@trantornator If you are using a pre-setup retropie image, then all you have to do is click "Start" "Quit" and chose "Quit Emulationstation" ... done. You are now command line.
You do not need a desktop environment, like Pixel or anything like that to install moonlight or edit anything for Retropie.

@caver01 I dunno - at some point I must have configured it like that - a year or so ago.....I guess most sensible folks would try the mouse out in the game itself before hacking through the advancemame config over and over! ....nvm

@VMax Np 😉

I would recommend renaming the file: I tent to append .bak to the end (so default.cfg.bak). Deleting the config mean a new one will be generated with default settings, but if you made any customer mappings, you may need the current file to reference.

@rbaker Hi!
retroarch.cfg I'll post few hours later, when I'll get home.

Regarding power supply - I use an external 5V 2A USB power adapter and the joystick works fine in Emulation Station, I can scroll pages, select menu items, etc. with it, but it stops working in any configuration tool from RetroArch I try to start.

@Tempistrane Do any files show up? Is SSH enabled on your pi?

I figured out my problem. I had set the video driver to dispmanx to reduce input lag on the nes. However video rotation does not work with this video driver. Thanks again for your help.

@backstander

OK thats awesome. Will keep my eye out for that.

@Eater_Of_Cheese Do you know the resolution of the TVs you've tested with? I have a 1080p TV that I had to mess with the overscan on and my 720p TV is fine out of the box.

Has anyone tried one of those xbox or ps3 add on keyboards that click onto the bottom of the remote? Not sure if it will even work with RetroPie or if its just to small to be useful. I dont mean as a controller but for basic shortcuts some games use or for word input on some games.

@BuZz
Thanks Buzz <3
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/cc2d23c7fa40f2238f9175c5f0b250a9f5c272c8

Thank you for your answers. I've tried to use another emulator (mupen64plus-gles2n64) and it works fine ! It does not works with retroarch, so i will have to configure the controller, but i guess this is not really a problem. I'm sorry, i posted this too soon.

Thank you for the suggestions I will take another look at this tomorrow as the other half has arrived home and it's a secret project for Christmas!

@JasoThePaso You can't remove posts after a certain period - but if you have resolved the issue or know the cause, you can just reply with the solution for others to see etc.

Over at the OpenBOR forums I found download links for most PAK files/games, many of which that have been fixed/updated to run in newer versions of OpenBOR. But you have to download split files, rename the extensions, extract those to get a single 7zip file and then extract again to get the PAK file. It was a huge pain.

http://www.chronocrash.com/forum/index.php?topic=2360.0

Most of these are recommended for version 3979, which is used in the Android port. If we compile a newer version for the Pi, 3979 might be a good target. And using the Android port as a base (already compiles on similiar ARM chips, uses SDL, etc.) might make sense.

You could compile the latest and greatest, but fewer games might work oddly enough.

I'm going to go through the entire library of games I downloaded and see which ones work on the latest version, and which ones work on 3979. Then we might be able to put together a collection easily downloaded via torrent of OpenBOR games to play on an updated RetroPi build.

@SlowSL thanks for updating the topic. I missed your reply back in September sorry.

First post updated

I also noticed, When running evtest, event0 and event2 outputs data. event0 which are the gamepad buttons, no output at all.

(event2 is the clear, turbo and home button on the controller)