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mi7chy

Added some additional roms and after updating game list through Start menu it's been stuck at "PLEASE WAIT" on Recalbox Emulation Station white screen. Can ping the IP but can no longer SSH into it to do proper restart. Updated from stable release 18.07.13.

mi7chy

Thanks for the 11/12/2018 update. These are the issues I've run into so far:

Controller setup glitches with genuine Sony PS3 six axis controller once you get to the trigger buttons. It's working fine in the stable release and one of the reasons I switched to Recalbox.
Atari ST .ipf images in compressed .zip still no longer work and just return to menu like with previous test versions. Stable version works fine.

mi7chy

@voljega We greatly appreciate his contribution but are there other developers continuing the effort or is Recalbox on hold if he was the sole developer?

mi7chy

@oyyodams
Noticed the checksum is different from beta2 full image so thought maybe it's a new beta3 full image. Decided to give it a try but it's dated the same 8/23/2018 and still have issues with atarist roms no longer working. Looked into it some more and the roms that no longer work are .ipf extension. Tried a .st rom and it worked so the issue seems to be restricted to .ipf only. Have proper tos.img BIOS installed, es_systems.cfg reference extensions .ipf .IPF and required capsimage library files are present. Anyone have any suggestions on what else I can check?

mi7chy

@olivierdroid92
Rom hack still doesn't work even after remapping controller updated from stable 18.07.13 > beta1 > beta2.

Works if reflashing new with beta2 image.

Works if updating from 18.07.13 > beta2.
Also fixes msx2 gamelist.xml from getting wiped.
Doesn't fix atarist roms that no longer work.
Doesn't fix Kodi controller input from working by default. Have to use keyboard to go to 'configure attached controller' menu then accepting prompt to enable required addon (Kodi joystick support?).

mi7chy

Ran into an issue running the latest update https://we.tl/t-oaFQNyWQuq.

This NES rom hack doesn't run with any of the cores and just stays at a black screen when launched.

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4123/

Works fine with 18.07.13 release.

mi7chy

Successfully upgraded on RPi3B then moved micro SD card over to RPi3B+. Issues found:

After remapping Logitech F710 controller have no controller input in Kodi. Tried using keyboard to navigate Kodi to remap controller and while left/right keyboard cursor keys work, the up/down keyboard cursor keys cause it to appear like down cursor was held down.
msx2 gamelist.xml keeps getting zeroed out on a reboot or force update game list.
atarist games no longer run and just return to menu when launched.

Here's the support archive although there were some errors running the script:

/recalbox/scripts/recalbox-support.sh

lspci: /sys/bus/pci/devices: No such file or directory
/recalbox/scripts/recalbox-support.sh: line 53: aplay: command not found
/recalbox/scripts/recalbox-support.sh: line 54: glxinfo: command not found
/recalbox/scripts/recalbox-support.sh: line 55: xrandr: command not found
/recalbox/scripts/recalbox-support.sh: line 56: xrandr: command not found

https://www83.zippyshare.com/v/8UdGeDAk/file.html

mi7chy

If you start a new game and let the cut scene play after the first cut scene and it transitions to the next cut scene it hangs with a black screen. Only option at this point is to press hotkey+start to exit game back to Recalbox menu.

Confirmed non-working on RPi3B with latest Recalbox 18.07.13, correct SCPH1001.BIN BIOS and also previous Recalbox version.

Same game image works fine with Mednafin 1.21.3 Windows x64 on PC and FPse 0.11.196 on Android.

Mednafin
https://mednafen.github.io/

FPse
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emulator.fpse

Possible fix from another emulator that might give insight.

https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/issues/130

https://github.com/mirror/pcsxr/commit/27c28fcc73ea885981eb2258fc4f0f986bf8cae5

mi7chy

Updated to the new 18.06.27 release and testing it out. Anyone know where VRAM limit setting moved to? Have an issue with PSP games exiting to menu when launched. Want to see if setting VRAM limit to 80MB will help as it seems to have done with previous versions.

mi7chy

@substring

was it just a GPIO number problem ?

Issue #1 Their one-line installer script only runs on Raspbian and not Recalbox and attempting to do so will generate missing command and syntax errors.

curl https://get.pimoroni.com/onoffshim | bash

Issue #2 Per Pimoroni recent versions of Raspbian support shutdown and cutting off power with the following two dt-overlay commands in /boot/config.txt but Recalbox is missing file /boot/overlays/gpio-shutdown.dtbo. Adding the file manually still doesn't work as there appears to be dependencies or hooks. Going forward this seems like the preferred and cleaner way than running background scripts that Recalbox may want to look at.

dtoverlay=gpio-poweroff,gpiopin=4,active_low=1,input=1
dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown,gpio_pin=17,active_low=1

@Dragu
It's a SHIM (shove hat in the middle) so designed to work with HATs and pHATs. You can either solder the OnOff Shim directly onto the GPIO header then place HAT/pHAT on top. Or, solder OnOff Shim to header and stack headers on top of each other for a non-permanent solution.

Btw, anyone in the US and internationally outside of Europe can get it through major distributor Digikey.
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pimoroni-ltd/PIM269/1778-1117-ND/7386673

mi7chy

Little contribution to get Pimoroni OnOff Shim working with Recalbox (tested with version 18.04.20 on RPi 3B).

OnOff Shim is an affordable $7, compact, well-designed SHIM for adding momentary on/off button with safe shutdown and cutting off power that's essential for running off of battery.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/onoff-shim

SSH into Recalbox and remount read/writable:

mount -o remount, rw /boot
mount -o remount, rw /

Backup then add the following line to /boot/config.txt:

dtoverlay=gpio-poweroff,gpiopin=4,active_low=1,input=1

Backup then uncomment the following line in /recalbox/share/system/recalbox.conf by removing the semicolon at the beginning of the line:

system.power.switch=PIN56PUSH            https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Add-a-start-stop-button-to-your-recalbox-(EN)

Backup then replace /recalbox/scripts/rpi-pin56-power.py with this modified version:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import os
import argpa&ast;&ast;e

pa&ast;&ast;er = argpa&ast;&ast;e.ArgumentPa&ast;&ast;er(description='power manager')
pa&ast;&ast;er.add_argument("-m", help="mode onoff or push", type=str, required=True)
args = pa&ast;&ast;er.pa&ast;&ast;e_args()

mode = args.m

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
# GPIO on pin 11 is the GPIO 17 in BCM mode
GPIO.setup(17, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)

def shutdown():
  os.system("shutdown -h now")

try:
  if mode == "push" :
    GPIO.wait_for_edge(17, GPIO.FALLING)
    shutdown()
  else:
    print("Unrecognized mode")
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print ""

finally:
    print "cleaning up gpio"
    GPIO.cleanup()

Finally, reboot with command 'shutdown -h -r now' to take effect and test OnOff Shim functionality.

Optionally, if you prefer the longer way to add a new entry instead of reusing an existing entry then refer this post:
https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/using-onoff-shim-with-recalbox/7981/3

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