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Title: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on May 22, 2016, 08:49:43 pm

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!

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Slippyblade on May 23, 2016, 12:59:23 pm

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.

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on May 26, 2016, 04:01:45 pm

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.

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Slippyblade on May 26, 2016, 04:34:14 pm

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.

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on May 28, 2016, 11:06:47 am

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??

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: floob on May 29, 2016, 09:08:05 am

Which emulator are you using?

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: PL1 on May 29, 2016, 09:36:26 am

Quote from: Mos Eisley on May 28, 2016, 11:06:47 am

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 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,144702.msg1504024.html#msg1504024) and there is a more current list here (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs) on Github.

Where can you download the ROMs? -- See Rule #5 (http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_message_rules.html).


Scott

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on May 29, 2016, 10:49:14 am

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

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on May 29, 2016, 11:42:54 am

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.

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: floob on May 29, 2016, 11:49:15 am

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

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: ballboff on May 30, 2016, 03:12:47 pm

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  (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs)

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Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Charlie97L on May 30, 2016, 07:23:42 pm

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

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on May 31, 2016, 10:34:31 pm

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

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: floob on June 01, 2016, 06:20:03 am

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

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on June 01, 2016, 03:58:25 pm

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

You guys are awesome!

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on June 10, 2016, 07:52:26 pm

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?

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: ballboff on June 11, 2016, 02:45:07 pm

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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Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: Mos Eisley on June 11, 2016, 06:50:28 pm

Where do I do this.

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

Title: Re: Pi arrived today! Hope this works!!
Post by: ballboff on June 13, 2016, 01:22:09 pm

Quote from: Mos Eisley on June 11, 2016, 06:50:28 pm

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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