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Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:10:08 2017 No.3713587 [Reply] [Original]

Just got one of these, what a waste

Lakka and Retropie are both buggy pieces of shit, Retropie is so bad im not convinced you can use it for more then a few days before it decides to corrupt itself, Lakka is better but not by much. Spotty compatibility with both, even with games that work fine on retroarch vanilla.

Just get a Android box or a Mini PC instead, pi ain't worth the trouble

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:24:46 2017 No.3713617 File: 92 KB, 214x229, 1452606400397.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I fucked up due to incompetence so here's a rant. my grandma loves hers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:36:14 2017 No.3713632 File: 2.87 MB, 320x240, come look at this.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3713587 Dude i have one and use it regularly with no problems. You must be an idiot

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:39:11 2017 No.3713645 >>3713587 >Retropie Excuse me. I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Retropie, is in fact, EmulationStation, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, ES.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:41:04 2017 No.3713648 >>3713587 I guess you're trying to emulate 5th gen? Yeah, it sucks for that. I honestly don't get why anyone likes these things. Just mod one of your consoles to play those same games in 240p.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:49:04 2017 No.3713668 >>3713587 Sounds like you bought a shitty MicroSD card

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:51:48 2017 No.3713672 >>3713668 It's a Kingston, nothing wrong with it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 20:04:45 2017 No.3713690 I had the original rpi and was using it to emulate snes and I thought the same. I came on /vr/ and asked if I was doing something wrong. Someone told me I need to overclock it. After that it was much more enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 20:58:30 2017 No.3713763 >>3713587 >Just got one of these, what a waste No you didn't.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 23:20:14 2017 No.3713979 >>3713690 That was me, you're welcome

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:06:52 2017 No.3714023

>>3713668
>>3713672

So you might have formatted it wrong. (Since you sound ignorant you probably used a provided installer so that's not your fault)

Most likely it's a rw issue. Rpi is notoriously bad for corrupting SD cards, best thing to do is have it mounted read only and use a USB for data.

Basically if you don't shutdown the rpi correctly you will corrupt the SD card (stupid considering it doesn't have a power button.....)

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:40:05 2017 No.3714083
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>>3713587
That's what you fucking DESERVE!

A raspberry pi is charitably provided empowering tool for you to be productive with!

You got what you had coming when set out to defile it by envisioning it as a cutesy little toy to dick around with! You got fucking karma slapped like a little bitch for trying to shit on the natural order of things!

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:41:47 2017 No.3714090

>>3713587
good. i'm not trying to convince luddites on the internet about the error of their ways, especially when they are so proud of their own incompetence.
im glad you had to spend more money and waste your time.
if you are too stupid to get it to work or are unable to know what the limitations of the system are, go tell your (probably idiot) friends your inflammatory rant and let them know how you figured it all out, how everyone got duped by the pi/retropie meme except you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:54:01 2017 No.3714123 >>3714083 >LEEJUN

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 01:05:49 2017 No.3714150 >>3714083 Goddamn this picture is embarrassing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:05:52 2017 No.3714241 I have a raspberry pi 3b that I have been using for about a year for retropie. I even made mine portable (battery+screen) and it hasn't corrupted anything I can tell. Not sure what OP is on about.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 02:06:07 2017 No.3714242 >>3714023 You just write "shutdown" into the term, how hard is that?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 03:55:45 2017 No.3714370 >>3713587 use recalbox. Retropie is the best but there are a lot of configuration issues.

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 03:57:38 2017 No.3714373

>>3713645
this is true. Recalbox, Lakka and retropie all use EmulationStation.

It's a matter of which limits and/or makes options settings available.

For ease of use

Recalbox>Lakka>Retropie.

I say this because Recalbox makes it harder for you to fuck shit up. Everything is already configured.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 03:59:24 2017 No.3714378 >>3713672 Kingston is the second to the slowest card you can buy. >>3714023 You can add a power button, but yeah this is true. Thankully, there's a quit button and the power off selection is right there .

Anonymous Tue Jan 3 04:20:14 2017 No.3714392

>>3713587
I've used both the pi 2 and pi 3, and I don't understand the hate. They work fine, but I guess I haven't tried anything from the ps1/n64 era. I hear about compatibility issues, but other than having to locate a couple BIOS files, I haven't had anything like that.

What are you trying to play that's giving you bugs? Corruption could be an sd card issue. Granted, I fooled around with these before there was daily shitposting, but my pi 2 was setup with retropie and then given to a literal autistic child, and the only problem he's had is wearing out the cheap chink controllers I got him.

Actually, the only thing about retropie that annoyed me was lack of support for ps3 controllers over pi3 builtin bluetooth. Even then, the damn thing had just come out.

Genuinely interested in what specific issues you've been having. In my experience, its a decent for being open-source software running on a glorified smartphone processor.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 07:45:30 2017 No.3714554 >>3714083 >RApeberry Pee >Pic related How? You're so edgy, you love shilling shitty hardware like a /g/ fag? WTF, nigga.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 07:52:39 2017 No.3714567 >>3714242 Apparently pretty hard because corrupting SD cards is a common issue with the pi

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 03:53:00 2017 No.3716540 [DELETED]

>>3713672
Get a U3 Toshiba Exceria micro sd. Raspi should be able to do 30 MB/s read and 20-30 MB/s write on it on without needing to overclock sd.

>>3714392
> I don't understand the hate.
Many people tried to setup Raspberry Pi Retro box without having the sufficient Linux background and understanding to troubleshoot their problems.

It's a pretty capable tinkerer's toy, but still a tinkerer's toy. Some tinkering skills and a huge amount of reading needed. This is why I often suggest normies getting Intel NUC.

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 04:05:58 2017 No.3716554

>>3713672
Does Lakka and RetroPie try to overclock sd card by default? Try turning sd overclock off, some cards can't handle that.

I use high end Sandisk (extreme pro? Can't remember) and Toshiba (Exceria U3) cards. Sandisk can handle overclock just fine. Toshiba works fast out of the box, without needing overclock.

>>3714392
> I don't understand the hate
Many people tried to setup Raspberry Pi retro box without having the sufficient understanding to troubleshoot their problems.

It's a pretty capable tinkerer's toy, but still a tinkerer's toy. Some tinkering skills and huge amount of reading needed. This is why I often suggest normies getting Intel NUC.

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 09:33:03 2017 No.3716842

>>3716554
> huge amount of reading needed

This is my fucking problem with this shit. "hurr buy a rpi" /vr/ said, "it'll be good for emulation" they said.

Yeah, well now I have a fucking useless $100 box sitting in the corner. RetroPie setup is ridiculous, any of the GUIs I've tried have been abhorrent, and the CLI is fucking retarded. Like I get you need to be different, but fucking common you should know what the fucking "dir" command means!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 09:38:33 2017 No.3716851 >>3716842 >"dir" on Linux Please don't be b8, I need a good smug laugh while readjusting my fedora.

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 15:45:48 2017 No.3717447

>>3713648
The benefit of a Raspberry Pi over a Wii or another modded console besides its size and price is EmulationStation, the frontend. I've seen Wii setups that would be ideal but you have to deal with some shitty homebrew "this is clearly an unofficial emulator" looking theme. A Raspberry Pi with the right ES theme looks way more sleek than any other modded console. Plus you just turn it on and you're all set -- you might have to do some menu diving to get what you want on a modded console. Might not sound like much, but it is when all you want to play is a certain NES game.

>>3716842
Are you kidding me? There are parts of the install process that can be slightly annoying but you just make the SD image and drop the roms in their folders. That's it. Then just change a few of the video settings for optimal performance.

I have a relative who isn't tech literate at all and they set theirs up just fine. I'm not sure why you are having so many problems unless your components are defective. The thing is really simple. If you feel you've wasted $100 why not put some fucking effort into getting it working? Thousands of people less smart than you have done it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 15:48:01 2017 No.3717453 >>3717447 If you want a more official look you can do VC rom injection. That might be more work than most are willing to do though.

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 22:06:11 2017 No.3718182

>>3716842
Burn retropie.img to card. Add roms from flash drive, enjoy. It is literally that easy. Retropie even has scripts to get other themes for emulationstation. Take 5min an learn some basic command line stuff, or just use WinSCP or other SFTP program to browse your pi and edit configs, move roms from there.

Anonymous Wed Jan 4 22:15:35 2017 No.3718194

>>3713587
>i fell for the memeberry meme
Suck to be you. But at least now you know it's shit.

>>3713645
>Excuse me for being stupid
No. Just stop being stupid. No one gives a fuck what you want to call shit in your made up baby language.

>>3714083
>charitably
>most underpowered overpriced pi on the market
top fucking kek kid

>>3716851
>not knowing dir is part of coreutils included in every fucking linux distro
>pretending to have ever used linux

Anonymous Thu Jan 5 00:45:08 2017 No.3718476

I just got a rpi3 last week and put lakka on it.

Setup was stupid easy. I didn't even have a usb keyboard, just a ps3 controller. You can stick a usb drive with roms on it to play off of but I sent them over my network. Once you connect to wifi in lakka, you can access the folders from windows explorer and just drop the roms in that way.

SNES runs perfect too with no slowdown on even the SuperFX games for me.

Really the hardest part was figuring out how to use romcenter with my no-intro sets to give me 1 game for each region.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 5 02:52:11 2017 No.3718636 >>3718194 >not knowing dir is part of coreutils included in every fucking linux distro This. He should know 'ls' but for basic dos commands people know like 'dir' to not be included in retropie is just retarded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 5 11:08:14 2017 No.3719241 >>3716842 >RetroPie setup is ridiculous You literally just use win32diskimager to put the iso on your sd card. Roms can be transferred automatically from a usb by plugging it in or manually using the ES file manager. How incompetent are you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 03:56:39 2017 No.3720731 use arch linux arm instead

Anonymous Fri Jan 6 05:10:45 2017 No.3720818

Is it better to use something like retropie outright or install it in raspbian? I'm just starting to read up on this after I got one for christmas.

Also is it recommended that I use a flash drive instead of putting the roms onto the SD card? Because my SD card is much bigger than any flash drive I have.

Excuse me if I have no idea what I'm talking about

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 05:24:06 2017 No.3720829 >>3720818 Unless you plan on doing things other than retro games, stick with Retropie or Lakka. I use the gamestation turbo Linux image as I also use it as a Kodi box.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 13:33:26 2017 No.3721451 In the process of transferring my roms over my network onto my pi. Can I play the ones that are finished while the other consoles' roms transfer? I've only been transferring the roms on the home menu because I was worried I'd screw something up

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 13:52:53 2017 No.3721491 >>3721451 Yes, you just have to restart emulationstation when you want the new ones to show up

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 14:11:00 2017 No.3721516 How much space will scraping a couple thousand roms take up?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 14:24:26 2017 No.3721545 >>3721516 I have 2500 roms all scraped and the everything takes up 16gb

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 14:34:26 2017 No.3721560 >>3721545 What's the best scraper to use?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 14:36:11 2017 No.3721569 >>3721560 Look up the sselph scraper. It's extremely fast.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 14:38:25 2017 No.3721578 >>3721569 Thanks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 14:44:34 2017 No.3721593 >>3721545 shid thats more than my games. Is there an option to get smaller images or something? I really like the look of having boxart and descriptions, but I can't use that much space.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 15:21:19 2017 No.3721660 Is there a way to access the file system through windows? I'd rather transfer directly than over my network if possible

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 15:28:30 2017 No.3721676 >>3721660 the only method of transferring data besides using a network is a usb stick https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 15:54:41 2017 No.3721717 >>3720829 How does that work for you? I've got an rpi2 that I bought for that purpose that's been collecting dust because I'm lazy as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 15:58:53 2017 No.3721725 How does PS1 and Dreamcast work on the Pi 3? Anything playable? I'm sticking with my 16 bit and older stuff for the time being but I am curious.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 16:16:25 2017 No.3721750 >>3721660 one can access the ext2/3/4 file sytem created on the sd card using ext2fs or various "linux reader" utilities. I've found the transfer rate pretty slow doing this. USB is very fast.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 16:25:33 2017 No.3721773 >>3721750 Ext2 you can read and write. Ext3 is read only. Ext4, I don't think any Windows program can read at all.

Anonymous Fri Jan 6 16:35:32 2017 No.3721787
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>>3713587
Works very well for me

Currently using one as a Dreampi to boot the internet into my Dreamcast.

Maybe you just got bad luck
it happens before, I had a shitty pi too
but that doesn't stop me from trying again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 16:43:32 2017 No.3721802 >>3721725 PS1 is pretty decent. DC on the other hand...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 17:27:09 2017 No.3721867 I made the mistake of buying one of the meme usb snes controllers. Is there any way of mapping it to make up for the missing L2 R2 buttons for ps1 games?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 17:31:08 2017 No.3721870 >>3721867 Play games that don't use em

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 17:58:26 2017 No.3721901 Seems sort of like buying a car you have to assemble yourself. I mean sure if that's how you get your jollies, but what the hell is the point.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 17:58:44 2017 No.3721902 File: 119 KB, 400x300, FIFA08Megadrive.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3721867 Foot buttons. Or use your head. Or buttons under your elbows.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 20:07:18 2017 No.3722130 >>3713672 >Kingston Say, you didn't buy one of those Vilros RasPi all-in-one kits on Amazon, did you? Because the Kingston microSD card in mine was fake and had IDs belonging to some shady vendor in Shenzhen. Also had serious data corruption issues.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 20:58:26 2017 No.3722246 >>3713587 >It's hardware's fault for me being a fucking idiot and deciding to build an emulation machine despite having no fucking technical knowledge

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 21:39:51 2017 No.3722354 >>3721660 Make a live disc/live pendrive for some easy distro, like Ubuntu?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 6 22:01:12 2017 No.3722405 >>3722354 I just sucked it up and sent it over the network. Unrelated, but I'm looking at Sega CD games now and I keep seeing something called PakkISO come up. Do I actually need to use it? What does it do?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 02:28:35 2017 No.3722750 >>3722246 >it's not the hardware's fault for the hardware being shit Correct. The people who designed the turd are to blame.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 02:31:29 2017 No.3722754 >>3722130 What about Canakit?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 02:33:27 2017 No.3722757 >>3713587 >HURR IM RETARDED

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 02:38:21 2017 No.3722760 >>3722246 do you even need any technical knowledge when you have fucking google?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 02:40:35 2017 No.3722765 >>3722754 canakit is legit afak. they at least make sure to send 2/2.4A power supplies instead of cheap phone chargers

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 02:42:46 2017 No.3722767 >>3722765 K, that's where I got mine

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 05:15:29 2017 No.3722935 >>3722405 You don't need pakkiso unless you're downloading .ecm images. Just get bin/cue and you'll be fine with any standard CD burning software.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 05:22:34 2017 No.3722937 Real talk though. I like ES, but even NES games run slow with choppy sound. I've tried several emulators and messed around with retroarch settings. Any ideas as to what I should try next? Model B.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 06:09:03 2017 No.3722969 >>3722937 Model B what? As in vanilla pi? Pi 3 runs nes perfectly

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 06:10:20 2017 No.3722971 >>3722969 The first gen pi, yes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 06:11:47 2017 No.3722973 >>3722971 Time to upgrade man

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 06:20:52 2017 No.3722979 >>3722973 Thanks for telling me. It's pretty hard to find info on what you can actually expect one of these things to be able to do. You got version 3? How does it handle Genesis/SNES?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 08:26:21 2017 No.3723089 >>3713587 damn sucks to hear. i got my pi stuff lying on the table right now, haven't started to fuck with it yet

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 12:02:23 2017 No.3723327 >>3722979 Genesis runs perfect as expected, it's never been hard to emulate SNES is good too, problems only start to really come up with 5th gen onward.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 17:13:43 2017 No.3723886 Idk about anyone else, but on my pi with lakka snes emulation constantly hardlocks the pi, and on retropie I have issues with ps1 compatibility.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 17:36:13 2017 No.3723950 I can't for the life of me get these neogeo games to work on retropie. They keep kicking me back to the game selection menu when they try to load. I know its something to do with bios, but I still have no clue what to do.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 17:39:13 2017 No.3723958 >>3723950 you're probably not using the right romset version.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 17:41:16 2017 No.3723964 >>3723950 >>3723958 nevermind i mixed up neo geo with mame. have you tried final burn alpha as well as mame for running them? make sure the bios is in the bios folder AS WELL as in the roms folder. i think that fixed it for me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 17:41:16 2017 No.3723965 >>3723958 How do I find out which version of FBA is running in my emulation station?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 17:58:18 2017 No.3724010 >>3723950 Download neogeo.zip and put it in the same folder as the rom you are trying to run, not the retroarch bios folder. Use Final Burn Alpha

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 20:33:11 2017 No.3724329 >>3724010 Yep it was the bios file. Needed it in both places. Thanks man

Anonymous Sat Jan 7 20:53:51 2017 No.3724385

Can you take a thumb drive and leave it in a pi and treat it like a second hard drive?
I really didn't like the idea of having a huge plastic lump sticking out of my case constantly, but maybe a cute little dongle like this would be fine http://a.co/biVYwLT

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 20:56:52 2017 No.3724393 >>3724385 Of course

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 20:57:11 2017 No.3724394 >>3724385 Why not just buy a 64 or 128 micro SD card? I have thousands of roms and they only take up a little over 16 gigs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 21:02:33 2017 No.3724407 >>3724394 Thumb drives are cheaper than sd cards. It would also make my initial sd card purchase a waste if I bought an upgrade for it a couple weeks later.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 7 21:10:57 2017 No.3724420 >>3722979 Pi 3 handles up to PS1

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 12:05:34 2017 No.3725538 >>3724420 N64/mame? would pi4 handle PS2?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 8 13:07:00 2017 No.3725610 >>3725538 Doubtful

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 08:47:56 2017 No.3727381 File: 145 KB, 1920x1080, received_10207929847791712.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3713587 Works great for me. Insane improvement over the 1st model.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 08:52:21 2017 No.3727391 >>3724407 If you don't have an SD card already, then the ~$5 difference (yes it is $5-7) between a 64gb flash drive and a 64gb UHS-I microsd is negligible and more worth it, but yeah if you already have one then just go with the flash.

Anonymous Mon Jan 9 19:52:13 2017 No.3728551

F that pi crap. Get a PC if you want to emulate. For a bargain, you can't beat the Dell Vostro 220 motherboard (Foxconn G45m03) for $18, and plut a $19 x5450 xeon with the mod tape. Throw in maybe a Radeon 6770 for $40. Some cheap ram, cannibalize some old computer for the case/power supply/hd etc and you got a cheap rig with a lot more processing power and potential than a pi

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 19:54:47 2017 No.3728557 >>3728551 ...that's massive, noisy, guzzles power and looks ridiculous set up next to your TV.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 9 19:56:12 2017 No.3728561 err rather its $19 for the x5460, $12 for the x5450. Or the x5470 for $37

Anonymous Mon Jan 9 20:02:03 2017 No.3728571
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>>3728557
I built a fanless emulation HTPC using this case. 100% silent, same size as a normal console, plays everything at full speed except bsnes accuracy profile/Dolphin/PCXS2.

A little pricey, but totally worth it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 00:02:54 2017 No.3729012 >>3728571 >does all the stuff my raspberry pi can do >more than 35$ shiggidy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 00:15:49 2017 No.3729039 >>3729012 So the Pi supports 4k video, Blu-ray discs, Steam games, Windows-only emulators, and compute-intensive CRT shaders? Well fuck, I guess I wasted my money then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 09:16:05 2017 No.3729679 >>3728571 >same size as a normal console Yeah. OG xbox. Top kek kid

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 09:28:16 2017 No.3729703 >>3729679 Streacom FC8 EVO dimensions are 240x250x110mm, making it slightly larger than the PS3 Slim and significantly smaller than the Xbox One. It's nowhere near the size of the OG Xbox.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 19:02:12 2017 No.3730623 >>3729039 Yep, you're a fool. The guy who paid $35 for a memeberry that can't do what a $10 orange does is a genius.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 20:57:53 2017 No.3730769 >>3725538 No to all 3. N64 mostly because all N64 emulation is shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 21:08:37 2017 No.3730791 >>3730769 It handles 2D mame fine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 22:34:09 2017 No.3730905 >>3730791 yup, Street fighter 3 runs fine. I tried to get Marvel Vs Capcom 2 going, but it just hangs. probably a ram issue.

Anonymous Tue Jan 10 22:39:40 2017 No.3730915

>>3730905
MVC2 (and many Capcom fighters post SFIII) run on SEGA Naomi hardware. So you'd need the necessary files to emulate Naomi but I'd say just emulate the Dreamcast versions since they're pretty much straight ports with more features. Not sure if the Pi meets the minimum requirements for DC emulation, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 22:41:04 2017 No.3730916 >>3713617 Me and my wife still enjoy the Retron 5!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 22:48:48 2017 No.3730931 >>3730915 yeah, i just did some reading. Its working as of recent versions of mame, but you need a powerhouse to run it properly. no dice i guess.

Anonymous Tue Jan 10 23:25:11 2017 No.3730995
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>>3713587
Who the hell cares?!?!?

It's not fucking retro!

You suck for not having loaded the 3do OS on it instead, and using it to play 3do games! In HD, at like 200 fps!

Anonymous Tue Jan 10 23:26:25 2017 No.3731001

Probably not the best place with all the shittalking going on, but I'll take the chance.

I got latest Retropie and NGPC games don't save. Everything is default settings and all other emulators do save properly. Is there a workaround to this? (other than save states).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 10 23:31:54 2017 No.3731017 >>3713672 kingston sucks dicks, stick with retail sandisk. you probably think corsair produces quality shit too.

Anonymous Wed Jan 11 00:07:01 2017 No.3731069

>>3731001
I'm sticking with Retropie 4.0 right now. 4.1 is buggy as shit and has 253 comits as of now. I'll wait
for 4.2 before updating. Op is probably using 4.1 and that's the cause of most of his problems.

>>3731017
Sandisk or Samsung Evo. I don't fuck with any other brand.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 08:50:29 2017 No.3731556 There's a Pi in a local pub with Emulationstation on it, worked fine when me and my friends sat down for a couple hours to play it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 10:19:39 2017 No.3731660 People are still buying these instead of building an i3 mini-atx? Sad day

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 12:03:05 2017 No.3731771 >>3731660 And with the new G4560 they're gonna be even more cheaper now, HTPCs are the way to go.

Anonymous Wed Jan 11 15:51:17 2017 No.3732124
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>>3731660
>>3731771
What's with this pointless fanboy-ism bullshit going on here? If you weren't an idiot you would just build a top of the line watercooled mini-itx build with a 1080gtx using pic related. Then you wouldn't have an under-powered pc taking up space in your entertainment stand where you could put a /retro/ console.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 15:58:49 2017 No.3732142 >>3713672 I bought a shitty store brand 64GB card because it was cheap. I thought it was my Raspberry Pi which was shit. After speaking with numerous people I bought a Sandisk Ultra and it was a completely different experience.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:05:38 2017 No.3732164 The Raspberry Pi was supposed to be a learning tool to teach you about electronics. Also, you faggots need to stop emulating shit on every single goddamn platform you get your autistic mitts on. It's the biggest cop-out to gaming in the century.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:22:58 2017 No.3732213 >>3732164 I prefer the arduino and teensy for projects and the raspberry for this shit. Some board I can stick on to the back of my TV and play games from. Nothing wrong with that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:33:59 2017 No.3732238 >>3713617 >>3713632 >fuck I love input lag so much >goddamn I love inaccurate emulation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:00:29 2017 No.3732296 I don't know what to do with mine.

Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:16:31 2017 No.3732319

>>3732124
You know what's one of the pros that PC has? Options. You can do something cheap and powerful, You can have the High-End Tier, You can have the Console-Tier, You can have whatever the fuck you want.

You want a GTX 1080? Good for you.
Me? No, thanks, you fucking PCMR Elitist. I don't need most of the performance that said GPU can give, my "excuse" is that I'm not interested in 95% of the AAA Titles out there which'll lead to me feeling like I wasted a lot of money that I could have very well in something else. So what do I do if I do wanna play some AAA Titles? GTX 1050Ti/GTX 1060/RX 470/RX 480.
Why? Cheaper option that still fits my need.

Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:24:10 2017 No.3732330

>>3732319
>Options.

Cool. The point was, quit whining about raspberry pi's while you put your shitty bottom-tier HTPC on a pedestal. Who the fuck comes into a raspberry pi thread and then tells people they could use a PC? Some fucking idiot. Congrats on your triple A opinion on AAA games too. Real neat-o.

Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:34:22 2017 No.3732345

>>3732330
I literally didn't whined about RPi, it was NOT created with gaming purposes of any kind in mind so it's only natural that it is not as powerful as someone people stupidly expect it to be. What I did said though, was that the new Pentium line was gonna be the way-to-go for HTPCs, specially when it comes to Retro Games which is the board we're in. If you also account in that this thread is literally about how bad X item for Y purpose is, is only natural to suggest a better alternative.

Leaving your sarcasm and disgusting attitude aside, by the way, the shitty bottom-tier nowadays would technically be, I think, the Intel Celeron G3900. The G4560 is essentially a downclocked i3 6100 when it comes to games and probably Emulation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:35:03 2017 No.3732346 >>3732330 So how much dies the Pi foundation pay you guys?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:37:06 2017 No.3732348 >>3713587 i have a lenovo ideacentre from 2012ish. thing is great. almost the same dimensions as a dvd case, slightly thicker. mounted it right to the back of my main living room tv.

Anonymous Wed Jan 11 21:06:45 2017 No.3732794

>>3732213
But there have always been android boxes that are cheaper and better than the memeberry. And there are cheaper and better pis so really no point in using one unless you already fell for the meme and overpaid for one.

Most pifags couldn't deal with an arduino and teensy. A shell and python is already taxing their brains.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 22:51:35 2017 No.3732989 >>3732794 >god why do people want rapid implementation in their toy computers?? are you actually this thick? nothings stopping you from making projects in C with a pi.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 23:28:21 2017 No.3733062 whats the best to play dosbox games or old pc games on a composite/s-video tv

Anonymous Wed Jan 11 23:51:47 2017 No.3733093

>>3732794
The cheap android boxes are garbage lag fests with a bunch of bloat you can't remove unless you root it. Taking the time out of your day to root a phone is enough of a pain in the ass. Doing it on a shitty Chinese Android box is like pulling teeth.

That said I bought the Nexus Player when it was cheap and it's a great choice for emulators. Shame it's not really cheap anymore.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 00:46:33 2017 No.3733191 >>3732989 Nothings stopping me. Ignorance and inexperience is stopping many. I'm serious. 90% of the memberryfags here can barely get retropie running. It's reached retron levels of hipster stupidity.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 00:48:43 2017 No.3733194 >>3733093 So you've never actually used on of those shitty chink android boxes. If you did you'd know they come rooted. Thanks for playing anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 00:54:16 2017 No.3733197 File: 2.96 MB, 2087x2396, tmp_19707-20170112_005209-11475550874.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3733194 Mine didn't. Doesn't matter anyway. I want to play games not clean up chinkware.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 01:00:25 2017 No.3733205 >>3733197 Forgot to mention the worst part about this box, no bluetooth. Raspberry Pi now comes with it. It even surpasses most Android boxes at doing what they are arguably made to do, running Kodi...

Anonymous Thu Jan 12 16:39:59 2017 No.3734262
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So I just got my rpi3 in the mail yesterday, then loaded retropie 4.1 on it and a bunch of roms. The thing works beautifully and emulates flawlessly. I haven't encountered a bad emulation yet, and I've tried most of my roms.

So far I have working: NES, SNES, genesis, GB, GBA, GBC, and TG16

I'm not going to attempt N64 because I've heard that it's still running into issues with that. Which is fine. I bought this knowing it wasn't going to be good for N64 anyway, and there are only a couple games on that I want to play. Most everything else is elsewhere.

My next projects are getting NeoGeo and PSX games working on it, and i think that's as far as i will go with it.

Pic related is my Pi-station box i made for it. I just went to a thrift store and bought an old cisco systems wireless bridge, gutted it out, and modded it to mount the rpi3 inside. Next I will be adding an on-off scripted switch (one that starts the shutdown and power-on scripts when pressed, it works through the GPIO rather than the power), and an internal fan. After about 3 hours of gaming i noticed it was getting a little warm and I just want to be safe.

tldr: i have no idea what OP is on about, unless he's trying to emulate n64 and gamecube or something, and not shutting it down properly.

Anonymous Thu Jan 12 21:00:43 2017 No.3734613

>>3734262
Ok so neogeo works flawlessly on it. I haven't gotten through all the games, but the important ones work, like metal slug and fatal fury. On top of that, I learned how to add scanlines to make the emulation on the games look even better. On my hdtv true pixel is a little jarring. Scanlines and crt filter softens that nicely.

Call me a shill, idgaf, but I am loving this thing. Next up will be trying playstation and scraping for all the title images.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 21:20:00 2017 No.3734635 So as a complete beginner, is pi with retropie recommended or not? I want a small portable TV console to take traveling with me. Does it work well with saturn games?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 21:27:19 2017 No.3734657 >>3734635 I haven't tried it with saturn yet, but I am inclined to say probably not. It starts to run into issues emulating consoles after about the playstation.

Anonymous Thu Jan 12 21:33:51 2017 No.3734675
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>>3734657

Eh. I just wanted to play Iron Storm, but it might not like the 3d battle screens. Getting it working on PC even was a cunt.

GBA should be fine though, right? That leaves Advance Wars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 21:36:02 2017 No.3734681 >>3734675 GBA runs great. The GBA was pretty much a boosted SNES

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 21:50:41 2017 No.3734706 File: 145 KB, 600x1013, 71d8cduhPpL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3734681 Sounds good, then. If anyone with too much time on their hands wants to test Iron Storm to see how it runs on a 3B i'd be grateful.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 22:03:14 2017 No.3734721 >>3734706 >Currently you need to install it from the setup script under experimental builds. Any Raspberry Pi model will achieve only 1-2 frames-per-second, rendering it unplayable on those systems. Never mind.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 02:51:50 2017 No.3735089 https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Clear-Power-Supply/dp/B01C6EQNNK/ This would be a good place to start, then?

Anonymous Fri Jan 13 02:59:54 2017 No.3735096

>>3735089
That actually is. I like the power supply. I ordered mine separate form them and it's a good 2.5A rating. And I am wishing i had a heat sink on mine now, and it comes with them. Seems like a good price. The rpi3 is about $35 alone, so for $15 more you are getting the power, case, and heat sinks. I wish I had got this first.

Stay away from the retro gaming starter packages though. They provide the rasbpi, but all the rest of the parts, like the gamepads, are all shit though and overpriced. Canakit is good people.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 03:04:44 2017 No.3735102 >>3735096 Alright. I was thinking of buying a NES30 pro or just being a lazy shit and using my DS3/4. Do the cases require any tools for assembly? Do I just mount the pi with the standoff screws or something?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 03:07:08 2017 No.3735103 >>3735102 No idea how it is mounted. I am assuming it's at least providing screws to mount it in the bottom, and the top just snaps on/off for ease of access, because the idea is this thing is a tinker toy, you always want to be doing something to it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 04:54:57 2017 No.3735197 >>3735102 With the official and canakit cases it just snaps together.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 19:07:50 2017 No.3736171 >>3733197 top kek kid, eh?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 19:25:37 2017 No.3736205 >>3735102 I got an aluminum case and it screws together with provided screws and screwdriver.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 21:49:12 2017 No.3736449 >this thread is now officially a circle jerk "what did i put my overpriced hipster shit in" thread. You shit's have reached a new low.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 22:40:10 2017 No.3736546 File: 149 KB, 397x376, ZqEmrW.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3713587 Mine works fine. You're probably just too stupid to set it up.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 23:11:32 2017 No.3736606 >>3736449 Nigger we're just talking about how the cases go together. >$35 >overpriced You're some kind of paid agitator shill, right? Just here to lower the level of discourse?

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 00:17:32 2017 No.3738696

>>3734262
Neogeo is great, just make sure you have the bios files. PSX works perfectly too. I advise you
to go to emuparadise and download what you can in "eboot" format. Its an absolute must when
it comes to multi-disc games. Plus you don't have to worry about cue files, they'll just work. I'm
currently still using RP 4.0.2 until 4.2 or something comes out. I was having too many issues
with the current version.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 00:19:56 2017 No.3738698 >>3735089 That's perfect. I got exactly the same thing and purchased my own microSD card.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 00:21:07 2017 No.3738703 >>3735102 My DS3 keeps giving me issues so i use my iBuffalo controllers unless i need analog or the 2 extra L+R buttons.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 00:25:45 2017 No.3738706 It's funny how almost every anti______ poster I see always tells you what they think you should get instead.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 00:46:14 2017 No.3738729 >>3738696 Yeah I got neogeo working fine now. What's this about eboot format psx games? I get all my files from emuparadise

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 01:53:22 2017 No.3738797

>>3738729
People started playing the original PSX games on their PSPs. They
converted the Playstation games ISO format to something called
"Eboot". Its one file, no matter how many discs the game might have
been. So all 4 Final Fantasy 8 discs are in one large eboot file. There's
no disc switching. But eboot files don't need cue files to work
because all the info is built into the format.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 02:07:43 2017 No.3738813 >>3738797 sweet! where would i find those? Would they still run in the psx emulator in emulationstation? Or do I put them in the PSP one?

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 04:47:04 2017 No.3738979 [DELETED]

>>3738813
The tool to convert psx iso to psp eboot.pbp is called psx2psp.

EmulationStation can detect it, just add .pbp into extension lists for ps1 inside the config file (I forgot the name, it's es_systems.cfg iirc). Libretro's pcsx-rearmed can load it, as long as the file size is below 2GB. They tried adding large file support, and I tried compiling it from git, but it still didn't work.

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 05:13:51 2017 No.3739000

>>3738813
>sweet! where would i find those?
You can convert your existing PS1 ISOs into eboot.pbp format using PSX2PSP

>Would they still run in the psx emulator in emulationstation? Or do I put them in the PSP one?
ppsspp has no plans to handle those. Use pcsx-rearmed instead.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 07:26:43 2017 No.3739119 >>3720731 Underrated.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 07:45:10 2017 No.3739137 >>3732238 I play games on a HDTV/Monitor so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >Free games >ROM hacks >Save states >Rewind and fast forward >Third party controllers Nothing wrong with using an actual console though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 10:28:39 2017 No.3739307 >>3738813 www.emuparadise.me/PSX_on_PSP_ISOs/67

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 15 12:57:58 2017 No.3739451 >>3739000 >>3739307 Awesome I'll research this. Thanks for the direction, guys!

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 14:27:38 2017 No.3739576

>>3739451
And when you're ready for Mame arcade stuff, go here for the information
on what romset you should be using.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

Then go here to download roms.

https://archive.org/details/MAME2003_Reference_Set_MAME0.78_ROMs_CHDs_Samples

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 21:13:20 2017 No.3740394
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I'm curious about an alternative to this thing.

Like maybe a Banana Pi m1.

The composite connector seems particularly useful. Which a few boards have, I wouldn't be surprised if it's weak on all of them like on the R-Pi, and I hear the SATA is lousy too, but at least they're there.

Anyway...

I don't suppose anyone knows about if those are any less prone to SD corruption?

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 21:22:16 2017 No.3740416

>>3740394
the only thing i hear about some of these other boards is the support is total shit. I'm
not saying anything against the quality of the product itself, but when there's no
proper forums for information and the updates are few, it makes it difficult.

Anonymous Sun Jan 15 21:26:57 2017 No.3740426

>>3740394
>I don't suppose anyone knows about if those are any less prone to SD corruption?
SD corruption only happens on the rpi when its not properly shut down before you cut the power to it.

>>3740416
This. One of the biggest sells for me with the rpi is the popularity. There are so many different softwares and how-to videos for it that it makes it more more newbie friendly, for a guy like me.

Anonymous Mon Jan 16 01:03:56 2017 No.3740809

It's alright but I have two complaints:
>ROM transfer
It's retarded but I guess there's no way really around it.

>The frontends
I'm ultra autistic about the look and feel of things and I fucking hate the UI of Lakka/Retropie/Emulationstation/everything
If there's any alternative ultra-minimalistic frontend please let me know. No memes, just boot -> select console -> select ROM.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 16 01:23:44 2017 No.3740852 >>3740809 see >>3720731

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 16 03:07:09 2017 No.3741015 >>3740809 Rom transfer was dumb with a usb stick. But if you do network sharing and connect it to wifi or ethernet, it becomes much much easier. Seriously, I haven't touched the USB stick since i figured it out, and i switch roms and shit all the time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 16 03:27:26 2017 No.3741052 >>3714083 I love your pic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 16 04:27:11 2017 No.3741108 File: 23 KB, 960x720, Rgui.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3740809 Just use rgui in lakka

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 16 21:56:23 2017 No.3742934 >>3740426 >not properly shut down So then it gets wrecked if there's a power outage for a few seconds or minutes?

Anonymous Mon Jan 16 22:17:58 2017 No.3742968

>>3742934
Not necessarily. It starts to happen during frequent use and not properly shutting it down each time. If cutting the power is a rare occurrence then the likelihood is much lower. Definitely it is a flaw, but not as big of a one. But when I get my settings and everything to my liking, I will make a backup image just in case.

Anonymous Mon Jan 16 23:41:14 2017 No.3743114

>>3718476
>Really the hardest part was figuring out how to use romcenter with my no-intro sets to give me 1 game for each region.

Got any tips for doing this? I tried doing it myself manually going through and deleting what wasn't needed but gave up around E or F.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 16 23:51:50 2017 No.3743129 >>3739137 Ugh, look at him enjoying his video games.

Anonymous Tue Jan 17 00:12:42 2017 No.3743167

Thinking about buying one of these, how well does FB Alpha work? I've been getting into fighting games lately and running CPS and Neo-Geo stuff through Retroarch's fbalpha core on my PC, but I'm wanting something I can take around to a friend's house and jam Third Strike or something.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 00:35:21 2017 No.3743221 File: 23 KB, 500x375, 1471827357206.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw too paranoid to download roms

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 00:36:57 2017 No.3743226 File: 9 KB, 362x358, 1473608896724.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3743221 Did you just come from the year 2000 or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 01:09:45 2017 No.3743271 >>3743226 Suspect anon wasn't even born then.

Anonymous Tue Jan 17 02:31:28 2017 No.3743346

>>3740416
>>3740426
Okay, but it kind of seems like it might just be worth the risk or hassle for, say, a C.H.I.P. board, since aside from being very cheap it has composite AND vga capability. It's also boasted as being open hardware ... maybe that means the possibility of doing S-Video, I don't know. But it seems really on the right track!

But I understand about the board support factor for various boards being lousy, unlike the old Beagleboard standard, which happen to just not be basic enough at all.

Anonymous Tue Jan 17 03:01:20 2017 No.3743383

>>3741108
Even this is too much. Fuck Cores, fuck settings, fuck options and fuck save states. I want a list of consoles and a list of games, NOTHING else.

>>3741015
>connect to wifi
no dongle
>connect to ethernet
this is what i've been doing so far

>>3720731
i honestly think i should

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 03:22:09 2017 No.3743409 >>3743383 NO EMULATOR IS LIKE THAT YOU DIP

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 03:37:49 2017 No.3743425 >>3743383 >no dongle What dongle? If you got a raspberry pi 3, you don't need a dongle. It has built in wifi

Anonymous Tue Jan 17 04:11:48 2017 No.3743442

>>3743383
Isn't that what Retropie is? My gf set it up while i texted her instructions at school, and by the time I came back to her house that night she was raving about how "it's just a list of consoles and the game titles".

If you want to be babby, plug the bitch into a crt, set the overscan and map the controllers/load roms and that's it.

Everything else you literally don't see unless you press select+X during a game, or literally go looking to change shit.

It sounds like emulators might be new and scary to you. Were you recently a consoleONLYfag?

Anonymous Tue Jan 17 09:58:04 2017 No.3743760

>>3743114
If you're on windows, you can download the "Everything" program. Extract each systems roms into their own folder. In everyone of folders, make a Main folder. So it would be SNES->SNES Main. Now use 'everything' to search in SNES for USA. Select all of them and copy to the SNES Main folder. That's the easiest way to get them sorted. Also search for 'World'.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 15:07:08 2017 No.3744192 Can the Raspberry connect to SCART (RGB) or is an adapter needed ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 15:54:23 2017 No.3744294 File: 660 KB, 356x272, 1481992319880.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3744192 Does it look like it has a SCART socket? There's your answer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 16:46:53 2017 No.3744367 >>3743383 recalbox dude

Anonymous Tue Jan 17 17:10:37 2017 No.3744423

>>3714378
>Kingston is the second to the slowest card you can buy.

Which brand do you suggest me to buy for emulation purposes, anon?

I know that Sandisk is a good option (with them being the creators of the SD format and all) but I'm interested to know which brands are the best and why.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 20:44:42 2017 No.3744807 >>3743167 Works great. Just make sure you grab the correct romset for the corresponding version you are using.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 20:44:58 2017 No.3744808 >>3744423 Sandisk Ultra class 10, Samsung Evo class 10.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 22:43:22 2017 No.3744942 >>3744192 There was some talk about an RGB expansion module, as in presumably using the GPIO like the VGA adapter, I seem to recall it being arcade monitor related.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 17 22:54:01 2017 No.3744953 >>3713587 How did you fuck retropie up? Mine has 200+ days of continuous uptime atm, and would be more than a year if not for power outages.

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 00:34:35 2017 No.3745058

>>3744953
People get shit cards and can't follow simple instructions. I've got a Sandisk 64GB USB 3.0 thumb drive ready to go if my setup happens to corrupt(which is extremely rare). It has all my games even up to Arcade and a large amount of PSX. A friend might ask if I've got a particular rom he wants and I'll be all "Bitch, I gottem aaaaaaalll".

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 06:29:08 2017 No.3745393 >>3713587 I warned you about the shills and retron 5, anon. I warned you.

Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:22:46 2017 No.3747026
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These setups shouldn't have much issue handling a rotated screen, but presumably there's some things somewhat in the way here and there?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:29:51 2017 No.3747040 >>3747026 There is a way to do verticle screen for shmups and the like in retropie, but i couldnt tell you exactly how to do it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:45:21 2017 No.3747072 >>3747040 Are you thinking of options within MAME, rather than the standard more elegant "xrandr" kinda method?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 18 23:47:32 2017 No.3747075 >>3747072 No i think it's somewhere in retropie set-up. Not much of a help on it, sorry.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 07:22:33 2017 No.3747536 >>3747026 >>3747040 "In your Boot config.txt put this line at the top to rotate 90 deg display_rotate=1"

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 07:39:31 2017 No.3747548

>>3716842
The fuck?
100$????
Raspberry pi is 25$, a case is 10$, an HDMI cable, if you didn't have one before is 20$, and what else? A USB controller is 20$ more. 75$ at most. And that's if you didnt own an HDMI cable or a USB controller from before. How are you on here and into emulation if you don't already own a USB controller? Who doesn't own an HDMI cable these days? Hell, I don't even have an HDMI tv and I have like 3, I just use the composite av output, and those cables are 5$ a pop or free if you have almost any retro console

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 07:56:26 2017 No.3747570

>>3713587
Mate, you're a complete retard.

Funny how millions of others have successfully got them running, yet yours, despite being the exact same hardware, is laggy and shit, no?

Retropie requires tweaking, that's what it's about. Different emulators run different ROM sets, and some need individual config and BIOS files.

Try Recalbox, it's like babbies Retropie.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 08:46:24 2017 No.3747614 >>3713587 >Just get a Android box or a Mini PC instead, pi ain't worth the trouble Or how about you just run an emulator on the computer you already have and not waste money on hardware you don't actually need.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 09:27:10 2017 No.3747658 >>3716842 Got to be bait, nobody can be this retarded

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:33:51 2017 No.3747916 Just got mine in and working yesterday. What's the safe way to power this thing down? Am I good just choosing shutdown from the emulationstation frontend and unplugging it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:38:26 2017 No.3747923 >>3747916 Yep. Shutting it down in the software makes it safe for unplugging it. Think of it as an old PC, where you shut down windows and a message pops up on the screen saying it's safe to turn off your computer.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:44:38 2017 No.3747938

>>3713587
Fuck Retropie.
I got an N64 controller adapter that Raspbian detects just fine, but Retropie does not want to work with the analog sticks.
The sticks are detected, but only wiggling on the downwards axis is registered.
Also, the fucking thing has stopped saving controller configurations for some reason, so setups have become meaningless.
The only thing I can use in Arch is my keyboard, but that one cannot confirm anything for some reason. Prior to that, my Wiimote also worked.

>>3713645
It's the Retropie package. And you need to go into four layers of hell to even wrap your head around that shit.
I've considered just installing all emulators manually. I only need N64, NES and maybe Playstation, after all.
But I really like the idea of having a common launcher.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:45:43 2017 No.3747940
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>>3747923

Alright. Sorry for the stupid question, people were talking about SD corruption and I wanted to make sure I was 100% on this since I'll probably be unplugging it a lot.

I was really surprised and happy that it booted a japanese iso of Panzer Front Bis the first time and properly controlled without any fuckery, I think I had to get some plugin on PC for it to recognize both analog triggers pressing at the same time.

/vr/ has made this sound much harder than it has been so far.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:49:35 2017 No.3747951 >>3720731 >arch linux arm Does it support the GPIOs and CUPS? I can't be the only one who wants to do more than just emulation on his Raspi. It's a tinker toy, not a media center.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 12:58:10 2017 No.3747963
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>>3732319
Sure.
Tell me how to build a PC for 80 bucks with a footprint smaller than a NUC.
You can't?
Get fucked.

Though I really fucking hope Micro-STX takes off. That concept is genius.

https://smallformfactor.net/news/asrock-z270m-stx-mxm-pictured

It will still be kinda expensive, but imagine a rig in that form factor.

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 13:02:08 2017 No.3747973

>>3742934
>>3742968
I've done a shutdown like that a few times and haven't had issues. Most of the time I use SSH to tell it to shut down.

But I guess I'll write a script to use the GPIOs for a shutdown command, now that I'm actually aware of the problem.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 13:55:36 2017 No.3748049 File: 263 KB, 600x450, 1482719815975.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw shitposting from my pi3 >gonna be enjoying so sanic later today

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 21:46:40 2017 No.3748921 File: 4 KB, 346x321, 1484734064771.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I still use my old wii through component cables to emulate

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 21:56:42 2017 No.3748946 File: 213 KB, 800x1066, IMG_6863.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3747536 Oh, it can be done in such a way? That is a nice method. Much cleaner, particularly with a CRT, or a flat panel not actually intended for such a purpose.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 23:10:41 2017 No.3749076 >>3713587 RPi3 + RetroPie 4.1 + 8bitdo controller. It hasn't put a single toe out of place for me. Sound like what all anons are saying. Shit SD card. That'll cause corruption issues with a RPi. I use a SanDisk Ultra (Class 10).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 23:18:01 2017 No.3749092 >>3749076 has retropie figured out the on board bluetooth yet? been a while since I checked

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 23:45:03 2017 No.3749151 >>3749092 4.1 works fine for me. I have a 8bitdo controller and a BT keyboard for scraping working with no problems.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 20 10:09:08 2017 No.3749793 >>3749092 Retropie works a treat with bluetooth, it's Recalbox that still doesn't support it on the Pi, well not the onboard chip anyway.

Anonymous Fri Jan 20 23:39:50 2017 No.3750878
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Do all these actually need a keyboard plugged in? I've been thinking it would be cool to have one that works with just a numeric keypad.

This would be particularly nice for CRPGs and/or with a mechanical keypad .. .those *should* be notably cost effective, right? And it also should be great for collecovission and intellivision games, with a little bit of extra controls added.

Anonymous Fri Jan 20 23:43:25 2017 No.3750884

>>3750878
You hardly need a keyboard for initial setup, but after that, the OS and all games run off of whatever gamepads you hook up to it. I only stick a keyboard on it if im messing with its setting and stuff.

Im talking about retropie on the rpi3 btw,

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 00:34:23 2017 No.3750948 I'm using an RPi2 with Lakka right now. Love the straightforwardness, but seems to lack systems that RetroPie supports. Last time I used RetroPie config was a mess and it felt hacked together, is it better now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 00:38:59 2017 No.3750950 >>3750948 What systems would that be? Pre-NES? MAME? PCE-CD? Atari computers?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 00:57:04 2017 No.3750974 >>3750950 Atari 5200 Commodore 64 Amiga Armstrad Intellivision Daphne Probably some others I'm forgetting, but basically all of the things that don't have retroarch ports.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 03:30:30 2017 No.3751139 Just a reminder that the pi is still the biggest piece of shit I ever owned Was using lakka to play ps1 games and one day it decided to only run them 24 fps, didn't mess with any settings or anything. Load of garbage

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 03:35:33 2017 No.3751140 File: 65 KB, 468x1080, 12d64a06fd279a1f6af6e7a33410f09f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3751139 They're really well made and have a great community. You fucked something up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 03:39:48 2017 No.3751142 >>3751140 Then it's the retroarch people's fault, I literally did nothing to this machine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 05:50:40 2017 No.3751234 >>3725538 >would pi4 handle PS2? there will never be a pi4

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 06:08:50 2017 No.3751254 >>3713587 lol dude, i just booted up my old retropie install from like 2 years ago and it still works fine

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 06:54:57 2017 No.3751316 >>3730623 your $10 orange doesn't even have accelerated 3d graphics or any proper driver support

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 06:58:51 2017 No.3751319 >>3751142 Again, if the majority of other people are managing it without issue then the fault lies with the user. You cannot debate that. It's a fact.

Anonymous Sat Jan 21 07:04:54 2017 No.3751331

>>3751319
>Again, if the majority of other people are managing it without issue then the fault lies with the user.
Not if the user had a specific need that simply wasn't on the list for most users.

The problem with open-source attempts at ease of use is that it's often very limited to very specific use-cases.
That's why I vastly prefer it when open-source people DON'T try to go for ease of use and instead make functional interfaces. They can be kinda wonky, but at least they have enough settings that you can jury-rig your own solutions.

For example, why is there no tool that lies in between the auto-config of Retropie and manually writing a config file?
As in, I want a tool that shows me a readout of my button presses and allows me to manually enter what is mapped to what. This way I can, for example, setup an analog stick that isn't sensitive enough for Retropie's auto-detection without needing to fuck around to even find out what the code for the analog stick would be if I wrote my config file manually.
It would also help if there was some actual confirmation for the configuration. For some reason, Retropie refuses to save them. Neither does Arch remember my configs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 07:21:41 2017 No.3751339 >>3751331 > I want a tool that shows me a readout of my button presses and allows me to manually enter what is mapped to what that exists. do some research, buddy. same with your mysterious not-writing config files.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 07:35:04 2017 No.3751354 >>3751339 I did and never found a fucking solution. On the latter, anyway. But what would you suggest for the former? Until now I only knew about jstest, which is an entirely separate program unrelated to the actual configuration.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 07:46:56 2017 No.3751369 >>3751331 Is jstest no use to you?

Anonymous Sat Jan 21 07:55:22 2017 No.3751386

>>3751369
It is, but I have yet to see a way to get multi-monitor terminals running.

...Thinking of it, I could improvise with SSH windows, though.
Now the only thing I need is a syntax guideline for the configs. I never found one, even after hours of searching.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 08:55:59 2017 No.3751448 >>3751331 I had to SSH into retropie and edit the config files manually to get the settings to save.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 09:40:52 2017 No.3751475 >>3751448 I remember there being at least three plausible locations for the config files. Do you remember which path was the correct one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 09:57:53 2017 No.3751486 >>3751139 >expecting to run PS1 games perfectly on a $30 computer ok

Anonymous Sat Jan 21 10:49:34 2017 No.3751527

>>3751486
Nigger, the PS1 itself is 1$ novelty freebie calculator-tier at this point.
It's about twice as powerful as the 2$ microcontrollers that I buy on occasion

Now, emulating PS1 games on hardware only a few orders of magnitude more powerful than the console, that's something that might be bothersome.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 14:28:07 2017 No.3751874 >>3751486 It runs just fine in my experience. There are a couple games that are buggy in it, but that's true for just about any emulation.

Anonymous Sat Jan 21 14:35:06 2017 No.3751884

>>3743221
Just compare their MD5 hashes against what's on the below website to verify that they're clean dumps.

http://datomatic.no-intro.org

Also IIRC the only emulators known to be exploited with malicious ROMs are ZSNES and the original VisualBoyAdvance, neither of which have been updated in at least a decade.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 16:00:10 2017 No.3752014 Has anyone tried to add a game to thegamesdb.net for the built in scraper? Shit just won't work for me, the "search for existing games" button does nothing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 16:10:49 2017 No.3752038 >>3751475 Opt/retropie/configs/all/ You should be able to edit retroarch.cfg and save it. If that doesn't work you may have to edit the retroarch config files in the individual system folders.

Anonymous Sat Jan 21 16:26:22 2017 No.3752067
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Ha funny you should mention this I bought one a few days ago put Retropie/ES on it and just got my DS4 to work wirelessly with it today. So far it's been pretty good, been playing some crash 2 with no problems. Only issue I've found is the dreamcast emulator won't recognize my controller so I can't play JJBA but I got fightcade on my PC so no biggie.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 16:28:28 2017 No.3752073 >>3725538 depends on the games for N64, can't speak for MAME. I doubt we'll ever get PS2 emulation from a pi but who knows.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 16:44:49 2017 No.3752108 I don't get any lag running it on an old monitor, what the fuck are you doing to give you lag

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 18:05:54 2017 No.3752235 >>3752067 >got my DS4 to work wirelessly with it today How? Won't pick up on bluetooth for me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 21 22:36:43 2017 No.3752650 >>3752067 Why not just play the arcade version? Should work fine.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 22 00:12:38 2017 No.3752810 >>3713587 Err bleh

Anonymous Sun Jan 22 06:33:49 2017 No.3753224

So I've got most ROMs running, but having a few issues with the whole FBA/CPS thing....

I understand that you have to run the right FBA ROMset, but where do I find out which version I need? Like where do I view which FBA version I'm using?

Need my Street Fighter fix, and only a couple of them run, but they're from various sources.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 22 07:31:34 2017 No.3753334 >>3752038 Thanks senpai. I wonder if I can push through a suggestion to have this kind of documentation on the project's wiki.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 22 07:45:09 2017 No.3753367 >>3735089 Yes, I built one of these for my buddy as a Christmas gift, had zero problems with it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 22 12:48:43 2017 No.3753732 >>3753224 Start up one of the games that does work on FBA and open up the retroarch GUI. It should tell you the version in the bottom left corner.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 22 13:47:02 2017 No.3753803 >>3753732 Got it, nice one m8, now running most of the Street Fighter ROMs :) Thanks bro

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