THE Easiest Sinden Lightgun Setup for RetroPie on Pi 4/5 with autostart and config editor

If you're setting up a new RetroPie image for Raspberry Pi, just use this quick and easy utility to get your Sinden Lightgun software installed, and enjoy the benefit of a great Autostart and Config editing utility.


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-- UPDATE 20/APR/2024 --
Fixed a bug that applied P1's recoil to all players instead of individually. Removed the "off" option from the gun states as it is unneeded and only creates problems. Also updated the RetroPie-Setup installer to add SDL2 dependences on 64bit systems (ready for future versions of the lightgun driver).

-- UPDATE 14/APR/2024 --
A few people have reported recently they've been getting an "E3" error when attempting to run the test on new Pi 5 images. The error reads "Only for use with official Sinden Lightguns. Error please connect Sinden Lightgun. E3". After some testing I found that this Sinden software error is caused by a Raspberry OS kernel update to v6.6.16 which was committed on 8th Feb '24. I did put a command here to downgrade to the last working version of the kernel, but after communicating with Sinden, I have been given a modified version of the 64-bit executable file that overcomes this issue. And I also added a line to my utility's script to bypass the check for anyone who might still suffer from the error on 32-bit systems.

-- UPDATE 31/MAR/2024 --
Two changes today. Firstly, the downloader now checks if the standard location for RetroPie-Setup is being used, and if not, attempts to search for it in the users home directory. if it still can't find it, prompts the user for the path, and checks it is valid. This should make the downloader much more universally robust.
Secondly, the RetroPie-Setup package now adds the Sinden Lightgun entry to the gamelist.xml correctly (rather than the hacky method I used before, which sometimes didn't work).

-- UPDATE 26/JAN/2024 --
Added a Sinden pedal test to the utility, for up to four pedals.
Also added a checklist to choose what emulators the offscreen reloading setting should be applied for. Should only be needed for supermodel3, and that's what I've enabled it for by default, but thought I should make it customisable in case someone has a different version of supermodel installed with a different name, or another emulator shows up that needs it.

-- UPDATE 25/JAN/2024 --
Utility updated to prevent the Sinden Pedal from showing up as a Lightgun in the list of available Lightguns. This was because the pedal uses the same pcb and basic code as a lightgun so typically presents itself in the same way. My code is now more robust and accounts for the presence of pedals now.
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These are the commands to type in:

wget github.com/Widge-5/SindenLightgun/raw/main/download.sh

chmod +x download.sh

./download.sh

exit

(The last "exit" is to return you back to EmulationStation after the installation script has been placed, so if your using a remote terminal to access your Pi you can disregard that line)

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I mentioned SuperModel 3 in this video. If you want it, the best version for Pi can be found here: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/model3e...


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