Posts made by dormonid

I got a 5 inch hdmi monitor with resolution of 800x480 for a project and tried to run recalbox on it.

At first, the screen was all messed up, since the Pi coudnt find the proper resolution. So I found online how to change the screen resolution via config.txt.

So I held shift and via noobs edited the config.txt with this parameters:

hdmi_force_hotplug=1 (not sure why they asked to do this command, but I did it anyway)
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt= 800 480 60 6 0 0 0

And the result was this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B875tKE2-GugczFxOXhOa2dnYW8/view?usp=sharing

The problem happens when I tried to start any game from any emulator from any console.

It doesnt keep the same resolution. It looks like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B875tKE2-GugZEVWcG9LUnRDR2s/view?usp=sharing

So... where else do I need to go to config the resolution? Where else I have to check ? And how?

Thanks for helping!

thanks. I posted the same issue there, but no one replied yet. Probably this is happening only here

Universal XML Scrapper is making me crazy!

Sometimes it works. But most of the time the program just downloads all the images and makes a blank gamelist.xml.

I dont know what to do to fix this. To make things worse, my computers oftens takes a long time for this scraps to complete. More than one hour for SNES and Genesis alone.

estou tendo um problema.. quando faço scrap ele baixa as imagens e coloca no diretorio dentro da pasta de roms do sistema, mas deixa um gamelist.xml vazio na pasta. ele por algum motivo não está gerando o gamelist.xml!!!

@substring @paradadf may I ask another question? Its impossible to me to copy the ROMS from my PC to the recalbox using the network. My network isnt stable enough apparently to copy the games. They keep showing errors and telling me to try again and copy again and again. Im trying to copy a single PSX game for about an hour and this piece of s**t keeps failing to copy. What other possibilities I have to transfer tthe games to the SD CARD? I know theres a way to insert a full USB KEY but other than that, what can I do to copy the games to the SD CARD (right now im trying an 64gb sd card.

@Substring is it possible to have recalbox on a small 16gb card and use a usb key with all the roms????? I didnt know that

@Substring yes. Batocera uses recalbox, but in my opinion there is nothing better than recalbox 4.0. Not even 4.1 comes closer so far

These guys dont sell the system per-se, but use it to advertise their store. Thats the main reason why I want to make a clean copy of recalbox for myself. I hate this poluted theme and all the advertise that goes within.

Im trying to make a good, clean, recalbox 128gb iso without ads and with nice themes. Still reading all the manuals and tutorials for scrapping though.

Thank you for your help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY2TbEjISLA

Here is the video showing what I meant. But now Im beginning to understand what you told me. Thanks a lot for your patience @substring I will try to make subfolders and see how it looks like !

@Substring sorry. I feel like a complete idiot. I still doesnt understand. Maybe we are talking about different things?

If youre talking about Scraping the act of write description and add box art and screenshots to a game, this I understand how to do.

Im talking about add an entire system, exactly on the main screen (white bar).

I know I can add multiple arcade systems because I have just played a recalbox version with this exact same configuration. I can record a movie and upload to youttube to show what I mean.

Apparently this is pretty basic stuf and im struggling like hell to make this happen. I feel bad for myself lol.

Let me record a video to show what im talking about

@substring wait wait wait hold on...

For mame games for example: I wanted to make a "konami games" so I make a Konami folder inside Mame folder and put the roms on it? What about the image logo? Where can I find those? I wanted to have the konami logo passing by just like Super nintendo, MAME, Neogeo has logos too! But I cant find where the system store these pngs or jpegs.

First of all let me apologize in advance in case this has already been subject of discussion here. The read me first topics doesnt help much on this matter. Neither the wiki page or the manuals.

Recently I tested several "images" made by local game/arcade cabinet companies as well as the original release, but I really wish I could make my own Recalbox the way I wanted.

There were several releases out there that separates arcade games in categories such as (Classic Arcades, Capcom Games, Shoot em Up games, Konami Games)

I believe they use the same Mame emulator, but I don't understand how to make this happen using RecalBox.

How can I clone the Mame Directory (or final burn) and separate the games into all these categories? Where are the images of the titles that appear on each one ? For example, If there is no roms on SNES folder, the Super Nintendo doesnt even appear on the menus. Where are the configuration for all of this, and the tutorial to make this happen?

I was planning to make 3 arcade sub-divisions with classic arcades, fighting games, shoot em up games or maybe beat em up games.

also, im having serious issues scrapping everything. Tried to use Scrap software but with no use. But this is for later. What bugs me the most is being unable to find where all these images are and where to configure!

Thanks in advance for any help or direction!

Luiz

@Substring I borrored the Rpi1 of my dad´s and managed to move all the roms to the PiZero. Unfortunatelly this issue with the dongle can be very frustrating if someone doesnt have this option. Thanks for your help! All the USB controlers im using so far worked perfectly.

@Substring What is an USB KEY? I intended to use Hori Fight Commander 4, or 8bitdo FC30 pro or a madcatz fight pad controller for xbox360. all of them already works on Rpi2.

@n1md4 I´m affraid I cannot provide this information. Can you be more specific, please?

@Substring Seems too hard for me indeed. I guess the only way is to wait for new versions then? Maybe older versions could do the job?

Or maybe finding an old Pi1 to configure and use the Pizero to play.

Im sorry for the bad english. I have zero programming skills.

Im starting to lose hope... I switched the wifi dongle to a cisco ae1200 wifi usb adapter and the problem persist. In the case of this adapter, clearly the Pi Zero doesnt even read it (the lights remain off). I tried to load the memory card on the RPi2 in hope I could load the roms there and then insert the memory card again in the zero, but the recalbox has diferent versions for Pi1 and Pi2. This is frustrating to say the least.

@Substring I found an error message: mt7601u 1-1.1:1.0 Direct firmware load for mt7601u.bin failed with error -2. Probe of 1-1.1:0 failed with error -2

@Substring thanks. Im looking at the screen now...and there is a ton of messages... some of them says "warn:" in the beginning. but im still struggling to see something related to wifi.

@Substring Thanks for your reply. How im supposed to do that? Im kinda noob at this.

Im trying to connect the PI ZERO with recalbox, but this message aways appear: WIFI CONFIGURATION ERROR. I tried to access config and the SSID and password are saved. But it doesnt connect and when I try to access the menu. I don´t know how else I can send ROMS or any other files without using the wifi. Im stucked !

Can someone help me ? The dongle is plug and play (auto install when plugged on my normal PC) and works fine with my normal internet.

Please enlight me