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    X86 Retropie Ubuntu Thread. Ideas, Dev, Improvments

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      Twitch0815
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      Have been very happy with the X86 distro lots of success thus far.
      Added a few things to the wiki here https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroPie-Ubuntu-16.04-LTS-x86-Flavor

      But for documentation purposes as more people begin to use this we need the proper wiki pages.
      I suggest a wiki page for
      Retropie Dolphin
      Retropie PCSX
      Retropie PCSX2

      Hopefully as more and more users come online using this, we can get more and more eyes and development maybe some guys to compile stuff like Demul Triforce Branch of Dolphin.

      Improvements for Dolphin
      Some way to capture start+select input when Dolphin is running and bind that to alt+f4 to allow for exiting the emulator.
      Auto binding controls,

      mupen64plus
      There was a great deal of awesome options added to mupen64plus video modes in Retropie, those visual options are not all available inside of the X86 install. Possible to add and integrate those into X86?

      More importantly we just need more people using the platform playing with it and contributing to it.

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @Twitch0815
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        @Twitch0815 wiki pages are platform specific not emulator specific (unless it's a game engine of sorts) so pcsx (if it's added) would be under the PlayStation page and then we would have to create a GameCube and Wii page matching the format of the others (with a bold note telling people they are daft to think the pi will run the Wii :p)

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          Twitch0815
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          Yea all threads have really gotten siderailed because even talking about it certain people assume that its being added to the pi versions. Going to take a bit for people to clearly see the differentiation

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            Ristul
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            I am not happy with the performance of Raspberry pi 3, but I really like RetroPie so my question is this. Is there plans for a version that can be installed on x86 computers for more performance, I know there is support for Ubuntu but what I'm talking about is a bootable RetroPie build, that is not opened from another OS. This would be great, especially if dolphin support is in development.

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              UberJay @Ristul
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              @Ristul I have a Raspberry Pi2 running Retro Pie 4.0. Mine runs super smooth with additional configurations. Perhaps you have not set it up correctly if you are running a Pi3 and you are not happy with the performance... You really do not need a PC to run the emulators included.

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                Ristul @UberJay
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                @UberJay I had stuttering in GBA games at times, same with n64 in some games (WaveRace is one of my favorites that are affected). But like I said, Dolphin support is coming so I would happily build a x86 computer that can run it, just wondering if RetroPie team is working on something like that.

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                • herb_fargusH
                  herb_fargus administrators @Twitch0815
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                  @Twitch0815 btw I've added some preliminary wiki pages

                  https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/GameCube
                  https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-2
                  https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Wii

                  Obvious room for improvement of course.

                  If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                  Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                    Twitch0815
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                    Exo I have not seen the package installer for pcsx2 but would love to play with it.

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                      Twitch0815
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                      @herb_fargus

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                      • herb_fargusH
                        herb_fargus administrators @Twitch0815
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                        @Twitch0815 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/1693 update your setup script. It's in there.

                        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                          Twitch0815
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                          I just goofed and didnt realize it had been added like early this morning.

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