LibreELEC-RR 9.x [ Emulationstation | Retroarch | Pegasus | DolphinQT | Moonlight | Chrome | Spotify ]

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Well you need several packages & PulseAudio to use video previews in ES. I guess that's the reason why Gamestarter doesn't support this because this needs deeper changes in your system. As stated in my start post maybe one day Retroplayer will be feature complete but right now it's just a proof of concept & work in progress to me.

What did you do? Install Docker & place the bios files and iso in the directories and run the game afterwards? ES has nothing to do with this since it just runs the PCSX2.start command and points to the game you want to run. Or do you try to load real game discs?

Well looks like the LE 9.1 addon repo isn't populated right now so I have to probably revert this distro: bump OS_VERSION/ADDON_VERSION to 9.1 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv@8964c21 · GitHub and rebuild the images.

Thank you for the explanation. I think I'll update the official libreelec installation with yours. I have a question about this: if I upgrade the existing installation with yours, have I to uninstall some addons first (ex. retroarch, emulationstation, amazon vod, tvheadend server, netflix) or it'll update those addons with yours?

Thank you

Any trick to getting Game Cube games running? When I select one the TV goes black for a few moments the then returns to the EmulationStation menu. I know the .iso is good because they work fine on my Windows PC with Dolphin. Thanks.

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Well basically hopping between the builds should work so install my build to have a proper partition then install the vanilla LE and update to my build once you have your addons. I'm currently building a generic build and probably will upload it tomorrow if everything works fine.

Logfiles... anyway I guess you haven't set the audio device in the addon, did you?

Aw. So I cannot update my official installation of LE 9.0.1 to yours using the update channel? Have I to do a fresh install with yours? Doesn't the update resize the existing partiton and write the new data on it?

Hey 5schatten, do you think it will be hard to implement dm-crypt into LibreELEC RR? Pretty much this is the only thing which prevents me from switching my current dist to LibreELEC RR

5schatten I want to change my frontend from ES to RCB and I finally got it working for my libretro cores. In RCB the command has to be

 /usr/bin/retroarch and not /usr/bin/retroarch.start

However for ppsspp, dolphin and pcsx2 I only found the files with *.start

I tried to solve it by myself by opening the retroarch and retroarch.start file in notepad++ to check what is different but I dont really understand what is happening there.

In ppsspp I changed the command from

/usr/bin/ppsspp.start to /usr/share/PPSSPP/PPSSPPSDL 

and it atleast started the game. But it had no sound.

I also tested

/storage/.local/share/dolphin-emu instead of /usr/bin/dolphin.start

but it didnt start anything

and pcsx2 seems to be even more complicated with those docker commands.

Can you help me please?

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Logfiles... anyway I guess you haven't set the audio device in the addon, did you?

Ya, ok. My bad... Games are loading now and sound is working but I can't configure the controller because the Dolphin menus are not fitting on my TV screen so I can't see all the options. Probably a Dolphin thing and not an issue with your build though.

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Well this won't work as you might think. If RCB is Rom Collection Browser and a Kodi addon you can't use my scripts out of the box. You have to write start scripts that just mute Kodi instead of stopping it like it's done here LibreELEC.tv/google-chrome-stable at libreelec-9.x-rr · 5schatten/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub.
The you have to export the SDL audio driver LibreELEC.tv/910-audio-settings-common.conf at libreelec-9.x-rr · 5schatten/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub since PulseAudio won't work on the fly when Kodi is running. Basically you can use my scripts as template and replace the kodifreeze.sh calls appropriate to your needs.

Or you stick to Retroplayer, sacrifice all standalone emulators and use RCB

Bash: https://github.com/5schatten/LibreELEC.tv/blob/libreelec-9.x-rr/packages/5schatten/emulation-standalone/ppsspp/scripts/PPSSPP.start

#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2018-present 5schatten (https://github.com/5schatten)

. /etc/profile

# Freeze Kodi / stop audio
kodifreeze.sh freeze muteonly

# Change refresh rate to 60Hz
set_refresh_rate_60

# Set audio backend to ALSA
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

/usr/share/PPSSPP/PPSSPPSDL "$@" > /var/log/PPSSPP.log 2>&1

# Switch back to Kodi & start audio
kodifreeze.sh unfreeze muteonly

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and then run this by /bin/sh -C /path/to/the/script

Thanks a lot to you

However it seems like something went wrong, it says it couldnt create line 16:

LibreELEC (5schatten): RR-20190221-753d629 (Generic.x86_64)
LibreELEC:~ # /bin/sh -C /storage/downloads/PPSSPP.start
Sending: {'content': 'RunScript(/usr/bin/audio-suspend.py)', 'type': 'action'}
/storage/downloads/PPSSPP.start: line 16: can't create /var/log/PPSSPP.log: File                                                                                                                                                              exists
Sending: {'content': 'RunScript(/usr/bin/audio-resume.py)', 'type': 'action'}
LibreELEC:~ # cp /var/log/PPSSPP.log /storage/downloads/

PPSSPP.log

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Bash

#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2018-present 5schatten (https://github.com/5schatten)

. /etc/profile

# Freeze Kodi / stop audio
kodifreeze.sh freeze muteonly

# Change refresh rate to 60Hz
set_refresh_rate_60

# Set audio backend to ALSA
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

# clean logfile
rm -f /var/log/PPSSPP.log

/usr/share/PPSSPP/PPSSPPSDL "$@" > /var/log/PPSSPP.log 2>&1

# Switch back to Kodi & start audio
kodifreeze.sh unfreeze muteonly

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Thank you very much! It works for ppsspp and pcsx2! Awesome!

Only dolphin shows no reaction, can you take a look if everything is correct?

Bash

#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 0riginally created by Escalade (https://github.com/escalade)
# Copyright (C) 2018-present 5schatten (https://github.com/5schatten)

. /etc/profile

# Set common paths
DOLPHIN_HOME_CONFIG=/storage/.config/dolphin-emu/share
DOLPHIN_HOME_LOCAL=/storage/.local/share/dolphin-emu

# create link to config directory
if [ ! -L ${DOLPHIN_HOME_LOCAL} ]; then
  mkdir -p ${DOLPHIN_HOME_CONFIG}
  cp -r ${DOLPHIN_HOME_LOCAL}/* ${DOLPHIN_HOME_CONFIG}/
  rm -rf ${DOLPHIN_HOME_LOCAL}
  ln -s ${DOLPHIN_HOME_CONFIG} ${DOLPHIN_HOME_LOCAL}
fi

# Freeze Kodi / stop audio
kodifreeze.sh freeze muteonly

# Change refresh rate to 50Hz(PAL) or 60Hz(NTSC/PAL60)
set_refresh_rate_DOLPHIN

# Set audio backend to PulseAudio or ALSA
set_DOLPHIN_audiobackend

# Set Qt5 screen scale environment vars
set_QT_screen_scale_environment_vars

dolphin-emu "$@"> /var/log/dolphin.log 2>&1

# Switch back to Frontends or unfreeze Kodi & start audio
kodifreeze.sh unfreeze muteonly

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I kept set_DOLPHIN_audiobackend because my dolphin audio settings is set to ALSA

And another question that I have is: After quitting a game I end up in kodi main menu and not in RCB. However when I first changed my libretro cores command from retroarch.start to retroarch it worked. Now I changed it back to retroarch.start and also end up in kodi main menu. Is there a solution for this?

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Navigate to the config addon as described

LibreELEC 9.x RR [ Emulationstation | Retroarch | Pegasus | DolphinQT | Moonlight | Chrome | Spotify | MakeMKV ] disable autoscale in the Qt section and play around with the manual scale factor. If this does not help read the FAQ and configure xorg.conf according to your DPI.

That worked.. Appreciate the help!

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As I said I don't use 4k screens but never experienced too small screens in ES. I've included a Quake2 client that had this behaviour too but only if it's not set to fullscreen.

NUC =! ARM stuff... the x86 based systems come with xorg server so they rely on an windows system program while the arm build directly rencer the stuff to the framebuffer. So you can't excactly compare them unless they run the same system software.

The J4005 was fine the J5005 has 4 cores 4 threads while the celeron has 2 cores / 4 threads. Both have a TDP of 10W so when they run hot I suspect the J5005 will throttle earlier. The thing is both are faster than any arm stuff but not as fast as an i3 or else. IMHO the J5005 is too expensive and won't let you run PCSX2 or Beetle-PSX too. If you really want to run all games then you've to buy a mini-itx system with a small i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 2200G, 4x 3.50GHz, boxed ab â¬Â 91,90 (2019) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Deutschland or Intel Pentium Gold G5400, 2x 3.70GHz, tray ab â¬Â 70,92 (2019) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Deutschland

For emulation your need high IPC & high clock frequencies. For high resolutions you'll need a "decent" IGP too but things get expensive then.

About the Dolphin dir -> I've changed to path so you can access & backup your data by copying the dolphin-emu dir in configfiles.

4GB of RAM are enough as long as they come as 2x2GB for dual channel speed. When I play GT4 it uses about 4GB of RAM.

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Regarding the J5005 I have one and I can confirm it allows you to run Beetle-PSX perfectly fine (tested with multiple games: Broken Sword 2, FF9, Symphony of the Night, Crash Team Racing, Suikoden...) and is light miles ahead of PCSX-ReARMed in terms of accuracy.

For PCSX2 on the other hand there's no way you can handle that with a J5005.

I will test with other emulators at some point (like the CPU hungry beetle Saturn) and keep you updated.

But if you want to play all games till Dreamcast/PSX/N64 and some additional Game Cube (not all but most of the games) a J5005 is a pretty good price/performance deal.