Im playing Skies of Arcadia right now!
Thank you so much for your longstanding support. 10,000 dude points to you!

Great! I'm glad you got it figured out! Thanks for the dude points.Ryno4 wrote:Dude, I figured out the BIOS files and it works!
Im playing Skies of Arcadia right now!
Thank you so much for your longstanding support. 10,000 dude points to you!
Try downloading the game from different rom sites. If you can find one in the right file format for that enulator then it should work. I've gotten lots of super Mario games working from Mario on nes to Mario on N64.Ryno4 wrote:Thanks. I just stumbled across it and it worked.
I've figured out to how to use the files marked as .zip, but all of the older consoles are .htm and .7z. I seems that anything that I find zipped are working. It usually the bigger games.
I can get final fantasy to work but not super Mario! Haha
Portable consels are possible. You don't nessisarily need an on screen keyboard and mouse because you could set it up to automatically start emulationstation at boot. Then all you would need is a keyboard or some USB game controllers to control the game.Ryno4 wrote:I was wondering whether you can set up a portable console. My idea is that you can hook up a 7" monitor, a power pack for power supply and an onscreen keyboard and mouse to input commands. If this was possible, you would only need to take a controller and you would have a portable console. Do you think this could be possible?
Cool idea! Can't wait to see what you come up with.Ryno4 wrote:All of these ideas are helping me out together a plan.
In thinking of getting an old console she'll, perhaps a SNES. they grey panel in the middle could be hinged, and flip back to reveal a screen. You can by micro keyboards that you could slit in there, get a power pack that will fit.
Just an idea. There may not be enough room
If you enter this in the terminalJam1t1c wrote:Hi, ive been following this thread and i think its helped, but im stuck.
I have bought a 4inch LCD screen to attach to my raspberry pie 3, it requires me to use the image that came with the screen for the screen to work. ive tried to install the screen drivers to a working image of Retropie but i couldnt get it to work, so i thought i would use the image that came with the screen and install retropie to it using your method.
Ive followed all your steps but when i boot the RP3 up it loads into Debian and when i tried to load retropie by entering emulationstation i get the "X is running. Please shut down X in order to mitigate problems with losing keyboard input. For example, logout from LXDE." message, i cant uninstall lightdm because i believe i need it for the screen to work.
Is there anyway i can stop Debian from loading and it just boots straght into retropie?
Hope this makes sense and i hope you can help...
Thanks
Jamie
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B1 Console Text console, requiring user to login
B2 Console Autologin Text console, automatically logged in as 'pi' user
B3 Desktop Desktop GUI, requiring user to login
B4 Desktop Autologin Desktop GUI, automatically logged in as 'pi' user
Sorry for the late reply (I've been reeeealllly busy!). Anyways were you ever able to see emulationstation on the screen? And if not did you follow these instuctions http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/4inch_RPi_LCD_(A). It looked to me like there was instructions on there to getting you screen set up. Sorry if I'm not being much of a help.Jam1t1c wrote:Hi, thanks for the reply, I have done what you have said and now it loads up properly when I type in emulationstation like you said,
how do I get it to boot straight in to RetroPie?
The lcd only shows a blinking_ and the RetroPie screen is pushed to the hdmi, how do I set it to be on the lcd screen.
http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/4inch_RPi_LCD_(A)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00YE0 ... UTF8&psc=1
The above is a link to the screen purchased.
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I'm sorry I really don't know what to do. I dont have one of those screens so I can't test things. Could someone please help Jam1t1c out here? Sorry I can't be much of a help. I wish you the best at trying to get it working.Jam1t1c wrote:Hiya, I tried everything on the waveshare website but it didn't work with RetroPie, the screen works with the image you get with it. I added some code that duplicates the hdmi feed and forces it through the lcd screen which is great but now it's dead show, I think it's to slow to play with.
Do you have any suggestions of another way to do this?
Thanks
ThanksJam1t1c wrote:No problem, your posts have been loads of help already
Yes I have noticed this too! However I don't believe it is any different. I have installed it several times since it has changed and it has worked fine. If anybody has more info on this change could you please let me know.bradwolf wrote:i was following this thread today to install retropie. At this point of the install there was no option for binary based installation. i chose what appeared to be the only viable option which was Basic Install. was this a mistake? im now having trouble at the welcome gamepad detected screenMalMan35 wrote:It will ask how you want to install but I suggest you just select the "binary based" installation. It will take a bit of time (about 30 min.) so just sit back and play a game on your phone or something.![]()
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