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Peeteris

PS2 (Aethersx2) not starting on Retropie (RaspberryPi 5)

Hello!
Installed Retropie-extras, vulkan drivers, added kernel8.img and got proper BIOS with PS2 games in .iso format.

I'm using Full desktop Raspberry OS, from which I use alt+f1 key kombination to start emulationstation from terminal. This way everythng has worked do far with all the other emulators.

But PS2 just doesn't open and shows that errors are logged at runcommand.log.
This is what runcommand.log shows:

rm: cannot remove '/opt/retropie/configs/ps2/Config/cache/vulkan_pipelines.bin': No such file or directory
Parameters: 
Executing: xinit /dev/shm/retropie_xinitrc -- vt1 -keeptty

(EE) 
Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
	If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
	and start again.
(EE) 
(EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
(EE) 
X connection to :0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

Any ideas?
Thank you! :)

ExarKunIv

@Peeteris yes the problem is you are using a desktop. 90% of all my scripts are going to have issues with that since they use XINIT to fake a dasktop to run.

so you will have to go in /opt/retropie/configs/ps2 and edit the emulators.cfg and remove XINIT; from the command line

that should do it.

Peeteris

@ExarKunIv Thank you for the anwer!
It's still not working, and the error code now appears different:

rm: cannot remove '/opt/retropie/configs/ps2/Config/cache/vulkan_pipelines.bin': No such file or directory
Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/aethersx2/AetherSX2-v1.5-3606/usr/bin/aethersx2 -nogui "/home/USER/RetroPie/roms/ps2/Silent Hill 2 (USA) [2001].iso"
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "xcb,wayland" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: wayland, vkkhrdisplay, wayland-egl, linuxfb, vnc, minimalegl, eglfs, offscreen, xcb, minimal.

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1328:  2755 Aborted                 /opt/retropie/emulators/aethersx2/AetherSX2-v1.5-3606/usr/bin/aethersx2 -nogui "/home/USER/RetroPie/roms/ps2/Silent Hill 2 (USA) [2001].iso"

ExarKunIv

@Peeteris im going to have to go with wayland drivers are missing,
you can try to install them with sudo apt-get install wayland

this might or might not fix the issue. i dont test my scripts with a desktop since none of the official retropie releases have it. since Xinit didnt install. i have no idea on what else is missing

Peeteris

@ExarKunIv Wayland can't be installed, but I can probably enable it in the Raspi config. I guess this error is because the new Raspberry OS uses new window-stacking compositor called LABWC.
Well, I just disabled desktop environmet on start as that's an easier solution, it seems. Now PS2 is working, thank you!

duglor

Where might i find the most recent lr-ppsspp-dev that still works with retropie 4.71?

ExarKunIv

@duglor you will have to dig around on the past commits to find a working one and manually drop it onto your system.

I know I have had a issue with that system for awhile now.

Azuli

I guess this is the rp-extra topic...

I JUST did a manual install on bookworm 64bits. Previously I was experimenting with bookworm 32bits, and got basically the same behavior.

Pi Model or other hardware: 4B
Power Supply used: 5v 5.1a Inova charger
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): 4.8.9
Built From: Standard; (direct raspberry imager online install of bookworm lite 64bit)
USB Devices connected: wireless rii mini keyboard/gamepad
Controller used: rii mini keyboard/gamepad
Error messages received: Error running 'git clone --recursive --depth 1 --shallow-submodules --branch master https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/ /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/mesa-pi4' - returned 128
Verbose log (if relevant): is the full error log ok?

I plan to at least try and run a few ports and light pc games on this. I'm sure I'll need box86/64 and wine at the very least, but I was wondering if not installing the mesa drivers would impact what I want to run in a negative way, or even if it can improve emulation at all.

I need to understand this to make tests and preparations for a pi5 later this year, but for now the 4 is all I have. Looked into it and it seems the script isn't pulling the right version from the master branch for some reason. Not sure how to edit that, couldn't even find the actual script in the retropie setup folder. (I know it's an extra and that I could edit directly on the extra folder and reinstall it if necessary, but even looking at the github isn't helping, nothing caught my eye on the script itself)

ExarKunIv

@Azuli you can't run box64 with out masa. We have it set to look for masa before installing

I have not tested any of my scripts on my pi4 with 64bit. I have not have the time to do a fresh install for that.

Nothing else needs masa. Only box64

Ogroto

Hello everyone. Im building a new retropie, from 4.5.1 with the latest 4.8.9 on my pi3A+ and was wondering if retropie-extra works could have the install scripts to old parallel and mupenplus like the older extra did

ExarKunIv

@Ogroto said in RetroPie-Extra Repository:

could have the install scripts to old parallel and mupenplus like the older extra did

sorry, mine does not have those.