Questions about emulators
  • Freddy
    Hi

    I just upgraded to beta9 (from beta8) using the update.sh script and I have a question.
    Should "all" emulators be installed by default?
    I tried a SNES rom and it complained that snes9x was not found and in my emulator folder I can only see advmame which I installed using the PIPLAY menu.

    Thanks

  • SSilver2k2SSilver2k2
    No. that means something went wrong in the update. If you goto the emulators folder and type:

    git submodule init && git submodule update

    what happens?
  • Freddy
    Hi I found what' s causing it. It was not the advmame folder that I had in emulators, it was a mame4all.
    The updater aborts the update for the emulators since the mame4all dir is not in git.
    I removed the folder and then ran the update again.

    That said I still have issues with both SNES and NES roms.
    SNES:
    If I try to start SNES from the PIPLAY menu I get a segment fault error and then it returns to PIPLAY start. I can start snes9x using the _gui: /pimame/emulators/pisnes $ ./snes9x.gui but then I can´t navigate.

    PIPLAY use the path: /home/pi/pimame/emulators/pisnes/snes9x
    Any ideas why it gives me Segment fault?
    The roms work ok with snes9x-1.53

    NES:
    Emulator gives me a error message and then returns to PIPLAY start.
    Message is too fast, is there an error log?
    The roms work ok with fceux-2.2.0 and 2.2.1 (windows).
    2.2.1 seems to be the same version PIPLAY use...

    Thanks
  • SSilver2k2SSilver2k2
    Which Pi are you using?
  • Freddy
    Its running on a PI2
  • Freddy
    Anyone got SNES/NES running flawless on rpi2?
    It seems that the PIPLAY updater is not that stable for rpi2 and the only way to get everything working correctly is to use the PIPLAY sd-image which is a pain if you also install stuff that aren´t out of the box (samba, usb sound etc)

    Is there any good log files to look at?

    Thanks
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