@jharvey25 Sorry but we don't support 3rd party images. Please install RetroPie from this site and if you have an issue please check https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and provide details of your setup.

@jaydt If I recall (and it has been like 4 years) advancemame/mess actually tracks keymap changes in the config file per SYSTEM[DISKIMAGE] such that you can define things however you like, per game title, provided you can:

Get a game to launch Bring up the GUI menu to change key mapping

Number 1 is not trivial and requires you to have the system rom of course, but also appropriate syntax to launch a system+disk image. Doing it from command line is a good way to start. If I remember from the old post, I had to setup script files to get a configuration going in Emulation Station.

Anyway, assuming you have ADVMAME/MESS setup and have an apple rom launching AND you have a game going, you will need to have a keyboard handy and access the on-screen GUI menu. This can be problematic as this is full system emulation that can commandeer the keyboard. You need to send ADVMAME the MENU key (TAB?) to have it popup the GUI menu without it thinking you are sending the appleII the TAB key. Gosh, it has been a while since I did all of that.

Anyway, with the Menu onscreen, you should be able to map keys as needed and when you do so, exit and it will save these in the ADVMAME config file. You can map all of your keys as needed, or you can map a couple, then check the config file and do more manually. It probably matters what kind of interface (keyboard vs. gamepad) the X-Arcade is using. For me, it was all keyboard since I was setting mine up with an ultimarc iPAC.

None of this is simple by any stretch, though it is not hard to understand either. Just tedious.

First post in years! Been busy with other stuff for a while, so thanks for the walk down memory lane!

@pmdci Capture.PNG

This is a screenshot of my directory and my amiberry works great.

@mitu my original post was 15 days ago. What i did was start all over from the beginning. Reformat card and load img back on card. I am now writing notes as to what i do if i make changes to anything. Like i mentioned, i am completely new to all this. I know I'll get better but for now its all learning. Anyway, I did get my spinner to work in tempest and Tron now

@mitu SUCCESS!

Thank you SO MUCH for working with me through all that. Phew. I feel like we gave birth.

@docshady When using a normally open (n.o.) momentary switch "something else" has to keep the state and has to evaluate the signal from the GPIO. On a flip-switch (like yours) the switch itself keeps the state.

Eventually, it is a matter of taste / design decision of yours.

If you are uncertain: Experiment with both setups and then choose what you prefer most.

@agrajag Yes, that's the one.

@crimson0087 I’m assuming you figured out how to get up and running? I’m in the same exact boat as you. 1st game I got had 3 bin files, a gdi, and a cue. I know redream says it supports bin/cue and gdi but when I try and run the game by using the gdi file the title shows up but it says that there are no games. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

@bluestang I am curious to know what exactly is using Vulkan right now on Pi4?

@dankcushions said in [RESOLVED]It's possible to put ES in somethigs like "second level" or minimize it in some way?:

@djdiabolik said in [RESOLVED]It's possible to put ES in somethigs like "second level" or minimize it in some way?:

Wait... if i understand correctly the -rc it's stands for "readconfig" and in theory if you want to use a different config than the default one.
However it is actually yes... when mame it's executed it is he who automatically loads the mame.ini in the same path.

it's all documented here: https://docs.mamedev.org/commandline/commandline-all.html

i don't even think readconfig takes an argument. but anyway, you don't need to use it because you know where mame.ini is stored.

it's just the same as I read :)
I guess you're right... exactly here:
https://docs.mamedev.org/commandline/commandline-all.html#configuration-options

I guess the only thing you can do is disable or enable reading of .ini files....

I re-read the documentation better.... I had probably read and translated badly English-> Italian :)

@mitu Thanks for the help.

@slippy Which port exactly ?

@drb

I created an account to say thanks and to also say I had better luck using "Rufus" to perform the iso to usb step.

That ISO to USB tool just didn't want to work for me.

Gparted was straight forward and I was able to resize my partition of my img so it would fit on another card.

Thanks again!!!

@jedcooper Sorry, never got around to fixing it. My menu widgets are already disabled, but the issue persists. I'm assuming that it's a similar issue to the one people are reporting with widgets, but not sure what more to do with that information unfortunately.

My other approach.. has been to emulate SNES on my Wii, haha. For an unrelated matter, I'm getting a VGA666 board in the mail some time. I don't expect that it will make a difference with this particular issue, but I'll give it a try anyway and report back if it makes a difference.

@gazbusola

My issue clearly had to do with pulseaudio, which I have no use for (at least for now!) on my current Raspberry Setup.

Your issue might have to do with the different HDMI modes. Have you looked into the config file for all the HDMI settings?

@drdave79 if /etc/emulationstation doesn't exist it would break standard retropie - that's where the carbon theme is kept. can you show a screenshot of how you're trying to navigate to it or something like that?

Do you know how to remove the "custom override" so the es_systems.cfg gets properly updated?

it shows you where it is in the error message - just delete the whole file. obviously that will remove all the custom changes you've made, so if you want to just fix this system you replace it with what's in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg for the psp.