Posts by bite_your_idols

Quote from quotaholic

Amazing work! Thank you!

For WAF factor I try to use emulation station. After scanning 2500+ items last night and then rebooting this morning my PI2 seems to reboot anytime I try to use ES when using this plugin. If I switch to RetroArch in Settings it does not reboot and shows me the retroarch interface. The retroarch interface is not all that great for my girlfriend. How can I troubleshoot ES?

Taking a stab.... Last lines of log file:

lvl2: Parsing XML file "/storage/.config/emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml"...
lvl2: req sound [detailed.launch]
lvl2: (missing)

First lines indicate window made successfully but I never do see the ES window appear.

At this point I have uninstalled both game launcher and hacklib and reinstalled gamelauncher from local zip file. Settings seem to stay so I am guessing config files stay in place and do not get rewritten if reinstalling?

Thank you
Quotaholic

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I can remember there is a compatibility issue between emulationstation and hacklib (for gamemaker ports), so in case you have installed gamemker ports and hacklib, please make sure you deactivate the hacklib (launching the addon and checking there is no lib file in /storage/lib) before launching Emulationstation.

If this has no success, you can rename your gamelist.xml and try to launch again to check if it is some error during writing that file.

By the way, all configs for Emulationstation, retroarch and advancedlauncher are located in /storage/.config/ (you need to enable hidden files and folders in kodi settings)

Hi escalade!
As I told you in the other forum I compiled LibreELEC 8 master thanks to your advices, I owe you one, but I want to ask you if there is an easy way to get back to LE7 and then compile it enabling the use of gamepads. I have read that is something like "--enable-joystick" but I don't know where to edit that...

The thing is that the gamepad support is the only new feature I like from Krypton, and, on the other hand, there are a lot of issues or problems for me with this kodi version so I preffer staying in Jarvis.

thanks in advance!!

Quote from Mark

Thanks, that did it. I updated to libreelec and sound works with your boot settings. No need to edit ra.cfg at all.

Quote from Ironaxe

My DS3 Controller now finally works.
Just bought another BT Dongle.
Must have something to do with the drivers or such. The old Dongle works fine on my Windows PC with a DS3 Controller

i am glad to hear that!

Quote from hansolo77

Hey bite_your_idols (or anybody else in the know)...

Anybody know why my SNES emulation using SNES9x-Next suddenly started running at warp speed? I've lost all audio, and the frame rate is up around 90 fps. I checked my settings, even the core config files, but can't find anything that would fix it. I don't have a keyboard attached to my Pi, but I even tried connecting one just to see if I could toggle the FAST FORWARD (spacebar) and it didn't help. Anybody got any clues? It's driving me nuts! Now I can't play any SNES Games!

Related - SNES9x-Next seems to be the only core I can actually get to run. The regular SNES9x core just shows a black screen. I play for RetroAchievements, so those other cores are out because the don't support it. Anybody got some TLC for me?

First thing I would try is replacing retroarch.cfg file with default one, to see if some settings have changed. Also replacing libretro core file with the default one from my installation, just in case it has been updated.

Quote from  'bfcastello' pid='6824' dateline='1469157501'

Hi, I'm a first time LibreElec user, been familiar with Kodi for quite some time before. I actually like this project, kudos to the creator, however I am facing some struggling issues. I have some old DOS games, like Wolfestein 3D, Karateka, Carmen... I want to play them but I can't for the life of me make them run with the DOSbox core in RetroArch. Both RetroArch and EmulationStation fails to recognize the DOS games, when I try to run them through Launch Content in RetroArch, it goes to a black screen and then sends me back to Kodi main screen. What am I doing wrong? What are the steps needed to make the DosBox core run and play my games? Is there any tutorial for it? I can play fine some old Atari, NES and Mega Drive roms though. It's just DosBox that is letting me down. all the games runs fine with OpenEmu on my macbook, and the DOS games are fine with the Boxer mac app. thanks in advance!

I see retropie is not using libretro core for dosbox, so I think it is an experimental or work-in-progress core.
I don't know how it works but you can google "dosbox lakka" or "dosbox retroarch" and see if you can find any help... Sorry...

Quote from Mark

Hi, this add_on seems great but I have an issue with sound.

It is out put through the headphone jack but not the hdmi and I can't seem to find the option to change the device.

Can you help me?

Pi 3 and openelec (up to date)

Thanks.

connect by ssh and try editing boot config:

mount -o remount,rw /flash
nano /flash/config.txt

and change/add these parameters:

hdmi_force_edid_audio=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

Are you connecting any USB device to the pi?

also, when in a game connect to ssh and write:

aplay -l

there you can find out if something is wrong with audio_device and then you can edit retroarch.cfg with that value.

FInally I recommend to update your system to LibreELEC 7, its so easy, and for some user it solved his audio issues...

Quote from syrell

do i have to uninstall the addon first?

it is not necessary

Quote from syrell

does gs support nds games?

Raspberry pi has no power enought to emulate nds...

Quote from t_u_

Thanks for your answer. But I cannot find an option to change the screen size for the libretro core?! If I choose "Load core", there is only one amiga core (uae4arm) displayed; choosing that, I have no option to change the screen size?! I'm feeling somewhat stupid at this point.

Nevertheless, I got the libretro core working with changing the gamestarter.uae, replacing every 640 by 320 - this way, all seems to fit the screen.

Another question: Does the libretro amiga core not (yet?) support save states, as it says when pressing F4, or do I need to create some more directories?

Yours,

tu

When playing an amiga game using libretro you can enter retroarch, then select core options, and over there you can find screen size option...

About savestates, as I said this core is totally experimental and its creator did not make any improve since its firts version, it would be nice to add savestates features.

Quote from Deezel

any chance on making this work on multiple platforms

I just own a Raspberry Pi, so I can just test the addon in raspberry distros. It works in OpenELEC and LibreELEC and I tried to port it to OSMC but with no luck, also, for that distro there is an alternative to install retropie: RetrOSMC. Also I though about make it work in raspbian, but in that OS it so easy to install retropie too.
For other systems, if anyone wants to make an addon port I will be very thankful.

Quote from Sevren68

Great !

I have a Feature Request for version 2.0.5

In the Gamestarter "Config" can you add an option to select / browse the "ROM PATH" ?

I'm running out of room on my 32GB SD Card (mainly because of PS1 Roms) ... i would like to attach a USB HDD or Stream the Roms from my WD MyCloud

This would make it really easy for people to change the path (without having to mess about with .cgf files and paths editing)
when they run out of room .. or simply want to store their Roms somewhere else.

Please

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It is actually so easy to achieve that, in fact, in my personal installation I have my roms, bios and saves folders in an external HDD.
When playing a game enter retroarch menu (or launch it directly from kodi) then in settings menu search for the "directories" option, there you can set the folder you want for every retroarch stuff.

only things you should backup are (it is not necesary because installation won't overwrite them, but just in case):
- /storage/.config/advancedlauncher/launchers.xml -> if you added/edit advanced launchher game/emulator lists
- /storage/.config/emulationstation/es_systems.xml -> if you added/edit emualtionstation game/emulator lists
- /storage/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg -> If you edited some retroarch configurations

Also, if you want, you can make a SD image using UWB Image Tools, and in case something goes wrong you can restore your whole system...

please tell us your feedback after updating.

Quote from t_u_

Hi there,

first of all: Many thanks for your efforts to reduce the need to swap SD cards on the RasPi.

I am especially interested in running Amiga games from Kodi - which works so far, with two exceptions:

* Using uae4arm, everything works fine, games start as expected (after some finetuning). But: My controller (Saitek PLC Rumble Force Pad) is not recognized (correctly): I can sort of move the figure, but not with the pad, but with the shoulder pads and buttons 5-6 (or so). Seems like the mapping is not correct.

* Using libretro core, the mapping of the pad seems to be fine, but (besides the sound issue), I can only see (the left) half of the screen. It says retro 320x240, gfx 640x240 (or so), which seems reasonable seeing the result. Is there a way to change that?

Yesterday (it was late...), I somehow achieved the mapping in libretro to be correct (using RetroArch autoconfig?!?), but then, uae4arm did not start correctly (it hang after saying DispmanX 0 x 0 16 bpp)...

Did I overlook something? I would be glad if someone could help me fix those issues, whereas the sound issues whould be the minor one...

Thanks in advance,

tu

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Hi!
Amiga emulation in Gamestarter is not as good as it could be, using UAE4ARM it works, with default settings (the emulator UI can not be open, but you can change manually gamestarter.uae) but joypads are not working so well. That why I included libretro core, but this core is totally experimental, it is not included in any retroarch distro (lakka, retropie, recalbox...) and it needs a lot of work from its creator to make it work flawlessly.

Using libretro core helps to use any gamepad and it has some configuration that can be changed from retroarch core menu, such as screen size, for me "640x256" worked ok.

good luck!

Quote from Deezel

Hi there.
So i followed installation instructions/rebooted pi3/clicked on Gamestarter/said yes to reboot into retroarch... nadda happened.

Any advice on what i may be doing wrong?

Cheers
Deez.

did you install from zip the correct release for your OS?
After first gamestarter addon launch, did you get the "end of installation" notification? Next addon launch and retroarch does not run?
Try to download the latest release for your OS again, and install it from zip one more time.
Check if there are the folder /retroarch, /emulationstation and /advancedlauncher inside /storage/.config. Also check if there are /storage/emulators/bios, saves and roms folder.

If everything is in its place then you must debug using ssh:

systemctl stop kodi

then:

/storage/.kodi/addons/script.gamestarter/resources/bin/retroarch -c /storage/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg --menu

and see what happens...

New addon version release!
Gamestarter v2.0.4 (changelog)

enjoy!

Quote from syrell

gba emulation seems not to work for me! or isit not implemented yet?

did you copy the system bios file in /storage/emulators/bios/?

Quote from syrell

I could not reduce the input lag! sadly! Will the N64 Emulation maybe better someday or is the rpi2 always to slow for it?

maybe, "someday" is coming...
First ever revolutionary N64 Vulkan emulator coming soon – only for libretro (paraLLEl) – Libretro

Quote from syrell

that worked perfect! thx
I have another question I have like a 0.5 second delay when I click the button , until the game figurine is reacting to moving or jumping! can I lower the delay somewhere using snes!where is the retroarch.cfg located? maybe i ca change something there?.

Retroarch config file is located in /storage/.config/retroarch but I think you can not lower the input lag with any config file, but try it by yourself.

Quote from Ironaxe

Still can't get my DS3 Controller to work.
Made a fresh install of kodi and Gamestarter.
Controller is recognized by Retroarch ( Playstation 3 Controller configured at Port 0 ) via BT.
But I can't configure any Buttons. ( No Button press recognized )

It is so strange, because it should work out-of-the-box, just plug-and-play...
Try with this libretro forums thread solution, or ask them over there:
showthread.php?t=4629

Quote from syrell

I have a logitech rumblepad 2- it dont have a menu button. when i'm in Emulationstation i can us the start button , but when I launch the game the start button becomes the start button of the game.

If you have tried all buttons and no one opens retroarch menu you can do 2 things:
1- connect an USB keyboard, press F1, select input configurations and change "hot keys" selecting the ones from your gamepad as you want.

2- you can edit this file:
/storage/.config/retroarch/autoconfig/Logitech_Logitech_RumblePad_2_USB.cfg
and you can add at the bottom this lines:

input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "0"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "9"

this way you can exit pressing select + start and you can enter menu pressing select + Y (or triangle, I dont know exactly how this gamepad is )

Quote from syrell

thx for the addon- its great! I have 1 problem- how do I return to kodi while I inside a game playing? do i have to shut down my pi everytime? Im only connected with a gamepad. yatse is not reacting! Sb has a solution?

p.s. N64 games are really slow and not playable atm!

To retur to kodi you just need to quit retroarch. For this, you need to press menu button on your gamepad (Ps button on dualshocks, box button in 360 controllers for example) and you will enter retroarch menu, the select quit retroarch.
If you are in emulationstation, then you need to press menu button again and select exit emulationstation.

About n64, it depends in your overclock settings and the game you are trying to run, but yes, retroarch's n64 core for raspberries is not so fluid.

Quote from db25

Hello again,

I am following the steps that you have given me but I get it to work, I configured so the file system:

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[Unit]
Description=%p container
Requires=service.system.docker.service
After=service.system.docker.service


[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=10s
TimeoutStartSec=0
ExecStartPre=-/bin/sh -c "mkdir -p /storage/%p/watch /storage/%p/downloads /storage/%p/incomplete /storage/%p/config"
ExecStartPre=-/storage/.kodi/addons/service.system.docker/bin/docker rm %p
ExecStart=/storage/.kodi/addons/service.system.docker/bin/docker run \
          --rm \
          --name=%p \
          --hostname=libreelec-%p \
          --volume=/storage/%p/watch:/watch \
          --volume=/media/USB EXT/downloads:/downloads \
          --volume=/media/USB EXT/downloads/incomplete:/incomplete \
          --volume=/storage/%p/config:/config \
          --publish=9091:9091 \
          --publish=45555:45555 \
          libreelecarm/%p
ExecStop=/storage/.kodi/addons/service.system.docker/bin/docker kill %p


[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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After editing the file restart the service:

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systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart transmission

Below I open the browser and enter my IP: 9091 and gives me the following error:

If I leave the defaults if I work. I have also tried to change the file setting.json changing the directory, but does not work:

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"download-dir": "/media/USB EXT/downloads",
"incomplete-dir": "/media/USB EXT/downloads/incomplete",

It is posibe the space between USB and EXT influence ?? if I stood at the download path I want to set up and make a PWD shows me this route:

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/media/USB EXT/downloads

Any suggestions ??

regards

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I have the same problem, If I edit the paths to my external USB HDD and restar the daemon then web client gives me the "connection failed" error... any help?

EDIT: FIXED!! It was an "space character" in a folder name from the path.
it is working ok!

about madcatz controller you can check this out:
Setting up C.T.R.L.R in RetroArch | Mad Catz M.O.J.O.

about dualshock3, when connecting the controller via bluetooth or usb you must see "PLAYSTATION(R)3" or "Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3" display in left bottom corner. Check if you have this both config files "PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller.cfg" and "Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller.cfg" in /storage/.config/rertroarch/autoconfig/ folder. I think you can try to update controller databse inside retroarch menu but I am not sure right now.