Posts by dojrude

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Installed Emulationstation to get a nicer looking frontend and everything seems to be working, except even though I start a game from emulation station, when I press the hotkeys to exit, it dumps me back in Retroarch and I have to exit the ROM from there and then exit Retroarch to get back to emulation station. Is this how it's supposed to work?

    In Retropie the hotkeys take you straight back to emulation station and Retroarch is hidden away in the config pages.

    Thanks.

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Hmm, ok, looks like it might be a core selection issue.

    While the SNES9x core appears to work fine on the OSX install of Retroarch, the SNES9x2010 core appears to be required for the RPi version of Retroarch.

    With SNES9x2010 the SNES ROMs all run fine (unzipped as tested).

    Is there a difference between the Retroarch versions? Both a 1.6.7?

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    And this is the failing SNES config debug log;

    Are you able to tell why one works and one doesn't?

    With regards to power, I don't see anything to indicate an issue on the screen. With previous Pi's and power supplies I used to see coloured squares and lightning bolts in the corner to indicate a problem. I don't see any of those with this build.

    Sorry for using 2 posts, but I was over the 30,000 character limit with 1 post.

    Thanks for your help, really appreciate it.

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Quote from bite_your_idols

    dojrude I use zip files for all my systems (nes, snes, gb, gbc, sms, md...) and all work just fine. Searching the web with your logs last line I think maybe you are having any performance issue related with not enough memory, power supply or whatever.

    I remember another user had same issue a long time ago but I can not remember if he/she solved it...

    Are you referring to this about the power?

    Code
    [INFO] [Video]: Does not have enough samples for monitor refresh rate estimation. Requires to run for at least 4096 frames.

    I've changed to a proper Rpi3 power supply now and am still seeing that error in the logs.

    I've torn everything down and deleted all configs and reinstalled from scratch, configuring exactly the same as the OSX install that works without issue. I've unzipped the ROM's just in case (as Megadrive and SNES were still refusing to start), but now Megadrive works and SNES doesn't.

    Below is the working Megadrive config debug log;

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Quote from Mario77

    dojrude

    Well you are using the proper core..unzip the rom and try again..

    ok, so if I unzip the rom and run it from the load-content menu it works.

    Retroarch on OSX runs from .zip files and the logs above indicate it can see the .md file inside the zipped rom file when I try to start it, so what's stopping it from running? Is it anything to do with paths and the location the rom is extracted to not being writable? Is there a config setting for .zip files that I need to enable in the RPi version of Retroarch?

    Is anyone else able to use .zip files?

    Thanks.

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Interesting that doing the same thing on 2 different platforms gives 2 different results. Loading the same core and rom on the OSX version of Retroarch works fine and the game loads as expected.

    Start Retroarch, download the genesis_plus_gx core, scan the rom folder, run the game.

    OSX works, RPi drops back to Retroarch with the failed to load content error.

    Here's the debug log from the Pi;

    Thanks.

  • Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

    Hey guys, really hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.

    Been trying to get this add-on working, but am having no joy.

    Install Retroarch, then enter the config and select to install the full lakka cores package.

    Enter Retroarch, scan rom folder and it correctly identifies the rom files, but if I try and start a game it goes to a black screen and then drops back to retroarch with the message "failed to load content".

    I'm not really grasping the cores things. I understand that a core is an emulator for each console type, but if I install the lakka package, does that take care of loading all the cores automatically? I'm not sure I grasp the concept of the load core option. Do I have to load a core specific to a rom set before I attempt to play any of those roms or is it all automatically managed behind the scenes?

    Is there a guide anywhere? I've watched a couple of youtube vids and theirs just seem to work out of the box.

    For reference I tried retro pie previously and that worked without issue, but I had a problem where I couldn't get my TV remote working correctly in Kodi, so decided to try the Libreelec/Gamestarter route as I already use that and already know that the Libreelec side of things works perfectly.

    I have a Rpi3 if it helps.

    Thanks and appreciate your hard work.

  • Volume level

    On v8 releases the volume always starts quiet and then ramps up over 10secs or so.

    This causes a problem a resume paused media is too quiet to hear until the volume has ramped up again.

    I've played around with a few settings, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

    Does anyone know what I need to change to make it so that the volume works at one level only?

    Apologies if this is a repost, it my earlier thread didn't appear.

    Thanks.