Posts by robmcc83

Also it appears you bios file have wrong checksum as well.

I don't think you have followed my instructions for installing retroarch properly at all.

The black screen you get when trying to launch the game from retroarch means missing cores, which if you had followed today's earlier instructions you should have them.

Also if you had followed today's earlier Instructions you would have obtained the correct bios versions for retroarch libreelec version as it says to check lakka bioses as that's what libreelec uses.

And in regards to the bios, as long as you have not changed any configurations within retroarch you have placed them in the right place but you can check where retroarch is looking for them by looking for directories within the retroarch program once in directories the top one should be system/bios and it should point to /storage/emulators/bios.

Which controller are you using?

If your wanting to play psx games I would recommend not using Kodi retroplayer, it's not as good as retroarch at present.

Ive never used AEL someone else will have to help you with that I'm affraid, like I said in another post, I came from retropie that's why I chose the emulationstation approach as I know how it works.

I have given more than enough information to get you playing games.

If you already have roms following my instructions using emulationstation and retroarch you would be up and running within 10 minutes if you follow it correctly.

It really is that simple.

Example for running everything from SD card

1. Install gamestarter repo

2. Install retroarch and emulationstation

3. Download libretro full cores from the configure menu of the retroarch addon

4. Launch retroarch, exit then reboot

5. Copy bios files to /storage/emulators/bios.

6. Create a directory called psx in /storage/emulators/roms/

7. Copy your psx games to that folder in iso or cue/bin format.

8. Launch emulationstation pick your psx game you want to play and that's it your playing psx games.

It's that easier, it only gets complicated when you want to customize things to your liking.

Rob

Running games that you already have stored loacally.

There are 2 options that are best here and that is AEL or emulationstation.

This is the way i used to run my setup before i found IAGL.

I chose emulationstation as i had much knowledge of this as a long time user of retropie.

Either one of these frontends can be installed from the gamestarter repo.

So after i installed emulationstation the first thing i would do is configure the addon, to do this find the addon in your programs select it and select configure.

The first options that pop up allows you to download extra themes, you can go ahead and do this if you like. Again personal preference, i had one backup theme from the retropie days that i had edited to my liking so i just copied that over.

After this go down to es_systems here you select where your rom directory is and which cores you would like to use.

To get you started just select your rom directory and then select update the es_systems.cfg leave all the core settings unless you know what you are doing and which cores you actually have.

you must have you roms directory console names match the same as retropie so for example commodore 64 is "c64" nintendo is "nes" etc, Again do a little google research to find out how the naming of your roms directory should be.

With you preferred controller connected you can now launch emulationstation on first launch it will ask you to configure your controller, after that all games will show in emulationstation and you can just launch form there and have some retro fun

Again there are further things you can do to enhance your experience, like i had all my roms scraped images and metadata using universal xml scraper, then selecting a theme that has metadata gives you a amazing looking system with boxart, screenshots, description of the game etc but im not going into all of this as all im trying to do is get you all up and running.

Thats pretty much all i can tell you about getting games to run on libreelec, there is much more options you can adjust to your liking so if you come across anything your unsure of just give me a shout and hopefully i can help

Happy Retro Gaming

installing internet archive game launcher (IAGL) and getting it to run with retroarch.

In this part i will only explain how to configure 1 system as it will be the same with others and im sure you will understand how it works afterwards.

Start by installing zachmorris repo (again google this and you will find it).

Go to the repo and find IAGL, once installed load it up and leave it a short while as it configures a few things for you (you will see notifications as it fetches gamelist).

Once finished exit the program then find the program in your addons again but do not launch click configure instead.

From here go to external launchers, for system type select gamestarter addon, then below select your system folder which if default and you have not changed anything is /storage/emulators/bios. If you are in doubt or want to double check this is the correct directory then load retroarch and navigate to directories within the retroarch gui. There you will see the system dircectory that retroarch is using and this is the same path that you put into the IAGL Addon.

After setting the above go down 2 options on the left hand side to setup wizard (might be different for different skins but its setup wizard you want).

For emulator launcher choose external, then select execute setup wizard, leave it a short while whilst it is configuring everything for you (you will see notifications whilst it updates gamelists with new settings) and thats it.

Now you will be able download and launch a game via IAGL and it will run with retroarch.

This is a basic guide to get it running there are many other features but alot of these again are personal preference but ill tell you a couple that i change.

With the above setup roms will download as you play them and delete afterwards. This is good if you are short on space but annoying waiting for a psx game to download everytime you want to play.

How i get around this. I have a external hard drive connected to my pi with all my media, you can tell IAGL to download to specific directory and it will save that game on your storage so in the future if its a game you play alot its stored locally so it will not need to re download.

To do this find the system you want to change download location for, i will use psx as a example here as they are cd based games so larger files.

Highlight for example "playstation" press you context button which is the letter "c" on your keyboard or what ever you have it programmed to on your remote, select update download path and select the location you wish the games for this system will be downloaded to. It will update everything for you and games for that system will always store locally afterwards.

You can repeat this for as many systems as you like, but to make things easier maybe create yourself a file structure that simplifies everything.

On my external hard drive i created a directory called roms i then created folders inside that directory for the consoles, for example snes, megadrive, psx etc and chose them for my download paths for each system i wish to emulate.

Also from that same context menu you can hide systems you will never use, you can view list settings which will tell you where roms download, which core is used etc. And if you wish to change which core is used for that system you can use update launch command.

Apart from everything above i dont really change much more within the settings of IAGL but like ive said personal preference you might decide to do so.

If this doesnt get you started then you really shouldnt be using this stuff, a basic knowledge of how it works is always helpful, or try things out on a spare sd card so not to break your current setup, then when you confident with it all set it all up on your main setup

Hope this helps all.

Rob

Ill start with retroarch now as this one is probably the quickest.

Start by downloading the gamestarter repo.

Just by a Google search you will easily find it.

Copy over the repo to your libreelec device your preferred way (this repo only works on generic/rpi)

Install repo like any other then navigate to the repo and from program add-ons install retroarch.

Once retroarch has confirmed it has been installed go to the program but do not launch, firstly click configure.

From there select download libretro cores full package, this will make sure you have all cores for all supported systems.

Now connect you preferred controller as retroarch will autoconfig it when you launch.

Launch retroarch, if you've done all of the above you should have the retroarch interface. Job done

Now what I usually do from here is exit retroarch and reboot my device. The reason I do this is because in the past if I load a game straight up after installing retroarch I get no sound, but doing a reboot has always fixed this so I'm only telling you what I've always done for things to work.

Now look at lakka bioses on their website, find the bioses you think you will need for systems you are going to use.

Copy them over to libreelec at location /storage/emulators/bios

That's pretty much it for getting retroarch up and running any other settings will be personal preference.

I'll have a bit of spare time shortly so I'll try write something up for you to help you out, I'll do each system as to how I have done it all in the past because I've spent many of hours getting everything to work flawless.

I spend many weekends with friends and family having lots of 4 player fun on many psx games and the good old micro machines turbo tournament for the mega drive

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Thank you, robmcc83 I got it playing SNES roms via AEL/Retroplayer. The whole process was confusing, at least for a newbie like me who's missing a lot of context.

Also had to mess around for a bit to get my no-name PS3 compatible controller to work correctly in-game. Not that it works flawlessly with the LE interface either...

No artwork for now, as it's looking to take too much effort.

I'll see about geting the PSX roms to work, this one has the added complication of having to supply as bios as well..

Ok so regarding the bios this to is also simple.

I use gamestarter repo with retroarch and this is how I do it.

I use lakka website for reference of which bioses I need for the systems I use just Google lakka bioses. The version of retroarch in lakka is the one that is compiled for our gamestarter repo.

Now all you have to do is get hold of the bioses the lakka recommends again Google will help with this.

Then over samba or sftp/FTP login into your libreelec, From there your looking for directory /storage/emulators.

If you have already loaded up retroarch it will have created 3 folders. bios,roms and saves.

Just copy the bios files you have obtained from the internet to the bios folder and that's it happy psx gaming.

The internet archive game launcher is pretty straight forward. You pick a game and as default it will download and launch the rom with Kodi retroplayer.

If you go into the settings of IAGL you can choose a external launcher, choose gamestarter (if you installed retroarch from that repo) and then select your system folder which is the folder with bios files in.

Then on the left hand side if you go down a couple of times you will see a setup wizard, run that and it will be configured to run with the retroarch.

Retroplayer will get you started as Mario77 suggested but in my experience PlayStation games are choppy on retroplayer but retroarch they are almost flawless for most.

another way you could do it would be to use internet archive emulator launcher from a repo by the name of zachmorris.

This add-on works really well, it has many of games on it and will work with the new Kodi retroplayer or retroarch from the gamestarter repo.

It will download a rom as you need it and delete it after, this saves space but if space isn't a issue you can have it download a rom permanently to save keep downloading your favourites.

Google and YouTube are your best friends for setting any of these up.

If you get stuck give us a shout

You want to add gamestarter repo by bite_your_idols

From his repo you can install retroarch on stock libreelec.

It also come with 2 front ends to choose from, emulationstation and advance emulator launcher.

Happy gaming

Further more to this problem just incase anybody else gets this.

With a freshly formatted ext4 external hard drive, the first time you connect it to libreelec there is constant hard drive activity for approx 4 hours on a 2tb external hard drive.

I can only assume Linux does some sort of scan of the drive when a new formatted drive is mounted.

The same happens when using a Linux distro on my home computer only it only takes 10 minutes to do the same.

So conclusion is use a computer before hand to setup the hard drive with Linux, if this is not possible connect your hard drive to your raspberry pi and leave it over night or until there is no hard drive activity.

After that I can copy whatever over samba without issues and the transfer speed also becomes faster as the drive is no long active with other processes.

Hope this helps others

Ive had bad experiences in the past with NTFS on the raspberry pi that's why I use ext4 all the time now.

When using NTFS the pi runs alot hotter than it does using ext4 when writing to the external drive. I've had it crash several times using NTFS because of this when trying to copy stuff over.

I have now solved the problem by dual booting my computer so that I have Linux on it as well.

I have formatted the drive under Linux with ext4 then copied my stuff over to the drive that way.

Everything seems to have gone smoothly and is now back up and running.

I just wonder if the pi was not quite capable enough for my to transfer my 760gb of media over samba lol.

Probably my fault pushing it to much.

Thanks anyway.

Hi all,

Not long got myself a new hard drive and having a strange problem transferring videos files from my win10 pc to WD passport 2tb hard drive connected to my raspberry pi3.

A little background first,

I had been using the same setup with a WD passport 1tb formatted in ext4 no problems at all. After ripping all the kids dvds to MP4 and copying them over the drive started to become quite full and I hadn't even started on mine and the wife's TV box sets.

So I purchased the exact same drive but 2tb.

I have a backup of all movies I ripped on the home computer, a windows 10 machine so started to copy them over to the new 2tb hard drive which I have checked for errors and formatted to ext4.

After selecting a few films it reaches near the end of transferring and says that files already exist, the options are skip, overwrite or cancel

If I click skip I get left with some video files at 0kb.

If i click overwrite it tells me I don't have permission.

So if I click skip and then try and delete the 0kb files so I can try and transfer them again it tells me I don't have permission, so I'm now stuck with 0kb files I can't delete.

I can delete rename etc any file that has copied successful.

Anybody know what this is.

I'm using a pi3 with latest libreelec version

Thanks

Rob

Thanks bite_your_idols

That would be great as the cores on retroplayer main psx are not as good as retroarch.

Or maybe the reason why is that Kodi GUI is still running.

Either way IAGL seems like a good add-on so I'll see if I can get on with it keeps going back to home screen for the time being.

Thanks

Rob

Hi bite_your_idols .

I have a quick question.

Is there anyway to keep Kodi running in the background whilst using retroarch.

The reason I ask I because I've just started trying out internet archive game launcher.

It works fine with your gamestarter add-on but what I find annoying is then when I exit a game it loads Kodi again from start.

It would be nice if it could just keep Kodi running and go back to the game list from internet archive game launcher.

Thanks

Rob