Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!

[Mos Eisley]

Hello everyone!  After a few weeks of research and the arrival of my PI 3, I decided to sign up for the forums because I know I am going to need help.

I've got the PI, a power source, a memory card, and a zipped retro pie file on my computer.
Tomorrow I will go looking for a used monitor.  I hope I can get this thing up and running, like many others have.
However, a lot of the trouble shooting looks intimidating.

I am sure I will be back with a lot of questions to follow.

Wish me luck!

[Slippyblade]

Don't be intimidated.  One way to make troubleshooting and config easier is to connect the Pi to your network and SSH from your regular computer into the Pi.  That way you can web browse on your normal computer which you are familiar with, and then you can copy/paste command line arguments into the shell.

[Mos Eisley]

Probably should make a new post for this, but I've been searching for a monitor and have found that it may just be easier to buy an 22" LCD TV.  Is this a good idea or a bad idea.  I figure with a tv I won't need an hdmi dvi converter.

[Slippyblade]

I've used HDMI, VGA, DVI, and the composite out.  They all work just fine.  If you use the HDMI, it's pretty much idiot-proof.  On certain VGA monitors you may need to twiddle settings in your config.txt, that would be done through SSH.

[Mos Eisley]

Ok, everything works except my roms!  I downloaded 6 roms and only 1 (Black Tiger) works.
The other 5 error out!   This was the troubleshooting I feared.  Can anyone point me somewhere to find some help??

[floob]

Which emulator are you using?

[PL1]

Ok, everything works except my roms!  I downloaded 6 roms and only 1 (Black Tiger) works.
The other 5 error out!   This was the troubleshooting I feared.  Can anyone point me somewhere to find some help??

You need to find the ROMset that matches your emulator version.

Floob posted a list here and there is a more current list here on Github.

Where can you download the ROMs? -- See Rule #5.


Scott

[Mos Eisley]

Thanks!  I am using emulation station and mame4all.  I will read these and give it a try.

[Mos Eisley]

Error I get is /tmp/runcommand.log

I did find a few more games that work after looking at the list, but a few that any they work still won't
I guess it's just trial and error.

[floob]

If you are using mame4all (either standalone or the libretro core) it is likely the 0.37b5 romsets you need.

Has clrmamepro verified your romsets?
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

[ballboff]

I just downloaded a new romset.  I chose 0.78 because I found mame2003 libretro to be the most compatible.

Have a look here for mame versions...  https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

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[Charlie97L]

I would recommend using mame2003.  I started with mame4all, and 2003 is a lot better, performance-wise.

[Mos Eisley]

So is it as easy as moving a few to the libretro folder, or do I have to add this emulator somehow?

[floob]

mame2003 is already installed, it will look for files in the mame-libretro rom folder.
You can choose the emulator that runs these by using the runcommand
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand

[Mos Eisley]

Thanks!!!  Slowly, but surely I am getting more and more to work!

You guys are awesome!

[Mos Eisley]

OK, now my issue is exiting games.  Some games I cannot escape, no matter what I hit on the keyboard.  I end up just killing the power, which I hate to do.   Suggestions?

[ballboff]

I edit the retroarch.Cfg and set the hotkey to select button,  and exit emulator to start button.  The controls on mine are keyboard controlled,  so these settings are the same as standard mame.  I.e. "1" and "5".

So I just hold down select and then press start. 

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[Mos Eisley]

Where do I do this.

Do I go to the retropie menu and select retroarch or do I go to configuration editor?

[ballboff]

Where do I do this.

Do I go to the retropie menu and select retroarch or do I go to configuration editor?

Go to the configuration edit I think.  I did all my edits from the command line.  Made it a lot easier.  You could also use ssh from a pc,  which isn't as scary as it sounds.  Allows you to do all your edits remotely. 

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