you know how you can assign keys to the joypad controls through the Ctrl+X options screen? when assigning keys, what is the commodore key called? (the key that was on the bottom left of the C64 keyboard, i've seen it called C= on other forums in my search for an answer to this). thanks in advance!

Vastly against my better judgement, I just installed emulationstation-dev from the Experimental menu in an attempt to fix the "Displaying game images in the wrong aspect ratio" problem:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30859/why-does-emulationstation-keep-screwing-up-my-box-shots?_=1638646616296

But instead it's completely killed my install. It now just boots to the $ prompt and I can't get into the Setup menu to remove it (all I can run is raspi-config, which is no help). What do I do?

I was following the tutorial for creating Emulation Station themes
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme/

and it mentions using ES Theme Helper by @Rookervik but the download link is dead. Does anyone have a working link?

Hey folks, its me again.

I am currently working on a new module for me that checks for pairable gamepads nearby and tries to pair and connect them. I wanna have this for myself since I find it highly annoying to manually pair 192 controllers when I set up a new machine.

What the script does is it checks if emulationstation is running. If so, every 10 seconds, it uses bluetoothctl to scan for devices. Then it checks if the device has certain properties that makes it look like a gamepad (for the 1 person here who really wants to know, bluetoothctl info gives back a list of properties the device has, I am looking for Icon: input-gaming in it, which tells for example android to display a gamepad icon as bluetooth icon).

I wanna hear your thoughts on this. Is that something that bothers you too? Do you have any concerns regarding this?

I just upgraded to a 4k tv and using a pi 4. I set the pi to use kms instead of fkms. I can’t find a way to set to 1080p. Raspian config gives me no options other than have monitor set resolution and i manually configured the config.txt in the boot directory to 1080p. It still wants to use 4k at 30fps and and can tell the lag. Any help?

Hi,
currently running a Pi 3 B+
I cannot connect to wifi thru SSH. I tried resetting the router, making sure SSH was enabled, and all my passwords were logged in correctly. Any ideas?

Re: Will RetroPie work with a 4tb External drive?

I've been sitting on a new External 4tb HDD for my pi 4, retropie build for month's. I've looked over countless forums and still haven't found a solution not to mention most of the post's are year's old at this point.

I understand that the format retropie favors can't be over 2tb's I'm just kinda surprised that after all these old posts from 2017 and still there's been no work around yet that I can find. I'm noob to Linux based stuff but I've always heard Linux was the easiest operating system to do things with less restrictions unlike window's. I wish I could return my external 4tb for a 2tb but that window has closed. I've just been holding onto it waiting for the day I can boot my rom collection off it instead of shuffling games back & forth from pc to mounted sd card due to filling the sd to the max.

If anyone has figured out how to successfully load retropie roms off a 4tb external I would love to share in your wisdom.

RetroPie Version: 4.7.11
System: x86_64
OS: Ubuntu 20.4.4 LTS

Vexing issue trying to boot a specific Sega CD game, Annett Futatabi.
Issue: Game does not reach the Sega CD boot screen
Have tried:
Cores: lr-picodrive and lr-genesis-plus-gx
File Types: Bin/Cue and CHD
BIOS: US and Japan, named for each Core
ROMs: Multiple Checksum file versions

runcommand.log code:

Parameters: Executing: --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1304: eval: --: invalid option eval: usage: eval [arg ...]

runcommand.sh code referenced above:

} function launch_command() { local ret # escape $ to avoid variable expansion (eg roms containing $!) COMMAND="${COMMAND//\$/\\\$}" # launch the command echo -e "Parameters: $@\nExecuting: $COMMAND" >>"$LOG" if [[ "$CONSOLE_OUT" -eq 1 ]]; then # turn cursor on tput cnorm eval $COMMAND </dev/tty 2>>"$LOG" ret=$? tput civis else eval $COMMAND </dev/tty &>>"$LOG" ret=$? fi return $ret

Line 1304: eval $COMMAND </dev/tty &>>"$LOG"

Not sure what other information might be useful to diagnose, but happy to supply anything additional.

Hello all.

I just put together my first Retropie on a Pi 3b+ and I'm having a weird issue with Retroarch.

I Initially configured it through the Retropie GUI, set up a theme, hotkeys and all, but when i access the Quick Menu through a game that is running I got a different Retroarch theme, no hotkeys are set, basically a stock Retroarch version.

What am I missing?

Hello friends

I have a strange problem, lately I can only see the screen and the games in black and white colors, but before I could see them in all their colors.

What should I change to be able to reconfigure it properly, please I need some help. Thanks

Hi,

I want to do a clean install of RetroPie with Attract mode and usually my Google skills are legit, but seemingly every tutorial I find is 3-5 years old. Does anyone know where I can find a good, current tutorial?

I have made a screenshot here:
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Look the text "11 Minutes ago" it's wrong formatted and overwrite previous and next line. Look also the "109" Number it's problably the number i play this games.

This issue it's also present for all title..... also for title i never played.

It's problably a bad xml... can you give me some indication of which file I can possibly check about this theme ?

OPS
By TAG i have found a very similar thread whitout a possibly fix...here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/27468/pixel-metadata-last-played-timer-text-wrapping-issue

Hi mates, long time without posting nothing, i come back with a doubt.

After months, I recently finished configuring all my Pi3b+ arcade MAME romset making all the roms in my romset work (some roms MAME2003, others MAME2010... etc) and remapping correctly the keymaps for some games.

My question is, I want to migrate this configs to my Pi4. I know where the keymaps are stored in the Pi3b+ retropie so i supposed that i only need to copy it to the same folder in the Pi4, but, for the launch options (MAME2003, or MAME2010, etc....) What folder i must copy?

Thanks for all mates!!!

Hello there, long time RetroPie user, first time poster here. Due to a lot of time on my hands in quarantine, I decided to build a new RetroPie and take up PSX emulation, so far only 16 bit machines.

I’m having difficulty getting my 8BitDo controllers to work properly though. In the past I always used the „Switch mode“ and after initially figuring out bluetooth a couple of years ago they always worked fine in mentioned application. Now I want to use the rumble feature for PSX games and I’m struggling.

tl;dr at the end.

After a lot of unsuccessful tweaking I set up a new system for troubleshooting using the latest available RetroPie image for Pi4 and updating it (System + RetroPie packages).

RPi 4, 8GB, Retroflag NESPI4 case
Official USB-C PSU
16 GB SD (boot)
500 GB SSD for ROMs
Retropie 4.7.19 (c167b3c5)
Emulationstation V2.10.0RP
RetroArch 1.9.7 (Sep 8 2021, 8373ac6)
crcerror shutdown script (for NESPI4 case)
2x SF30 Pro (Firmware v1.38)

Connecting the controllers as usual:

Bluetooth settings:

pair both controllers Create udev rule for controller

Check RetroArch base settings:

controllers recognized as „RetroPad“, changed to „RetroPad with Analog“

PSX (lr-pcsx-rearmed r22 36f3ea6):

initially no buttons responsive

in RetroArch RGUI

Quick Menu Controls
Port 1/2
- Device Type changed from „RetroPad with Analog“ to „dualshock“ Options
- Enable Vibration set to „on“

Results with xpad driver:

Switch Mode (Y + Start):
Controller name: Pro Controller
Controller status light: only first LED lit on both controllers
all buttons/analog working
no rumble (neither on connect nor in game)

DInput Mode (B + Start):
Controller name: 8bitdo SF30 Pro
Controller status light: only first LED lit on both controllers
all buttons/analog working
rumble upon connect, no rumble in game

XInput Mode (X + Start):
Controller name: 8bitdo SF30 Pro
Controller status light: only first LED lit on both controllers
Emulationstation input config: L2/R2 do not register
RetroArch base settings: L2/R2 able to register
rumble upon connect, rumble in game

macOS (Start +A): didn’t bother to test

The xpadneo driver did not change anything for the better (L2/R2 still not recognized in ES), had very sluggish control, lots of lag, basically unplayable.

After every configuration change, ES Input Configurations were cleared (Retropie Setup - emulationstation) and previous udev rules were deleted (/etc/udev/rules.d/99-bluetooth.rules).

It seemed to me that changing the controller mode to anything other than „Switch Mode“ creates absurdly long loading times (launching the libretro cores, about 20-30 s).

;tldr

I found the „best“ way to set up the SF/SN30 Pro (meaning complete button/trigger, analog and rumble support) is this:

make sure xpadneo is not installed clear ES input configs delete existing udev rules pair both controllers in XInput Mode (X + Start) set up udev rule ignore missing L2/R2 in ES input config Open RetroArch base config and add missing L2/R2 for both controllers separately set Device Type to „RetroPad with Analog“ for both controllers additional system/game specific mappings using RetroArch RGUI for PSX set both controllers to „dualshock“ make sure vibration is enabled in RetroArch

This lacks proper use of the indicator LEDs on the controllers though, both show a single LED on the left. Also the long loading times for the cores are a bit annoying.

So:

Has anyone ever been successful using the 8BitDo SF/SN30 Pro over Bluetooth on a RetroPie system with L2/R2 (analog) triggers AND rumble working correctly AND meaningful use of the status LEDs (1 LED: Player 1, 2 LEDs: Player 2, etc.)?

Any explanation for the long loading times?

Please tell me I’m missing something obvious here…

Thanks a lot,
Sebastian

EDIT: The different modes of the 8BitDo controllers and their implications as well as the cause of the missing L2/R2 triggers have been well described in this post, I was not able to find a solution in there though.

EDIT2: I ruled out UAS issues (SSD over USB3 SATA adapter) in regards to the loading times. UAS is disabled in the JMicro firmware, hdparm clocks read speed @ ~300 MB/s. Never mind the loading time question though, I tracked it down to a couple of duplicate ROMs (SD/SSD) that apparently caused that issue even on unrelated systems. After clearing every ROM and gamelist from the SD loading times are back to normal. The original text was therefore corrected.

Pi Model or other hardware: MSI Wind U100 2GB Ram, etc.
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest):
Built From: Raspbian
USB Devices connected: USB Hub
Controller used: SNES Controllers
Error messages received: N/A
Verbose log (if relevant):
Guide used: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation
How to replicate the problem: Install on MSI Wind

I'm guessing it's my hardware, this was all an experiment. But after two install attempts (one over lubuntu, the other with Raspbian) I have finally got RetroPie to start. The problem is that no emulators are showing and no ROM directories were created. I created one and copied a ROM (SNES and it is the right extension, my Pi version works fine), but I can't get the emulators to show in the carousel. Now most likely, I am just looking for confirmation, it's the hardware. This thing is admittedly old and worn out but still functional. I don't know if these emulators are set up to run on the Atom processor.

Hello everyone. After having success with my last Chromebook / Retropie build, I came across another (slightly better model) chromebook which I decided to give a go. Its an Acer R11 which uses a Braswell processor (as opposed to the Baytrail version I did a while back). Slightly better specs but again nothing to write home about ;) Has at least a touch screen which doesnt help any for retropie, cool when I'm using it to just surf and fold it over like a tablet.

So the issue I am having is as follows: While on the menu, I noticed a slight flicker of the screen. As I went into any menu selections the flickering would get worse. Flickering seems to happen even when I switch it over to HDMI.

Played with the VRAM settings, didn't help. Disabled all power management settings, screensaver etc. Added xset s off && xset -dpms in the xsession Tried using other themes like carbon, no luck Tried changing the resolution to 1280x720 (native its 1336x768), seemed like that made it worse. In the shortcut (desktop) added -profile=RetroPie as someone suggested in another post I was reading, didnt make any difference.

The good news is emulation is perfectly fine. Anything I tried worked flawless. Any ideas or thoughts? As always, thanks in advance for any assistance :D :)

I have a Pi 3B+ and an arcade CRT tri sync monitor (15KHz, 24KHz, 31KHz) With the run command can I set the horizontal scan rate to auto switch on a game to game basis? It’s a matter of calculating the pixel clocks since there isn’t a place for horizontal scan rate in the modelines of cfg files? Any input is appreciated.

Title says it all, really. If I use a Euro version of, say, Street Fighter Alpha (sfa), will that run slower on RetroPie than the US version (sfau)?

i.e. Does it work the same for arcade games as the PAL / NTSC difference on consoles? I'm unable to tell a difference by eye, so hence my question here.

When important ROMs from Final Burn and MAME, wouldn't it be convenient of we could imprt favorites only? I guess this could apply to all libraries, but I think it's most useful for these two in particular cinema hd.