@sparcx

Is the system well ventilated? Pi 3s are known for getting very hot while running...
There is a prevention on Pis that if it reaches a certain temperature, it locks up.
It's to prevent fires.

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Pi Model or other hardware: (3)
Power Supply used: (2,5 offical one)
RetroPie Version Used (4.01):
Built From: (Pre made SD Image from RetroPie website)
USB Devices connected: xbox 360 controller receiver
XBOX 360 Game pad
Controller used: xbox 360 controller
Error messages received: none
Emulator: (lr-pcsx-rearmed)

@GustavoW Welcome, the world of Retropia awaits.

ok cool its got two installed, is there another?

@AndersHP Yes, I have forgotten many.

Thanks guys. I went ahead and ordered the Suzo Happ longstem buttons and the Sanwa joysticks. I am excited for them to come in and I can experiment with getting everything wired up.

Any thoughts or insight as to whether or not I'll be able to utilize USB controllers if desired?

@gomisensei This is great news! I tried to find any reference to this on the official Raspberry pi github but could not find any information about this. But then again i could have missed it.

@BlazeFalcon

I started using RetroPie to clean those tough bathroom stains that most products leave behind. After realizing that it was intended to be a retro gaming platform, I found that it still outperformed it's competition by a wide margin.

★★★★★
Would buy again.

/push

@dankcushions
I doubt that because from what I remember back when a lot emulators were being released on the xbox, they used the linux sources and some ports used SDLX.

Concerning number of ROMS:
my list includes 4714, so if ClrMamePro states 4720 it should be easy to find the 6 missing ones by comparing. Or maybe I just missed some of the BIOS files to be removed (actual game roms should be 4705 according to @markwkidd ).

Here is the section on writing the image to an SD card via windows: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#installation

Grab Win32DiskImager and it's really easy to do. It's not drag and drop like most things in the windows world are, it's more like burning data to a CD/DVD in that you need a program to "burn" (really just writing raw data) the image to the SD card.

@Ghost-Note

I didn't no, but it depends on your controller. You would have to modify the pins to pick up 4 players.

What about these chinese usb fighting sticks u can get off of eBay.. Anyone tried those?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2057872.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XArcade+Street+Fighting+Stick+.TRS0&_nkw=Arcade+Street+Fighting+Stick+&_sacat=0

If cost doesn't matter to you, you can pickup a super small 'desktop' computer for a couple hundred bucks and it'll literally be like 10 times faster than the Raspberry Pi 3 (mainly because it'll have a fully-functioning video card doing most of the graphics overhead). If you're a fan of the latter MAME 3d games this is a must. If you're just playing classics from the 70's into the 80's then a Pi would be just fine.

@MuppetMikey Can't answer that, as it's against the terms of these forums. They are easy to find with a little Google'ing though.

@backstander

Hey, looks great! My order came in sometime last week, but it was promised to a friend, so I don't know if all the pieces were accounted for. Even though it came all the way from Denmark, a little over a month and a half for delivery surprised me from a company as big as LEGO. All's well that ends well though.

@herb_fargus said in Don't try this at home, kids:

what we really need is a sqlite filter with tags rather than having to edit the emulators config but that's more of a new frontend thing or a large update to ES. one can hope anyways

This is what @fieldofcows suggested in this thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6985/metadata-improvements-in-emulationstation

While he's been busy with the WSOD fix, I put together a fairly comprehensive design doc that will allow a lot more power to users and theme designers. I'm hoping he and/or I can get it implemented sometime over the next few months. Fingers crossed...

@MWGemini
For my Pi Zero's I have a couple of the Anker 2-4-port USB wall chargers around the house. They output up to 2.1 amps (might be 2.4) per channel, and I've switched everything over to Amazon Basics micro USB cables which seem very nice. The power supply/cables hopefully aren't the problem as they power all the other working Zero's I have just fine.

@BuZz
I have another topic open about getting my ethernet adapter working since my 2.4ghz wireless has been flaky. Will RetroPie (like version 4.0.2. or maybe 4.1.0) give me a warning if it fails to compile or update something like EmulationStation for example? I know you mentioned RetroPie was JUST updated to NOT clear error messages for better troubleshooting.

I'm wondering because I'm now actually watching my other Pi (not this one I'm having problems with) run all the updates and I don't think I've ever seen that much code flash across the terminal window on the ones which have had issues (it's up to like 15+ pages of code, and it's been doing the update for maybe an hour so far and I don't know how much longer it has to go). I can never remember the problematic ones taking longer than maybe 20-30 minutes to update something which has me wondering if they're really failing to update, and I missed any error message which flashed up, and that's been why I could never fix them.

--once I'm done updating this working Pi Zero I'll see if the malfunctioning one can use the Ethernet adapter (but I'm pretty sure only newer versions of RetroPie can use that ethernet adapter since I could never get it working before - so I might be stuck without internet access to test anything out on the malfunctioning Pi Zero).