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@bucktaylor100 said in Help with configuration:

What's the best way to configure the controls for arcade games

Arcade games can have different button layouts, so the emulator tries its best to map a regular RetroPad to the emulated system. Usually the D-Pad is mapped to the joystick, Start is mapped to P1 Start, Select is Coin, A/B/X/Y/L/R are mapped to the panel buttons.
You can customize these per-core or per-game through the RetroArch configuration menus - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/.

What's the best mame type emulator

Start here.

Is there a way to have a favorites section or a simple way to get to a specific game without scrolling for 10 minutes.

Yes, you can press Y to toggle the Favorite flag in a game and you can enable the Favorite global collection, which will show as a separate system in the Emulationstation list of system.

How do you shut this down easily? Can I configure a button to do a shut down?

Yes, you can configure a button.

How do I configure the audio? Amp is on and plugged into pi. Amp has volume turned way up and I plugged a phone into the amp and it played so I know it's all wired correctly.

Use the Audio menu in RetroPie and choose the analog jack output as default.

If this was a windows based system I could have this all configured in a few minutes but unfortunately it's just not that easy with Linux.

Sure, just install Windows on the Raspberry PI and you're good to go :).

@ignatius

It's possible to expand those four buttons to ten inputs using an outside mapping solution like xboxdrv, but in practice playing any action-heavy game would be very difficult. Certain strategy games and RPGs that need the extra buttons might play well enough though.

@quicksilver that sounds very right, it happened with the update to retroarch 1.7.6.

@BuZz You were not far from the truth, for some reason I had it in mind that fbalpha was also distributed as a standalone emulator, but it's just pifba (and the older lr-fbalpha-2012).

@shredman I have just had the same problem using a PS3 controller and fixed it by going into the retroarch config > controls, the analog stick buttons were configured to open the MAME menu and service mode. Turn them off and don't forget to save the Remap file (not Core overrides as mentioned in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15330/enabling-xbox360-analog-controls-in-lr-mame2003/3 )

Had the same issue with the Xbox One S controller.

https://www.instructables.com/id/Fixed-Setup-for-Xbox-One-Bluetooth-Controller-With/

This fixed it for me, but I suggest that you keep it connected via USB and ditch bluetooth.

If you connect it back via USB cable (because you wanna charge it), once you're battery is charged, and you unplug it, you will have to remove it from devices and register it again... it's a pain in the butt.

@simpleethat Well, my suggestion is to compress all of your roms into zip or 7z format (as the emulators support) for use on your Pi and to just store them in that format on your NAS. This way they are maximally usable on your Pi should you need to copy them back over.

The amount of extra compression you can get by compressing everything into giant 7z files is fairly small in most cases. There are some roms that can't really be compressed for use by emulators, mostly bin and ISOs. However, most of the emulators also support a compressed format for these types of file (chd, pbp, etc). All the time, effort, and electricity you spend compressing files to eek out a few GB of storage space just isn't worth it.

The service menu's switches are available in the core Options (in the RGUI) for FBAlpha, but for some reason they don't seem to apply.
Mame2003-plus starts the game directly in English, so there was no need to enter the service menu - accessible by pressing Tab and entering the MAME menu. I think for Mame2003-plus the MAME Tab menu it's not enabled by default (as @Riverstorm said) and you need to enable it in the core Options from the RGUI.

@NoobAtEverything Why are you asking this in the RetroPie forum ? This is not a Android/mobile gaming community and you'd have better luck asking in a dedicated forum for Android.

@mitu https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Docs

A decent NUC (non-pentium, celeron, atom) CPU ~should~ be fine for this, or something similar.
Also i found this post while going through that reddit feed. Seems someone linked linux binaries for us to try out a few posts down, but i dont have time to do so at the moment:
Reddit
Eh to widescreen support...

Update, I used the same ROM on MAME 0.209 this weekend and it worked as is should. Not sure if it's the Pi or SW but I'm ok with using the RetroPi on console types games only. Thank you for all of your help.

Thank,
Scott

@audreycrist you've just joined the forum and your first post is advertising an app... I'm wondering if your account was created only for spamming. Do you have something to say about it?

This must be great for running early Windows games (it's the only thing I wish the RPi could do), I will probably get one when and if it sells in my country.

@j-e-f-f

That sounds like a pretty good plan. If you do a clean install from the recovery partition youll either get Lion or Snow Leopard in which either one would be sufficient as well as small.
If it currently has High Sierra installed you would have likely gotten an EFI update which allows for internet recovery and it may force you into high sierra as well, but it really doesn't matter which you use aside from space. You can also disconnect the ethernet cord and it -should- boot from the recovery partition instead giving you an older version of OSX.

That was it - thank you :-)
I remember reading this when I first set the image up, but that was a few weeks ago and it seems I forgot a few things since then.