Posts by jtadeia

Quote from escalade

In an effort to get PCSX2 running on LibreELEC I built a 32 bit version of my own tree and packaged up the latest PCSX2 from git and it's dependencies. Everything works and I can start PCSX2, but it can't find any plugins, even though it's looking in the correct directory and the plugins are there. So close! Maybe I'll find a way to fix this, maybe not. The 32 bit image is uploaded in case anyone wants to play with it.

Just for my curiosity, theoretically, will this be possible to have also in the 64 bit LE8 Extended version?

Quote from escalade

Joystick support in Kodi always has been and still is crap. I recommend using an RF or BT keyboard.

I'm thinking of getting usb flirc. I could then map ESC to my TV's remote control, allowing me to exit Dolphin without an attached keyboard.
May I ask if any of you care to suggest a better alternative?

Quote from jaykass

which version are you on? one of the versions had an update to the controllers that broke functionality for many of us but was fixed in subsequent versions.

I have the latest LE8 "Extended", taken from here.

Quote from jaykass

I am able to with a SNES30 with firmware updated to v2.69. I believe it configured automatically as well on newer versions. Though at some point I recall needing to set it up through settings: HOW-TO:Configure controllers - Official Kodi Wiki

I didn't know about this Kodi "Input Configuration", I've setup my keys but the only that works is "Volume Down" when I move the right analog left.
Not a big deal, I will keep using my smartphone as remote. Thanks anyway.

Quote from jayfkay

Well, my 8bitdo SFC30 seems to work ok in Kodi and ES. I saved mappings through Retroarch (I see it in .cfg), but it fails to work in games. Actually usb gamepad also stopped working, so i cant even exit games...

Ill play around with .cfg i gues and come back with what i find out.

Can you control Kodi with 8bitdo (wireless) ? I'm not able to. Any trick?

Quote from TKESlinky

First of all. Completely new to the Linux OS and I'm far enough out of college I've forgotten most stuff regarding programming. That being said, I'm having issues installing and using this. After downloading the .img file I can successfully get the image onto my flash drive (using Win32DiskImager under Windows 10). when I place the drive into my computer and set USB to boot I can even get the OS to run from the flash drive. However, I can't seem to get a successful install on the HD in the computer. After running the installer I reboot as it tells me to after removing the media. When it tries to load the OS from the HD I get the error:
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
If i then type KERNEL it starts to load then stops with:
*** Error in mount_flash: mount_part: Unknown filesystem ***

What do I need to do to install on a freshly built computer? (of older parts: Core2Duo, Gigabyte P35C-DS3R, 4 gigs ddr3 ram, 8800 GTS 512)

Thanks.

Do you have enough space in the flash partition ? For troubleshooting this issue, you can try to install the latest official LibreElec/OpenElec and then upgrade to LE8 "Extended" (simple by moving the TAR file into "Update" folder).
If you don't have enough space, the error will be clear when trying to update.

I'm having some troubles configuring my gamepads (Bluetooth).
I'm using "8Bitdo_Pro_NES30_BT(POWER).cfg" and "8Bitdo_Classic_NES30_BT(START).cfg" which both have configuration files.
One of the issues is that Classic NES30 is detecting two keys whenever I press "A" button, I found a workaround for this, it works fine if I remove all the mappings from /tmp/autoconfig/udev/8Bitdo_Classic_NES30_BT(START).cfg
This means Retroarch is not using "only" the above file to map the gamepad keys.

My question is, from where is retroarch primarily taking the button mapping configurations ?
The following directories are empty, there is no cfg files here:
input_remapping_directory = "~/.config/retroarch/remappings"
"~/.config/retroarch/config/remaps"

Also, would it be possible to install something like jstest script? To test/check the key numbers associated to joystick buttons?

Thanks

When updating to new build, will I lose any configurations?
- emulationstation config files?
- retroarch config files?
- Shares?
- Audio configurations?
- symbolic links? (I have all my roms / gamelists / image covers in my NAS)

Thanks escalade

Quote from jaykass

is it case-sensitive? storage-armazem.mount vs /storage/Armazem

jaykass, thanks again for your help. I'm almost embarrassed of this last question
Renaming the file to storage-Armazem.mount didn't work, but creating the folder /storage/armazem worked great.

Almost everything set now, all emulators running great from NAS.
Next step will be to figure out how to work with the controls (DS4 and 8bitdo).

Cheers..

Are you able to mount shares ?

If I run the command manually it works:

mount -t cifs -o user=guest,pass= //192.168.0.15/Armazem/Emulators/RetroPie /storage/Armazem

But if I create the mounting file, it doesn't work:

LibreELEC:~/.config/system.d # cat storage-armazem.mount
[Unit]
Description=cifs mount script
Requires=network-online.service
After=network-online.service
Before=kodi.service

[Mount]
What=//192.168.0.15/Armazem/Emulators/RetroPie
Where=/storage/Armazem

Options=user=guest,pass=
Type=cifs

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Hi escalade, I've noticed es_systems.cfg is not looking for PSX images in "pbp" format:
<extension>.cue .tok .m3u .ccd .exe</extension>

Just to inform that I've added the format and it works great:

<extension>.cue .tok .m3u .ccd .exe .pbp</extension>

Ok guys, this is getting better and better.. Finally got PSX working also.
I had the bios, but they are case sensitive, so I had to rename them
Thanks again for your help

Quote from escalade

The pcsx_rearmed core is for ARM (i.e. RPi), you should be using mednafen psx. Again, post the logs

Ok, I see.
Regarding the logs, where can I find the relevant logs?

But I've just noted that I don't have the following bios, which are mentioned in the info file "mednafen_psx_libretro.info"

LibreELEC:~/.config/emulationstation # find / -name scph5500.bin
LibreELEC:~/.config/emulationstation # find / -name scph5501.bin
LibreELEC:~/.config/emulationstation # find / -name scph5502.bin

Will get the files and get back to you.

jaykass, escalade, Thanks a lot.

snes zip roms are now working fine, it was the rom issue, I just tried to zip the smc version and it worked.

fba issue also solved, thanks a lot, if anyone is having the same issue, just run the following command:
# sed -i -- 's/fba_libretro.so/fbalpha_libretro.so/g' /storage/.config/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

Now I'm only missing PSX, I don't have the core you mentioned (pcsx_rearmed_libretro.so), should I get it manually? I have these only
ls -ltr /tmp/cores/*psx*so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2340352 Sep 30 00:36 /tmp/cores/mednafen_psx_libretro.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3018616 Sep 30 00:36 /tmp/cores/mednafen_psx_hw_libretro.so

Is anybody else having issues running PSX from emulationstation?
I've tried more than 10 different roms (cue files + bin), I have all the bios in 3 different places "roms/psx", "bios" and "bios/psx".

Whenever I try to run a rom, I get a black screen.

Processes running:
1238 root 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/retroarch.start -L /tmp/cores/mednafen_psx_libretro.so /storage/roms/psx/Mega\
1239 root 0:00 {retroarch.start} /bin/sh /usr/bin/retroarch.start -L /tmp/cores/mednafen_psx_libretro.so /sto
1243 root 0:45 /usr/bin/retroarch -L /tmp/cores/mednafen_psx_libretro.so /storage/roms/psx/Mega Man X4 (USA).

Any suggestion ?
None of the following files give useful information

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 Sep 30 17:19 emulationstation.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 392 Sep 30 17:29 retroarch.log

Hi all,
I'm trying to get accomplished the following stuff (some I have already workarounds, wish I'm also sharing).
Can someone give me a hint ? Thanks in advance.

- Why can't I start fba roms ?
lvl2: Attempting to launch game...
lvl2: /usr/bin/retroarch.start -L /tmp/cores/fba_libretro.so /media/SDCARD/roms/fba/1942.zip
lvl1: ...launch terminated with nonzero exit code 256!

- Some SNES also give the same error:
Resolved, it seems that I can't run zipped roms

- How to exit Dolphin ?

- How to run Roms via SD card?
Workaround - Create symbolic link to run Roms always from sdcard labeled SDCARD (Note that emulationstations will not boot without sdcard):
# mv /storage/roms /storage/roms_BAK
# ln -s /media/SDCARD/roms/ /storage/roms

- How to keep scpraped images in SD card ?
Workaround - create symbolic links
# mv /storage/.config/emulationstation/downloaded_images/ /media/SDCARD/
# mv /storage/.config/emulationstation/gamelists/ /media/SDCARD/
# ln -s /media/SDCARD/gamelists/ /storage/.config/emulationstation/gamelists
# ln -s /media/SDCARD/downloaded_images/ /storage/.config/emulationstation/downloaded_images

OMG OMG, I was able to install after resizing with gpart boot cd.

This seems to be amazing, Thank you Escalade, I guess I have a lot of hours to configure.. Hope to be able to run my roms from SD CARD or Network..

Congrats, this is a masterpiece distro

Tried again a fresh install using image "LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel-20160928.img" with a new SD Card but I get the same message after reboot:

ISOLINUX 4.01 debian-20100714 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found! boot: _

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Quote from escalade

Well, there you have it. Your /flash needs to be 512MB.

Is there an easy/safe way to re-size ?
Thanks