RetroELEC Kodi+Wayland+Emulationstation+RetroArch (x86/XU4/RPi)

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Anybody know of a typed guide, not a video?

Oh good. I found one this time. We'll see how it goes....

Got everything working. Only issue is I get an error about client ID when I try to sign in to Youtube. But that's a problem for another thread. I think I may leave LibreELEC on the 400 and give it to my roommate who runs LibreELEC all day. She could definitely use a hardware upgrade.

Now if that works out for her, then I can take my seldom used HTPC from the living room and install RetroELEC on that! Hmmm.

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Inspired by RetroPie/recalbox/Lakka, I've modified LE to allow for proper emulator gaming without any addons. I've focused on picking the best cores for each system and optimizing them as much as possible. I don't care to include every emulator under the sun, but rather include a well maintained assortment of the best performing and popular ones.

- LibreELEC base (appliance like "JeOS" with fast bootup, easy upgrades, easy setup)

- Boots to Emulationstation (can be changed with kernel command line options)

- RetroArch compiled for Wayland/KMS with glcore/vulkan drivers

- Plymouth boot splash

- Kodi 18.7.1 Leia (runs on KMS/OpenGL)

- Sway minimalistic desktop with a few select utilities

- VNC backends available # systemctl start wayvnc will start a VNC server so you can remotely control the desktop

- PulseAudio sound server

- Pulseaudio BT modules (GitHub - EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt: Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux) offers A2DP codecs: Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD and AAC

- Pipewire and GStreamer multimedia framework

- V4L2 utilities and v4l2loopback

- Transmission, Plex and SABnzbd available as systemd services

- F2FS used for the storage partition (with compression support)

- NFSv4 server (/media and /storage/roms shared by default)

- AutoFS lets you access NFS shares by accessing /net/hostname/ in the filesystem

- Everything is built using GCC 10.1.x

- Flatpak 1.8 lets you extend the OS with additional software from the Flathub

- RPCS3 included

- PCSX2 one-click install from Flatpak store

- AntimicroX

- The chdman tool from MAME is included to convert cue/iso to CHD

Included RetroArch cores:

boom3 (Doom 3)

desmume (Nintendo DS)

dolphin (Nintendo Wii/Gamecube)

dosbox_core (DOSBox)

ecwolf (Wolfenstein 3D)

flycast (Dreamcast)

fuse (ZX Spectrum)

genesis_plus_gx (Sega 8/16-bit like Megadrive)

mame2016 (MAME 0.174)

mednafen_psx_hw (Sony PSX)

mednafen_saturn_hw (Sega Saturn)

mgba (Nintendo Gameboy)

mupen64plus_next (Nintendo 64)

ppsspp (Sony PSP)

puae (Amiga 500 / 1200)

quicknes (Nintendo Entertainment System)

scummvm (ScummVM)

snes9x (Super Nintendo)

stella (Atari 2600)

vice_x64 (Commodore 64)

Default root password is "retroelec".

How to ask for support:

Make sure your issue is reproducible on a clean install of the latest available image then post the zip file from the logshare (after reproducing).

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Note to anyone cloning my project: I like to rebase my changes from time to time to get a clean history. This means your local clone will be out of sync when I do. In that case you can do "git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin/emu" to update, but stash any local changes you have first if any.

AutoFS

Accessing NFS/SMB shares have never been easier. Mounting and unmounting is no longer necessary, simply access your shares like so:

# ls -l /auto/nfs/server/share/

Point your Emulationstation or Kodi sources to the corresponding directory in /auto and the rest is taken care of by the AutoFS daemon.

RetroArch

RA will run in KMS mode by default if your GPU supports it. To disable it do this in a terminal:

# touch /storage/.cache/services/kms.disabled

Services

To start them do # systemctl enable --now service in SSH, where "service" is one of the below

Transmission: http://retroelec:9091
SABnzbd: http://retroelec:9092
Plex: http://retroelec:32400/web

ttyd-oem: http://retroelec:7681

shairport

librespot

snapserver

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Emulationstation setup

Out of the box it will look for roms in /storage/roms. BIOS files are under /storage/roms/bios. Configured input controllers are DS4 (bluetooth) and keyboard, others can be configured from the menu (right ctrl).

Keyboard bindings for Emulationstation

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Navigation = Arrow keys
A = Enter
B = Backspace
Page up = ,
Page down = .
Start = rctrl
Select = ralt

Run Docker ARM containers on x86_64

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# docker run -it --rm -v /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static:/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static raspbian/jessie bash

How to build through Docker

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# docker run -it -h arch-build --name arch-build -v /storage:/storage -v /media:/media -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime escalade1/arch-build
# git clone --depth 1 --single-branch https://github.com/escalade/LibreELEC.tv.git
# cd LibreELEC.tv && PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make

My build container is built from base/archlinux with the minimal package set needed for building.

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Hi, I was trying to get the VNC on LibreELEC 10.0.2 and I came across this Topic.

I wonder: As this is a fork of LibreELEC, then I guess there is also version 10 of LibreELEC right?

Is there support for VNC?

What do I need to download from Google Drive to get the Raspberry Pi 3B + version?

Thanks