@jmhogan0 The file is actually hosted on Amazon's servers, but it's of little comfort. We had spurious reports over time of users not being able to download the image, but it's not always clear why the download stalls.
You could try to download the torrent (see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4400/torrent-download-retropie), but make sure you verify the hash of the file or just install Raspbian and install manually (see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/).

@mitu you told them to pacth it?

Thanks that's all I needed to hear.

@tackskull

Move out to the root menu, then to 'Input'. From there, you should see the player one input map menu selection.

@dudleydes thx, after edit line 13, must reboot before taking effect, that's weird.

I had the same issue with the same controller. I suspected it was the Xpad driver and was correct after updating everything else individually.

I'm not certain it will fix the issue, but here is my working Xpad driver's entire folder.

Working Driver: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HYT5lnioWIvuF3LuNHe4Wf91DzfLM5-k/view?usp=sharing

These go in /opt/retropie/supplementary/xpad, but everything in there requires Root access to alter.

SSH Method: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#why-cant-i-ssh-as-root-anymore

I hope I was helpful.

Please give more details about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Bluetooth connection can induce lag, but I suggest you test first with a wired controller (I think the SFC30 has this option) to see if it's the lag disappears or if there are other factors that add lag. Make sure your TV is set to Game Mode - if that's what you're using.

One method to improve the Bluetooth connection - and reduce the input lag - is to get an external BT USB adapter and disable the onboard BT or to disable the Wifi on the Pi. The 3B+ model has a better wireless chip (BT and WiFi), but since you didn't provide any info about your device, it's hard to determine what's the status on that.

Sorry it took me a while to copy some roms over and check everything out but yeah they played normally.

@malixx Good to hear you figured it out!

@mitu na all roms are running on the sd card, 32GB sandisk. I have a few of them that I cycle through during updates etc. All of them have shown the same behavior. I haven't changed default config.txt.

I'm using an LCD monitor with hdmi, not sure if that was the screen question :)

Also the map message only happens with Galaga so far, Berzerk does not show that it just completely freezes, screen does not go black like Galaga does.

I was able to edit other gamelist.xml files in each individual roms folders and modify their content. Why would this be unique and not have those values shown? I would at least hope to see the xml have some sort of tag or comment. Then I can go in there and remove them. Is there a way to reset it back to before I scraped it?

Update, I've gotten it semi working. Somethings wrong with my retroarch setup, the default bios directory is not the actual bios folder, i had to manually set it to that. Semi working because I can't seem to get retroarch to use global configs, i have to manually set each systems directory.

But thats not the topic of this thread. I guess for the time being this is a moot issue, the asterix dont seem to mean anything and arent causing the problem. Thank you all for your time.

I wonder if my issue stems from doing an update to retropie 4.4 rather than a clean image?

@columbo just go to the official image and download that. The documentation is excellent and it's really easy to get it up and running.

@jinsta It should work with the Pi0/1 image. Is the Raspbian - official - image working for your model and the RetroPie image does not ?

deffo sounds like a case of burn-in have this with an older plasma of mine that was permanent due to extended sessions of halo with my friends we ended up with a permanant ammo counter on screen plus other hud elements

mediamogul's suggestion should sort you out if its not permanant

I am guessing this is similar to the problem I have an trying to figure out. The controller works in EmuStation but any game that uses Retro Arch it doesn't. I have an Xbox usb controller and the solution is to unplug an replug. The Commodore 64 emulator for example doesn't have the issue.

@mitu I made some comments here - https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/336f1398c7040f39ae057338978a739ffe8a5a60 - but I don't think I want to worry too much about the old LTS now 18.04 is out.

@clyde Thanks alot for the help, I'll read up on it :)

@cder Well after playing around with it (and with your advice) I finally got Advance Mame working how it should. I haven't got a clue on how I managed it but i'm just happy that it is.

Thanks again for you advice and help.

@dankcushions Thanks, many handy things on that page!