When running the current emulationstation startup script, the following lines are repeated to the tty:

~/RetroPie/EmulationStation ~/RetroPie/EmulationStation

This happens whether or not the script is run manually or run at bootup through the setup script.

The relevant section of the emulationstation startup script looks like this:

pushd "/home/pi/RetroPie/EmulationStation"
./emulationstation
popd

Perhaps it needs fixing?

All my Raspberry Pi patches from it have already been merged upstream, and the repo on my page is now mostly sticking around for compatibility purposes. If you can switch the RetroArch repo to the one at Themaister/RetroArch, that would be great.

This would allow parameter tweaking for the individual cores.

It seems people often install from a terminal within X, then immediately start EmulationStation from this terminal. While ES seems fine with that, it breaks RetroArch's keyboard input (which means the emulator won't close, and a system restart is required). I think a simple warning would fix the problem.

I'm not sure if I PM'd you earlier or not so here it goes. I made a commit to the scraper earlier and renamed it since it's using 2 sources now. The repository path has obviously changed and needs to be changed in your script.

I see that you reverted most of the code from my last pull request and wanted to ask if there is a reason why you want 'pi' as standard user for the installation script and not the user who runs the script?

See, e.g., http://www.retrocomputers.eu/raspberry-pi/how-to-compile-the-fuse-zx-spectrum-emulator-on-the-raspberry-pi/

If I reboot the board after the first run of emulationstation, upon my next load of emulation station I am presented with a menu that gives me the options only to shutdown or restart the board. I have done several reloads, and run into the issue every time.

Just a heads up. This should be the last library I add to EmulationStation.

You should add NeoGeo emulator : http://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/neo-geo-emulation-on-the-raspberry-pi/

I've just added support for multiple file extensions in an ES system (just delimit them with a space). I know there's more than one popular format for SNES games (.sfc comes to mind), and probably others too. Sometimes formats are in all-caps too (e.g. ".NES").

This might not be important, but I think it should keep the "why aren't my games being detected?" question away.

Add function for generating a summary of all essential files and configurations to help debugging and remote support for users.
The information should be put into a log file. It could consists of the following parts:

• Existence of files: retroarch, emulationstation and font file, emulatorcore libraries. The existence should be checked and logged with the ls -1l command to the log file.
• Emulator Station configurations (es_systems.cfg and es_input.cfg). Logged with cat >> logfile
• RetroArch configuration. Logged with cat /etc/retroarch.cfg >> logfile.
  To make reading more easier it would be good to just log the non-comment lines of the configuration files
• Summary of ROMs directory, e.g., with du -ch --max-depth=1 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/.
• Check for extensions of individual ROMs
• Check for library dependencies with ldd command

I've just pushed the new OpenGL ES renderer for ES, which changes the dependencies a bit. The README says:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev

The SDL_ttf, SDL_image, and SDL_gfx libraries are no longer required.

Repo is here: https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed

Use ./configure --platform=libretro before compiling.

Tested via ES and command line, both working.

I'm just curious if there is a button to add a coin to MAME roms?

Noob here. Just got my RasPi yesterday, trying to run the retropie_setup shell script, and I'm getting a syntax error:

$ sudo sh ./retropie_setup.sh
$ ./retropie_setup.sh: 40: ./retropie_setup.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

From a user: I have been testing the pc engine libretro fork which so far works really well its address is https://github.com/libretro/mednafen-psx-libretro.git maybe you could think of adding this to retropie

This would allow the installation/update of specific components rather than installing everything.

on my last recompile , emulation station failed if i remember correctly my system was missing libfreeview-dev or something like that , even though install libraries was selected

COMMAND=retroarch -L $rootdir/emulatorcores/imame4all-libretro/libretro.so ROM%
is missing a percent, should be:
COMMAND=retroarch -L $rootdir/emulatorcores/imame4all-libretro/libretro.so %ROM%

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17928

Hi,

I have issues getting any sound from retroarch at all.

First of all, I should mention that sound works fine if I use aplay to play some random WAV file so it's not a system-wide issue.

I use latest rasbian wheezy, firmware, and retropie-setup.

I have tried everything hinted in different threads, including:

• sdl vs alsa as backend
• 48000kHz vs 44100kHz
• unmuting amixer
• increasing volume in alsamixer

Retroarch logs this:

RetroArch [ERROR] :: [ALSA]: Unknown error occured (Resource temporarily unavailable). RetroArch [ERROR]: Audio backend failed to write. Will continue without sound

Permission problem maybe?
It seems I am not alone, see this thread: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=6750&start=225

Hey, just wanted to let you know that EmulationStation now requires libsdl-image1.2-dev to build, so you'll probably need to update your install script.

retropie_setup.sh currently uses cd, assuming you're running it from the user's home directory. Use pushd and popd to remain relative.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=151535#p151535

http://elinux.org/RPi_VICE_C64_Emulator

From Hexxeh:

function detect_split() {
if [[ -f "$FW_PATH/start.elf" && ${FW_RAM} -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "Autodetecting memory split"
FW_RAM=240
for R in 128 192 224 240
do
if [[ -f "$FW_PATH/arm${R}_start.elf" ]]
then
if diff "$FW_PATH/arm${R}_start.elf" "$FW_PATH/start.elf" >/dev/null
then
FW_RAM=$R
break
fi
fi
done
fi
FW_GPU=$((256-FW_RAM))
}

detect_split
if [[ ${FW_RAM} -ne 240 ]] &&[[ ${FW_RAM} -ne 224 ]] && [[ ${FW_RAM} -ne 192 ]] && [[ ${FW_RAM} -ne 128 ]]; then
echo "RAM value must be one of: 240, 224, 192, 128"
exit 1
fi
echo "Using ARM/GPU memory split of ${FW_RAM}MB/${FW_GPU}MB"