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Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores
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Overlay stability issue w/ NES and SNES #839

Closed Patrickdroid closed 9 years ago

Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

If I set "input_overlay" in retroarch.cfg, NES and SNES games will fail to load and RA crashes back to emulationstation. I've noticed this with the Nestopia and Snes9x-next cores. I've double and triple checked that the path is correct.

I did not have this issue until a couple days ago, when I started with a fresh SD card and installed everything using the setup script.

joolswills commented 9 years ago

please can you converse with other users on the forum first and verify if anyone else has the problem.

Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

I've posted a topic on this to see if anyone replies. I also talked to hunterk of libretro, and he said there was a problem with overlay stability a couple weeks ago but that it should be fixed in the latest versions.

I only notice the issue with Nestopia and SNES9x-next.

Is there a way to update individual cores? I tried core updater via RGUI but that didn't seem to do anything.

joolswills commented 9 years ago

you can update individual cores from the retropie-setup menu - option 5 - you can build the very latest retroarch from source to see if it helps for example. you can also update from commandline using the retropie-packages.sh command.

Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

I'm still getting this issue. How do I completely remove an emulator so that it can be reinstalled fresh?

Thanks.

joolswills commented 9 years ago

If you reinstalled from menu 5 - then it is installed from fresh pretty much. Sounds like there could be an upstream issue. I'll have to test it myself and try and reproduce.

Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

I keep getting a segmentation fault in my error log. I'm going to try initializing my sd card and starting fresh to see if that solves it.

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Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

I reinstalled from a freshly initialized SD card and I'm still having issues with overlay stability with nestopia and snes9x-next. Starting either emulator with overlays enabled causes them to crash back to emulation station immediately upon launching a game. Overlays can be loaded within the emulator after it has been launched.

Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

I'm also getting this problem with Genesis plus gx. Haven't tested any other emulators

Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

here's the error I'm getting in my reuncommand.log:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 671: 5579 Segmentation fault /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-nestopia/nestopia_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/Batman - The Video Game.nes" --appendconfig /tmp/retroarch.cfg

The line that this appears to relate to is "input_overlay = path/to/file"

Patrickdroid commented 9 years ago

Here is another user reporting the same issue: http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/overlays-makes-games-crash/#post-98608

joolswills commented 9 years ago

is this still happening ? A lot has changed with retroarch since this ticket and it may well be fixed now.

(Please try with 3.0 rc1)

joolswills commented 9 years ago

Closing due to no feedback. Not heard reports about this with recent images, so suspect it was a retroarch issue that got fixed.