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Post by Rillette on Aug 15, 2017 7:27:53 GMT
Lakka is very good too. This is the official distro of libretro. RetrOrange Pi uses libretro cores (and some other emus I guess). So the two are equally good. Lakka is light and fast, without desktop; RetrOrange Pi is a linux distro, so I think you have a desktop and you could do more things than lakka (like compiling the emulators you want).
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Post by Rillette on Aug 15, 2017 7:42:34 GMT
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Post by Ketchups on Aug 15, 2017 8:20:52 GMT
Thank you so much, definitely going to be using this!
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wryly
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Post by wryly on Aug 16, 2017 1:30:00 GMT
I read about people's nightmares and the time spent getting the RES O/S running, so I just downloaded RetrOrangePi. It was so easy to get running, connected to the wi-fi at home, and then dump ROMs over the network from my PC. The only frustration I had was with some of my ROM collection not running, but then I found the Picades site with ROMS picked for Orange Pi compatibility, and it was hassle free, with the bonus of graphics and descriptions for most of the games too (when you dump the complete collections along with the images folder).
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Post by Kraftix on Aug 16, 2017 6:31:12 GMT
The button P1 and P2 are available, usable with an installation of retrorangepi ?
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wryly
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Post by wryly on Aug 16, 2017 10:50:25 GMT
Not that I've noticed. What was P2 supposed to do anyway? To quit games you just hold start and select on the controller. To shutdown the RES, press start on the emulationstation menu to open the menu and select system shutdown.
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Post by merps on Aug 16, 2017 11:56:12 GMT
Honestly, I'm reaching a breaking point with this machine. It's far from plug and play. The included controller broke. My PS3 controllers were a struggle to get working. It runs most games, but you need to know to switch emulators. Kodi works... sorta, but it's a beta version of Krypton that I can't seem to update, and it crashes trying to access my files on my network drive via SMB.
I'm kind of liked tinkering with this, but now it's becoming less fun. I can get *most* things to work, but not all. I put Lakka on an extra SD card, and found it's *PERFECT* to run emulators and games. Smooth as silk, fantastic options, and a great PS3 xmb like interface. But it doesn't have Kodi. If I use RetrOrangePi or the RES variant, Kodi or OpenELEC mostly work, but they really require a connected keyboard to work. And ROMS / Emulators are a bit hit or miss.
I think I'm just grumbling a bit because I'm probably over a dozen hours trying to get this thing to work the way I want. Sorry for the bummer post!
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Post by yschandra on Aug 16, 2017 12:35:15 GMT
I tried out Lakka briefly, and I'm pretty impressed. Install size is about a 600MB image, 1/10th the size of retrop ie. UI is kind of like Sony PlayStation 3. Clean, with a row of icons that have drop down lists. Autodetected and configured my PS3 controller via usb cable. Didn't try the Bluetooth yet. I got it on my Wi-Fi and transferred a bunch of zipped roms over in one group. It automatically identified and separated the NES roms from the SNES roms from the Genesis roms. Jumping out of a game is as easy as pressing L3 & R3 together, which also gives you an option to save state. Smooth as silk. I wasn't able to get a PSX game identifies by the system, but I only had 20 minutes to play around. I recommend this as something to experiment with. I'd love to hear someone else's thoughts and experience. I think the information you let out is that LAKKA will not connect to Wifi automatically nor it has UI for it, so you need to get into the device mostly with a USB ethernet adaptor which works out of the box with LAKKA then execute several commands to connect to wifi. www.lakka.tv/doc/Network-settings/
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Post by merps on Aug 16, 2017 13:06:05 GMT
I tried out Lakka briefly, and I'm pretty impressed. Install size is about a 600MB image, 1/10th the size of retrop ie. UI is kind of like Sony PlayStation 3. Clean, with a row of icons that have drop down lists. Autodetected and configured my PS3 controller via usb cable. Didn't try the Bluetooth yet. I got it on my Wi-Fi and transferred a bunch of zipped roms over in one group. It automatically identified and separated the NES roms from the SNES roms from the Genesis roms. Jumping out of a game is as easy as pressing L3 & R3 together, which also gives you an option to save state. Smooth as silk. I wasn't able to get a PSX game identifies by the system, but I only had 20 minutes to play around. I recommend this as something to experiment with. I'd love to hear someone else's thoughts and experience. I think the information you let out is that LAKKA will not connect to Wifi automatically nor it has UI for it, so you need to get into the device mostly with a USB ethernet adaptor which works out of the box with LAKKA then execute several commands to connect to wifi. www.lakka.tv/doc/Network-settings/I actually didn't have a problem with connecting to Wifi. It's not in the RetroArch UI, but it IS configurable in the Lakka UI. I'm not in front of my machine to quote the steps (I'll try to do that tonight), but in the settings menu dropdown, there's a Network item where it will identify available networks, and allow you to enter your Wifi password. I never touched the command line to get Lakka on my network. The Lakka image was compiled for the OrangePi Lite, so it has the driver set for the built in wifi. The documentation on Lakka.tv is really great, but I think this item is understandably a little confusing. Hope this helps! EDIT: Found this article link from Lakka that shows a screenshot. www.lakka.tv/articles/2016/10/06/major-release-brings-wifi-and-simplified-interface/ I hope this eases some concerns. Seriously, I'm kinda technically inclined, but if I have to go to the commandline to do stuff, I'm out. :-)
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Post by yschandra on Aug 17, 2017 15:27:42 GMT
I think the information you let out is that LAKKA will not connect to Wifi automatically nor it has UI for it, so you need to get into the device mostly with a USB ethernet adaptor which works out of the box with LAKKA then execute several commands to connect to wifi. www.lakka.tv/doc/Network-settings/I actually didn't have a problem with connecting to Wifi. It's not in the RetroArch UI, but it IS configurable in the Lakka UI. I'm not in front of my machine to quote the steps (I'll try to do that tonight), but in the settings menu dropdown, there's a Network item where it will identify available networks, and allow you to enter your Wifi password. I never touched the command line to get Lakka on my network. The Lakka image was compiled for the OrangePi Lite, so it has the driver set for the built in wifi. The documentation on Lakka.tv is really great, but I think this item is understandably a little confusing. Hope this helps! EDIT: Found this article link from Lakka that shows a screenshot. www.lakka.tv/articles/2016/10/06/major-release-brings-wifi-and-simplified-interface/ I hope this eases some concerns. Seriously, I'm kinda technically inclined, but if I have to go to the commandline to do stuff, I'm out. :-) You are right! I missed that.
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merps
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Post by merps on Aug 17, 2017 16:35:06 GMT
No worries! Hope that helped. I'm still enjoying Lakka, and might make it my primary OS for this device.
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Post by rob on Aug 25, 2017 19:07:40 GMT
Just tried Lakka, it is soooo much better than the original RetroEngine OS rip off. I was up and running in a matter of minutes and didn't have to fuss with it too much to get the network sharing to work properly. Hooked a PS3 controller up to it and it even works through Bluetooth just fine. It is now more of a plug and play than it originally was.
Doyodo can fuck themselves as far as I am concerned and I still intend on getting my money back somehow.
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Post by livingsign on Aug 26, 2017 1:46:50 GMT
Dumb question...i decided to put RetrOrange Pi on the RES. One problem, how do I type in my wifi password using the control pad? Seems simple but it's got me stuck.
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wryly
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Post by wryly on Aug 26, 2017 12:23:48 GMT
I'll concede defeat on that. I've had a quick look around and tried various things, but to honest, I can't even get into the wi-fi set-up properly without a USB keyboard. Hopefully there may be someone more knowledgeable along who can help, but I'd suggest picking up a cheap one, if you don't have one that you can borrow from a computer at home.
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Post by Rascal on Sept 10, 2017 6:09:52 GMT
Did anyone manage to get the RES bluetooth controller working with ROPI? Worked for me with the RES image but not with ROPI. (Doesn't get detected)
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