batocera 5.20 RC1

nadenislamarre · 2019-01-17T21:10:47+00:00

Changelog Special thanks to Juliano Dorigão. 1 year he joined the team. he is working on adding and upgrading emulators very actively. Thanks to fery65 for...

fery65

Dragu Hello Dragu, we understand your dissatisfaction or deception but all the team had a lot of work.
Even I, that I have worked for bezels improvement and creation of NDS and 3DS new bezels, sometimes I wrote messages to the team and I did not receive answers or sometimes even 1 day after, because they had a lot of work on this version. Take also into account that the Batocera team is not as big as Recalbox or other retrogaming project.

Batocera team thank you for reporting bugs and we still need you and other contributors. You are still welcome here and even you decide to quit, you could always come back, the Team will always pleased to welcome you back.

Thank you

joinski

Great news! Thanks to all of the Batocera Team Members 🙂

One question from my side:
Will the bug with the control in kodi, when more than 1 controller is connected (see here: https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/forum/d/1791-bug-in-kodi-joypad-control-gets-messed-up-when-2-controllers-connected) , be fixed in the final version of 5.20 or only in later version 5.21?
I just tested this RC1 with my RPi3 and the bug is still there 🙁

Dragu

@fery65
I understand you very good and the problem is also by far an organisation one. Honestly, you have in the forum not one moderator. Is it normal when you open a new thread in this forum, that it needs up to 2 days! before it is published and unlocked by somebody? Members here are in general no criminals and this practice is middle age of informatic. So, you write something new, and finally when it is published, it is already in the archive pages. Not normal. And in Recalbox forum also not existing, this censure at the base.
And why you dont stick one thread of "Bug Reports" just in the first lines of the forum, minimum all the bugs reports would be reachable and concentrated in one thread ? And as this, also much more easy and less time consuming for the team to oversee the inquieries.
Now Discord is a pain, and I have the impression that in France Spam protection is not really very good working, means if you cross 2 times in one day the country borders, you make sure traffic with blue pills, totally silly.

VCardoso

I know that what I'm going to say is not important, but I really wanted a batocera theme that was in a side car format, similar to hyperspin. it would be cool to see the larger game image or wallpaper, I know the customizations would be huge. Thank you for the great work, always and always.

obs: very very much thank you for the 3ds \ o /

sei que o que vou falar não e importante mais eu queria muito um tema do batocera que fosse em formato carrosel lateral parecido com o do hyperspin. seria legal que daria para ver a imagem do game maior ou papel de parede sei la as customizações seriam enormes. mais obrigado pelo otimo trabalho sempre e sempre

obs: muito muito muito obrigado pelo 3ds \o/

nadenislamarre

x86_64 and rpi2 added.

Zatacera

joinski nadenislamarre
I am at your disposal if i can help.

Tell me where to start and i'll do my best.

chris256 i don't know but that is a good question 😉

luizthiago

nadenislamarre you can say if this new 5.20 has the two pads problem solved into kodi ? (with one, works ...with two, not,...) ?

Zatacera

Hello and thank you all for the hard work ! 🙂

Does the 5.20 version will fix some HDMI sound output problems on some PC's ? Especially Intel NUC's which are great machines for emulation.

Bon courage ! 😉

joinski

Zatacera
Regarding HDMI sound output problems, we (nadenislamarre aka susan34 and me) are investigating the issue on discord at the moment.
Maybe you can help too?

Zatacera

joinski i was feeling it !

I would be glad to help but my skills are limited...

I have two nucs on which i can generate logs, make tests, etc...

One is on Celeron J4005 and one on I3 8109U.

Partially solved the sound problem with these commands :

aplay -l

mount –o remount,rw /

alsamixer

mkdir /var/lib/alsa

alsactl store

cp /var/lib/alsa/asound.state /recalbox/share/system/asound.state

echo "alsactl restore –f /recalbox/share/system/asound.state" >> /etc/init.d/S99custom

/recalbox/scripts/recalbox-save-overlay.sh

And partially solved the compatibility with 4K TV's with this :

cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc

export TERM=xterm

nano /recalbox/share/system/.xinitrc

xrandr -s 1920x1080

Have a good evening.

joinski

Zatacera
That sounds good! Maybe nadenislamarre can have a look at this and it helps him to investigate.
My skills are also limited.
And i also have two nucs (one is with i5-3427u and one with i5-4250u) and some more other systems, i can test with.

chris256

Hello! Does anyone know if in new version fba roms have to be 0.2.97.44 or 0.2.97.43 (I ask since all libretro cores have been updated)? Thanks !

chris256

Zatacera nadenislamarre
I see that 5.20 final is released ! Thanks to the developpers!!! Could you please indicate if in this new version fba is 0.2.97.44 or remains 0.2.97.43 ? Thanks again!!

PangaDayWalker

luizthiago Do you mean controller? Mine works even with 2 PS3 and 1 Xbox. What problems are you having and which system?

nadenislamarre

more precisely, it workswhen you have several pads. it doesn't work when you have 2 same pads. this bugs is not a regression while it existed in previous version of batocera.
i've not yet investigated, this bug will be in 5.20.

VCardoso

nadenislamarre could be put to work in RK3328 from mediatek
System: Android 7.1
Processor: RK3328
CPU: Cortex A53
Core: Quad Core
GPU: Mali-450
RAM: 1G
RAM Type: DDR3
ROM: 8G
in a future version?

joinski

PangaDayWalker

Yes, i can reproduce this problem with my genuine Sony PS3 Controllers (i have several DualShock3 and Sixaxis-Controllers). When i connect 2 Controllers, it is impossible to use the controllers to navigate within Kodi. With 1 controller ony there is no problem.
This bug concerns all versions of Batocera above 5.11 (so in 5.11 the bug does not exist, but in 5.12 and later) and i tested it with PC x86_64, RPi2 and RPi3 versions.

And the problem is only within Kodi. ES and all systems (SNES, GB, N64, PSX etc.) is no problem.

luizthiago

PangaDayWalker only into kodi ...with two pads, not works ...i have to disconnect the other pads before enter in kodi

chris256

Also could someone confirm is amiga Whdload support is working on X86 and in which folder and with what procedure should we put roms? Thanks!

Retro-Schulzi

Thank you for the real good work, it seems my problems from 5.19 are all resolved.
But one question: In Dremacast Games (I tried Shenmue 1 European) the sound over HDMI has knocking-like breaks in it all the time. Is that a known issue? Because 5.2 is the first version that runs properly on my Zbox AD02, i can't reproduce it in other versions.

joinski

Retro-Schulzi In Dremacast Games (I tried Shenmue 1 European) the sound over HDMI has knocking-like breaks in it all the time.

Did you try with another Emulator Core (reicast, libretro-reicast)?

mystblade

Couple things I have noticed.

The recalbox.conf file in share_init left out PS4 controller extensions. I know its a template location pretty much but found it odd it was gone.

Odd issue that existed in previous build, with the PS4 controller in wireless mode. It will put it at player 2 by default, thus you can select the correct one to make it player one. But that will hinder PS2 and PSP for some reason. The only way i could get it to work proper was to plug it in, reboot, then remove the wire to go to wireless mode and works perfect.