Recalbox has Moonlight installed which allows you to share a desktop PC to an RPi. It’s an NVIDIA technology and so, for a Linux host-side, you’ll need to use the open source software Sunshine.

In addition to running sunshine, check out this fix I noted at the bottom. There are some parts of the game discovery process that aren’t working with the current script in recent Recalbox versions - not tested on the latest 8.1, however. Once you get this working, an entry for Moonlight will appear in the Recalbox main interface automatically.

But, with all that above, it definitely does work. I’ve run Linux host -> RPi4 over wifi and it worked fairly well. You can check the Recalbox wiki moonlight page for more details, tips, etc. I remember having some minor difficulties getting sunshine to run at the time.

Have you checked the file “lightgun.cfg” on the system? It governs the controller presets for the automatic lightgun configuration and has quite a lot of notes and commentary which may help you here.

EDIT: the aforementioned file is actually on the Recalbox itself (forgot what folder) but here’s what I think is the latest version of the file viewable online: https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/-/blob/master/board/recalbox/fsoverlay/recalbox/share_init/system/.emulationstation/lightgun.cfg. You can search for the game name/platform and see what comes up.

Did you ever get this working? I can’t get anything to run for this console.

I have 3 zip’s in the Recalbox bios directory and cdimono1.zip even has the 2 zx* files that are often missing (5 files total).

Sunshine will work with any application. It’s intended to setup “shortcuts”/launchers for arbitrary apps (might have to futz with paths and file permissions) BUT you can also just do a Full Desktop share and then launch any app like you normally would.

Recalbox has Moonlight installed which allows you to share a desktop PC to an RPi. It’s an NVIDIA technology and so, for a Linux host-side, you’ll need to use the open source software Sunshine.

In addition to running sunshine, check out this fix I noted at the bottom. There are some parts of the game discovery process that aren’t working with the current script in recent Recalbox versions - not tested on the latest 8.1, however. Once you get this working, an entry for Moonlight will appear in the Recalbox main interface automatically.

But, with all that above, it definitely does work. I’ve run Linux host -> RPi4 over wifi and it worked fairly well. You can check the Recalbox wiki moonlight page for more details, tips, etc. I remember having some minor difficulties getting sunshine to run at the time.

Let’s keep the “politics” out of here please…

I have the exact same issue. Research suggests that it is related to the graphics drivers on the Linux side for the RPi4 as used by Recalbox — I think it’s “mesa” but I haven’t checked.

I have tried this suggestion since it seemed similar to no avail. I also swapped HDMI cables and inputs, etc. without fixing the issue.

Also wanted to point out that Kodi Matrix (aka 19.x) is what is installed on the current Recalbox versions (8.1, 8.0.2). I’m almost positive this issue was also occurring in Kodi Leia as well.

@unktehila said in How to use scummvm via SSH?:

"scummvm" via SSH always terminating with the same message: "Could not initialize SDL: No available video device!"

I'd study how Recalbox invokes scummvm to play a ROM…

Hi there, I’m replying without my Recalbox handy to check exact file names/paths but, to help with your questions….

The SDL error from trying to start SCUMMVM over SSH is due to the fact that, within the ssh session, there is no graphical “display” available and therefore the scummvm “window”/interface can’t be displayed. This is pretty normal when using ssh because it’s designed for command line work and not graphical programs. There’s a lot more detail and nuance here but essentially “running in ssh session” means no graphics.

To see how Recalbox launches scummvm, check the file “es_systems.cfg”. It’s somewhere in the default folder you login to upon connecting via ssh. In there you will see a reference to I believe it’s called “configgen.py” which is the script that ultimately runs the emulators and therefore has the full command line parameters used to launch scummvm with a particular game. My guess offhand is that the SDL video device (from the error) is one of the parameters supplied by the .py Python script.

Happy hunting!

I’ve experienced the “missing HDMI” option when my TV is turned off (or perhaps on the wrong input??) while the Recalbox is booting. Not sure on the exact timing but it’s definitely fixable 100% of the time if the TV is turned on first.

I didn’t used to have this issue before 8.x series Recalbox so not sure what may have changed in I guess the RPi firmware or perhaps the Linux kernel side. I suspect the hdmi_forceplug or one of those boot options will fix the issue but I no longer use HDMI so can’t test.

Heck, you could even use a boot option to lock-in HDMI as the only audio choice if you don’t care about easy access to the audio jack functionality!

It’s still mostly there: when you press Start, pick “Edit Game” (should be the first/top entry).

It might use the full game name and not “Game” actually…don’t have my Recalbox handy to check.

@wsamh said in Hide consoles?:

there are no roms to remove. just the default txt files.

Even if there are no actual ROM files, the presence of gamelist.xml is enough for Recalbox to show games in the list. Try deleting that file if you haven’t and restart EmulationStation and/or the whole system.

If you meant the readme txt files, those don’t matter. If this doesn’t work, it’s also possible to overload es_systems.cfg and comment out a particular console’s code block.

I’ve seen someone talking about this before on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/q2hops/give_ps1_games_a_new_feel/

The general explanation is that the game audio is flowing through the controller. I don’t have a DualSense myself but I’d suggest looking at the RetroArch menu for Sound and see if you can change the output device to explicitly be HDMI (or component if you use that).

Confusingly Recalbox has wireless Bluetooth controllers connect under the same menu as a remote Bluetooth speaker so I don’t get the feeling that you can fix this from EmulationStation (the Recalbox front end).