EX.sh

I copy/pasted that text into coderunner, saved it as a .sh file and added that .sh file to my scriptmodules folder.

Ran the RetroPie Setup, installed EX from the experimental section, and BOOM! Everything worked just fine.

Took me about 3-5 minutes to get it all working.

Hope that helps!

nestor1924

@TPR yeah i have it installed, are you getting crashed or kicked out at all? I get kicked on at the end of level 2 everytime, any problems on your side? Thats why i was asking if their gonna update it to fix some of this issues...

TPR

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@TPR yeah i have it installed, are you getting crashed or kicked out at all? I get kicked on at the end of level 2 everytime, any problems on your side? Thats why i was asking if their gonna update it to fix some of this issues...

Nope. Works perfectly fine for me. No issues at all.

TPR

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@TPR yeah i have it installed, are you getting crashed or kicked out at all? I get kicked on at the end of level 2 everytime, any problems on your side? Thats why i was asking if their gonna update it to fix some of this issues...

Just played past level 2 into level 3 and no issues whatsoever. There is no update needed.

nestor1924

@TPR damn... are you on a new version of pi? Still cant figure out why this happens to me, can you show me which files did you download? Sent me a pm pls

TPR

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@TPR damn... are you on a new version of pi? Still cant figure out why this happens to me, can you show me which files did you download? Sent me a pm pls

I literally just posted above exactly what process I went through. I'm on a Pi 5. I would imagine that anything lower than that may have issues. And if you're on a Pi 4 or lower, you probably shouldn't be.

barbudreadmon

FBNeo will support this game soon.

nestor1924

@barbudreadmon thats nice! This will make it more playable for me since im having issues with megadrive emulator

TPR

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@barbudreadmon thats nice! This will make it more playable for me since im having issues with megadrive emulator

I've played through at least 3-4 levels in the game now with zero issues. Not a single glitch or anything. I don't think the problem is the emulator core.

nestor1924

@TPR yeah im guessing your right... but already give up with this issue and hoping i can finally fully play the game on when fba version its releseased...

barbudreadmon

@TPR said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@nestor1924 said in Has anyone got Paprium working on Retropie?:

@barbudreadmon thats nice! This will make it more playable for me since im having issues with megadrive emulator

I've played through at least 3-4 levels in the game now with zero issues. Not a single glitch or anything. I don't think the problem is the emulator core.

FBNeo used genplus-gx's paprium implementation as a starting point for FBNeo's implementation, so i can tell there are problems with genplus-gx's implementation, one of them was explained on FBNeo's forum.
I'm also not entirely sure how well this genplus-gx implementation support savestates and savestate-based features (runahead, netplay, rewind, ...)

Metro City

@roslof Thanks, I've tried so many things, most of the time when selecting a character it goes back to the game selection, sometimes before. Now the only problem is when I reset from the minigame, I hear the background noise. MP3s are fine, but that noise is unnerving! I have a PI3B+.