New 4.1.20 RetroPie images for testing

BuZz

I have created some new images - should all be good here these will become the 4.2 release.

I'm interested in some end user testing to find any new issues since the last pre-built image - Please only try these if comfortable with RetroPie/Linux in case any debugging is needed.

All binaries have been updated in the last few days - this means latest versions of libretro cores etc will be included.

The images are built on top of the very latest Raspbian Lite base and the kernel is now ~~4.9.x~~ 4.4.50. Note these image have SSH disabled by default for security, to match upstream behaviour. Although this may be a nuisance for some, it's important we have good security policies. SSH can be enabled via raspi-config or by created a file called ssh on the boot partition.

Images here - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_knGioK16E6eXJIZEtnMDJTeVk

Changelog since 4.1 image.

EmulationStation Improvements
- Video Support
- White Screen of Death Fix
Support for the ODroid-C2 (on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 minimal image).
Kodi 17 now installable from optional packages.
Update dAdvance Mame to include the new 3.2 version.
Updated to RetroArch v1.5.0
To match upstream changes, lr-mupen64plus has been renamed to lr-parallel-n64, and lr-glupen64 has been renamed to lr-mupen64plus.
Fixed launching Pixel desktop and other X11 apps from Emulation Station.
Fixed problems building Zdoom, ResidualVM and Mupen64Plus and PPSSPP.
Overhaul of the runcommand launch script.
Doom ports will automatically add launch scripts if it finds doom1.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, or plutonia.wad.
lr-snes9x emulator added - a libretro port of the current snes9x codebase.
Added Amiberry (an Amiga emulator), which is an updated fork of uae4arm, with more features.
Multi disk zip support for Vice (C64 emulator), fs-uae, uae4arm and Amiberry (Amiga). You can now launch Amiga disk images directly from Emulation Station with uae4arm/Amiberry.
usbromservice - support mounting of usb stick over ~/RetroPie to keep roms on USB.
Ability to set custom ES themes in configs/all/platforms.cfg (can any setting in RetroPie-Setup/platforms.cfg).
SDL2 updated to 2.0.5. Our patched SDL2 is now used on the PC version of RetroPie, which should resolve an issue with ps3 controller mapping.
Sselph’s scraper updated to the latest version, and new options added. Scraper has been moved to optional packages and need to be installed before it will show up in configuration / tools.
Include PowerBlock and ControlBlock driver packages.
Input configuration script for Daphne.
RetroPie-Setup menus now works with all connected joysticks (mapping is still hardcoded).
Updated RPI detection code to support BRANCH=next firmware/kernel.
Raspbian Wheezy support removed.
Support Xbian on RPI, and Devuan, Elementary OS, and Neon on X86.
New packages added to experimental section:
- lr-mrboom (an 8 player bomberman clone).
- lr-mame2016 (Arcade emulator).
- lr-mess2016 (Multiple omputers/console emulator).
- DraStic (Nintendo DS Emulator - RPI only).
- lr-beetle-saturn (Sega Saturn emulator - x86_64 only).
- Minivmac Macintosh Plus Emulator.
- Quasi88 (NEC PC-8801 emulator).
- np2pi (NEC PC-9801 emulator).
- Xm7 (FM-7 / Fujitsu Micro 7 emulator).
- Mehstation and Attract-Mode Frontends.
Many other code changes and bugfixes.

KryPtAlIvIaN

I need to start thinking about updates more often. I literally was just now thinking, man its been a while, wonder when the new update is coming. Hopped on the forum to find this :-) I may go buy a lottery ticket ;-). Keep up the good work!

dsstrainer

Do you ever think you may switch to Attract Mode by default in the future (like in 5.0) or is ES here to stay?

AlexMurphy

@dsstrainer AM is far too flashy. Some people, plenty obviously, like it but it's not for everyone. I think ES is here to stay as the default front-end for the forseeable. At least it is being worked on again. Hopefully more customisation options will come in future releases.

DigitalMonkey

Will try it out.

Hoping it fixes my little problem with Kodi.

AlexMurphy

@DigitalMonkey What's up with your Kodi?

DigitalMonkey

@AlexMurphy On 4.1.18 (I think?) Kodi would hang (for about 6-7 mins, then a black screen for a min then back to RetroPie menu) or freeze (Hard reset) after I select exit.

On 4.1 things are better, takes about 3-4 mins then black screen then RetroPie menu)

Or is that just the way its meant to be?

edit: tbh I havent really looked too much into it as I dont really use Kodi all that much.

AlexMurphy

@DigitalMonkey No, but I don't want to hijack this thread! Start a new topic.

Rascas

@DigitalMonkey Of course that is not normal and is mostly likely the result of something (addons/builds/whatever) you installed in it. It takes only a couple of seconds to exit. This update won't solve your issue, unless you write the image to an SD card, and install Kodi (clean).
If you want help on your issue, open a new thread, with all the info asked in "read this first".

@BuZz Is there any specific reason why you are already at kernel 4.9, since in Raspbian repos they are still using 4.4 ? Not criticizing or something just want to know the reasons.

BuZz

@Rascas raspbian is at kernel 4.9 now. Unless I'm having an old age moment

Rascas

@BuZz Not in the repos (packaged), only if you are using rpi-update ;) And using rpi-update is generally considered unstable. But that shouldn't be a problem, although I didn't test it with emulators. I just wanted to know if you did this to include/fix some gamepad driver or something like it. And thanks for your work :D

AlexMurphy

@Rascas Good catch. 4.4.50 at the minute.

pattaboy

@BuZz said in New 4.1.20 RetroPie images for testing:

ODroid-C2

too bad we still can't downgrade kodi to 16.
Kodi 17 just doesn't work good with builds. so many addons are disabled when installing. 16 on the other hand works perfectly.

AlexMurphy

@pattaboy That's because "builds" are bloated heaps of crap. Start from a clean install and add what you need. That is the best Kodi advice you will ever get.
You CAN downgrade to 16.1 Jarvis, but can we stop posting about fecking Kodi here! Start a new thread if you have an issue!

ghrayfahx

I'd like to know more about the USB rom service. I use the current setup to keep all my roms on an external drive and it seems to be working well, is there a change to how this will work?

obsidianspider

@ghrayfahx I'm on 4.1.19 and reading ROMs from a USB drive works well. I think this is just a note about the upgrade from the 4.1 base image which is now quite a few months and iterations of RetroPie old.