EmulationStation inside Retropie on Raspberry Pi B+ does not work with more than 20.000 roms
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Hello,
i've configured some emulators and putted inside the roms but i've seeen that Emulation Station become unstable with screen flickering or totally frozen and blocked.
When i leave the roms it back to be ok.
Is there perhaps a limit fo roms ?
Actually i've inserted 13494 roms and it work properly but when i add at least 7.000 roms it flickers
Thank You
i use a Raspberry PI B+
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@barretta Isn't the raspberry pi B+ the last revision of the first generation boards prior to the 2 coming out? If so, it may not cope with the demands of emulation and because you don't provide information on what emulators you are using, I can't advise. Should be ok with early MAME titles though but 20000 roms? I suspect your system is writing metadata forever.
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#why-does-shut-down-and-reboot-take-ages -
@rbaker yea it was the second revision of teh Pi1
@barretta i'd say Mame, NES, GB/GBC Snes (After overclocking otherwise youll norice Sound glitching.) but the Pi1 cant handle anything beyond the SNES. Amiga and DosBox you can count out somewhat early Amiga games should be fine, your going to get Probbly no better than maybe a 20mz 386 -ish performance in Dosbox -
@rbaker really thank you for your answer but i've noticed to have written not correctly because the problem is not on Retropie but on Emulation Station .
I've updated my post .
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@CaelThunderwing really thank you for your answer but i've noticed to have written not correctly because the problem is not on Retropie but on Emulation Station .
I've updated my post .
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I have a B (not a B+ sorry)and it worked fine on mine and I overclocked it,make sure you have download the right one,not for RPI2 or 3,look for the one for the zero.This one.. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.0.2/retropie-4.0.2-rpi1_zero.img.gz
You can use Winrar to uncompress it. http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
I have a RPI3 now and I love it,You should upgrade your RPI to a 3 and you will not regret it..;)
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@barretta How many roms are you putting in the roms folder,you put the roms in the folder for that emulator so if you download Sega cd roms you put then in the segacd folder and don't put them in zipped,having them in a zip file they don't run.I uncompress all my roms.
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with your Post reworded i'd agree w/ an earlier statement its the sheer amount of roms you have written to SD, and do you have a Low Speed/class SD in there? if yor going to have sooooo many i'd recommend low less than an Class 4 SD,
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@spannernick1 i'm thinking about that upgrade but i'm worried about the migration fo all the structure becaue i've insatlled retrosmc durectly on a 4TB HD and the last time that i've tried to reinstall i've lost all :(
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@spannernick1 yes the roms are all correct and zipped or unzipped ( it depend from emulator ) .
Only Gameboy - Gameboy Color and gameboy Advance were at laest 7K roms.
When i erased them the emulation station back to work without flickering or blocking.
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@CaelThunderwing thank you but 'ive installed all on a 4 TB USB external disk so, i think, that that problem does not exist is correct?
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Twenty thousand games?!
Just for the heck of it, how does it work when you have "only" a few hundred games? I don't download full sets and my install works fine.
Edit: I see you changed your original post and you said with thirteen thousand games it works. I'm guessing Emulation Station is freaking out over parsing those enormous gamelist.xml files that would be required for that number of ROMs.
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Some looking around on the Internet leads me to believe you're running out of RAM. EmulationStation is just choking on game lists that are that big. Since most people won't ever have anywhere near that number on their system, they won't run into that limit, so I don't see EmulationStation trying to optimize for that as a high priority. You also said you're on a Pi 1, which only has 512MB of RAM, not 1GB like the Pi 2 and Pi 3.
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Which ES theme are you running ? Increase GPU memory split and switch to a low memory theme (like carbon).
see https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes#white-screen-of-death
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or remove some games...
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@obsidianspider said in EmulationStation inside Retropie on Raspberry Pi B+ does not work with more than 20.000 roms:
Just for the heck of it, how does it work when you have "only" a few hundred games? I don't download full sets and my install works fine
It work correctly without problems
Edit: I see you changed your original post and you said with thirteen thousand games it works. I'm guessing Emulation Station is freaking out over parsing those enormous gamelist.xml files that would be required for that number of ROMs.
Is the same thing that i think so the only solution is to reduce the rom's numbers ?
Some looking around on the Internet leads me to believe you're running out of RAM. EmulationStation is just choking on game lists that are that big. Since most people won't ever have anywhere near that number on their system, they won't run into that limit, so I don't see EmulationStation trying to optimize for that as a high priority. You also said you're on a Pi 1, which only has 512MB of RAM, not 1GB like the Pi 2 and Pi 3.
Yes it's correct may be a PI3 can be better but how much?
I know that is not the best to have so many roms but i'd like to have a big list on emulation station
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@BuZz i actually use the Carbon Theme :)
I'm starting to think that only way is to have a low rom's number :(
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@barretta Unforantly Yes outside changing the memsplit, the Pi1 has significantly less RAM than the Pi2 or 3.
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@CaelThunderwing i'll try to change also the Raspberry but i'd like to know how many roms can be inserted without having problems ( i'm just curious ) :)
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@barretta not many overload thier SD's in this manner, try skimming down Romhacks, one sin languages you cant read dups, etc.
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