wryly
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Post by wryly on Aug 17, 2017 17:41:58 GMT
I guess that I was being greedy. After having a few days without problems, I caused some today copying large PSX, PSP and other roms. I'd noticed that I could hear the music stuttering in the other room while I copied some of the roms, and even had the console crash. This may be due to the fact that I got the basic RAM model, or just be a conflict with the RES trying to read music files while I'm copying to the SD card. Whatever the cause, it wouldn't get beyond the loading screen and the music crapped out. I think it should be safe to transfer smaller cartridge roms through the network, and possibly even the larger ones, if you run the desktop and leave it idling, so that there is no SD access occuring beyond the file transfers. I'm going to rebuild it but just transfer the roms from a USB stick using the Desktop on the RES, to avoid any conflicts. In the meantime, I tried out the original RetroEngine Sigma software. I'm sure that it will irritate some to hear that it all worked fine for me and I was into the emulationstation in under 5 minutes. I'm currently transferring the roms and bios to familiarise myself with that and see if it works in much the same way as it did on RetrOrangePi, to avoid giving any wrong advice. I'm going to video bits of it and try to put together some rough guides for the inexperienced and nervous. I'll let you know if I have any problems (I'll probably be back to ask for advice from those who have fought longer  I'm also going to do a Lakka build. This should be a lot quicker, as I can leave all the roms on a USB and will only need to dump the bios files into the system folder |
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Post by ohm on Aug 18, 2017 3:03:47 GMT
i get this problem too
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wryly
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Post by wryly on Aug 18, 2017 9:23:26 GMT
I've flashed a fresh one to try and fill up as I tried last time.
I left it with a Lakka build, reading all the roms off a usb stick.
It was easy enough to set up. It didn't register on my network until I rebooted, but it played a PSP game well enough.
It's impressive and a genuine contender, especially as I don't need Kodi, my TV and Tversity do a far better job.
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merps
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Post by merps on Aug 18, 2017 16:32:32 GMT
I've flashed a fresh one to try and fill up as I tried last time. I left it with a Lakka build, reading all the roms off a usb stick. It was easy enough to set up. It didn't register on my network until I rebooted, but it played a PSP game well enough. It's impressive and a genuine contender, especially as I don't need Kodi, my TV and Tversity do a far better job. I'd really like to hear your thoughts on Lakka after a few days. I have 3 sd cards I'm swapping to try out different things; Lakka, the new RES O/S image, and Android (I got it from the orangepi.org site; Android is a bit laggy on this hardware, not recommended). So far, Lakka seems the most stable and easiest to configure, but it doesn't have Kodi (which I'd like). But the RES O/S is... meh. I might just give up on dreams of a Kodi box and settle for a stable game system. |
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Post by wryly on Aug 19, 2017 12:09:36 GMT
My dis is thoroughly gruntled today. I rebuilt RetrOrangePi, copied roms via the desktop and had it all working, but after a diversion into the desktop again, the thing corrupted again. My SD card had about 5gb of space left on it, and there could have been no conflicts where it came to writing to the card, so I really don't know what went wrong this time. I will be coming back to RetrOrangePi once v4.0 comes out and not before I think.
So Merps, it's back to Lakka for the time being. My initial impressions were mixed with Lakka, it's operation was idiosyncratic and the fact that as default the buttons are mapped the Japanese way (reversed) was annoying until I found the option to swap them. I initially had some poor compatibility, and it annoyed me that although it decides on the emulation itself, based on the roms to some extent (interesting that it just reads the NeoGeo roms as FBA arcade), I decided to make a 16gb flash drive my rom repository, added some extra content and once scanned, Lakka still had all the content from the SD/adapter from before. I finally found out how to fix that and left it rescanning the flash drive last night. All seems to be well. Obviously there are still a few compatibility issues and I will probably have to look into how to possibly add alternative emulators, but I think I'm sticking with Lakka until RetrOrangePi comes out, or at least until I discover why it keeps corrupting and how I can avoid it.
I think RetrOrangePi can read games from another drive, but I understand that the drive has to be formatted with a roms root menu and all the rom folders must be named in accordance to ROPI conventions, conditions that my current flashdrive doesn't meet and would require another reset and scan to use on Lakka if it all went tits up. For now I deserve some playing time, rather than more IT work.
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merps
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Post by merps on Aug 19, 2017 20:53:14 GMT
Yep. I'm done with the hassles of the RES OS and trying to get kodi to work in any permutation. I'm just loading Lakka now so I can play and not work. I'll circle back to see if any enhancements come along to smooth things out, but if you need me, I'll be playing Frogger, Tony Hawk, Star Fox, and Super Dodgeball. :-)
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Post by loewon on Aug 22, 2017 14:41:44 GMT
Someone had the same problem on FB I guess? See attachment. Apparently the fix is as strange as it is simple. It also will be fixed with the next version of ropi. ![]() Attachments:
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wryly
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Post by wryly on Aug 22, 2017 21:36:54 GMT
I saw that. I may have a look at setting the skin to carbon, but I chickened out last time I tried it out, as the display was largely blank. I tried turning off the music too. I don't know how much of a memory overhead it saved me, but it would at least prevent it combining with conflicts of card access.
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Post by gaymer on Aug 26, 2017 14:57:19 GMT
I noticed after pouring ROMs in the folders that I am getting a lag... How do I put them on USB and work them from there???
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wryly
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Post by wryly on Aug 26, 2017 18:15:08 GMT
I've read that if you emulate the file structure, having a root folder of roms, and in that folders named the same as they would be on the system card, you can run them on ROPI, but I haven't been able to confirm that, as I filled my flash drive for Lakka and it would mess up my set-up on there to test it.
I did manage to get it to read some roms off a flash drive that wasn't set up correctly, but using Doyodo's updated version of their software, but I've really abandoned their mangled version since. Just try connecting a flash drive and see if it gives you the option. I'd stick to making sure that the folder are named correctly, either way.
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