Issues with Beetle PSX HW on Lakka PC

Libretro Lakka
#1

Been using Lakka on an old laptop for a long time now. Decided to do a fresh new install and get Lakka 2.0. Ran into issues with the replacement for the old (software) Mednafen PSX core, Beetle PSX HW.

When attempting to launch a game, it gives me the error “unable to load libretro code” in the corner. Verbose logs here: https://pastebin.com/P1hgH4Tv

Normally I would switch right back to the old software core because I figure my hardware can’t support the new core, but I am unable to locate the software version. I am now forced to use PCSX ReARMed.

This leads to a separate issue: I imported my old playlists from my old install because the scanner did not recognize many of my games, and I am not interested in retreading it manually. Normally, I could use the playlist setting in the settings menu to tell the system which core to load for each playlist. However, it does not respect my settings when I select the PCSX ReARMed setting for the Playstation playlist. So even though the setting is PCSX ReARMed, it attempts to open the PS1 ROMs with Beetle PSX HW and fails. I can only launch PS1 games by manually selecting the .cue file from the content loader. This is opposed to my old N64 playlist, which appears to now respect the ParaLLEl N64 core setting despite previously being on the Mupen64Plus setting.

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#2

After a bit more testing I think I am wrong about the last part: The playlist setting only appears to apply to games that have not yet been launched. I had not launched the first game in my list, 007 - GoldenEye, so it properly assigned it to /tmp/cores/parallel_n64_libretro.so. I had launched, however, Banjo-Kazooie on the old install with /tmp/cores/mupen64plus_libretro.so, so it failed to find the core and failed to launch. I have not yet identified a way to change the core it automatically launches with without manually editing the playlist files, so I guess this may be a bug.

This is, however, easy enough to fix by doing a replace all for DETECT/DETECT in the playlist file.

#3

I have the same issue. I installed Lakka 2.0 on Fujitsu p5915 and have identical symptoms.The log looks very similar and ends with:

RetroArch [INFO] :: [EGL]: EGL version: 1.4 RetroArch [ERROR] :: [EGL]: #0x3009, EGL_BAD_MATCH RetroArch [ERROR] :: Cannot open video driver … Exiting … RetroArch [ERROR] :: Fatal error received in: “init_video()” RetroArch [ERROR] :: This core requires a content file. RetroArch [ERROR] :: failed_to_start_audio_driver Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Anyone have an idea?

#4

anyone solved this? have the same issue.