Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

**bite_your_idols** · December 25, 2016 at 8:05 PM

Quote from robbryjo

1. try to overclock your pi.
2. if you are using Advanced(Emulator)Launcher, you can use context menu to change the arguments of each system. For PSX there is only one core. For n64 tehre are 2 cores but the selected one is the most optimized.
3. try following these steps: IARL Configuration · Issue #31 · bite-your-idols/Gamestarter-Pi · GitHub

robbryjo · December 25, 2016 at 11:47 PM

well i did step 2 and 3 already but i didnt overclock my pi 3 yet.

I saw youtube videos of people playing psx and n64 totally smooth on retropie/recalbox. Is this not possible with that addon?
If yes, why?

What are good overclocked settings for the pi3. i have 3 small coolers attached to it.

**bite_your_idols** · December 26, 2016 at 3:06 PM

Quote from robbryjo

well i did step 2 and 3 already but i didnt overclock my pi 3 yet.

I saw youtube videos of people playing psx and n64 totally smooth on retropie/recalbox. Is this not possible with that addon?
If yes, why?

What are good overclocked settings for the pi3. i have 3 small coolers attached to it.

I run PSX in my Pi2 very smooth even before I overclock it a little.

In theory, performance should be the same in retropie, recalbox, lakka and gamestarter, since all of them use same emulator/cores, the only difference is the version of the core used, sometimes one distro updates its core and the other distro takes some weeks or months ot update it (recalbox). Sometimes gamestarter cores are ahead retropie's XD... So if you are experiencing performance issues you must take a look to your power supply, sd card and overclocking.

I recommend starting over here: Overclocking · RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup Wiki · GitHub

robbryjo · December 26, 2016 at 11:49 PM

this is so weird.. i did everything like in the instructions and im running libreelec stable version.. why is my performance so poor. i even have issues in emulating NES games. the sound is laggy.. SNES is running good. PSX and N64 are unplayable... i have like 30 fps running psx games but the lagg is like with 3 fps. i cant fix it

this is my power supply : Rydges EU 5V 3A 3000mAh Micro USB Stecker Netzteil DC: Amazon.de: Elektronik

micro sd card: SanDisk Extreme 32 GB microSDHC Speicherkarte +: Amazon.de: Computer & Zubehör

Vertex · December 28, 2016 at 4:50 PM

Hi@all,

is it possible to use this addon also with a ASRock Beebox N3150 wie LIBREElec?
Or have I install something different to be able to play PSX, SNES .... Roms with my XBOX 360 Controller on my Beebox?

Sorry, but this is the first time, I'm trying to get an Emu working with LE.

Thanks for help!

**bite_your_idols** · December 28, 2016 at 8:21 PM

Quote from Vertex

Hi@all,

is it possible to use this addon also with a ASRock Beebox N3150 wie LIBREElec?
Or have I install something different to be able to play PSX, SNES .... Roms with my XBOX 360 Controller on my Beebox?

Sorry, but this is the first time, I'm trying to get an Emu working with LE.

Thanks for help!

This is just for pi. You can try escalade's awesome custom build:
LibreELEC

Vertex · December 28, 2016 at 9:21 PM

Thank you very much bite_your_idols.

This version I found an hour ago. So I will try this one.

PS:
I love your Avatar!!
Ghoust'N Goblins was one of my favourite game

**5schatten** · January 8, 2017 at 7:51 PM

Hello,

hello i use a rpi3 with your gamestarter addon, which is pretty awesome. The gamepads i use are the snes30 made by 8bitdo. The controller firmware i upgradeable and the current version is 2.70 so after every update i've to to replace the config files in your bulds by the ones for the firmware version 2.7.

So I was wondering if you could include these joypad config files into your builds, as they belong to libretro / retroarch-joypad-autoconfig and be maybe included in the future anyway. It's not much work to replace them anyway but it would ease up things cause my gf sometimes triggers the updates without telling me and ends up with non working gamepads

**bite_your_idols** · January 10, 2017 at 10:02 AM

Quote from 5schatten

Hello,

hello i use a rpi3 with your gamestarter addon, which is pretty awesome. The gamepads i use are the snes30 made by 8bitdo. The controller firmware i upgradeable and the current version is 2.70 so after every update i've to to replace the config files in your bulds by the ones for the firmware version 2.7.

So I was wondering if you could include these joypad config files into your builds, as they belong to libretro / retroarch-joypad-autoconfig and be maybe included in the future anyway. It's not much work to replace them anyway but it would ease up things cause my gf sometimes triggers the updates without telling me and ends up with non working gamepads

When I compile a new addon version it updates autoconfig files using the ones here: index · powered by h5ai 0.27.0 (http://larsjung.de/h5ai/)
The should be the same.

One thing I personally do is to copy my custom joypad config files in another folder (autoconfig-bit) and in retroarch menu I select this folder for autoconfig, in that way I don't loose my custom key/button configurations when updating. Also, gamestarter backup/restore feature should achieve that.

Randomguy · January 11, 2017 at 12:48 AM

I've installed things, and using my keyboard I can enter gamestarter and launch the one NES Rom I've copied to the system.

This is using my keyboard. I've tried to use both a PS4 Bluetooth controller and a wii Bluetooth controller. When I connect these to libreelec, they both work inside of libreelec to move through the menus. But as soon as I launch gamestarter, the Bluetooth remotes (wii and PS4) stop working. I can only use my keyboard in gamestarter, as well, when I launch the NES ROM they still don't work in the game.

What am I doing wrong? Should the Bluetooth controllers just work?

Im using the alpha libreelec release (latest one, from about 2 weeks ago and the gamestarter alpha version that matches)

Thank in advance for the help/advice

**bite_your_idols** · January 11, 2017 at 8:39 AM

did you try using DS4 via USB?, it works fine for me and it should work for you out of the box too. If it doesn't something is wrong. If it does try again via bluetooth and see what is the retroarch output on left bottom screen when starting, it should print on screen the controller name.

No idea about wii controller, I have never used one in RPi.

Randomguy · January 16, 2017 at 3:27 AM

Quote from bite_your_idols

did you try using DS4 via USB?, it works fine for me and it should work for you out of the box too. If it doesn't something is wrong. If it does try again via bluetooth and see what is the retroarch output on left bottom screen when starting, it should print on screen the controller name.

No idea about wii controller, I have never used one in RPi.

Hi,

Thanks, it works fine over USB. It is only via bluetooth that the DS4 fails. I think it is because the ds4drv driver is required for some DS4 controllers now over bluetooth and it isn't included in libreelec.

mitrikskull · February 2, 2017 at 8:21 AM

Quote from Szymon_Zy
DONE:
I have changed /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/launchers.xml Scummvm launcher to
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<application>/storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/bin/scummvm.sh</application>
and scummvm.sh include:
Bash
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/profile


DIR="/storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter"


systemd-run $DIR/resources/bin/scummvm.start "$@" &> /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.gamestarter/gamestarter.log
and scummvm.start include:
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rPi3:~ # cat /storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/bin/scummvm.start
#!/bin/sh
#!/bin/env python
. /etc/profile


#kodi-send --action="xbmc.ShowPicture(/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.gamestarter/frontend-assets/gamestarter_fanart.png)"
sleep 1s


echo '::Gamestarter:: -> launching on' $(date) >> /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.gamestarter/gamestarter.log
# path to addon
DIR="/storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter"
CONFIG_FILE="/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.gamestarter/retroarch/retroarch.cfg"
# LIBRETRO_DIR="/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.gamestarter/retroarch/cores"
LIBRETRO_DIR=$DIR"/resources/bin/libretro-cores"
AMIGA_TEMP_FILE=$DIR/resources/bin/launchTemp.uae
LOG_FILE=/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.gamestarter/gamestarter.log


# Stop KODI
echo '::Gamestarter:: -> stop kodi...' >> $LOG_FILE
systemctl stop kodi


# Enable ALSA
echo '::Gamestarter:: -> enable alsa...' >>  $LOG_FILE
modprobe snd_bcm2835


# Launch emulator
echo '::Gamestarter:: -> launch SCUMMVM'  >>  $LOG_FILE
echo Starting up scumm >> $LOG_FILE
cd /storage/scummvm/
./scummvm.sh --joystick
# Disable ALSA
echo '::Gamestarter:: -> disable alsa...' >>  $LOG_FILE
rmmod snd_bcm2835


# Start KODI
# systemctl start kodi
echo '::Gamestarter:: -> restart kodi...' >> /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.gamestarter/gamestarter.log
systemctl start kodi
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I have used precompiled image from scummvm page
scummvm-1.9.0-raspberrypi.tar.gz
and unpacked to /storage/scummvm with
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cd /storage
tar -xzf scummvm-1.9.0-raspberrypi.tar.gz
added from regular raspbian
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libjpeg.so.62, libpng12.so.0
libraries into scumm lib folder (attached to the post). There is also libSDL2-2.0.so.0 library but scumm is hardlinked aginst this sdl2lib added to archive.

Also you should edit /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh to allow parsing arguments to main executable:
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rPi3:~ # cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./scummvm $1
You have to use keyboard to quit this scummvm version. There is no bind to popup menu using joystick or i don't know any
I know that 99,99% of Gamestarter users will not need that but my son will not manage to save a game with RetroArch while he plays PuttPutt. He will certainly find S key on keyboard to save or L to load. Also now it is possible to play Secret of Monkey Island 2 - in liberetro port there is no way to pass copy protection screen
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Hello
I have raspberry pi2. Do I need to replace rPi3:~ # cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh by rPi2:~ # cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh

Sorry for my English

**bite_your_idols** · February 2, 2017 at 8:57 AM

Quote from mitrikskull

I have raspberry pi2. Do I need to replace rPi3:~ # cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh by rPi2:~ # cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh

Sorry for my English

upss.... I totally forgot this workaorund for Scummvm Szymon_Zy did... someday I will look to include as an optional installation of gamestarter...

about your question, I think that " rPi3:~ #" is not necesary, it is just a mistaken copied from console, in that step you should exec:

Code

cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh

then you will enter file editor and should write this:

Bash

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./scummvm $1

By the way, I am working on new v2.7 with new retroarch 1.4.0 and its netplay features. Also I am trying to include the new Nintendo DS emulator what runs really smooth, DraStic.
Stay tuned.

mitrikskull · February 3, 2017 at 8:11 AM

Quote from bite_your_idols
upss.... I totally forgot this workaorund for Scummvm Szymon_Zy did... someday I will look to include as an optional installation of gamestarter...

about your question, I think that " rPi3:~ #" is not necesary, it is just a mistaken copied from console, in that step you should exec:
Code
cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh
then you will enter file editor and should write this:
Bash
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./scummvm $1
By the way, I am working on new v2.7 with new retroarch 1.4.0 and its netplay features. Also I am trying to include the new Nintendo DS emulator what runs really smooth, DraStic.
Stay tuned.

Thank you !

NotYourAverageAl · February 3, 2017 at 1:39 PM

Has anyone managed to get a Gasia (fake ps3) controller to work via Bluetooth on a rpi3. I really would like to use the wireless controller with game starter.

I was directed to Gasia controller support - RetroPie Forum but the config uses retropie to download the drivers.

The controller is seen as a keyboard & asks for a pin, which i cant input with a controller. I thought these patches GitHub - luetzel/bluez: Fork of Bluez with patches to support PS3 Gasia/ Shanwan game controllers had been applied to the libreelec dev.

Any help will be appreciated.

Szymon_Zy · February 3, 2017 at 1:55 PM

As far as i remember there were some updates in ScummVM liberetro core and this new build will address most of troubles.
RetroPlayer Test Builds (updated for Krypton)

My ShanWan clone works quite ok, but rPi bluetooth range is weak

joshcrosby · February 3, 2017 at 10:45 PM

Quote from Randomguy

Hi,

Thanks, it works fine over USB. It is only via bluetooth that the DS4 fails. I think it is because the ds4drv driver is required for some DS4 controllers now over bluetooth and it isn't included in libreelec.

I was actually able to get my DS4 working great over bluetooth with the tutorial from the Lakka documentation. Try this: Lakka documentation - Wireless Dualshock
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I'm having issues in AEL with my N64 roms showing up under Playstation, and my Playstation roms showing up under N64. If I delete from the launcher under one system, it deletes it in both. Any ideas as to why this would be happening or how to fix it?