Actions need to be changed to use new wiki location: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki

Reported by KnC: "games/sharp mz series folder should be named sharpmz not sharp mz series"

Cave MRAs from https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Cave_MiSTer/tree/main/mra have been updated 3 months ago.

It would be nice to update also here so downloader get the latest files.
By having the correct rotation information it helps the OSD to be nicely rotated.

I'd like to help if i can do something.

previous version was able to overwrite to update,
now this version displays nothing on the HDMI.

edit: seems like I did not re-initialize the sd-card.

cant actually play the game, even if its loads and coin button works. mame files are present.
left-right-up-down does nothing. not even numlock changing which joystick as input.

I submitted #37 a little while ago and just this morning got a couple e-mails saying that it was closed because it was too big. I was pretty confused about that, since the actual change I made that I was hoping to contribute was ef951c6 which is a simple ten-line change in one file.

However, it seems that the GitHub actions in this project have run a number of times since, which have ended up somehow impacting the number of files included in the pull request. I can't blame the reviewer for not wanting to review a 5,000+ file request, because that's just not reasonable to do, but I'm also at a loss as to what the right way to go about submitting changes to this repository is.

Since the GitHub actions seem to impact submitted pull requests, what's the right way to go about contributing potential changes here?

Hi!

For a month or so, I have had the "Game & Watch" core installed when running update_all.
So, as I do with other systems I am not interested in, I added !gamenwatch to the filter list in downloader.ini.
It works for a myriad of other systems, but doesn't seem to work for Game and Watch.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!

When wifi.sh is launched from the OSD, it doesn't have /dev/tty attached, which causes this error to appear whenever line 30 executes:

I'm guessing line 30 should instead be redirecting to /dev/tty2, as is done for all other usages of dialog throughout the script.

Use CORE_NAME from main Wiki, and an exception list instead.

The reason is that we don't want to parse code anymore, because parsing code could limit the freedom of the core developers.

Exception list will be provided in a comment to this thread.

Hello, not sure if it's the right place to report this kind of problem, but let's try.

I can't anymore use my rsa pubkey to login into my MiSTer.
Maybe something has changed with the latest linux update for MiSTer.

What used to work :
copy my ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (on my PC) to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (on MiSTer as root)
On MiSTer :

# chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
# chmod 700 ~/.ssh

On PC :
$ ssh root@MyMiSTerIP

Now, when I try this (with 'ssh -v' for more verbosity) :
the connection hangs at:

debug1: Offering public key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:rGQ/rMN/uqHUX+2wIH/Ch5ylXOe8Loxwxxxxxxxxxxx agent
debug1: Server accepts key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:rGQ/rMN/uqHUX+2wIH/Ch5ylXOe8Loxwxxxxxxxxxx agent 

('xxxxxxxxx' is an edit from me)

Interestingly, if I alter ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to force the pubkey authentication to fail, I don't get the Server accepts key after the Offering public key . Instead it does not hang anymore, and fallbacks to password authentication.

The new downloader doesn't fetch a some of the scripts like the old updater.sh (it's missing bluetooth pairing for example)

Well, the GameboyColor.mgl is lacking spaces in the name, it should be "Game Boy Color.mgl" to match the names of the other cores and mgl files

This error is sometimes emitted by wifi.sh:

It's not clear to a casual user what this means or what they are supposed to do about it. It's also weird to see that error not displayed inside of a proper messagebox or dialog like the rest of the UI produced by the script.

The script should handle this case in a more user-friendly way. Ideally, it would even provide common troubleshooting suggestions when this happens.

Hello,

We've had a number of people run into INI errors because they used a clean one from the Main_MiSTer GitHub page.

The INI present in that repository often has options not yet available in the public release.

While these errors aren't fatal, I think it would be nicer if users had a clearer source for a clean INI.

My suggestion is to add a "MiSTer_example.ini". This INI would be matched to the distribution version of the main binary - and could contain some text at the top like "Copy this file and rename it to MiSTer.ini to use".

Adding this would give users an easy location to find a fresh INI, with the added benefit of being available offline.

If you run calculate_db.py against a repo/directory that results in there being no entries for the 'zips' section, it should add an empty section so the database file is compliant.

The date/time of the database file is August 2021. Been trying to get the auto downloader to work but it constantly tells me things are all up to date but I'm easily months behind the menu/linux core for the mister.

this core is not included in the core list among the default/all cores.

meh, ok its under computers.

edit: why they cant all be in systems folder.

Conversation came up in discord about the games/NeoGeo-CD folder not being there. They were following instructions on where to put the bios file. The folder wasn't made already. I am guessing because it's an extra folder and not the core's main game folder?

Looked for examples of other X-CD folders being created and only thing I found was here:

Is this the spot to add extra things or is there some metadata somewhere to define this? I'm new to the codebase.

Should be done for repositories: Filters, MRA-Alternatives

Hi, first I should say thank you for the continued hard work on this!

I wanted to remove other-cores while keeping everything else update_all normally pulls in, so I added the following to my downloader.ini:

[mister]
filter = all_filters !other_cores

I assumed all_filters would result in a starting point with all filters applied which I could then negate from, but running update_all.sh proceeded to delete absolutely everything.

There's currently no description for all_filters so I might be misunderstanding its use case, but it also didn't appear to pull anything in. Either way, it would be great to have the full set of files as a starting point to then negate individual filters from.

Thanks!

TGFX16-CD games folder is missing

This morning I released the C128 core. Added it to the Wiki so this repo would pick it up.

It took a few hours, but eventually the core was included in the distribution. But now it's gone again and looking at the output of the actions, the download_distribution.py script doesn't see it anymore.

Here's the output the action that did see the new core: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Distribution_MiSTer/actions/runs/4263488131/jobs/7420287698

but later ones do not see it anymore. If I run download_distribution.py locally, the core is seen and processed.

I suspect there is some caching of the wiki page happening. Maybe on the builders, or maybe within GitHub's infrastructure.

Current behavior of Downloader and Distribution together is to download a brand new cheats.zip and unzip it entirely on the end user device. This means most times when people run Downloader, they receive a very long update that takes a lot of time and unnecessarily forces excessive writes to the MicroSD.

If the cheats were stored unzipped from the main archive (e.g. PSX.zip) inside the Distribution repo, then only the deltas would get written to the MicroSD and this would greatly decrease the time wasted and the number of writes to the MicroSD.

Hi all.

Anyone having graphical issues with this game? Very early on I'm getting massive graphical corruption including sprites getting stuck and just appearing all over the place etc. which that then tanks the frame rate to the point of it running at about 1FPS. Sometimes I have to restart the game and hope it's okay, but that doesn't always work.

I've attached a couple of screenshots.

I wanted at attach a video but don't currently have time it edit it down to under 10MB. I'll upload a video to YouTube in a little while and send a link.