TheRA 3.0 Port (formerly RetroPie port)

[SlappyMcPhee]

-------------------- We are happy to say that the N2 TheRA first PR is LIVE! ----------------------------------------------------------------------

We have enhanced the Website experience by also adding in a Public Changelog Viewer page that has a link to it below the download.

https://theretroarena.com


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We at The Retro Arena are working on a build of our TheRA 3.0 build formerly known as ORA RetroPie.

Our first Open Beta for the Odroid N2 is now live on the www.theretroarena.com website!
This build includes our new controller pack @everyone which we are working to add into all of our builds moving forward. We will be showing off a video tutorial this week on how to add it to the XU4. For clarification this is a list of newly added controllers - not an entire list overall:
Nintendo


-Raphnet 4nes4snes
-Raphnet 2nes2snes
-Retrolink SNES
-HuiJia USB GamePad Mayflash NES SNES
-HuiJia USB GamePad Mayflash N64


Sega


- Retrobit Genesis to PC USB Adapter
- HuiJia USB GamePad Mayflash Sega Saturn
- Mayflash Dreamcast




Atari
-Atari Retrobit


XBOX


-Microsoft X-Box One pad
-Microsoft X-Box One pad (Firmware 2015)
-Microsoft X-Box One Elite pad
-Thrustmaster Gamepad GP XID
-Logitech Gamepad F510
-Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightStick SE
-Mad Catz Xbox 360 Controller
-Mad Catz Beat Pad
-Mad Catz FightStick TE 2
-Mad Catz Xbox controller - MW2
-Saitek Cyborg Rumble Pad - PC/Xbox 360
-Saitek P3200 Rumble Pad - PC/Xbox 360
-Super SFIV FightStick TE S
- "Afterglow AX.1 Gamepad for Xbox 360"
- "Afterglow Prismatic Wired Controller"
- "Rock Candy Gamepad for Xbox 360"
- "Rock Candy Wired Controller for Xbox One"
- "Logic3 Controller"
- "Logic3 Controller"
- "Generic xbox control (dealextreme)"
-"Hori Co. DOA4 FightStick"
-HORIPAD ONE
-PDP AFTERGLOW AX.1
-Razer Sabertooth
-Power A Mini Pro Elite
-Xbox Airflo wired controller
-Batarang Xbox 360 controller
-Joytech Neo-Se Take2
-Razer Onza Tournament Edition
-Razer Onza Classic Edition
-Xbox ONE spectra
-Razer Sabertooth
-MLG Pro Circuit Controller
-Street Fighter IV FightStick TE
-Harmonix Xbox 360 Controller
-Razer Atrox Arcade Stick
-Xbox Airflo wired controller
-PowerA Xbox One Mini Wired Controller
-PowerA Xbox One wired controller
-Hori XBOX 360 EX 2 with Turbo
-Hori Real Arcade Pro VX-SA
-Hori SOULCALIBUR V Stick
-Thrustmaster, Inc. GPX Controller
-Thrustmaster Ferrari 458 Racing Wheel


Misc


-USB PS2 Adapter GreenAsia Electronics
-XCSOURCE 2 Encoder USB - Twin USB Gamepad
-3H Dual Arcade 2Players

[SlappyMcPhee]

Sikotik completed an initial Alpha build with the following bits and bobs at a high level:

failed to compile:

lr-mame2000
fruitbox
selphscraper
lr-mame2010
lr-mesen
lr-parallel-n64
lr-picodrive
lr-reicast

advmame 0.94 stale config.guess
amiberry need to define a platform
atari800 stale config.guess
basilisk ii stale config.guess
daphne
gsplus need new patch
jzintv sys/io.h not found
mupen64plus flags
openbor -flags
xm7 config.guess
aleph one connection failed
cannonball connection failed
cdogs-sdl connection failed
cgenius
openfodder
zdoom

[SlappyMcPhee]

I ran through some testing

*1) Auto Expand -> First boot shuts down requiring hard power reset, then boots as anticipated. Expand does work however.
*2) Controllers do not appear to work in Setup Menu
*3) Odroid Config missing manual expand option
*9) BGM folder not accessible via Samba
*11) casetheme folder not accessible via Samba (need to remove, for OGST case with XU4)
*12) esthemes folder not accessible via Samba
*14) splashscreens folder not accessible via Samba
*16) Even though Launching Videos show as enabled they are not working
*22) FB/Console Blanking needs to be fixed
*32) N64 -> lr-mupen64plus-nx/Conkers & Golden Eye does not work...kicks back to ES (issue noted in Eric's initial list)
*36) NEC PC-88 -> quasi 88 not working, screen squished, caused hard lockup (could not capture log)

Tested and verified just over 50 systems working.

Jaguar as expected has choppy audio and sluggish video

Verified Gamesir G3s and Hori PS4 mini controllers working as anticipated.

We have not attempted PPSSPP as of yet since we noticed another thread on it failing. Have not attempted DraStic for NDS nor our dev's build for Saturn.

Pretty solid start we feel for being around 24 hours of having the gear.

[SlappyMcPhee]

We have posted up a video on our YouTube channel that kicks off a series of videos previewing our TheRA 3.x N2 build:





Just pinned up our Odroid N2 Preview Part 2 video. Part 3 will be pinned up shortly as well. More PSP with God of War Ghosts of Sparta and N64:





Just pinned up our Odroid N2 Preview Part 3 video. Part 4 will be pinned up shortly as well. Featuring this time around Saturn with the new developments coming for lr-yabause and 3DO:





Just pinned up our Odroid N2 Preview Part 4 video. Testing some shaders on Sega Genesis and then trying out Killer Instinct 2 Arcade with MAME 2003 Plus:

[sikotik]

I fixed the console blanking by adding consoleblank=0 to boot.ini line #77
Samba shares are fixed.
BGM via mpg123 is working
EmulationStation video snaps are working.
Aleph One and cannonball compiled but are not yet tested.
Dosbox SDL2 starts up.

[SlappyMcPhee]

Should have some video up in the next day or so for our Alpha build. Great progress in the first week. We have been successful in compiling a few emulators that we are not currently able to with our XU4 build.

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[rooted]

Should have some video up in the next day or so for our Alpha build. Great progress in the first week. We have been successful in compiling a few emulators that we are not currently able to with our XU4 build.

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Due to 64bit?

[JustinOrKevin]

Will I be able to watch youtube too?
And use chromium?
I was googling and it looks like Retropie can do chromium. I don't need a full desktop but it would be great to be able to get on the web.
I have an XU4.

[sikotik]

Will I be able to watch youtube too?
And use chromium?
I was googling and it looks like Retropie can do chromium. I don't need a full desktop but it would be great to be able to get on the web.
I have an XU4.

Leaning hard towards yes on this board since having some x11 support solved some of the emulator issues I had with SDL1.2 . So might as well use it all.

[sikotik]

Progress as of 3-30
libretro cores- all the cores from our xu4 TheRA build except mesen and mame2000
Oricutron is working
OpenMSX is working
GSPlus Apple IIGS emulator is working
MATE Desktop and firefox is working youtube works
I have not worked on Plain Mupen64plus or Reicast yet.
We have a workable libretro saturn core and a standalone yabasanshiro build in progress.

Issues: Daphne will hang if the video files are not parsed
Ti99sim and xroar have garbled audio
Linapple does not boot
XM7, jzintv, zdoom and openfodder still will not compile.

[SlappyMcPhee]

Should have some video up in the next day or so for our Alpha build. Great progress in the first week. We have been successful in compiling a few emulators that we are not currently able to with our XU4 build.

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Due to 64bit?

Sorry for the delay. Time does fly and we released our latest build for the XU4 the beginning of March. We recorded close to two hours of video this evening we will be posting up in the next day or so, but yes.... 64 bit has had some challenges due to certain cores still only being 32 bit or else older SDL.

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[sikotik]

Sega Saturn Gameplay video

[SlappyMcPhee]

Some Atomiswave testing by Qbert

https://youtu.be/v_iCWnGeH7A

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[SlappyMcPhee]

Qbert testing MAME2016


https://youtu.be/QLDXJN96v3w

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[SlappyMcPhee]

And some more PSP testing with some new tweaks by Qbert with No Frame skipping


https://youtu.be/0jE8VHmq1cw

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[efraimsangil]

Can I help you with anything in this version?

[shanti]

Wow you are doing amazing work! Saturn looks awesome!

[SlappyMcPhee]

Our first Open Beta for the Odroid N2 is now live on the www.theretroarena.com website!
This build includes our new controller pack @everyone which we are working to add into all of our builds moving forward. We will be showing off a video tutorial this week on how to add it to the XU4. For clarification this is a list of newly added controllers - not an entire list overall:
Nintendo


-Raphnet 4nes4snes
-Raphnet 2nes2snes
-Retrolink SNES
-HuiJia USB GamePad Mayflash NES SNES
-HuiJia USB GamePad Mayflash N64


Sega


- Retrobit Genesis to PC USB Adapter
- HuiJia USB GamePad Mayflash Sega Saturn
- Mayflash Dreamcast




Atari
-Atari Retrobit


XBOX


-Microsoft X-Box One pad
-Microsoft X-Box One pad (Firmware 2015)
-Microsoft X-Box One Elite pad
-Thrustmaster Gamepad GP XID
-Logitech Gamepad F510
-Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightStick SE
-Mad Catz Xbox 360 Controller
-Mad Catz Beat Pad
-Mad Catz FightStick TE 2
-Mad Catz Xbox controller - MW2
-Saitek Cyborg Rumble Pad - PC/Xbox 360
-Saitek P3200 Rumble Pad - PC/Xbox 360
-Super SFIV FightStick TE S
- "Afterglow AX.1 Gamepad for Xbox 360"
- "Afterglow Prismatic Wired Controller"
- "Rock Candy Gamepad for Xbox 360"
- "Rock Candy Wired Controller for Xbox One"
- "Logic3 Controller"
- "Logic3 Controller"
- "Generic xbox control (dealextreme)"
-"Hori Co. DOA4 FightStick"
-HORIPAD ONE
-PDP AFTERGLOW AX.1
-Razer Sabertooth
-Power A Mini Pro Elite
-Xbox Airflo wired controller
-Batarang Xbox 360 controller
-Joytech Neo-Se Take2
-Razer Onza Tournament Edition
-Razer Onza Classic Edition
-Xbox ONE spectra
-Razer Sabertooth
-MLG Pro Circuit Controller
-Street Fighter IV FightStick TE
-Harmonix Xbox 360 Controller
-Razer Atrox Arcade Stick
-Xbox Airflo wired controller
-PowerA Xbox One Mini Wired Controller
-PowerA Xbox One wired controller
-Hori XBOX 360 EX 2 with Turbo
-Hori Real Arcade Pro VX-SA
-Hori SOULCALIBUR V Stick
-Thrustmaster, Inc. GPX Controller
-Thrustmaster Ferrari 458 Racing Wheel


Misc


-USB PS2 Adapter GreenAsia Electronics
-XCSOURCE 2 Encoder USB - Twin USB Gamepad
-3H Dual Arcade 2Players

[odroid]

Happy to see your team has started an Open Beta test event finally!

[blisstik]

Yes, the upstream kernel really made performance work really well with a little OC on the boot.ini

The upstream kernel does have a reboot issue and need help finding a solution, whether its a workaround of sorts. The other issue is Kodi only works on 1080p or above but we run at 720p for best performance.

[SlappyMcPhee]

Yes, the upstream kernel really made performance work really well with a little OC on the boot.ini

The upstream kernel does have a reboot issue and need help finding a solution, whether its a workaround of sorts. The other issue is Kodi only works on 1080p or above but we run at 720p for best performance.

My hopes that they can overcome the res issues with Kodi and Plex. I would really like to test 4k performance with Plex.

[nogareth]

@Slappymcphee

How is the Beta-Progress going ?
I've tested your Release and looking forward to a more stable Release.
I had to Re-Flash my Sd-card 3 or 4 times after TheRa did not boot anymore after a Shutdown . I cannot say what went wrong, but this was the only Heavy bug ( if it really was one and not just a dumb user ) i've encountered so far. Performance is great, and i guess the N2 with TheRa is at the moment the best base for my planned retro-console.

Nevertheless , great work so far !!

[SlappyMcPhee]

@Slappymcphee

How is the Beta-Progress going ?
I've tested your Release and looking forward to a more stable Release.
I had to Re-Flash my Sd-card 3 or 4 times after TheRa did not boot anymore after a Shutdown . I cannot say what went wrong, but this was the only Heavy bug ( if it really was one and not just a dumb user ) i've encountered so far. Performance is great, and i guess the N2 with TheRa is at the moment the best base for my planned retro-console.

Nevertheless , great work so far !!

thank you for the kind words! we are preparing to push the N2 build into a Release Candidate status most likely within the next couple weeks. we have been testing it internally the last week and a half and I hate to hold off much longer. at the same time the Amiberry developer late last week let us know they are ready to push out their 64 bit build very soon, but will most likely push the RC prior to it going live as they want plenty of testing. also DraStic is working on their 64 bit build also soon so a couple of exciting developments for us coming up for sure!

[SlappyMcPhee]

We are preparing to go Public Release with our N2 build. Our patrons now have the latest Release Candidate to test and enjoy along with providing any feedback on issues we may need to address.

Qbert from our team recently posted unedited footage for the RC build and it can be viewed here:

https://youtu.be/5ot4Z8mFitU

[SlappyMcPhee]

-------------------- We are happy to say that the N2 TheRA first PR is LIVE! ----------------------------------------------------------------------

We have enhanced the Website experience by also adding in a Public Changelog Viewer page that has a link to it below the download.

https://theretroarena.com

[Destruction_911]

There is an issue when trying to install wiringPi for gpio. I have been using gpio_keyd on my xu4 for arcade controls, but when trying to install on the n2 build, it causes an error emulationstation: undefined symbol: glMatrixMode when trying to execute emulation Station.

[IgaBiva]

Solution is easy - just enter command fixmali via ssh or directly via keyboard.

[Destruction_911]

Thanks for the fix. Now I feel reallllllly dumb.

[IgaBiva]

No problem.

If you need support for TheRA, best way would be to join their Discord channel. Communication there is much more active than here - I got info about fix on their channel.

[Zangdarr]

Hi there,

I just bought a Odroid N2 and tried to install TheRA on it.

It's surprinsingly slow, like the intro scene is constantly pausing for seconds long, end after the loading bar complete, it crashes.

Where could this come from ?
I use a 512Gb USB sd, is it too large ?