It worked! thanks Clyde and a Merry Christmas.

@chinjw 3rd party images are not supported - please download and install the RetroPie image from retropie.org.uk/download and see if you still have problems with Reicast.

@tarcaleiro

Can you post the contents of /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml as well as /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_log.txt. Please use codeblocks (surrounding the text with 3 backticks on either side) when doing so.

well I had my head wrapped around several problems with Reicast and controllers for the past few days. I had configured the controllers many, many times with joyconfig, editing emu.cfg, controller files for DC, etc, and I finally found the source of my problems.

The so called 'automatic configuration' is broken. No matter what you put into the config files, it gets overwritten when you run Reicast. The script tries to identify the devices configured in the OS and assign them automatically. In my case, always assigning them wrong, so anything seemed to work (keyboard or gamepad).

The only thing that worked was to comment out the line in the script (.sh) where it gets the result of the "automatic" detection and put it into the command line for Reicast call. I dont have my PI here to see exactly the script name and exact line, will try to update this post later with more details. But you get my point.

Just commenting this single line and voila, my pad started to work and I was able to get past the date/time screen, and play a game.

@yuke Just make a backup of your config.txt file before changing anything. You need to get your Hdmi timings right before changing anything in the service menu.

Now that your Hdmi timings are as best as you can get them then go over to overscan settings.

We'll worry about the service menu later.

This is taken from the Video timings script readme file.

*Video timings script
*Version - 2.0

hdmi_timings=320 1 20 20 44 240 1 6 7 10 0 0 0 60 0 6400000 1

-Use ARROW keys to position screen
-Press Q to toggle test image
-Press I to input timings
-Press L to load timings from timings_load.txt
-Press B to load timings from boot/config.txt
-Press S to save timings to timings_save.txt
-Press C to save timings to boot/config.txt
-Press D to display current timings
-Press F to calculate frequencies
-Press SPACE or ENTER to reset timings
-Press M to display this menu
-Press X to exit to shell

Program first reads and displays hdmi_timings from /boot/config.txt

-Arrow keys | shift the screen left/right/up/down

-Q | displays a 320x240 test PNG image to visually aid in centering the screen (defined by $TEST_IMAGE variable)

-I | allows user to manually input and generate custom hdmi_timings

-L | loads timings from 'timings_load.txt' (defined by $LOAD_FILE variable)

-B | loads timings from 'boot/config.txt' (defined by $BOOT_CONFIG variable)

-S | saves and parses timings to 'timings_save.txt' (defined by $SAVE_FILE variable) and also saves and replaces timings to 'timings_load.txt'

-C | saves timings to 'boot/config.txt'

-D | displays current timings

-F | calculates and displays horizontal scan rate and vertical refresh rate frequencies

-SPACE or ENTER | resets timings (defined by $SAFE_TIMINGS variable)

-M | clears the screen and displays the main menu

-X | aborts the program and exits to shell

Edit: It's important that you center the image as perfect as you.

Edit 2: Read here here for an explanation about what each hdmi_timings settings mean.

Maybe @maxriptide @Dochartaigh can help out?

@jim1973 said in Unable to dowoad retropie:

I've tried to find a torrent but none are active.

Have you tried this one specifically? I'm getting a little over 3.5 MB/s from only four seeders, so it seems to be pretty solid.

Edit: In the interest of being fully transparent, the magnet link originates here.

@mgrabow Thank you for sharing your solution.

please fill out the template in the sticky thread above to provide us with information about your setup. having basic info on your pi model, retropie version, and power supply etc. will help with troubleshooting.

have a look here in the wiki where it outlines using jstest to determine the button values.

also in this case, it would help to see the output of the command lsusb before and after you connect the wireless receiver.

@winteriscoming Looks like a mismatched partition - re-format the SD card so there's nothing on it and re-write the image.

@lupin Check if you script has UNIX end-of-line, instead of DOS - https://superuser.com/questions/479756/eol-in-notepad-and-notepad.

@darkside1305 said in Cant Acces SD Card without formatting on my PC:

Access the file from an PC?

Yes, it's posible, as long as the PC is running Linux.

@pobs
'I've made sure that none of the other roms are in the .bin format'

What do you mean by this?

You could try replacing the bios file with one downloaded from another source.
You can also try some eboots (ps1 games in a psp compatible format, also known as psx2psp). These are just one file each (.pbp) and should work fine.

@vretro said in Can’t Remove emulator choice for ROM:

@mitu that was quick, the directory flashes up so quickly, but I’ll try to record the screen to catch it.

Or try to catch it using the Pause key of your keyboard.

I don’t know how to repair permissions via terminal, will have to look that up.

It depends whether the owner is wrong or the actual access permissions. To change the owner, look up chown, to change the permissions, look up chmod. Or give us the output of this command after you found out the directory and we may tell you the necessary command(s).

ls -ld name_of_directory

@exarkuniv Thanks I will delete all the files and try changing the mode!

Thanks, I'll dig into it, I forgot to say I'm using Xin-Mo interface