[ScottMU]

Ok I got ahead of myself, I installed System Tools, I then copied over the 7za binary to IARL's 7za folder. renamed to 7za.Nix and It's worked a charm! Is that what you were going to suggest?

[zachmorris]

Ok I got ahead of myself, I installed System Tools, I then copied over the 7za binary to IARL's 7za folder. renamed to 7za.Nix and It's worked a charm! Is that what you were going to suggest?

I will have the next version install that tool automatically as an optional (if available) supporting script, and just use it directly from the addon. Should be transparent to the user in the next version.

Thanks for testing!

[ScottMU]

Ok I got ahead of myself, I installed System Tools, I then copied over the 7za binary to IARL's 7za folder. renamed to 7za.Nix and It's worked a charm! Is that what you were going to suggest?

I will have the next version install that tool automatically as an optional (if available) supporting script, and just use it directly from the addon. Should be transparent to the user in the next version.

Thanks for testing!

No problem whatsoever, more than happy to be of assistance. Let me know if you are wanting anything else tested.

[trevez]

hey Zach
thanks for this awesome Idea.. So keen to get this going on my rpi3, but each attempt I seem to get a fresh set of issues!
Tried the LE8 build as you suggest, but seem to get no sound. launching roms. Cant get mame to work either, it seems to just crash out back to kodi.
Is there a low pain method of getting this going on my pi3? Ive spent so many hours reading these forums trying to work something out!
cheers

[houdin24]

You might as well get a another forked version of LE there are a couple versions available on their forum even retoplayer but from the testing i been doing i wasn't able to get sound either on LE. LE issue so would look there.

[trevez]

cheers- is there a build that just works without the hours of trying to fix it? If anyone has a working version for rpi3, reckon you could image it and upload it for me?? :-) 16gb card?

[zachmorris]

hey Zach
thanks for this awesome Idea.. So keen to get this going on my rpi3, but each attempt I seem to get a fresh set of issues!
Tried the LE8 build as you suggest, but seem to get no sound. launching roms. Cant get mame to work either, it seems to just crash out back to kodi.
Is there a low pain method of getting this going on my pi3? Ive spent so many hours reading these forums trying to work something out!
cheers

Are you using the 'extended community build' from here?
Regardless, I have heard of other people having issues with sound, but thats a RPi / LE issue rather than IARL. If your using Gamestarter and RPi I think he's documented some people having sound issues depending on the setup. See here.
You can try this if using HDMI:
Editing boot config to included:

Code:

hdmi_force_edid_audio=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

[ScottMU]

For anybody using the MXQ box or an Amlogic s805 device running LibreELEC I have put together a working build that all works as intended. I have manually edited all the .dat game lists from IARL so that the games will download and launch without any issues.

The only caveat is that the version of Retroarch that has been ported to these devices is more limited to the number of cores that are available. (Due credit to Kzsaq, sammaz and JoKeRz over at Freaktab for making that happen)
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I'm pretty sure however this build will work on other systems but they will most likely need to replace Retroarch with a working version compatible with their system and set IARL to the appropriate OS settings.

If people are interested, and with permission from Zach, I will be happy to post instructions on how to install.

[zachmorris]

For anybody using the MXQ box or an Amlogic s805 device running LibreELEC I have put together a working build that all works as intended. I have manually edited all the .dat game lists from IARL so that the games will download and launch without any issues.

The only caveat is that the version of Retroarch that has been ported to these devices is more limited to the number of cores that are available. (Due credit to Kzsaq, sammaz and JoKeRz over at Freaktab for making that happen)
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I'm pretty sure however this build will work on other systems but they will most likely need to replace Retroarch with a working version compatible with their system and set IARL to the appropriate OS settings.

If people are interested, and with permission from Zach, I will be happy to post instructions on how to install.

Looks awesome. Link away. I could also probably add another platform setting for Amlogic and have the wizard run settings to match what you have setup.

[trevez]

Are you using the 'extended community build' from here?
Regardless, I have heard of other people having issues with sound, but thats a RPi / LE issue rather than IARL. If your using Gamestarter and RPi I think he's documented some people having sound issues depending on the setup. See here.
You can try this if using HDMI:
Editing boot config to included:

Code:

hdmi_force_edid_audio=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

Yea thats it the one you link from your guide. not using gamestarter as I thought all that was needed was on the LE build?
Yea just use the rpi3 HDMI for audio, so will try that thanks. Some systems I tried worked ok, but cant seem to get any MAME stuff working, just crashes back to kodi.
Also when exiting a rom it goes back to retroarch, dont expect there's a way to get it to exit back to iarl?

[ScottMU]

Thanks Zach.

To install my repo just add 'http://mxqproject.com/files/repo/' as a source in Kodi and then install from zip as usual.

Install the MXQ Project wizard from the repo, launch it and just select the retro gaming build and let it do it's thing.

Now this build has been made for Amlogic s805 devices running LibreELEC. However with some tweaking by the user it should be easy enough to set it up to work on your own system. This is because the Retroarch addon used was compiled specifically for s805 devices by JoKeRz.

If you are using an s905 device JoKeRz also has a solution for that which can be found here:

https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread-2271.html

This should allow RetroArch to work with the 64 bit architecture that the s905 processor uses.

[zachmorris]

Are you using the 'extended community build' from here?
Regardless, I have heard of other people having issues with sound, but thats a RPi / LE issue rather than IARL. If your using Gamestarter and RPi I think he's documented some people having sound issues depending on the setup. See here.
You can try this if using HDMI:
Editing boot config to included:

Code:

hdmi_force_edid_audio=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

Yea thats it the one you link from your guide. not using gamestarter as I thought all that was needed was on the LE build?
Yea just use the rpi3 HDMI for audio, so will try that thanks. Some systems I tried worked ok, but cant seem to get any MAME stuff working, just crashes back to kodi.
Also when exiting a rom it goes back to retroarch, dont expect there's a way to get it to exit back to iarl?

Either Gamestarter or the Community build of LibreElec should work. I'm not sure the differences in how they both launch retroarch which could effect how audio is handled.

MAME can be tricky on an RPi. I think a lot of people recommend the MAME 2003 core for RPi's. IARL has an archive for MAME 2003, so I'd recommend trying that. I've also had a lot of luck with Final Burn Alpha on RPi's, which cover a lot of the same games.

I think by default, retroarch exits completely when you close a game (at least it does on setups I've tried). On an RPi Kodi will start back up after retroarch exits. If you want Kodi to open up IARL again you can setup an autoexec command like this:

Code:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('RunAddon(plugin.program.iarl)')

[trevez]

Are you using the 'extended community build' from here?
Regardless, I have heard of other people having issues with sound, but thats a RPi / LE issue rather than IARL. If your using Gamestarter and RPi I think he's documented some people having sound issues depending on the setup. See here.
You can try this if using HDMI:
Editing boot config to included:

Code:

hdmi_force_edid_audio=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

Either Gamestarter or the Community build of LibreElec should work. I'm not sure the differences in how they both launch retroarch which could effect how audio is handled.

MAME can be tricky on an RPi. I think a lot of people recommend the MAME 2003 core for RPi's. IARL has an archive for MAME 2003, so I'd recommend trying that. I've also had a lot of luck with Final Burn Alpha on RPi's, which cover a lot of the same games.

I think by default, retroarch exits completely when you close a game (at least it does on setups I've tried). On an RPi Kodi will start back up after retroarch exits. If you want Kodi to open up IARL again you can setup an autoexec command like this:

Code:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('RunAddon(plugin.program.iarl)')

Tried the hdmi setings in config, but no bananas unfortunately. :-( Maybe update your guide to say HDMI audio wont work on the LE8 Rpi3 community build? Would've save me a few hours.
Tried setting mame 2003 as the launcher, but can't get it going. Also tried n64 too and goldeneye nearly works, but just goes to a black screen which when I exit to retroarch the game appears in the background. But no sound is bit of a killer.
So back to the drawing board! you think I might have better success with LE7 stock + gamestarter +iarl?
Anyone else had better success than me running IARL on rpi3 via LE? Please share!

[zachmorris]

Tried the hdmi setings in config, but no bananas unfortunately. :-( Maybe update your guide to say HDMI audio wont work on the LE8 Rpi3 community build? Would've save me a few hours.
Tried setting mame 2003 as the launcher, but can't get it going. Also tried n64 too and goldeneye nearly works, but just goes to a black screen which when I exit to retroarch the game appears in the background. But no sound is bit of a killer.
So back to the drawing board! you think I might have better success with LE7 stock + gamestarter +iarl?
Anyone else had better success than me running IARL on rpi3 via LE? Please share!

That is a bummer. There are unfortunately just too many configurations for me to test to know there are no bugs.
I did some more looking at the launch scripts:
The community Escalade build runs this script
to run retroarch

From the main page for his build here, the comment regarding sound is:
Emulated games don't have any sound!
All the emulators use ALSA by default. Some times there are more than one sound card or more than one output and the sound will go to the wrong place by default. In this case you should have a look at /storage/.config/asound.conf.sample. Use it as a template and save the edited one as /storage/.config/asound.conf. When done correctly the command "speaker-test" should output noise.

Gamestarter runs this script to run retroarch

And there are some differences between how the two work. Regarding sound there are some commands in Gamestarter which enable and disable ALSA. That could fix the issue.

[ramsejp]

Hey Zach,

I'm using a fire stick. I've got RetroArch installed and the IARL. I can play ROMs directly from RetroArch that I copy over myself. When I try to launch them from IARL, RetroArch opens at the menu instead of launching the game. I have set the Update Download Path to Default, Update Launcher is set to External, and Update Ext Launcher Command is set to RetroArch Nestopia (NES), which is the one I downloaded and use in RetroArch. I've tried downloading then launching. It always takes me to the RetroArch menu.

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks!