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Quote from Teemu

Hi,

are you using the default Ozone menu, or the older XMB?

I have been playing with exactly similar setup (RPI4/Libreelec. 9.2.1/Kodi 18.6) and when I first installed Retroarch (few weeks back, clean install, not an upgrade), it was crashing immediately every time when trying to navigate the into any of the submenus in the settings.

What helped me was to ssh into the RPi, find the config file for Retroarch and switch to xmb instead of Ozone for the menu.

It seems that PeterB and MisterHans had also the same issue with Ozone on the same setup (RPI4/Libreelec. 9.2.1/Kodi 18.6), see post #1,068 and #1,075 above

Seems that this exact issue is documented also here, with Retroarch installed on Lakka on Rpi4: When using the Ozone menu driver, navigating into any submenu causes RetroArch to crash · Issue #793 · libretro/Lakka-LibreELEC · GitHub .

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Hello Teemu,

Thank you for the reply and suggestion! I opened the retroarch config file and replaced the ozone menu line to Xmb, and seems to be working so far in regards to navigating through Retroarch!

I am still having performance troubles with my various games+cores (which I installed all through the Retorach kodi addon settings option). While I test with different retroarch configurations, are there any recommended "default" settings I should change to get better performance? (best video driver to start with for R.PI oin Kodi, , overlay/processor speed configs, etc)? I should add that most 2D related emulators and roms (SNES, Genesis, PCEngine, GBA) seem to work fine in the Kodi Retroplayer, but using same cores in Retroarch seems to be slow.

Thanks !

Hello all,

First I would like to say thank you to all for your work in developing and supporting the Gamestarter add-on. Your efforts are gratefully appreciated!

I am a new user to Kodi, LibreELEC, and RetroArch, so apologies in advance if my questions seem very basic or wording is not precise. I have LibreELEC v 9.2.1 installed with latest Kodi 18.6 on a Raspberry Pi4, and have been enjoying the Kodi experience so far. I have installed and used some of the Kodi Retorplayer cores to play some games to success, but would like to try RetroArch for additional cores and settings that may not be supported on the Retroplayer. I have installed your Gamestarter addon 3.0.0 and installed Retroarch v. 9.186.20, and selected the optional option to install all libreto cores.

I am having difficulty getting my test games to run properly on Retroarch through LibreELEC, and some overall difficulty in navigating through the Retro Arch menus.

On all the different roms and cores I have tested on (SNES - Snes 9x Current; PCEngine - Beetle PCE Fast; PS1 - PCSX ReArmed; Saturn - Yabasue; PSP - PPSPP), all seem to be running very slow (I would say around half framerates, cannot get display framerate option to save correctly). I have done very minimal setting changes in Retroarch besides mapping a controller, but any general advise I should try out to get my performacne to improve in Retroarch through LibreELEC (I can post settings log if kindly pointed navigation to correct log file needed to review)

Also, another headache I have been having is difficulty navigating Retroarch. Specifically, whenever I seem to press the back button to return to previous system menu screen on any type of sub menu (Display Overlays options, ending game content and trying to load another game/core, updating system configs, etc), Retroarch is always closed and LibreElece starts Kodi back up. I managed to save the controller mapping configurations, but any other type of system config I cannot seem to get back to the main menu to successfully and always forced back to Kodi. I am using a 8bitdo bluetooth controller, and also had this issue when using a keyboard on initial load. Am I doing something wrong in trying to get back to Retroarch main menu, or did I accidentally change a Retroarch menu setting?

Sorry for the long post, I would be most appreciative for any advice on how to make my Retroarch experience in Kodi a little better!