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

[*Frisk*]

What order would you like the systems?

List them in the order you like and I will make the changes.

I have had a few thoughts.

I could do them by data of release.

Or group the systems (Nintendo, SEGA etc.)

Or by type of console (home, handhold, arcade, PC etc.)

It could be by brand and type, personaly I made like this :
- Neogeo
- fba with arcade theme
- mame for those who wants to use it

- sega (genesis/megadrive, CD, gamegear)

- nintendo (nes, snes, n64, gb, gbc, gba)

- psx then psp

the rest by orders, pc, atari, zx spectrum...

Definitly the best platform in addition with kodi running estuary mod which permits to modify the left main menu to create a direct link to launch emulationstation.

All of that in a 40€€$ piece of hardware. Incredible.

[pinguy]

I only wrote samples to not overload but yes there are three to modify for each systems.

I also use only fba for both neogeo and arcade games. As I have the complete fba neogeo set of roms, I split fba in two, one for neogeo and one for arcade games.
It's a small mod from me as I definitely prefer using fba

Made the changes and is uploaded ready to download.

neogeo and megadrive are included. This is the new order:

• Final Burn Alpha
• NEO・GEO
• MAME 078
• Nintendo
• Super Nintendo
• Nintendo 64
• Game Boy
• Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Sega Master System
• Sega Genesis
• Sega Megadrive
• Sega CD
• Sega 32X
• Sega Game Gear
• Playstation
• Playstation Portable
• Atari 2600
• ZX Spectrum
• TurboGrafx 16 (PC Engine)

[pinguy]

Definitly the best platform in addition with kodi running estuary mod which permits to modify the left main menu to create a direct link to launch emulationstation.

All of that in a 40€€$ piece of hardware. Incredible.

Its pretty amazing what these S905's can do. I have no clue why anyone would stick with the Android software they ship with. This is a far better setup.

This is what the PI3 should of been able to do. It lacking 2GB of ram and not being able to do HEVC and 4K decoding was a huge missed opportunity.

[niabi]

Its pretty amazing what these S905's can do. I have no clue why anyone would stick with the Android software they ship with. This is a far better setup.

I wish Amlogic would release a better freaking kernel tho I think that is the main reason why the "community" is not as big as it should.

[pinguy]

I wish Amlogic would release a better freaking kernel tho I think that is the main reason why the "community" is not as big as it should.

I think that might be due to their dirty little secret. That these run as 1.5GHz not 2Ghz. But that cat is out of the bag now. They should just release a better "more honest" kernel. These SOCs even running at 1.5GHz are still good chips.

[niabi]

I think that might be due to their dirty little secret. That these run as 1.5GHz not 2Ghz. But that cat is out of the bag now. They should just release a better "more honest" kernel. These SOCs even running at 1.5GHz are still good chips.

Yeah in part, but I also think that they don't really care, since they really aim for Android, so if it runs Android why bother? when I got my S905 I honestly didn't even noticed it was 2ghz I always thought it was 1.3ghz for some reason, it was not until I saw the news about the 2.0ghz cheating that I knew :P I got it because it was $25 US shipped.

[pinguy]

Update:

Added dosbox.

[pinguy]

OK. This is done now until cores and RetroArch/EmulationStation gets updated.

I have tinkered and tweaked this as much as it can. As of today this is as close to perfect as I am going to get.

If you haven't installed the latest version I would. This is going to be it for awhile.

[niabi]

Update:

Added dosbox.

Libretro core?

[pinguy]

Libretro core?

Yeah, a core.

[Rootz]

Hello

After installing AceStream we need to change advancedsettings.xml to fix buffer problems like in Raspberry Pi?
If yes, what are the better optimize settings?

Exemple:
<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<curlclienttimeout>10</curlclienttimeout>
<curllowspeedtime>20</curllowspeedtime>
<curlretries>2</curlretries>
<memorysize>157286400</memorysize>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<readfactor>4.0</readfactor>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>

[niabi]

pinguy you still interested in Advmame? I was successful at compiling advmame 3.3, and it works under ES now (if you don't set the DISPLAY=0:0 enviroment var) but upon further testing, while it looks way better than mame_2003 core, some games just don't run as smooth (MK1, Mk2, etc)

[pinguy]

pinguy you still interested in Advmame? I was successful at compiling advmame 3.3, and it works under ES now (if you don't set the DISPLAY=0:0 enviroment var) but upon further testing, while it looks way better than mame_2003 core, some games just don't run as smooth (MK1, Mk2, etc)

For now I am going to stick with libretro cores (less of a headache) and try and get as many of the cores (one per-system) working as best as they can.

The goal is to get as much working with libretro as possible, and getting it working well. Once I get to the stage I am happy with libretro I may start to look into adding standalone emus like Dreamcast.

I tried porting PPSSPP from your build and didn't have very much luck. It ran but couldn't see any text.

[niabi]

For now I am going to stick with libretro cores (less of a headache) and try and get as many of the cores (one per-system) working as best as they can.

The goal is to get as much working with libretro as possible, and getting it working well. Once I get to the stage I am happy with libretro I may start to look into adding standalone emus like Dreamcast.

I tried porting PPSSPP from your build and didn't have very much luck. It ran but couldn't see any text.

Ok

PPSSPP needs 16bpp to work, since its not patched for mali-fbdev, thats why I used a script to set all the enviroment first

[pinguy]

Added the MSX system.