That is why i love retropie so much its debian! more open i would kill my self if that would be changed ;p

just for my own reference another post on initramfs and the device tree: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/24525581-device-tree-and-initramfs-cannot-coexist-peacefully

You are looking for dispmanx vnc. It does not require X to function as it uses the dispmanx display driver. I've used it previously in an attempt to get to play from elsewhere but found the performance wasn't up to par on a Pi 2 for gameplay. For your purposes, it will probably work out fine. It's been probably a year since I used it last so I'm not really a go-to help source on it.

You can auto update the operation system without update the retropie stuff,
try to use the follow command lines:

sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades
sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

About update emulators and retropie setup stuff it's better doing manually, not just because can mess around with your configs but also because it's very time consuming in case you define the updates directly from the source.

Its a good idea but the emulators are called through emulationstation with runcommand which has system specific configs that you don't get when calling standalone emulators. RetroPie is designed to be used through the emulationstation frontend for that reason.

It's not an obvious spot... As the old forum was in the post instead

Yeh the log location would be better changed. I'll do that.

Will have to do this... Thanks

BTW Bluetooth is already automatically installed with the module:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/bluetooth.sh

we have a ticket open for this. Pull Requests welcome. I don't have an NVidia card though so I can't test etc.

can also do it via a usb stick which can backup/restore configs.

I would be happy enough with a simple way to backup the scraps. Then when I do a fresh RetroPie install I could put all the scraps with no need to overload thegamesdb server.

@BuZz Thank you kind sir. You have my deepest gratitude.

if you want to work on custom themes you should put them in ~/.emulationstation/themes - the /etc/emulationstation folder is not considered "user editable". the above folder symlinks to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation on latest RetroPie so you can easily access it over the network.