[LibreELEC] Bolt Ons! AceStream & EmulationStation + RetroArch/Libretro for S905/S905X devices!

[quitroot]

I have now pre-setup the PSX, PSP & N64 emulators with the best configuration. Just re-use the same download link to get the update.

If the game has a black screen in the PSP emulator change "nonbuffered" to "buffered". You may also have to lower the screen resolution as running "buffered" uses more of the CPU. Also try setting "frameskip" to "1" (do not use the "auto frameskip") to help get smoother playback.

Also enabling hardware shared context helps: "Settings > Core > Enable hardware shared context" and disabling "Rounded mode" within the ppsspp core.

The two main options within ppsspp you should never enable because it will cause issues is "IO Threading" & " Auto frameskip".

With the new PSP defaults Ridge Racer 2 & Soul Calibur - Broken Destiny run at 60FPS @ 544p

Where do I find these settings(nonbuffered/buffered & frameskip)? And how could I change them.

thanks in advance

[dante6913]

Hi Pinguy,
Thanks for your great work. I have a question, is it possible to install acestream on ubuntu kodi of odroid C2. I tried but i was not able to do it. If is possible how do i start aceengine?
Thanks again

[pauly01]

Any idea why NeoGeo is not working? neogeo.zip BIOS is in the neogeo folder. I even tried adding the bios to Retroarch/System folder. I click on a NeoGeo game in ES. The list zooms in, stops as the screen goes dim and just goes back to the list. I checked the systems.cfg for ES. Everything is fine there. This has been the most difficult to get working for me. All I know is that either RA is not loading the core or can't located the bios file properly.

[MarvinUQ]

Its been ages since I have used Windows. Didn't know you couldn't label storage devices in lowercase.

Yes, it's more about using the windows format tool and choosing FAT or FAT32, it's a limitation of both file systems (or at least thats what I understood), even if you later try to rename the device it will keep the name in caps. I think a warning that don't use those systems could save you some tedious work.

Also I'd like to add a big thanks for this great addons, so far I've tested nes, snes, genesis, playstation and psp, the only game I've got some lag issues was a game called "Everyday shooter" but it has never play well even in the pc version of ppsspp, everything else I have tested runs great, acestream works like a charm, these bolt ons! are amazing, thanks a lot dude.

[Rootz]

pinguy

New changes on AceStream from AlexELEC:
- AceStream 3.1.19 (added web interface)
- AceProxy git: 10d0051

You can see all changes between version 2.2.1->2.2.2

https://github.com/AlexELEC/AlexELEC-AML/compare/2.2.1...2.2.2

I don't know if you can implement all?

[pinguy]

Hello guys, my first post here, I have 2 things to say,

1. A tip, for people using windows for creating the usb or sdcard that will contain the roms you should format with exfat, fat or fat32 won't allow you to name the device in lower case, and since linux (libreelec) is case sensitive you could spend a whole afternoon trying to realize why EmulationStation says you don't have any systems.

Its been ages since I have used Windows. Didn't know you couldn't label storage devices in lowercase. When I next do an update I will fix this. Thanks for the heads up.

On a side note who ever has the Hatari core can you upload it. I do not have it anymore and can't seem to be able to find it again.

[pauly01]

ES does not have audio enabled for navigation, since this version was made for the Raspberry pi, Its only enabled for videos, so don't bother wasting your time

Thanks for the heads up. I used LibreElec for pc which did have the GUI sounds enabled. I thought something was wrong when I tried this one. In that case, I guess I'm done configuring.

[niabi]

I have audio when playing games through ES. It's just the menu and games list don't make any sound (click sound when navigating). In game audio is fine.

My Kodi default audio is set to HDMI.

ES does not have audio enabled for navigation, since this version was made for the Raspberry pi, Its only enabled for videos, so don't bother wasting your time

[MarvinUQ]

I have audio when playing games through ES. It's just the menu and games list don't make any sound (click sound when navigating). In game audio is fine.

My Kodi default audio is set to HDMI.

Ah ok, got it, neither do I have navigation sounds on ES menu, I didn't even knew it's supposed to make any sounds. He he...

Again thanks for the help, I'm glad my games have audio now.

[pauly01]

Do you mean that you can hear sound if you open a game in Retroarch, but you can't if you open it in EmulationStation?

I'm using ES to play the games, this is something I did, in Kodi I went to, "Settings (cog icon)>System settings>Audio>Audio output device" and there I switch from alsa: default (aml8audio analog) pcm to alsa aml8audio, HDMI and have sound in everything including EmulationStation. I hope this helps.

I have audio when playing games through ES. It's just the menu and games list don't make any sound (click sound when navigating). In game audio is fine.

My Kodi default audio is set to HDMI.

[MarvinUQ]

I have not fixed the audio in ES yet. If anyone know how to resolve it, please let us know. Otherwise, I will post my results when I figure it out.

Do you mean that you can hear sound if you open a game in Retroarch, but you can't if you open it in EmulationStation?

I'm using ES to play the games, this is something I did, in Kodi I went to, "Settings (cog icon)>System settings>Audio>Audio output device" and there I switch from alsa: default (aml8audio analog) pcm to alsa aml8audio, HDMI and have sound in everything including EmulationStation. I hope this helps.

[pauly01]

Thank you very much, I tried to use that same logic but with EmulationStation and since it doesn't have the option to configure it I gave up, it never occurred to me to tried with the retroarch addon. Thanks a lot.

I have not fixed the audio in ES yet. If anyone know how to resolve it, please let us know. Otherwise, I will post my results when I figure it out.

[MarvinUQ]

I fixed the problem with no audio in RetroArch. I connected via ssh to the box. After I logged in, I typed "aplay -l" (no quotes). I looked to see which device was my HDMI audio. It was hw:0,0. I opened RetroArch Configuration by going to System>Addons>My Addons>Program Addons>Retroarch. Click on it and click on Configure. The 2nd tab at the top, go to the bottom of that page and change your audio device. I left the audio at 48000. Click OK to save it and try again.

im using an X96 S905X

Thank you very much, I tried to use that same logic but with EmulationStation and since it doesn't have the option to configure it I gave up, it never occurred to me to tried with the retroarch addon. Thanks a lot.

[pauly01]

Hello guys, my first post here, I have 2 things to say,

1. A tip, for people using windows for creating the usb or sdcard that will contain the roms you should format with exfat, fat or fat32 won't allow you to name the device in lower case, and since linux (libreelec) is case sensitive you could spend a whole afternoon trying to realize why EmulationStation says you don't have any systems.

2. I have the same problem pauly01 have, I have a t95x sunvell clone (u2c is the brand) and I'm using libreelec 8.0,1f, I tried to edit a file in this location: "~/ .kodi/addons/emulator.tools.retroarch/config retroarch.cfg" with nano, I changed the audio from 48000 hz to 44100 hz and in the cfg file it looks fine but when I run retroarch in gui in the options it still said its 48000 hz, so I think maybe there's something wrong with the cfg file itself or something like that, but tbh I'm just not that good at this to fix it. I hope some one can help us.

Besides that I just want to thank you guys, because you turned a bricked useless android box into an amazing kick ass kodi+emulator box.

I fixed the problem with no audio in RetroArch. I connected via ssh to the box. After I logged in, I typed "aplay -l" (no quotes). I looked to see which device was my HDMI audio. It was hw:0,0. I opened RetroArch Configuration by going to System>Addons>My Addons>Program Addons>Retroarch. Click on it and click on Configure. The 2nd tab at the top, go to the bottom of that page and change your audio device. I left the audio at 48000. Click OK to save it and try again.

im using an X96 S905X

[MarvinUQ]

Hello guys, my first post here, I have 2 things to say,

1. A tip, for people using windows for creating the usb or sdcard that will contain the roms you should format with exfat, fat or fat32 won't allow you to name the device in lower case, and since linux (libreelec) is case sensitive you could spend a whole afternoon trying to realize why EmulationStation says you don't have any systems.

2. I have the same problem pauly01 have, I have a t95x sunvell clone (u2c is the brand) and I'm using libreelec 8.0,1f, I tried to edit a file in this location: "~/ .kodi/addons/emulator.tools.retroarch/config retroarch.cfg" with nano, I changed the audio from 48000 hz to 44100 hz and in the cfg file it looks fine but when I run retroarch in gui in the options it still said its 48000 hz, so I think maybe there's something wrong with the cfg file itself or something like that, but tbh I'm just not that good at this to fix it. I hope some one can help us.

Besides that I just want to thank you guys, because you turned a bricked useless android box into an amazing kick ass kodi+emulator box.