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Re: Gamecon driver module for NES, SNES, and N64 controllers Added to RetroPie Setup Script

petRockBlog — Sun, 26 May 2013 01:35:33 -0000

The gamecon driver as well as SNESDev can be installed from the menu "setup" in the RetroPie Setup Script. I would recommend to use SNESDev, if you are using the GPIO adapter.

Re: Gamecon driver module for NES, SNES, and N64 controllers Added to RetroPie Setup Script

Brendan Vos — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:27:29 -0000

I don't seem to see the firmware module on the github page, do I need to compile it for the current firmware? I have no idea what I'm doing at this step but I have my snes adaptors made and would just like to test them.

Re: The RetroPie Project

Royale — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:34:08 -0000

Got it to work! Thanks a bunch!

Re: The RetroPie Project

Florian — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:39:15 -0000

http://blog.petrockblock.com/f...

Re: The RetroPie Project

Florian — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:02:01 -0000

Hi, The 2 commands are the only code I write into my rc.local file. You have to write them above the exit 0 command and it will work. Like Makel mentioned you have to disable the splashscreen in the RetroPie Setup so you can see what is happening during the boot, When the sleep command starts press the PS button on your controller and it will connect to your BT dongle. After 20s Emulationstation will start and you can use your controller. That´s the way it works for my setup. Hope I could help.

Re: The RetroPie Project

Jonathan Lemonde — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:25:45 -0000

Hey guys,
Never done that before, but that project has me so stoked!
Would there be a way or a link where there is a -clear- list of everything I have to buy in order to make mine?
I see some parts are explained but there's no real clear list of hardware parts you need to buy.
Thanks!

Re: The RetroPie Project

4cidBurnD — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:06:46 -0000

Awesome project!! Brought my childhood back to the living room. A very big "thank you" for that. Even the GBA runs smoothly now, but unfortunately I couldn't remap the controls for the gpsp so far. Is this a common problem, or is it just me? tried editing the retroarch.cfg in /configs/gba (did nothing) and also created a gpsp_input.cfg in emulators/gpsp/raspberry/ (also no luck). Moreover I wasn't able to play anything with more than 2 gamepads. Is this a game- or emulator specific problem? Would be awesome to play CTR in 4 player mode. Anyway, thanks for your hard work...you're awesome!

Greetings from the Netherlands

Re: Your own cloud server with Owncloud on the Raspberry Pi

Red_Sparcstotting — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:19:33 -0000

Thanxalot!
Now I get it! Works OK with Opera but firefox forgets the exception between sessions. My bad I think. Wrong personal setting somewhere.

Thanx again.

Re: Your own cloud server with Owncloud on the Raspberry Pi

petRockBlog — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:03:28 -0000

What you describe sounds as if works correct: Self-signed certificates need to be "manually" trusted by the user, because they are not signed by an officially trusted authority. Just let Firefox trust your certificate and remind that decision once. At that it will not ask again.
If you want to use an officially trusted certificate, you would need to buy it from such a corresponding organization.

Re: The RetroPie Project

Royale — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:29:03 -0000

Hi! I have the same problem, could you perhaps provide the code? the part where you have to press the PS Burton before the emulationstation would start is really interresting

Re: Your own cloud server with Owncloud on the Raspberry Pi

Red_Sparcstotting — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:48:13 -0000

Thanx for a great script.
Can't get the certificate to work though. Always have to let myself in the back door through an exception and with a warning from firefox. Have got a dynamic "URL = pajserver.x64.me" (from dnsdynamic.org). Used it within the script (first prompt) and in making the certificate.
The pi-server is at private ip 192.168.1.98 so my router is set to forward the https port 443 to that ip. No problem to reach the server at "https://pajserver.x64.me/owncl..." and to administer from there if you disregard the fact that the certificate is not validated.
Have a Thomson smart router that won't let you forward port 80. Is that the reason for my problem or is it the "/owncloud" missing in the URL or????

Re: RetroPie Downloads

petRockBlog — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:12:03 -0000

I cannot say when the image download will be offered as a torrent again. Maybe a download manager that is capable of resuming downloads could help you here!?

Re: The RetroPie Project

petRockBlog — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:10:02 -0000

I agree that this minimalistic design has some flaws. Maybe I will design a larger case in the future ...

Re: Connecting SNES sockets to the Raspberry Pi: An assembly guide

petRockBlog — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:06:57 -0000

Hi Dave,

you can choose any free pin. In case of the RetroPi GPIO adapter, I chose pin 11 (see http://blog.petrockblock.com/2.... Just make sure that the program for polling the button state uses the same pin :-)

Re: RetroPie Project Image Download

TylerG — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:01:33 -0000

I am super new to this and feel like I am stumbling my way through things but learning along the way. I am hoping for a little help... I tried to get RetroPie to work using BootBerry with the secondary being OPENELEC. The reason for this is I want to make a simple to operate movie player and NES emulator for my girl friends birthday pressent.

I was able to do the install of RetroPie under the BootBerry- Raspian but had no luck getting it to start on boot after boot berry so though I would try the SD install and it worked fine off boot. Is there any way to tell it only to open the NES emulator on start up? Not the other emulators?

Has anyone had success with BootBerry and RetroPie?

Re: The RetroPie Project

Florian — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:27:44 -0000

I have figured it out. Now it works with these two commands in the rc.local file

sleep 20s
emulationstation &

Thanks for this awesome Emulator on the RaspberryPi!

Re: Connecting SNES sockets to the Raspberry Pi: An assembly guide

Dave — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:37:20 -0000

Hi.
when you connect the Button or LED to the board, you say that they then need to be connected to the GPIO connecter. Where on the GPIO do they need to be connected to?
Thanks, this is a great guide!
David

Re: The RetroPie Project

Florian — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:38:59 -0000

Hello Makel,

It would be great if you could provide me with the commands you put into /etc/rc.local to start emulationstation some seconds later. It seems I have the same odd behaviour with my PS3 controller and the bluetooth dongle.
I tried it out on my own yesterday but it did not work properly. Maybe I am missing something.
THX in advance

Re: wpdmpro

Marc Call — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:14:40 -0000

Might be worth while adding the xbox 360 controller driver into this build?

Re: The RetroPie Project

Marc Call — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:35:31 -0000

I just came across the pre built SD-Card install file, I think I'll try that tonight and see if I have any better luck with game speeds.

Re: The RetroPie Project

Marc Call — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:27:48 -0000

Can anyone tell me if they are running SNES games at full speed with Retro Pie? I spent the whole weekend messing with my RPi and Retro Pie, and could not get Donkey Kong Country or Super Mario World to play at a good speed. What am I missing?

Re: RetroPie-Setup: An initialization script for RetroArch on the Raspberry Pi

James Miller — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:17:30 -0000

Whenever I run

sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

It returns 'Command not found'. I have no idea why because when I remove the 'sudo' it returns 'Permission Denied'. What is going on?

Re: The RetroPie Project

Kim Royale — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:45:43 -0000

The case look really good, however im looking for something larger where i can add extention cables to panel mounted hdmi, ethernet and usb ports to the back of it. It would be more appealing as a gamestation having most of the cables at the back of the case. Like now fully connected there is cables at every possible location on the board, hard to fit and make it look nice in the tv bench.

Re: Your own cloud server with Owncloud on the Raspberry Pi

clive — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:34:44 -0000

Just tried this and get a 403 forbidden page using NGINX.

Can you fix it please.

Many thanks

Re: The RetroPie GPIO Adapter

petRockBlog — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:45:06 -0000

I did not expect it to work out-of-the box with a Multitap, to be honest. At least SNESDev would need to be modified or the wiring, if you use the gamecon driver.