Yearly Archives: 2021


RetroPie Setup Woes

Original setup was fine and everything worked. Then ran into some issues: No Sound (was testing with snes) 2. No Sound in specific emulators (megadrive/gameboy/nintendo, snes worked per step 1) Delete retroarch.cfg from each emulator under /opt/retropie/configs/<emulator>/ <–it’ll regenerate 3. Backspace doesn’t work as hotkey any more Removing the exit_emulator_btn from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg 4. 2 Player […]


Jenkins setup with github

Go to github, upper right dropdown -> settings -> developer settings -> personal access tokens. make a new token, which you use as your “password” in jenkins. In jenkins, “manage jenkins” -> (scroll down) manage credentials. Create “username with password”. For username use your github username. Password is token above.


No donation for xmrig (monero mining)

Prebuilt xmrig requires 1% donation. To get rid of this: git clone xmrig’s repo. Change src/donation.h to: constexpr const int kDefaultDonateLevel = 0;constexpr const int kMinimumDonateLevel = 0; Now need to build it. Follow instructions here: https://xmrig.com/docs/miner/build/windows But customs stuff I did: Create folder c:\xmrig-deps Download the most recent version of prebuilt dependencies  by using the green Code button and Download […]