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Taito F2 driver issue?
« on: August 29, 2021, 05:54:03 PM »
Hi,
I'm running Lakka 3.3 on my RPi4, and I get a "driver initialization error" when I try to run Growl/Runark in FB-Neo.
My romset should be OK (verified in Romcenter with latest DAT) maybe there's an issue with the Taito F2 driver?

Thank you so much.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2021, 08:12:22 PM »
Hi antiraid,
Growl/Runark is working fine here.  Please take a look at the log file, it should give some more info on what is wrong.  The 2 main things that would cause init to fail are: unable to allocate memory for the system and a missing file in your romset.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2021, 03:31:19 AM »
Hmm that's strange, ROM should be OK and RPi4 should have enough memory to run it.
I'll test it also on Windows stand-alone ASAP. Meanwhile may I ask what's the log path for the libretro core?

BTW: latest official release is 1002 or 1003? Thank you so much.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2021, 04:00:46 AM »
I get a "driver initialization error" when I try to run Growl/Runark in FB-Neo.

Do you mean "Failed initializing driver" ? I think that error message can only happen on a failed memory allocation (usually meaning not enough ram). A bad romset would give another error message. But there is also the very rare case where the romset is detected as "good" (crcs/sizes can be read and match) but somehow the archive can't be read properly when the emulator actually try to load the roms into memory, i remember it happened to a user once, it would probably gives the same error message.

Other possibility : there is some bug with the old FBNeo version lakka is using.

Current WIP is 1.0.0.03 (odd numbers are WIP), latest release is 1.0.0.02 (even numbers are releases).
« Last Edit: August 30, 2021, 04:07:56 AM by barbudreadmon »

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2021, 08:27:44 AM »
Current WIP is 1.0.0.03 (odd numbers are WIP), latest release is 1.0.0.02 (even numbers are releases).

That's strange, I remember that the core in Lakka (with no changes on my part) is 1.0.0.03, but is it possible that Lakka uses WIPs?
I will check again tonight and I'll also try the same romset on Windows.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2021, 09:04:02 AM »
is it possible that Lakka uses WIPs?

Yes, the WIPs they are using are always a bit outdated though, and it doesn't seem there is an easy way to update to our latest version, which is a bit annoying since we regularily get reports about lakka bugs that already got fixed in our current builds.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2021, 09:22:28 AM »
Yes, the WIPs they are using are always a bit outdated though, and it doesn't seem there is an easy way to update to our latest version, which is a bit annoying since we regularily get reports about lakka bugs that already got fixed in our current builds.

May I download the source from https://github.com/libretro/FBNeo and build with make -j5 -C src/burner/libretro/ platform=rpi4 ?

Thank you so much.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2021, 09:27:51 AM »
Sure - give it a try.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2021, 09:32:02 AM »
Great!
The optimizations you suggested in the other thread are also valid for the RPi4?

Code: [Select]
CFLAGS += -O2 -DNDEBUG
CXXFLAGS += -O2 -DNDEBUG
and change to:
CFLAGS += -O3 -DNDEBUG
CXXFLAGS += -O3 -DNDEBUG

Do they break compatibility with some titles?
Golden Axe 2 Revenge of the Death Adder seems slow even on RPi4 so I'd like to squeeze as much as possible!
Thanks.
« Last Edit: August 31, 2021, 09:33:11 AM by antiriad »

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2021, 09:38:43 AM »
-O3 is already the default optimization for the libretro core, no need to change it.
For FBNeo's segas32 on pi4, you'll need to overclock it and maybe enable some frameskip too.

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2021, 03:43:41 PM »
I built the latest version of lr-fbneo for RPi4 and fixed also the problem with Growl (one rom was corrupt indeed!).

Thank you so much!  :biggrin:

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Re: Taito F2 driver issue?
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2021, 08:18:23 PM »
glad it worked out :)

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