LGPT on pi boy or onanother raspi handheld console (Page 1 of 2)

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So your link works on computer

It's seems to be more like a GPI case than a pi boy because pi boy has 6 buttons. Normally Gpi case is with a pi zero and pi boy is with raspberry pi. I didn't see usb port on GPI case (that mean that lgpt midi can't work on it) that's why I am more searching a pi boy.

But he definitly has something plugged on the right side of the "gameboy", and on Gpi case you are not suppose to be able to do that. So maybe it's another one which I don't know.

But seeing that it works with the one he has is encourageous of it can work on something like this

Last edited by MazHoot (Dec 29, 2020 11:57 am)

By watching his other post I discover he added this : https://www.gotronic.fr/art-hub-4-usb-zero4u-29439.htm

maybe it was a Gpi case at beginning. I didn't know this can be done. With pi boy it's more expensive but you have already a usb port

Thank's for the link about midiPi. I prefer for now keep using the usb to midi cable because it's more little, and it actually works since a longer time than my midi cables wich become broke relatively quickly.

I use that : https://www.thomann.de/fr/thomann_midi_usb_1x1.htm

Not exactly this one but it's close. I used that usb midi cable in my video with piggy controlling megadrive 1. This video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4FZJC … el=MazHoot

Last edited by MazHoot (Dec 29, 2020 2:31 pm)

I'm able to start lgpt on pi boy in the ports section of retropie's emulation station. The operation with other pi handheld or pie retropie should be the same. My actual problems are :

1) emulation station sometimes don't start but maybe that's because of bad shutdown programs. Normally we need to close emulation station from menu before shutdown the gameboy.

2) for now I can't use buttons correctly, they are crazy mapped from my mapping.xml file (if no file they don't work at all) which is complicated is that I can't see the terminal (or don't know how) and so can't use lgpt key display option. Pi boy doesn't have raspbian only retropie and don't know how access to the terminal from it... With a keyboard connected and using it, it works fine

Last edited by MazHoot (Jan 10, 2021 9:43 pm)

@herr_prof no there is no ethernet port.

But I finally get it working, (but there is a problem about audio) it seems that it doesn't like when changing stuff on the sd card. I "finished" an important part of my setup, used it like 4/5 times and emulation station always started now. If someone has a pi boy, you must exist lgpt then press start on emulation station then choose system shutdown. If you don't it can corrupt files and don't start again...

And I discover how accessing terminal too. If you choose quit emulation station insead of system shutdown, you arrive to a terminal! And there mapping is easyer because a log is created (have to use mapping event print option with lgpt command in lgpt wiki). You just need to remember which button you press before open the log (with cat lgpt.log for exemple). And doing that I saw that lgpt was good launched from the terminal so if I use only lgpt maybe I will just automatically start it and don't launch emulation station like I did on my standard raspberry pi.

So now it's good mapped and midi works good! BUT, the sound of lgpt is very dirty. It sounds like a problem other people already had here. The thing strange is that sound is fine in other emulation games.

Other points :

- the shoulder buttons behind the pi boy are not good when you put the gameboy on a table because the buttons are pressed, I think it can ruin it in the time, keeping them always pressed...

- screen with lgpt is small, it's fullscreen but lgpt has a yellow part unused around the program, that should be much better to zoom in a bit but I don't know if it's possible. It's a little hard for eyes for me

Last edited by MazHoot (Jan 11, 2021 6:00 pm)

Ah ok herr_prof nice idea i have usb to ethernet adaptor so it should work (no wifi here)

But right now my problem is dirty audio in lgpt. I see in other threads that the principal solution was external usb audio interface. But maybe it's outdated because audio works good on my other raspi without usb interface and i would prefer much without

Maybe i should create a new thread for that because it's related to rasppi not specific to pi boy. The audio problem is on a pi3b (which is inside pi boy)

Last edited by MazHoot (Jan 12, 2021 6:48 am)