PiKiss has a bunch of setup scripts built into it for numerous ports that are unavailable through the RetroPie Setup Scripts.

https://github.com/jmcerrejon/PiKISS/tree/master/scripts/games

I'm mostly into the Quakespasm port and Xash3d Half-Life port, but there's quite a few in there that have controller support and their own setting menus so those don't need to be wrapped in a librerto core. Is there any way we could get some of these added to the optional/experimental packages. Obviously the setup scripts would need to be modified slightly to install correctly into the RetroPie port directory structure but there are some real winners in that list that could add a lot to the RetroPie experience.

Hi, i have a problem that i've been trying to solve for a couple of days. I am building an arcade cabinet
with a coins acceptor, i used mkarcadejoystick to connect to the pins
My problem is that i have to setup the select button as the coin acceptor(so that means that i dont have the select button anymore), but because of that i have to map the Hotkey to 1 of the 6 buttons (B,A,X,Y,L,R) used for games, but if i set it as the button L for example, i end up opening the retroarch when i press L and X at the same time.

Is there any way to add a dedicated HK button, or to set the GPIO2 or GPIO3 pins as a button?
because i can't exit games with out mapping it, and i cant map it to any other button without getting into those issues
or is there any other way around? maybe deactivate the RetroArch menu or key combos? Thanks in advance and sorry if this was already answered, im new in this forum

-RPI 3B+
-5.1V charger (works perfectly)
-retropie 4.7.1 Istalled through RPI imager

So I tried the following link to install Yabasanshiro on my Rasberry Pi 4 arcade, but still can't select the emulator when trying Golden Axe The Duel on Sega Saturn. I know the Pi has troubles with emulating the Saturn, but I used to be able to play Golden Axe before. Not sure what has changed.

https://snapcraft.io/install/yabasanshiro/raspbian

Has anyone had any success in either getting this installed, and/or getting Golden Axe The Duel to work on any emulator?

Thank you.

Hi there
I've just completed the installation of Amiberry on my Pi400 following this YouTube video (

)
I have ROMS for A1200 3.1 in my BIOS folder and a bunch of .lha files waiting in my amiga/roms folder. On booting up Amiberry is showing the games as available.
But when I go to run them I just get a black screen with a square grey box saying:
Launching Lotus2 (amiberry)
Press a button to configure
Errors are logged to /dev/shm/runcommand.log

A mouse pointer appears in the top left and then nothing else happens. I've left for ages and only way to get out of it is to power off.

Does anyone have ANY pointers or thoughts as to what I have got wrong / missed or not tried.

Thanks in advance
John

Hi All,
This is the first time I write here, first of all, many thanks for your help.
I have a problem. When I start the machine I get:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation error :free invalid pointer

2021-05-18_11-55-51.png

It seems something related with "No space left on device".
Am able to delete any file from the card?.

Many thanks in advance for your help.
Regards.

Hi folks,

I've got an issue I'm trying to chase down with marquees that is only happening with roms in my mame-libretro folder. You can see the issue here:

image0.jpg

I have tried tweaking my scraping options, however this did not solve the problem for me. I took a look at the theme.xml file for mame-libretro and the comic_book.xml (my present theme) files to see if there was something there I needed to tweak but I didn't see anything that jumped out at me.

FWIW, this is only happening on mame-libretro and no other system.

Skyscraper install method: Installed from binary
Skyscraper version: 3.6.10
Skyscraper command last tried: ./Skyscraper --flags unattend,onlymissing,nomarquees -p mame-libretro -s screenscraper -t 16 -i /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro; ./Skyscraper --flags unattend,theinfront,nomarquees -f emulationstation -p mame-libretro -t 100 -i /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro
Link to relevant Skyscraper config.ini section: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/N2QtxrNSzD/
Emulationstation Version: 2.9.6RP
Built From: Pre made SD image on RetroPie website
RetroPie Version Used: 4.7.1
RetroPie Image Filename: retropie-buster-4.7.1-rpi4_400.img.gz
How to replicate: Not entirely sure, the Skyscraper command I list and the generally default config for the ComicBook theme (not SE_WheelArt) seems to do it for me.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I just got my GamePi 43 from Waveshare and I was wondering how I would install the drivers on it. I watched a video on how to do it with the Gamehat and is it the same way? I already have my Image ready with ROMs and after installing the drivers, I can just plug in the TF card and configure my controls? This is all being done from Chromebook though.

Hi,
I created this thread to discuss about our gaming experiences. This thread is not about your favorite games but more about your last experience and why it's a good game or not. We can put an overall rating on 10. We can talk about the gameplay, the speed on Retropie, the emulator used. etc.

I have a Retropie setup on a Raspberry Pi 4/4GB, and I'm having an issue that I can't diagnose. I've looked everywhere and can't find anything...hopefully someone here has an idea!

On my system every couple of minutes, all connected USB devices will pause for a couple of seconds.

When it does this, there's no low-power icon on screen, input just hitches. The system keeps running, but no input is detected. This leads to typing like ("this is me typingggggggggggggg") or incorrect input in games.

Admittedly, I have a LOT of USB devices plugged in. I have a mini keyboard/mouse device, two arcade sticks, a spinner and a trackball. Most of these devices (everything but the arcade sticks) run through a powered USB 3 hub.

I thought the issue might be low power (despite the lack of error notification) so I replaced the RPi power supply with a CanaKit one that was recommended online. It didn't make any difference, and the issue still occurs.

Then I thought maybe the USB bus on my RPi was faulty, so I swapped out the SD card and replaced the system with a different one, with all plugs in the exact same place. Issue still occurred, so it's not the Pi. It's either a USB device or software.

Anyone have idea what's going on? Any suggestions for ways to diagnose are greatly appreciated. I haven't tried running any USB tests or logs, because I'm not sure what to run.

Here's some detailed info on my setup:

Pi Model or other hardware: Pi4 4gb

Power Supply used: Canakit (non switch version)

RetroPie Version Used: 4.7.11

Built From: SD image on website, then ran online updater

USB Devices connected:

Two DragonRise sticks Trackball Spinner RF mini keyboard Two port USB extender plug (on front, nothing currently plugged into it though)

The two sticks and the mini keyboard are plugged into the main unit. The rest goes through a USB 3.0 hub.

Hi guys, first sorry for my English is not my first language.
I have a Raspberry pi4 and I'm trying to connect my XBOX Controller with bluetooth, when i found my controller and I select DisplayYesNot my screen freeze and i have to shout down manually my pi...
Anyone has the same problem or can help me?
I hope i wrote in an understandable way.
Thank you

I have a Pi4B running a recently downloaded official image from retropie. I can't seem to get my resolution to change despite several attempts. I've looked through numerous forum posts and the official docs trying a few different options but just can't see to get it to work.

I have a Hannspree HF225 monitor which is connected to the mini-HDMI port (closest to the power supply) then connects to an HDMI to DVI cable going to the DVI input on the monitor. The monitor supports a res of 1920x1080 but RetroPie only seems to want to display 640x480.

Here is my current config.txt file options:

hdmi_safe=1 disable_overscan=0 hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=82 config_hdmi_boost=9

Here is the output from a couple of tvservice commands:

pi@retropie:/boot $ tvservice -s state 0x6 [DVI CUSTOM RGB full 4:3], 640x480 @ 60.00Hz, progressive pi@retropie:/boot $ tvservice -p Powering on HDMI with preferred settings pi@retropie:/boot $ tvservice -m dmt Group DMT has 19 modes: (prefer) mode 4: 640x480 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:25MHz progressive mode 5: 640x480 @ 72Hz 4:3, clock:31MHz progressive mode 6: 640x480 @ 75Hz 4:3, clock:31MHz progressive mode 8: 800x600 @ 56Hz 4:3, clock:36MHz progressive mode 9: 800x600 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:40MHz progressive mode 10: 800x600 @ 72Hz 4:3, clock:50MHz progressive mode 11: 800x600 @ 75Hz 4:3, clock:49MHz progressive mode 16: 1024x768 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:65MHz progressive mode 17: 1024x768 @ 70Hz 4:3, clock:75MHz progressive mode 18: 1024x768 @ 75Hz 4:3, clock:78MHz progressive mode 21: 1152x864 @ 75Hz 4:3, clock:108MHz progressive mode 32: 1280x960 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:108MHz progressive mode 35: 1280x1024 @ 60Hz 5:4, clock:108MHz progressive mode 36: 1280x1024 @ 75Hz 5:4, clock:135MHz progressive mode 42: 1400x1050 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:121MHz progressive mode 47: 1440x900 @ 60Hz 16:10, clock:106MHz progressive mode 51: 1600x1200 @ 60Hz 4:3, clock:162MHz progressive mode 58: 1680x1050 @ 60Hz 16:10, clock:146MHz progressive mode 82: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz 16:9, clock:148MHz progressive

Let me know if there is any other info I can provide to help troubleshoot this.

I have controls for two players. Each set of controls has 2 sticks, one set for 4 way and one set for 8 way.

When I launch, say, pac man, My 8 way is the controller that is active. I can't figure out how to cause a game to use a different controller. When I open retroarch inside the game, all the assignments look right, but the 4 way does nothing.

In the emulation station UI, all 4 sticks work fine.

I had been using this to add background music to retropie: https://github.com/Rydra/bgm-for-es

I discovered a problem, however, trying to use Steamlink. Whenever you open Steamlink, the music doesn't cut off, and will continue to play over your game once you get it pulled up. Is there a way to A) make an adjustment to this script somehow so that it cuts off properly or B) uninstall the script entirely? I don't have the knowledge to do that and his GitHub page has no advice for removing it.

Pi Model or other hardware: 4 - 2GB
Power Supply used: Original Pi PSU
RetroPie Version Used: 4.7.12
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: PS3 controller & usb keyboard
Controller used: PS3 controller
Error messages received: none
Guide used: Retropie docs Scraper

Hello, I've searched a lot and it seems that none of the solutions I've seen is working for me.
I scraped my roms with the download video option enabled, I've tried Steven Selph's Scraper and Skycrapper, none of them working for me. When I did it with Skyscrapper, at the moment it showed in the console Video download (YES) but it just wont play it on the preview. I've tried activating OMX player (HW accelered), and makes no difference if it's on/off. This doesn't work with any roms or any emulator.
I really apreciate any help, thanks!

Is there an actual true center on the image grid?

<imagegrid name="gamegrid">
<pos>-0.375 0</pos>
<size>1 1</size>
<margin>0.01 0.01</margin>
<autoLayout>1 8</autoLayout>
<autoLayoutSelectedZoom>1.3</autoLayoutSelectedZoom>
<centerSelection>true</centerSelection>
<scrollLoop>true</scrollLoop>
</imagegrid>

grid.png

Even though I have <centerSelection> set to"true", the center of the grid changes depending on which direction I scroll in. the GTA V logo will be the initial center, when I scroll up or down, the center position will change. I noticed the scroll does not always move the grid, which I think is the problem, but am not sure. My <autoLayout> is set to one row and want to keep it that way.

So I have an IPAC 2 wired to my Pi (2B) with two sets of joysticks and six buttons, one for player one and one for player two. The issue is, when I am in a game (using the lr-mame2003 core) the player two controls do not work at all, except for the player two start button (which does actually start the game in two player mode) and the select button (which of course just puts a coin in). When the game switches to player two, the player one controls still work. I've been stuck on this problem for days now, here are some of the things I've tried:

Configuring the "Port 2" controls within RetroArch (Ver. 1.8.5)

Manually mapping the player two controlls within retroarch.cfg

Going to a command line and pressing the player two buttons to make sure they all work (they do)

Tried it in a ton of different games, no difference

My best guess would be that there is technically only one controller connected to the Pi, that being the IPAC 2 which shows up as a keyboard. But, then again it seems that the emulator isn't switching over to any sort of player two controls, as the player one controls still work on player two's turn. I've read through a bunch of other forum posts about setting up the IPAC and most seem to be resolved once the user manually edits the retroarch.cfg file with their controls, but it didn't work for me.

Any help would be great, I'm at a loss here!
If there is any other information you want, just ask!

Hello guys. I have bought a new memory card for my metal arcade box, if you can’t exit out of a game, is it safe to just turn the thing off then on again. I messed up my previous memory card somehow, so I am very wary. None of the buttons work to get me back to the emulators. Any tips?

Hey! I have a strange problem that I'm not sure how to go about fixing.

I bought a clone switch pro controller to use with retropie.. I installed the drivers as indicated at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Nintendo-Switch-Controllers/

The controller connects fine and works well with 1 exception.. If I connect the controller (bluetooth) after emulationstation has loaded, or if the controller shuts off from being idle and I turn it back on and connect it, ES will not register any input from the controller.
Configure input will show that the extra controller is added, but no button press will do anything.
If I just restart emulationstation then the controller will work fine..
If I run evtest from the command will see the button presses fine while ES does not.

Same problem with retroarch.. if the I turn on the controller after it's loaded a core, the controller is not detected..

From what I gather I assume this is an issue with joycond <-> ES&Retroarch.. is there something that can be done to resolve this?

Trying to reinstall retropie after a fresh install, Pop!_os 20.04. Nothing much different from the old install, I just decided to clean it up after installing loads of crap I don't need trying to get something else to work.

Retroarch fails at building

make: *** [Makefile:206: obj-unix/release/cores/libretro-ffmpeg/ffmpeg_core.o] Error 1

First I thought it was because I have a custom build of ffmpeg. But it wasn't it.
If I add the --disable-ffmpeg flag into the params, it builds okay.

Anyone else having issues or is there something on my system playing silly buggers? Any issue just building with the --disable-ffmpeg flag, will it affect gaming?

I have a big panel of LEDs I want to show some animations on as a marquee once a game is started. Im familiar with the runcommand-onstart.sh file and have got it working as below.

All the LED animation work I do is done using python so Ive got the runcommand-onstart-sh to run python script and pass the details of the ROM being run into the python file:
The runcommand-onstart.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/bash # put this in /opt/retropie/configs/all/. /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/pyarg.py $1 $2 $3

And the python file looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/python import sys #$1 - the system (eg: atari2600, nes, snes, megadrive, fba, etc). #$2 - the emulator (eg: lr-stella, lr-fceumm, lr-picodrive, pifba, etc). #$3 - the full path to the rom file. #[0] seems to be just this python progrmme name retrosys = sys.argv[1] emul = sys.argv[2] romfile = sys.argv[2] with open('start.txt', 'a') as out: out.write(retrosys + "," + emul + "," + romfile + '\n') #now do things #print("doing") #time.sleep(10) #print("done") #time.sleep(5)

It all works fine and I saved the ROMs to a text file just to check.]

This is great as allows me to know which ROM is running and then use the python script to show an appropriate animation on the LED display.

At the bottom of the python script, I want to loop an animation which would cause the runcommand-onstart.sh to run indefinitely and get stuck. I know this as I tried it with the 'sleep' command in python it just stops while this is completed

I know its a bit of a convoluted way of doing things but I really want to run the animations in python! Im not great on bash scripting and just wondered if there is a way to start the python script from the runcommand-onstart.sh and then carry on with loading the game?