hansolo77

I use a seedbox and OpenVPN to that. Works pretty well.

Yeah this game was from way back when we first started. There was a lot more competition back then but not for this game in particular. I still need to post a submission of my own. Thanks for the post! Updated OP, DB, RSS

You just HAD to beat me huh? Updated OP, DB, RSS

I know, I was just giving you a hard time. You get even MORE bonus the faster you do it. I just wish I had that kind of skill and luck.

I think you're just playing these games after a dry run. Going back and hitting the goodies really hard. You'll get that 100k. Updated OP, DB, RSS

Woah woah woah. Who is this guy? Updated UP, DB, RSS

How can you produce a score nearly 4x your previous best, when you reached level 8 but this time only level 4? I'll allow it, but that is highly suspicious. Updated OP, DB, RSS

Gotta feel good to improve your previous score (14,800) like that! Good job on taking first place! Updated OP, DB, RSS

(We're off topic lol) Rogue One and Solo got such bad publicity press and Disney took it too seriously to heart. Rogue One is my 2nd favorite movie after Empire. Solo was good too in that it was an original story and had plenty of action. I'd love to see a sequel to Solo, they've got to explain that ending! Now, I think Disney is being TOO cautious and don't want to lose money. Disney bought it all because they wanted to cater to the fans and keep churning out the goods, but corporate Disney doesn't care at all about the fans and just wanted in for the money. I think the biggest problem right now is that the story direction they picked is alienating more fans rather than bringing in new ones and keeping the old ones. If they only developed a better story from the get go, I think we'd be in a different situation now.

I don't think Disney knows what's they're doing with Star Wars. They had all these great ideas, but after Solo and Last Jedi bombed, they're being very limited on developing anything. There hasn't been anything new besides comics in a LONG time. I'm very disappointed. I like to think they're doing a lot more developing in secret, but their time may have passed. There were a number of SW games in the works before Disney shut down LucasArts. The only good game right now is SW Battlefront II. There have been some re-releases as a GOTM on Xbox's Gold. I grabbed Jedi Knight 2, Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars Republic Commando. The backwards compatibility emulator running on my Xbox One X is really impressive. It renders all the edges really sharp, like high res. Maybe they'll release Racer.

Wow stage 11. I think I made it to stage 3 once lol. Updated OP, DB, RSS

You're actually in 9th place. Not quite the bottom. Updated OP, DB, RSS

That's still a pretty good score. I can't even hive the #10 spot.

Yup! Consider it added. Updated OP, DB, RSS

Yeah I actually never got the hang of this game. The controls are backwards to everything I'm familiar with. Pressing the action button before the direction button is just too hard for me to remember for some reason! Not a bad score though, thanks for the submission! Updated OP, DB, RSS

I see no problem excepting it this one time. Please be more careful in the future! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Good to see you back.

I got rumble working on my RetroPie/NES build using the wireless XBOX360 controller. So I agree, it is possible. I need to tinker more.

@RIP-Felix - Sorry to go off topic here... you mentioned you have an SN30Pro. I have one of those. Have you had any luck getting the rumble to work with your RetroPie builds? Mine was in storage since the launch and I pulled it out for my new Retroid build. After updating the firmware, I only get the vibration when I turn it on. Not sure what's wrong.

I dunno... still not thinking it's worth it. Did anybody buy one?

I was thinking hat same thing when I saw that picture. I mean, what is he supposed to be doing? Added game to the list!

Getting closer! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Oh what a mess I've gotten myself into. I spent quite a bit of time yesterday doing the preliminary software work. Remember, I'm still busted up pretty good and not fully coherent. The first thing I tried to do was just go and try to flat out install RetroPie on top of the pre-existing image which is running Ubuntu with the MATE desktop environment. That just wouldn't not work at all unfortunately. So I started from scratch again using the instructions specifically written for the ODroid XU4 on the RetroPie Wiki page. I managed to get as far as creating the new username (retroid) and getting everything mostly installed. Following through the steps, I was running the setup script to install the base components like EmulationStation and RetroArch. It all seemed to be going great. Then I hit the first snag when it tried to compile the N64 core. Apparently this is a known issue (of course) and will need time to fix. For the most part I thought I was pretty much done. I rebooted and tada! EmulationStation booted and I saw the first entry "RetroPie" (the basic utility tab). I was so excited. I then tackled the hard drive so I could start dumping roms over. That took almost 4 hours of total exhaustive struggling. The drive was reporting itself as being formatted as GPT, whereas Windows was saying it was NTFS. Never did figure that out, but I ended up reformatting it again anyway. I followed the steps outlined in my previous build from here. I got the USB service turned off, and the drive mounted, but it wouldn't let me write to it. Kept giving me ownership issues where it was locked down to root:root instead of retroid:retroid. By carefully reading the instructions I learned that I couldn't just copy and paste my fstab line. I had to recreate a new one, making sure to properly use TABS instead of SPACES, etc. Finally got that working and started copying over my first set of roms. I did FBA first. Seemed easy enough, RetroPie creates all the necessary folders, so I just copied them over. Rebooted, and...nothing. Oh that's right, I need to copy the gamelist.xml over too (the file that lists all the games, their paths, paths to artwork, synopses, etc). Did that, reboot, and..nothing. Well, the game list loaded, and I can see their names. But why is there no artwork, and the games don't load? Then I remembered, the gamelist.xml I had pointed everything in the path of /home/pi/RetroiPie/roms/ and I needed it to say /home/retroid/RetroPie/roms. Uhg what a nightmare. I did a quick Notepad++ find/replace edit on the file and rebooted again. Still nothing. At this point I gave up and fell back asleep. Today I woke up to tackle this again. This time I started with a fresh new scrape of the metadata and had it generate a brand new gamelist.xml. Dumped that over, along with a new dump of the artwork and roms. Rebooted. Hey now I'm getting somewhere. The game list loads, shows the artwork, but no videos? There's also some weird text getting overlayed on my screen. Bummer. It's giving me errors about it being an unsupported format (most likely a video codec issue). I get sound though, which a lot of people were having trouble with. They have video but now sound, I'm the opposite. UHG! I'm giving up on this quest from this route. Going back to square one and trying to use a prebuilt working image as a base. My plan is to use their image as a launching point and build off of it. There are 2 builds in particular I'm looking at. The first one is called "TheRA". It's being advertised a true fork to RetroPie. Based on a minimal image, with some added tools, it will provide the most user accessible way to built onto. The other one that has gained a lot of attention is called "Odroid Game Station Turbo". I'd like to maybe tinker with that one, but I'd still like to have control over the system. This 2nd build is more designed for the absolute laziest people. It comes with a Desktop environment and a whole lot of stuff I don't really need. But it looks like it's more actively developed and updated. I might end up having to use that in the end. Anyway, I just finished downloading TheRA so I'm going to give it a go and see what I can do.

Wow nice job! I don't think you need anymore practice on our side of things. You took first place! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Still down and out from the surgery. The pain is getting more tolerable, but I'm still laid out on my back with this ridiculously uncomfortable bed. I mean you have no idea. Picture a 60 year old bed with a 40 year old mattress. The springs are no longer springy, and stab you in the back. The padding protecting you from that has migrated to the edges of the mattress, so you roll into the center, right where the pressure points are. So if you manage to sleep on your side, by the end of the night you're rolled onto your back in the center again. Now the surgery pretty much has me on my back already, because it hurts to twist and roll. The first night home (which was the same day as the surgery) I almost called an ambulance to take me back to the hospital because I had already taken 5 of the 20 pain pills in the first 10 hours (it said I could take 1-2 every 4 so I wasn't OD'ing). I just felt like my pain could be better managed where I'd have access to stronger stuff as needed (like a morphine drip or something), and I could sleep because I'd be on a comfortable bed. But, I couldn't even get myself turned around in the bed to pull myself up with my arms. Dad tried to pull me up but I still had to clench my stomach muscles to pull up too. Nope, I had to just give up and said forget it. I emailed my surgeon and they apologized the next morning and said I could take up to 800mg Ibuprofen too. My brother's wife had surgery a few months ago, and was on that. They changed her meds though and told her not to take it anymore. Luckily, she loaned them to me and it's helped a lot. It's been 4 days and while I still can't roll over or sit up without cringing, I've managed to break free of peeing in a gallon jug (only thing my dad could find) and can make it to the toilet. I finally pooped for the first time last night, not that you wanted to know. But it's a good sign things are coming back together. I'm fearful I'm not where I should be though. I have a follow up appointment on Thursday to go back to work. I can't even get out of bed without nearly collapsing. My gallbladder surgery had me out for 2 weeks, and I was feeling better after 2 days. This time around I thought it would be even quicker since I only got 1 week, but it seems like that's not the case. Plus I think I pulled a muscle on the side, it's really swollen and I hope I don't have another hernia over there now. But I know I'll be back to normal eventually. On the Retroid progress... I've started ordering more parts, mostly cables for externally mounting ports. I have a used (non-working for parts only) NES console bought off eBay on it's way. And I've started putting together the plans for the hardware side of things once I feel better. The software part is going to have to wait a lot longer because I'm not coherent enough to make sense of what I need to do, and how to fix what's not working. I've got a good start though, and plans are coming together. As I said from the start though, I don't want to rush this build. I'm going to take my time with it. I know I promised pictures. Since the surgery happened at the same time I started getting plans together, I've not been able to do that yet. But I will. In the mean time, I did draw up a little plan today on how the hardware will all work out. So let me explain what's going on here. The oDoid has 2 GPIO headers, I've not marked them for use in the picture, but I've learned that PIN#12 works as a dedicated pin for power buttons. The way I understand it, I connect a button to it and something like PIN#1 for +5v. Longpress will poweroff, short press will either reboot or put into sleep (configurable). I plan on running another wire from the RESET button on the NES to a GPIO pin for easy access to exit a locked up game (I already did this for my NesPI and it works great). Moving up the left side is the rest of the GPIO and a switch. The switch tells the oDroid which boot device to use (MicroSD or eMMC). I'm using the eMMC which is mounted on the bottom. I checked, and I can mount the oDoid directly over the NES expansion port. So when I need to make a backup, all I have to do is pop the cover and grab the card! Moving across the top, the HDMI port is a standard 1.2 generation. Not 4k capable unfortunately, but I made the choice to go this way for the power! I just bought my connector for this today so I can mount it to the case. The next thing is the socket you would attach the MicroSD card to. The next device is the power barrel jack. Gone is the microusb plug you see on Pi's. I got a little extension cable for this coming to mount it to the outside of the case. The thing next to that is vertically mounted USB 2.0 slot. Right now I have it labeled as Bluetooth but I might need to change that to wifi if the Bluetooth requires USB 3.0. If not, the way I have it should be fine. The next one over is the network plug. It's a full gigabit (compared to the Pi's archaic 10/100). I just ordered a small extension cord for this too so I can mount a plug on the outside of the case. Moving down the right side of the oDroid we have an RTC connector. This is nice, but I don't know if I really need it. I've got the system booting up and updating the internal clock as soon as the internet connection is established. Any system settings are store on the eMMC, so it doesn't have anything like a BIOS to keep stored. It might be nice to have a correct time if I take the console somewhere I can't get internet. It's only like $3. But I have no current need for it so I skipped it right now. The other connector is a USB-UART connector. From what I understand, I can use this to SSH into the oDroid when I don't have the oDroid connected to the network and I can't use Putty locally. Again, a nice thing to have if I need it, but I don't so why bother? The bottom plug is 2 horizontally mounted USB 3.0 connectors, another oDroid advancement! One of the ports I'm going to have dedicated to the hard drive. The WD Elements drive I got came with a USB 3.0 connector, and gets it's power through the cable without the need of another external power supply. I'm not sure what the draw is, but with everything I have connected so far, the system is stable. The other port I'm going to daisy chain 2 4-port hubs. I have 1 hub already, and it's got the WIFI dongle connected to it as well as a temporary wireless keyboard/mouse dongle. As you can see in my "planogram", I plan on having the WIFI connected to it and 2 USB cables that will mount to the NES controller plugs. I've decided that having different plugs caused more trouble than it's worth. I rarely use the NES controllers except to test and make sure it worked. The problem comes with the Raphnet adapter I got to convert those plugs to USB. They have a bug causing a "northwest drift". So if you play a game then come back, the system will think you're pressing UP+LEFT and start scrolling all over the menus. There is a kernel patch, but it requires rebuilding the kernel. 2-3 hour process on the Pi 3, and I don't know if it'll even work on the oDroid. So I'm just going to swap out the NES plugs for USB ones. I ordered some short extension cables, going to mount them in their place, and run them to the hub. The last port is open, so I'm going to run another hub to it, and wire it up to the Cartridge Slot like I did my NesPi. That should round everything out. I'll have external access to all the ports I need, and I'll have access to a total of 6 USB ports. I need to test when it arrives though. I don't know if daisy chaining the hubs this way will work or not. I might have to move the hard drive to one of the hubs and move the hubs to their own dedicated port on the oDroid. If that doesn't work, I might just skip adding the cartridge slot altogether (though I hope I don't have too). That's it for now. All this typing and my drugs have worn off. I'm going to bed. Feel free to drop in and say hi! Tell me to get well soon (doesn't make any different but makes me feel good to know you care and see my issues!). Got any ideas or suggestions on my build? Let me know!