Recalbox freezes within RetroArch menu

[Enkidu]

Hey guys,

I had an old version of the Recalbox (18.0.something) that worked like a charm, which I didn't use for a long time, until last week.
I decided to update my Recalbox via Raspberry imager and got the version 8.0.2
The purchase of a NesPi Case on top with the safe shutdown funtion made me very happy, but I have a huge problem.

Everytime when I start a game and I enter the RetroArch menu via "hotkey + b" and go to a setting like "video" my game freezes, when I quit the RetroArch menu.

If I open it up and immediately close it, I can play without a crash, but if I go deeper into the configuration and close the window my game freezes and I have to use the shutdown funtion of my case.

This bug was already a problem before I configured the Shutdown function, therefore I can exclude this possibility.

Unfortunately I can not download an older version of Recalbox, because there seems to be nowhere to find an older update.

I don't have any knowledge in programming, so if I need to configure something directly I needed a tutorial to do that.

Glad if anyone could help.

[OmenBoy]

@enkidu I'm having the exact same problem. My Pi 3b+ worked fine until I updated Recalbox to 8.0.2 and now it freezes when trying to resume a game from the RetroArch menu. Like you if go to the RA menu and resume the game quickly it won't freeze, but if I change a setting then resume the game it will freeze.

I'm also having freezing when launching games on certain cores, Nestopia for example. The game will launch but stay frozen on the first screen.

[Enkidu]

@omenboy

Yeah, this is exactly the problem I have. I forgot to mention, that I use a "Raspberry Pi 3B", perhaps the newer version of recalbox has problems with the older raspberries?

I could kick myself in the butt for updating, because everything worked just perfect on my old build. I kind of knew that I would run into problems. xD

[OmenBoy]

@enkidu you and me both, I’m so annoyed that I updated. I need to start having an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality.

[jor2404]

I had the same problem on raspberry pi 3 and 8.0.2, the first time was entering retroarch on an n64 game following the highres textures tutorial.
Then I reinstalled recalbox, and this time after I enter on retroarch menu of an n64 game started with paralell it frozen, and after use the poweroff command when I try to run the same n64game with paralell it doesn´t start

[Feri]

Same for me...
Updated to 8.02 and the screen freezes on using retro arch menu.

When i change the controller config on ps1, it starts errors like "memorycard 2 not found" and freezes as well.

Thank you so much for your great work ..but.. updating recalbox is quite often buggy. If i get a proper usable version i think about stop updating.
What about s.th. like a stable and a beta build?

[jor2404]

@jor2404 said in Recalbox freezes within RetroArch menu:

I had the same problem on raspberry pi 3 and 8.0.2, the first time was entering retroarch on an n64 game following the highres textures tutorial.
Then I reinstalled recalbox, and this time after I enter on retroarch menu of an n64 game started with paralell it frozen, and after use the poweroff command when I try to run the same n64game with paralell it doesn´t start

I achieve to make paralell run again deleting all cfg files into retroarch folder, the after run a game it seems it create them, the first time the game doen´t run but after reboot it seems that creates a bew files with original configuration

[fredcsn]

I saw in other posts that this problem could be related to resolutions on 4K TVs. But I don't use a 4K TV, but I have the same crashes when navigating the Retroarch menu with Rpi3.

[Zing]

@fredcsn See if this helps:

• https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/26015/bug-recalbox-8-0-1
• https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/26171/rpi3-and-recalbox-8-0-2-freeze-solution

[fredcsn]

@zing Thanks for the tip

I looked at two links you suggested, did some testing and came to some conclusions here:

Note: I am using a 16” 1360x768 resolution HDMI monitor

In the link https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/26015/bug-recalbox-8-0-1 from what I could observe the proposed solution concerns only problems that occurred on Pi4 and Pi400.

In the link https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/26171/rpi3-and-recalbox-8-0-2-freeze-solution, the proposed solution actually avoids the crash when leaving Retroarch and returning to the game emulation .

I've tested this several times with the various pre-installed systems, and none of them have encountered the Retroarch output.

Now what I noticed is with regard to crashes when browsing Retroarch. If I set the “global.videomode” setting to work on “CEA 4 HDMI” no crash occurs.

But that's not the native resolution of this monitor I use as I mentioned above. Now if I set the configuration to work in "DMT 39 HDMI" (monitor configuration I use) or leave it set to "DEFAUT" then crashes occur when browsing Retroarch.

Thanks for your dedication @zing and the entire dev team.

[Zing]

@fredcsn

In the link https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/26015/bug-recalbox-8-0-1 from what I could observe the proposed solution concerns only problems that occurred on Pi4 and Pi400.

But in that link bkg2k mentions:

Nous essayons d'avoir plus d'information de la part de la fondation concernant ceproblème, apparu avec une mise à jour des firmware Raspberry du mois de Juin 2021.*

Translating to English:
We are trying to get more information from the foundation regarding this problem, which appeared with a Raspberry firmware update of June 2021.

This sentence makes it clear that the team is aware of the issues, and is trying to resolve them directly with the Raspberry foundation, as the source of the issues was a firmware update that the foundation made, so it's not just up to the Recalbox developers.

[Osmar Weyh]

@enkidu i had the same problem. Lucky I had an ISO with 7.0.1. Other than that, I lost a pendrive that was in raw and several games I will have to download again.

[Zing]

https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/26334/recalbox-8-x-on-rpi3