Posts made by tonificante

@lumbeechief081 Maybe you can find some video option which corrects that. I would try for example to disable the vertical video sync first. Hope it helps

Sorry, didn't want to troll or hurt sensibilities, just give some information to the user. Please remove my previous post, I tried but I don't find any option.

Even if development team takes this feature, you will sit a long time for it to be done. Last recalbox release took ten months or so..
You could try asking at batocera, they usually release every two months. Or stick to retropie. Or maybe recalbox developers will shorten release periods, who knows..

Hi community,

I have a pi with recalbox directly in front of an exercise bicycle and I am considering to do some kind of hack in order to use the exercise bicycle as a gamepad. I saw this concept in the videogame museum in Berlin, where they have a Reebok Cyber Rider attached to some console playing a racing game. This is a really cool idea, improving your health while you play.

The cyberrider seems to be sold out and deprecated since a long time. The closest information that I found in internet for building your own one is this article:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Exercise-Machine-USB-Game-Controller/

But for me it is still a bit too complicated and I don't know if it would really work.

Do you know if there is another easier solution? I think it would be okey if every spin presses / keeps pressed, let's say, the X button, and then maybe build 2 small buttons on the bike to steer left and right, like in the cyber rider. If you still don't know it, give it a try in the videogame museum!

@updawg Yep, that is the normal behaviour. If a rom folder is missing, it will be recreated on boot, based on the contents of the share_init folder, like @theknob said.

If you want to have a copy that you can always quickly enable, then you can rename the rom folder that you don't want to have to something like xxx.old, but after that, create a new empty folder with the original name of the system. In this way, you get rid of them but you can always switch the name of the folders quickly if you want to play them again.

@mantics If you want to have something stable while waiting, then go for batocera. It is not so cool like recalbox but at least it is stable with pi3+ since a couple of releases. I think recalbox stable release for pi3+ will probably still take some time. Or if you want to help with the recalbox beta, then you are more than welcome to send here every bug you find

@mago in Recalbox you can do it directly from the menus, I remember that I saw the option a couple of times, I think it is under some kind of interface options menu or theme menu, maybe batocera also has it, otherwise you can try recalbox

Hi, I managed to add a custom startup script and wrote the process in the last message of this thread:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/11022/how-to-autostart-a-rom-directly-on-boot/8

Maybe it helps!
Greetings

Hi,

wenn du eine Retroflag Nespi Case hast, die alte Modelle (ich glaube, ohne plus Zeichen) sind schon bekannt dass sie wesentlich weniger Strom an die pi liefern, wegen den integrierte Netzteil Modul der dafür dient, dass die Knopfe vorne wirklich funktionieren (Power und Reset).

Wenn dir die beide Knopfe eher "egal" sind, dann kannst du direkt ein Loch in den Case machen, da wo der echte Strom Connector von die Raspberry sein soll, ganz vorsichtig, und diese nutzen. Das bringt schon was, und da es hinten ist, sieht man nichts komisches.

Ich hoffe, meine Nachricht wird nicht gebannt wenn ich die url von einen Bild inkludiere, wo du das als Beispiel sehen kannst:
https://preview.ibb.co/imOS0b/nespi.jpg

Das hat jemand gemacht, sieht sehr schlecht aus, aber du kannst es besser hinkriegen. Bei mir hat es wesentlich besser geklappt, man muss einfach vorsichtiger sein.

Was auch noch hilft: Benutze ein aktives Usb Hub, wo du den alle deine Usb Geräte anschliesst. In mein Fall nutze ich diese:
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003E3R1KM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Und was auch noch hilft, wenn du wirklich Overclocking machen willst:
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0744G58P4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

diese Ventilators sind wirklich genial und sind super still. Die kann ich nur empfehlen.

VG!

Look for the file retroarchcustom.cfg and change the value of input_joypad_driver from udev to sdl2

More info:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/8125/4-1-slow-game-launch-any-game-emulator/35

Look for the file retroarchcustom.cfg and change the value of input_joypad_driver from udev to sdl2

More info:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/8125/4-1-slow-game-launch-any-game-emulator/35

This part of the forum is only in english language. For spanish questions, please post here:
https://forum.recalbox.com/category/23/español

And about your problem, use etcher. If it still doesn't work, download the recalbox.img.xz again, in case it was corrupted

Just for the records, and in case somebody is trying something similar, I managed it in this way:

• in /etc/init.d , disable emulationstation service and custom service this way: sudo chmod -x S31emulationstation S99custom and disable also all the services that you don't need (in my case S02splash S11upgrade S24lircmod S25hyperion S25lircd S31sixad S32bluetooth S92steamcontroller S92virtualgamepads S94manager)
• create a new service in /etc/init.d with following name S99customrom and sudo chmod +x S99customrom and add the following code:

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in 
start)
   /recalbox/share/system/custom.sh &
   echo $!>/var/run/hit.pid
   ;;
stop)
   kill `cat /var/run/hit.pid`
   rm /var/run/hit.pid
   ;;
restart)
   $0 stop
   $0 start
   ;;
status)
   if [ -e /var/run/hit.pid ]; then
      echo hit.sh is running, pid=`cat /var/run/hit.pid`
   else
      echo hit.sh is NOT running
      exit 1
   fi
   ;;
*)
   echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
esac

exit 0 

• and now, in the share folder, in the system folder, edit the custom.sh and add the line to launch the game, that you got when you played it normally and used ps -ef | grep emulatorlauncher , like voljega said, BUT add this at the end: && poweroff
• for example, in my case:

python /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configgen/emulatorlauncher.pyc -p1index 0 -p1guid 03000000830500006020000010010000 -p1name "USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad" -p1nbaxes 2 -p1devicepath /dev/input/event2 -p2index 1 -p2guid 03000000830500006020000010010000 -p2name "USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad" -p2nbaxes 2 -p2devicepath /dev/input/event3 -p3index 2 -p3guid 03000000451300000031000001010000 -p3name "Sony SPEEDLINK USB GAMEPAD" -p3nbaxes 4 -p3devicepath /dev/input/event4 -system snes -rom "/recalbox/share/roms/snes/Breath of Fire.zip" -emulator default -core default -ratio auto && poweroff

• then, don't forget to make the custom.sh executable with sudo chmod +x custom.sh

If you did everything fine, recalbox will start directly on the rom, and when you press select + start (or whatever your back-to-menu is) then you will shutdown the system safely and you can turn the raspberry off after 5 or 10 seconds

If you make S31emulationstation executable again, and disable the customrom script, then you can enter to emulationstation and modify settings like shaders, video configs, etc, and this will affect also your custom rom.

The only problem that I still have is that in this way I cannot manage to get the audio output through my external usb audio card. I have a typical behringer uca222 to increase the sound quality, but the sound is still going through the hdmi signal, although it works fine if I boot the rom from the emulationstation menu. If I manage it on the autostarted rom, I will let you know.

@marcdk said in Which recalbox emulators support zipped roms?:

And does anybody know a command on the terminal to zip all roms with the same name and then delete the source?

You can search it by yourself: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=batch+file+script+to+zip+files+and+delete

@janbaunooo maybe you still have enabled the standard update line? check if you still have this line:
updates.type=stable
and if so, then put a # as the first char of the line, to comment it out:
#updates.type=stable

By the way, I think the version you have is already the last one, so you won't get any update at this moment anyway.

I disabled both the recalbox web manager and kodi from the corresponding emulation station menu options, and now it is working better. I think the recalbox web manager was colliding with the stopped virtual gamepad service. Now temp seems to stay at 62ºC when idle, and emulationstation stays on 5% cpu use. The "zoom" effect when entering a rom seems to be more fluent now.

My version: "RB EMULATIONSTATION V 507-B*MP-BUI (86B655AC) 28480032 RPI3 2018/08/22 22:54:50"

My errors:

• the unstable wifi connection mentioned by user wilfrid.
• when I update the gamelist, it hangs somehow at the end of the process. When I reboot or switch off from recalbox, it hangs almost always and then I have to do soft reset or soft switch off by using a raspberry pi app from my smartphone that sends a reboot or shutdown signal.
• when I copy a snes rom through samba network and reboot raspberry using my app, then I lose all the scrapped info of snes and I just see the list of roms with no artwork or infos. It's tedious to scrap again and again, so I don't scrap anymore. I didn't have this problem with other systems, maybe it has been a random situation of corrupt copy through samba network...
• when I enter a rom and I get the "zoom in" effect in the artwork image in emulationstation, I can barely see a tiny delay in the movement of the image a couple of times, so maybe the graphics of new 3b+ still doesn't have the 100% optimized driver, just like the wifi.
• when it is idle in emulationstation menus, it reaches 66ºC after a while (room temp about 25ºC). When I check via ssh the top command, the only process consuming cpu is emulationstation (9%). The raspberry is just connected via hdmi to a full hd 1920x1080p 22" tv and a buffalo snes pad.

My custom changes:

• I manually disabled with chmod -x some services that I don't need from /etc/init.d: S02splash, S24lircdmod S25hyperion S25lircd S31sixad S32bluetooth S92steamcontroller S92virtualgamepads
• I enabled custom shaders for the roms

Thanks to all people putting effort on this release!

You may have to enable upnp in your router for your raspberry pi ip address, or even reboot your router

By the way, the next time you open a new topic, please use a more descriptive title which includes the real subject of your problem...