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Vegz78 / McAirpos

MakeCode Arcade games in RetroPie, Recalbox 7/8 and Batocera, running natively as ELF executables on Raspberry Pi OS/Linux ARM with 1-2 gamepads
https://Vegz78.github.io/McAirpos
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Can't find game (file) in Retropie(<systemList> tag required at end of es_systems.cfg) #25

Closed Maki2007 closed 2 years ago

Maki2007 commented 2 years ago

Hello I have added my elf file to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/makecode/. But when I go to RetroPie I cant find the Makecode Menu in RetroPie. When I somehow, I don't know, enter the menu in RetroPie, My game are not here. I don't know whats going wrong.

Vegz78 commented 2 years ago

Hi and thanks for your feedback and trying McAirpos!

Have you tried sudo chmod -R 755 ~/RetroPie/roms/makecode and then restarting EmulationStation?

Maki2007 commented 2 years ago

Yes, I have tried that

Vegz78 commented 2 years ago

Did you install McAirpos manually or with the installation script?

Since you can’t find the MakeCode menu nor the games inside RetroPie, I am thinking that you maybe are lacking the MakeCode entry inside /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg?: https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos/blob/master/McAirpos/EmulationStation/es_systems.cfg_MakeCode

Maki2007 commented 2 years ago

Sorry I copied the ./McAirpos/EmulationStation/es_systems.cfg_MakeCode file to the end, the \</systemList> should be the last line

Vegz78 commented 2 years ago

Yeah, \</systemList> must be kept as the last concluding line when adding entries to the original es_systems.cfg file.

All good and working now, and we can close this issue?

Maki2007 commented 2 years ago

Yes sure, I got my games from my Meowbit running on my pi. But I have an another issue. If I play games with the settings or database extension (Save data like text) I can’t play them.

Vegz78 commented 2 years ago

Great!

In particular, the settings extension/namespace does not work 100% on the Raspberry Pi, but there is a functioning work-around: https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos/issues/14#issuecomment-900680039 https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-arcade/issues/3812

In general, the saving to disk functions seem to need to be run a couple of times in a row per game to start to work ok, no idea why, and I have not tested if the same applies to booting with the official MakeCode image for Raspberry and uf2 files instead(should work in a similar fashion). It is the same executable .elf file inside the uf2 files, but the runtime environment inside MakeCode's boot image might be a little bit different from on regular Raspberry Pi OS.

There is also different extensions support for different hardware, etc.: https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos/issues/12

But core Arcade functions seem to work ok most places.

If the settings workaround does not work for you, or you need more help, please open a new issue with the right topic.

God luck and keep on retro game making and playing!