ODroid XU4 and RetroPie

Wulf

@BuZz thanks for looking into this! I hope you get somewhere with it, if not, well, your effort is appreciated.

BuZz

@Wulf Odroid-XU4 basic support is working - you can install it manually on top of the Ubuntu Minimal image. However, not all emulators are available. Most libretro cores are, and most sdl2 emulators.

stikoyan74

I have managed to get retropie installed, i did the basic install, all the core and main packages are installed. I cant get emulationstation to auto start, its set to autostart in the setup menu, but on bootup I get the message - emulationstation should not be run as root. if you used 'sudo emulationstation' please run without sudo

Wulf

@BuZz thanks, I'm looking forward to using this (have to wait for USB adapter for eMMC flash module, I lost my original). BTW, is there a list of which emulators or/aren't working?

BuZz

@stikoyan74 you need to create a user and install under that via sudo (add user to sudo group).

BuZz

@Wulf no list, but only those that should work should show up (excluding experimental section).

Shockwave

So we got Retropie working on the XU4? Nice! Any way to have it be without an OS like the Pi version or its going to come with an OS like Ubuntu Mate?

BuZz

@Shockwave you can install it on top of the minimal Ubuntu image. I won't provide prebuilt images. All versions of RetroPie sit on top of an OS.

Shockwave

@BuZz Installed the same way as the Odroid C1/C2?

BuZz

@Shockwave pretty much once you have added a new user.

Steve0

Does someone have the basic steps (in order) to do the install? I've tried a few times and must be missing something. (which could have been the user ), but would like to make sure that I'm not screwing things up.

BuZz

@Steve0 Start a new topic and provide details of what you did.

Most of the basic instructions from https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Odroid should help. You just need to create an initial user (eg odroid), and add that user to the sudo group, so you can run retropie-setup from it.

I don't have time to put together detailed instructions - perhaps someone with an odroid xu4 who has it working can help others. It's preliminary though, so for those with lack of linux knowledge, I would stick to the RPI image for now :)

Steve0

@BuZz
Thanks... will try to work on next week.

krujak23

When officially will be released the XU4 version of RetroPie?

BuZz

@krujak23 it will be announced when we roll the next rpi image, but as there won't be an xu image, support is officially now. There is just no install docs written etc :-)

krujak23

@BuZz I have tested today the XU4 version. I have managed only to have a quick peek on SNES and N64. SNES is working fine, but on default settings I had some issues with vertical sync. The N64 on default settings runs fine, but I had issues with sound (choppy).

stikoyan74

@BuZz I have reinstalled everything after creating new user and adding to sudo group, now I'm getting the message below at startup

ERROR: The DDK is not compatible with any of the Mali GPUs on the system.
The DDK was built for 0x620 r0p1 status range [0..15], but none of the GPUs matched:
file /dev/mali0 is not of a compatible version (user 10.6, kernel 10.1)

Wulf

@krujak23

I've tried, but wasn't able to get my setup running but, for your sound issue, there's a blurb about how to fix sound issues in that link that Buzz sent (https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Odroid) at the very bottom.

Since I'm not even getting to the point you are at, I can't do any testing, but I hope that it helps you.

krujak23

@Wulf You are almost there. Try those commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install linux-image-xu3

The last command is the most important in your case.

krujak23

In my case the installation steps were:

Download the Ubuntu minimal image for the xu3 from the hardkernel website (xu3 is fully compatible with xu4)
As the fresh install of Ubuntu includes only the root user (password: odroid) a new user has to be created:

adduser NameOfYourChoice

and add this new created user to the sudo group

usermod -a -G sudo NameOfYourChoice

Upgrade your system including the kernel:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install linux-image-xu3
shutdown -r now

Adjust your time and timezone:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and follow the wizard

Install the odroid-utility in order to resize the root partition:

sudo apt-get install unzip
wget https://github.com/mdrjr/odroid-utility/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
./odroid-utility-master/odroid-utility.sh

and follow the wizard

Set the locale settings:

apt-get install language-pack-en-base
update-locale LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
update-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
update-locale LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"
dpkg-reconfigure locales

check your settings using command "locale". My settings looks as follows:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Install the nano editor:

apt-get install nano

Reboot and login as the new created user and follow the steps for the odroid C2 and Ubuntu 16 according to documentation on the RetroPie website:

RetroPie Documentation