Posts by niabi

Quote from hybridr

I was wondering if anyone attempted to map their controllers in PPSSPP. I've been trying to map them multiple times without success. The controls work fine during gameplay but I'm not able to navigate the menus any longer to exit PPSSPP. A description to my problem is actually shown in this PPSSPP forum:

Control Mapping for dualshock 3 (RetroPie)

I understand it's likely a PPSSPP issue but I'm curious if anyone can help me understand how to SDLJoystick.h before compiling. Thank you.

Have you checked this PR on github? it mentions running PPSSPP with the --PS3 argument

Adds --PS3 comand line option for PS3 controller support on SDL. by klyoungblood · Pull Request #8949 · hrydgard/ppsspp · GitHub

Quote from 5schatten

Giga Wing -> FinaBurn Alpha?

fmirl! XD

Quote from 5schatten

You placed the bios files dc_boot.bin & dc_flash.bin in the ...\bios\dc\ subfolder? Even if it runs I have some graphical glitches so I guess it doesn't link correct to libGLESv2 or something but naomi stuff like boots fine even though it's quite slow.

The whole evdev controller config is a mess so they should rework the SDL backend what's IMHO the absolut basics if you provide an emulator

Yep, did that, correct hashes and all, but oh well if it doesn't run well I won't bother anymore with it, I'll stick with the standalone.

Yeah I guess you are right, but I don't find evdev to be that complicated and you only have to do it once, unless you change controllers a lot. Then the emulator runs at a very decent speed, so I won't complain, I still get to play Giga Wing

Quote from 5schatten

Well get valid bios files & place then in the correct diretory and it will start. But it runs like §%$§&§ for most games but blame libretro overhead for that The standalone core would maybe perform better but it's IMHO a pile of shards without a proper SDL2 implementation which allows at least an easy controller configuration

SDL code completely broken · Issue #1322 · reicast/reicast-emulator · GitHub

Make SDL input usable · Issue #1371 · reicast/reicast-emulator · GitHub

I tried that, several times,unless my bios files are corrupt, but they do have the correct hashes, the standalone reicast works with my DC images, but using your build (or mine) I can't get the freaking libretro one to work, don't know why.

and I agree standalone Reicast is a mess to configure the gamepad, but its not that hard and once you do it it runs very good on the S905 (not perfect of course) which is surprising.

I am actually trying to port the script that they use in Retropie to configure the controller for different emulators from ES itself, if that works then the controller would be a non-issue

Quote from hybridr

I've been trying to test Dreamcast on my S905 box. It crashes every time. Here's the log. Thank you!

UPDATE: Never mind! I Copied the wrong bios files.

Mind sharing how you got it to work? I am unable to make it work.

Quote from paolotorres

It works with a few tweaks on the tutorial. It wasn’t clear so I had to trial and error. Thanks!

If you don't mind, can you share it so others with the same problem can also benefit?

Quote from paolotorres

Oh I just followed this.

1. In retroarch. Load core > ScummVm

2. Dont select Quick menu. Select Start core.

3. There you can add your games.

Other stuff like new themes are found in scummvm website.

Have you tried following these suggestions?

libretro_cmdline.md

if that works it should be trivial to add to ES

Quote from paolotorres

<figured it out> now anyone know how to launch it from emulation station?

Can you share how you did it? We can probably help more with ES if you show what you did to load it.

Quote from 5schatten

Well I guess some stuff needs some optimization like the function handling in profile.d but yes all in all it works in most cases though it's sometimes a bit hard to make it work on all platforms.

I've done the same as you do now so I started with escalades builds, digged through the code and reworked everything I needed for LE9 which has countless improvements over LE8 and of course the packages are updated as well. Also I've checked how lakka recallbox or retropie handle stuff and of course arch or LFS is quite handy too. All in all it was quite some work but now I guess I can start to polish the whole thing.

After a user asked for PPSSPP standalone he pointed me to your build and beside this patch sdl2-git-egl.patch I didn't do pretty much to make it run but keep in mind that I use SDL 2.0.9 what might handles stuff different? Also I ported PPSSPP 1.7.x while yours was 1.6.x so maybe it did not work for you because of some bugs that have been fixed in the meantime?

Right now I am using PPSSPP 1.7.5 and SDL2 2.0.8 and I still have the same problem, I will try and update the SDL version and see if that works

Thanks!

Edit: I found out why, its because you have Buffered Rendering by default, if I change it to non-buffered on your build it will also display a black screen unless I go to 16bpp.

5schatten I've been using your build for a bit, well... analyzing the code mostly, as I like to learn from anywhere I can, I like a lot of stuff you added and how everything is integrated, you surely know what you are doing! one thing I could not find is how you got PPSSPP standalone to work with a 32bpp color space, no matter what I did on my build it has only worked with 16bpp can you by any chance explain to me how you got it to work?

Quote from Lordjontan

EmulationStation addons still doesn't works for me on 2.0.1. When I open it, it just stuck on a blinking screen with Sx05re logo

I made another mistake that I already fixed, I am uploading it as we speak

Edit: Uploaded

@SumavisionQ5 ES restart bug fixed and page up/down re-implemented I will upload an update tonight.

Edit: 2.0.1 is uploaded

Quote from 5schatten

Fair enough... so I used escalades package, who used your package and finally you used AlexELEC as base

Another point is --disable-lua \ because if lua is disabled why do we need it for ARM? My approach was quite the same... I needed a VLC package & ES builds fine with it but since bigboo stumbled uppon non working video previews I try to make things "right"

I guess I drop the whole move plugins stuff because this only makes sense for dev purposes IMHO... so if a plugin is missing or does not work you can easily upload it without rebuilding the whole image.

The video preview works now with this patch set Enable MMAL support · RPi-Distro/vlc@8ba628d · GitHub and VLC 3.0.3 but since 3.0.5 was released today I'll give it a try.

I don't think we need lua at all for ARM, that was one of the things I was trying to get rid of but I forgot to finish it xD

do you know if that patch breaks anything for AML?

Quote from 5schatten

Well it works for my Vim but I guess it's a VLC mmal hardware acceleration problem.

EDIT:

niabi what's the purpose of this? I figured out there was no video output for RPi because the plugins haven't been updated because they were located in ~/.config/vlc/plugins so why do you move them?

package.mk#l175

When I first started this build the only one that was doing anything similar to what I wanted was AlexELEC, so I borrowed a lot of the code from it, that package was one of them, so I honestly have no idea whats the purpose of that line. I had to change a few things on VLC to make everything work for me, but I never changed that line, since well...it worked for my S905. I guess you could use a conditional statement to remove it for the RBPI or if it doesn't break anything on the other systems just remove it all-together.

Quote from 5schatten

I fixed this and now the video previews work fine in Pegasus but looks like the preview is broken for ES & RPi... I've got sound output but it stutters & no video at all. Any thoughts about that?

Unfortunately no I've never used RPI with LE

Quote from SumavisionQ5

niabi

Can you try your latest build(0.2) of Sx05RE?

I tested it last night, it seems that "restart emluationstation" from ES menu does not working properly. I chose "restart emluationstation" from ES menu, the system got very slow and after a while the system stopped working.

Can anyone confirm that, too?

And, I just found that L1/R1 buttom is not working in ES to fast scroll down/up the gamelist. Could you add that back?

I noticed the restart bug, I will try to fix it ASAP

the L1/R1 was removed from the ES code for some reason, I am still trying to revert it with no luck

Quote from 5schatten

Thx well it doesn't hurt to add the file formats so I'll update es_systems then. I've read a bit about video scraping and after some hours of trial and error it works fine with Universal XML Scraper & ES and of course it does not work with Pegasus but I have already a log & will see whats wrong wiht it.

Probably some missing decoder lib or else... niabi any hints?

Its definitely missing libs, I had to do compile gstreamer with gst-libav gst-plugins-base and gst-plugins-good to be able to view videos on Pegasus.

alto they are a bit old this is the whole package I used for Pegasus.

https://github.com/shantigilbert/coreelec/tree/sx05re/packages/sx05re/pegasus-frontend

Quote from 5schatten

Pull the latest commits since I forgot to set the framebuffer vars in the start script

I tried it and it worked most of the times, but 1 out of 10 times it crashed back to Kodi, but this might also be on my side not sure if its my box+tv combo are the best for this tests, but at least is not all the times like it was before.