I had to mount my server as a networkshare into the different Pis because RetroArch could not access Network Files. But as soon as i had them mounted i could set everything up and i have just tested it and it works just the way i wanted it
could you mount your server using Kodi's LibreELEC settings addon or you need to do it using CLI?
do you need to mount it every time you boot your pis or it auto-mounts in each boot?
Hello,
first of all - thank you for your great work. I really enjoy being able to switch fast from my Kodi to RetroArch forth and back.I have a question - i am planning to buy another Pi for my TV in my Bedroom. My Wife is currently playing a lot of old games on the first Pi in the living room - is it possible to synchronize the save files ?
I`ve got an third Media Server at home which is running on debian and running 24/7 hosting a couple of other stuff for me including the mysql database for synchronized Kodi.
It would be cool to store the savegames or even better all the emulators / bioses and roms on this server and just stream it from all the Pis to the specific tvs.Not sure if this is possible though, hope you/someone can help me
Greetings,
apfello.
Yes! you can use my Google drive addon in both pis and select one folder to sync your saves/bios/roms (it depends in storage size):
GitHub - bite-your-idols/script.pigdrive: Google Drive as a kodi addon for Raspberry Pi.
But if you say you have a 24/7 server in your home you cann try to select a folder in it as your emulators folder (including bios/roms/saves). Just go to retroarch settings>folders and change default ones (/storage/emulators/...) to your server ones (http://192.168.1.XX/path/to/emulators/...) it should work. Maybe you need to add that folder to libreelec media folders but I am not sure... just try it! ...and give us feedback 
AFAIK reicast core is a very WIP one comparing to standalone emulator, specially for Pi so by the moment it is not worth my time... sorry...
Does Gamestarter only work on Rasberry Pi?
I have x64 with LibreELEC
Only for Pi.
Sorry for being offline so long, I was busy at work...
Gamestarter v2.8 released!
Release Gamestarter v2.8 · bite-your-idols/Gamestarter-Pi · GitHub
enjoy!
PSX games need bios/system files placed in /storage/emulators/bios
GitHub - libretro/Lakka: Deprecated. Use https://github.com/lakkatv/Lakka-LibreELEC instead
Hi,
for a test I got a Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, but I'm not able to pair it with Libreelec 8, any idea how this works?
I assume your are using an usb receiver. You just need to pair your controller with your receiver pressing sync buttons. You can not pair it directly to pi. You can use any chinese receiver clon from ebay or aliexpress for less than 5€.
Hi all,Since Retroarch 1.5 is out now (which contains important Netplay fixes to make it somewhat useable): is there any chance of getting a quick update for GameStarter?
Thanks a lot for your nice work!
Yes! You can download retroarch 1.5.0 for your LE version from here:
builds
then you just need to rename it and replace it in /storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/bin/retroarch
By now I am not going to release a new addon update so this is the only way to update it.
I just tried itin my LE8 personal installation and it works ok.
Do I need an addon for pairing, or is it possible to do this with board tools of Kodi 17 / LibreELEC 8?
Sorry for my question, but I can not find a tutorial for paring.
thread-3464.html
This didn´t help.
Just go to settings> libreelec. Enable bluetooth, connect your DS3 with usb cable, go to bluetooth devices, it will appear, unplugg usb and press PS button... it should work, and you should controll kodi with your DS3.
Sorry for my late respond, but I was very busy
With USB it works. I bought now also this Bluetooth Dongle
CSL - USB nano Bluetooth-Adapter V4and I upgraded to LibreELEC 8, but no change.
Should the PS3 Controller work also over Bluetooth in the Kodi menue, or just in Emulstation?
Yes, after pairing it with kodi using LibreELEC settings addon, you should control kod with your gamepad. Firstly you must achieve this, then EmulationSation, RetroArch and emulators/cores will run ok.
Hi
I´m a newbee and I´m not sure if this is the right thread.My system is:
Raspberry pi 3 with LibreELEC 7.02 and the Gamestarter Addon 2.7
I paired a PS3 Controller (shown in the Bluetooth-Menue)When I start a PS1 or N64 Game, the yellow font shows me "100% PS3 Controller..."
But when I want to use the controller, nothing happens.
Has anyone an idea, what I have to do?
Thanks in advance
what about using it with usb wire?
did you try another systems or these two are the only you tried?
you can activate retroarch's debugging options and paste here log output.
Maybe I shouldn't ask this but..will this work on amlogic s905x boxes?
only Pi!
take a look to this:
thread-302.html
Hi BYI. I figured out a solution to playing vectrex with overlays. Maybe it's a possible update to your gamestarter.start script? Here's what I did (and it works perfectly).
1. Copied the gamestarter.start to gamestarter2.start (I didn't want to mess things up).
2. Modified line#96 so I could use my own config file. Changed to read like this (see the $2.cfg):Code$DIR/resources/bin/retroarch -c "$2.cfg" -L $LIBRETRO_DIR/$1_libretro.so "$2" &> $LOG_FILE_RA
3. Redid my vectrex config files. Very easy to do with a batch file. Each config file is a text file. The code for each text file is like this:Codeinput_overlay = "/storage/emulators/roms/vectrex/overlays/Armor Attack.cfg"4. The armor attack filename is "Armor Attack.bin". The config file is "Armor Attack.bin.cfg". The bin files and the cfg files are in the same directory. This filenaming structure is important.
5. The vectrex overlays are in a folder called "overlays" (as you can see in the cfg file).
6. The overlays directory has PNG files and config files. Config files in the overlays directory says something like this. Here's the code for "Armor Attack.cfg" located in the overlays directory:Codeoverlays = 1 overlay0_overlay = Armor-Attack.png overlay0_rect = "0.0,0.0,1.0,1.0" overlay0_descs = 06. Last but not least - change the es_system.cfg. You can see I called it vectrex_test and the caller is gamestart2.start to not mess things up (test and tuning purposes). I'm sure you can use the same modified gamestarter2.start launcher in something other than emulation station.
Code<system> <fullname>Vectrex_test</fullname> <name>vectrex_test</name> <path>/storage/emulators/roms/vectrex/</path> <extension>.bin</extension> <command>/storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/bin/gamestarter2.start vecx %ROM% ES</command> <platform>vectrex</platform> </system>Anyway with all that done, it works like a champ. I'm not sure if you have a general wiki on setting things up, but pls feel free to share the info. I've googled quite a bit to find a solution, and there seems to be confusion on setting up vectrex overlays.
Thanks for putting together a great script.
Tom
thanks for sharing this walkaround for vectrex users!!
I'm having some fundamental probs with this addon. The patient is a rasp pi 3 & it uses a USB for the storage. Today I formatted the stick (ext4) and LE 7.0.3 started just fine - and with a clean slate. I installed the v2.7 OLE zip & rebooted. Launched the programs/gamestarter and rebooted after I saw the message telling me to reboot. I copied some roms to the roms directory via the network and rebooted just in case. From what I've read in this thread, I was hoping to see some configuration settings, but could not access them. The only new programs installed are gamestarter and advanced launcher. When I open gamestarter, I see the familiar retroarch program with a yellow "failed to save config" message. The font is "boxy" and there are black boxes in place of the icons I would normally see with retroarch. It kind of looked broken. I could not use the familiar Z and X keys to navigate and could not figure out how to add cores. There was The gamestarter log:
- tar: can't open '/storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/data/retroarch.tar.gz': No such file or directory
- tar: unexpected end of file
- tar: short read
- :Gamestarter:: -> installing advanced launcher...
- tar: can't open '/storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/data/plugin.program.advanced.launcher.tar.gz': No such file or directory
- Archive: /storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/data/advanced-launcher-2.5.8.zip
My addons log file says this:
Failed to open /storage/.config/retroarch/assets/xmb/monochrome/font.ttf: No such file or directory
Failed to open /storage/.config/retroarch/assets/xmb/monochrome/font.ttf: No such file or directoryFor laughs I tried installing gamestarter v2.6 but it was the same. Am I missing something fundamental? Is there some sort of ssh command I need to type in? I see too many people saying it works. Obviously I'm doing something wrong.
it seems your zip is not properly downloaded, transfered or not installed ok. After downloading, transfer to Pi and make sure it has the same file size, then install from zip and wait until kodi says it is installed. If you see then in /storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/data you must see missing packages you said: plugin.program.advanced.launcher.tar.gz, retroarch.tar.gz, ... Then run first time installation and wait until message prompts... there is no mistery...
I was actually able to get my DS4 working great over bluetooth with the tutorial from the Lakka documentation. Try this: Lakka documentation - Wireless Dualshock
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I'm having issues in AEL with my N64 roms showing up under Playstation, and my Playstation roms showing up under N64. If I delete from the launcher under one system, it deletes it in both. Any ideas as to why this would be happening or how to fix it?
I found where is the issue with PSX and N64... they have the same category ID in default categories.xml file... sorry... I hace just fixed for upcoming next release.
You can edit categories.xml in ael user addon folder and replace line 722 with another random number like this:
<platform>Nintendo 64</platform>
<categoryID>2b494a422afb2474f89a7b693328fe64</categoryID>About DS4, I'm happy to hear that, I will recommend that link for other user with same problem.
EDIT: I discovered that I was wrong, previous correction will not fix your issue because categoryID is the parent category, it is not related with emulator... you can try to see launcher settings for both of them using context menu and try to check out if something is wrong...
I have raspberry pi2. Do I need to replace rPi3:~ # cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh by rPi2:~ # cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.sh
Sorry for my English
upss.... I totally forgot this workaorund for Scummvm Szymon_Zy did... someday I will look to include as an optional installation of gamestarter...
about your question, I think that " rPi3:~ #" is not necesary, it is just a mistaken copied from console, in that step you should exec:
cat /storage/scummvm/scummvm.shthen you will enter file editor and should write this:
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./scummvm $1By the way, I am working on new v2.7 with new retroarch 1.4.0 and its netplay features. Also I am trying to include the new Nintendo DS emulator what runs really smooth, DraStic.
Stay tuned.
did you try using DS4 via USB?, it works fine for me and it should work for you out of the box too. If it doesn't something is wrong. If it does try again via bluetooth and see what is the retroarch output on left bottom screen when starting, it should print on screen the controller name.
No idea about wii controller, I have never used one in RPi.
Hello,hello i use a rpi3 with your gamestarter addon, which is pretty awesome. The gamepads i use are the snes30 made by 8bitdo. The controller firmware i upgradeable and the current version is 2.70 so after every update i've to to replace the config files in your bulds by the ones for the firmware version 2.7.
So I was wondering if you could include these joypad config files into your builds, as they belong to libretro / retroarch-joypad-autoconfig and be maybe included in the future anyway. It's not much work to replace them anyway but it would ease up things cause my gf sometimes triggers the updates without telling me and ends up with non working gamepads
When I compile a new addon version it updates autoconfig files using the ones here: index · powered by h5ai 0.27.0 (http://larsjung.de/h5ai/)
The should be the same.
One thing I personally do is to copy my custom joypad config files in another folder (autoconfig-bit) and in retroarch menu I select this folder for autoconfig, in that way I don't loose my custom key/button configurations when updating. Also, gamestarter backup/restore feature should achieve that.
