So, thanks for the help.

I found on my computer the file SMS BIOS V1.3 (UE) [h1].sms. I started it up. It showed the Sega Master System startup screen, then it went to the Snail Maze without any prompting from me. So, thanks for the help everyone. I feel 14 years old again :D

After some more experimenting, I noticed that after a clean install it would work the first time, but never again. Also, I noticed that if I set the refresh rate in the basiliskii.cfg file to dynamic (frameskip 0) and constantly moved my mouse it wouldn't give me the error. What would happen is the screen would turn completely white and then as I moved the mouse it would replace horizontal chunks with the emulator screen. I could do this until all of the screen was visible, but when I tried to shut down, the screen would go black, the mouse would invert color and I could not close the emulator or reboot.

Thanks blackshadow for your reply. I am using the tronkyfran theme, and the raspberry Pi 3b standard. My plan was to make the boxart at a high res, cause I am using the boxart as the screensaver.

I scraped again one full gamelist, at 1200 x 768 and that worked very well in the game list, no lag, and the screensaver boxart now doesn't look stretched or pixilated at full screen.

Hope this might help someone in future, if they planning to use boxart as the screensaver.

Thanks blackshadow all the best

@buzz All good!
With the official script I can compile fine what I
needed!

@linuxarcadeguy

Edit: I had something here about killing Joy2key, but after reading your post more carefully, it wouldn't apply. I'm not sure keyboard input can be ignored here. I assume you know that the Runcommand menu can be deactivated altogether.

@strex I will add the gles flag in - but I think when I tested on the Odroid C2 I used an armhf userland image not aarch64. I suspect that is the most tested, and will work better for emulation, since only one emulator has aarch64 optimisations, whereas many have arm / neon optimisations which are not available in aarch64 mode.

@gail1202 said in [Newbie Question]

Also can anyone recommend what would be the best wired, USB or Bluetooth controllers to use buy, there are so many out there and do not want to buy one that does not work well.

I got this iNexxt SNES type gamepad. They are about 9€ a piece, less for a bundle of two. I had one ghost click so far (in about two weeks of use) but for the price it’s a very nice controller. Feels very much like an actual SNES controller. Both of them worked perfectly, were immedately recognised by Retropie and very easy to set up.

https://www.amazon.de/iNNEXT®-Controller-Raspberry-retropie-Emulator-snes-usb/dp/B01EA7MVTQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1535030598&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=snes+controller&dpPl=1&dpID=51Bh0OpQ6uL&ref=plSrch

Hi man! I have the same problem. Did you solve that?

@mcbone said in i just received my retro pi for my raspberry pie when start loading and start all i get his:

you seat me a sd card preloaded so their no way i wrong sd image

you may need to talk with e bay

Who is "you"? Do you believe that you have purchased something from here? Nobody sent you anything and nobody needs to talk to ebay. Retropie is free and can be downloaded from this site. It's not for sale. It cannot be sold. It doesn't come with roms. I think you are misunderstanding. This is a support forum where lots of help exists. You have been scammed so you need to contact the seller and it is very likely that the image is incorrectly configured. Nobody needs to buy retropie - ever.

Somehow I wasn't able to get Samba to work from my Mac but using SFTP with Filezilla (free program) works like a charm. It's worth a try if the Samba shares don't work out. Good luck!

I had a go at making a list of all the 'optional packages' and which emulator does what. I realise this will update and change regularly, but I hope this still helps someone out there!

https://timleesongs.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/retro-pie-optional-packages-full-rundown/

@metalextractor said in Arcade Controller only works in some games:

There are just too many mame emulator directories by default :(

The choice depends on which romset you possess according to https://retropie.org.uk/docs/MAME/, providing that you have the correct known and verified set, it is plug and play with the emulators of your choice. I use lr-mame2003 with the 0.78 set and have never had an issue with anything.

So after alot of google'ing and scraping i think the problem vanished, i tried to use the Universal XML Scraper and it seems to have successfully overwritten the buggy boxart stuff, never find out why the problem started though ^^

@jlvandusen what do you mean it was ignored? Are you certain you have the right index number?

@capninja You're now dropped to a shell where you can execute commands as root. The # is the command line shell prompt. The usb keyboard problem could be because the USB drivers are not initialized in safe-mode.
I think that the safest option is to re-install. There's too much fiddling with the CLI and it will be safer. Even if you managed to recover the sudo functionality, there's a high chance something else is broken and normal operations would not work.

@edmaul69 Thanks for the reply and suggestion.

Im new with retropie and googled my way through the setup i have now, so i have to really think about what u have just said and understand it :)

But before i try your suggestion, isnt their a way to manually scrape it? because i also have a pack of famicom video snaps and box art.