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Retropie on raspbian bios files
Duhjoker:
I know all about rule #5. This all private, I don't plan on selling either my mame cocktail can or my Pi. The Pi is basically a super console that I can take with to play old games with friends or for social gatherings.
These game manufacturers and owners really should think about liscensing. There is much money that can be made off this.
MacGyver:
Some do still license their games (or some in some cases bastardized 3D reincarnation of them with the same brand name). If it wasn't for MAME some of the older obscure games would have been lost and forgotten by now though. Some vendors even opened up their licensing rights so their old games could be used by everyone. (Those public domain guys rock.)
Duhjoker:
Ok I did a clean install of Raspbian Jessie then downloaded KWEB and omxplayer and they seem to work. After that I re-installed Retropie 3.5. I only installed the emus I'm gonna use. Then I downloaded retro arch and emulation station. I then did the set-up script then rebooted.
After that I put all the bios files in the bios folder and games in thier appropriate roms folder.
Now when I type in "emulationstation" i get an error message that says::
X is running. Please shutdown X in order to mitigate problems with loosing keyboard input. For example, logout from LXDE
What exactly is LXDE and X.
If I hit the f1 control alt key then ^c and the gui closes and leaves me at the terminal. When I type emu station again I get X is running please turn off X.
So I type Pkill x and it makes me log back into the RJessie gui.
What am I doing wrong here???
MacGyver:
Try Ctrl+Alt+Bksp to really close X (the windows looking gui).
If that doesn't work, run:
--- Code: ---sudo raspi-config
--- End code ---
from a terminal window and find the startup setting and set it to console only. when you boot it will only go to the login prompt. you'll log in and the run your command.
If you want to run the pretty windows-looking gui again, just type:
--- Code: ---startx
--- End code ---
at the prompt (after logging in of course)
Note: While you're in the raspi-config, you might want to set the video ram and change the pi user password too (and anything else you investigate thoroughly first, like the cpu speed).
If you want it to login automatically in console mode (the text-only mode) you'll need to work at it.
Start here:
http://www.opentechguides.com/how-to/article/raspberry-pi/5/raspberry-pi-auto-start.html
Way down the road when you have a better idea of how things are working, you can learn to adjust the video resolution to whatever you want here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md
You should understand that not every TV/monitor supports all video resolutions/modes so make sure you know how to telnet/SSH in with Putty or something similar for when you screw up and can no longer see the screen. :)
Duhjoker:
Thank you so much that worked perfectly!!!!
Ok thanks to the good people here I have figured the problem.
Here's a short tutorial on how I set up raspbian Jessie with Retropie 3.5
You cannot run the emulationstation from with in the Jessie GUI so you have exit completely out of it. Here's how I did it.
Install the Raspbian Jessie image file to your card using the preferred method of your choice. While in raspi-config choose to boot to console. This makes it boot straight to the CLI.
Next follow the instructions here for setting up your keyboard found here. Follow it to a t until it asks if you want to use control+alt+backspace. The guide says choose no but you want to choose yes since this is the easiest way to turn X and LDXE off and take you to the CLI.
http://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/25556740-changing-the-raspberry-pi-keyboard-layout
Set everything under internationalism along with your keyboard then expand your file system to use all those gigs. Go to advanced options then open ssh and choose to enable it.
Now reboot pie and it will ask you for your login and password. Give both and it will give you a command line. Type start x to start the Desktop GUI.
Go ahead and type in start X then click the network icon at the right top of the GUI. When you see your network pop up click it then enter your credentials to log in to it.
Now that we have everything configured correctly we can set up Retropie by using the link below to maually install the latest version of Retropie.
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Manual-Installation
Transfer games and bios using win32scp
Now exit the GUI using control+alt+backspace. Then type in emulationstation to start emu station. F4 will exit.
At this point if you want an MP3 player or video player you can download the latest version of omxplayer and KWEB.
I don't know why emu station will not start in X but it would be a lot easier if you could access it through a desktop icon or through a menu option.
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