I took @jonnykesh advice and did a fresh install to a new SD card - and everything works - pressing COIN and SELECT exits MAME2003 as expected.

The only thing I can think of which I did differently was this time I set up the hotkey as soon as I started up the new install - I think last time I left the hotkey unassigned, and then tried to assign it later. However I'd probably messed about with retroarch.cfg too much by then.

Thanks for the help.

my internet was gone for over 2 weeks (thanks UPC) and brack did not reply for 3 weeks after i sended in the Retro Gaming kit, now i got "answer" they don't have any left to replace, so that means "game over" for my RetroPi Project.

No, because Raspberry Pi 3 uses ArmV7 and Windows is x86. Even by using Windows for Raspberry Pi, it would need a x86 emulator like QEMU to run. But it would still take up a lot of space. Your best chance is to use a 3rd party emulator with a simple BIOS. It has been done with Cave Story using the NXEngine.

@chunger I have the same doubt about this issue, what have you done?

@dankcushions

When I try to open select file manager while it’s loading from the sd card reader, it freezes up bad for a while

Are you suggesting I load up file manager first and then insert the memory stick?

@andrewpk200 Also a star / asterisk *should appear at the top of an alphabetical list. So you would see *Shootersetc.

@darksavior Thanks for the info. I've tried the 7502.bin as well. What I wasn't aware of was that some games have protection, I take it FF8 is one of the games with protection. I tried another game (GTA London) and this worked okay, (not perfectly, but it worked :-D) I'll have to go download the USA set and convert to PBP I guess rather than the EU set.

did you copy all the bios' directly in the bios folder:

MSX.ROM
MSX2.ROM
MSX2EXT.ROM
MSX2P.ROM
MSX2PEXT.ROM
MSXDOS2.ROM

@da575raida Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (Please start a new topic and provide information as requested and as agreed when registering).

Hello, are you sure that emulator have binded "right key" ? I mean, if emulator doing something when you press right arrow on keyboard?

@retrocraze you may try to set the resolution you want (smaller than your tv native resolution) in the config.txt file and, in your tv video aspect options menu, set "original" or something similar, depending on your tv brand.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4400/torrent-download-retropie

I'd use those torrents.

@buzz

I just changed the values in the config file so that the display fits my telvision perfectly. Then when I started a playstation game, I noticed the mouse pointer is on my screen too. I went to google to find out how to get it off, then saw this post.

I do not know the reason the other people that posted had this happen. But I only see the mouse pointer when I use the sdl12 Video driver for playstation games. Using this driver, with the enhanced resolution and interlacing options from the Quick Menu, make Gran Turismo look amazing.

The mouse is actually present on the output for everyones display who uses this video driver. I couldn't see it before I shrunk the values of the top/bottom/left/right for the overscan in the config.txt file.

Lakka has an option to turn the mouse on or off. I don't know, but maybe it is the same option being enabled in retroarch running the pcsx-rearmed core for RetroPie.

Out of the box, no. But with such a cool case, and some effort, everything is possible!
The best approach would depend on the hardware you find inside.

If you could 'read' the state of each of the seven buttons, you can use the GPIO pins to read out the current state, and hook up a script to act on that.
Depending on your coding skills, you could brew up your own EmulationStation to accept specific system.cfg files, depending on what button is pressed, and killing it when a state-change is detected.

On the other hand, it might be much easier to forego the latching buttons, and replace them with momentary pushbuttons. You will loose some retro-style points, but there will be much less work to do on the coding front.

I haven't tested it, but apparently if you use the command
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
it'll install NTFS read/write support onto the Pi.
(from https://devtidbits.com/2013/03/21/using-usb-external-hard-disk-flash-drives-with-to-your-raspberry-pi/)

That said, I think this is already included in RetroPie, as my NTFS formatted 32GB USB drive is read fine by RetroPie.

I'd format the SD card to NTFS, add the RetroPie folder to it, plug it into the Pi, and see if the Pi populates the folder. If it doesn't try that command to install NTFS support.

got it to work using fba, thank you all

@jonnykesh

Yeah I wanted to post right after that saying “duh the button was right there”

Haha thanks

@dankcushions said in Better way to change hot key bindings for multiple systems?:

@dinierto that's the correct solution, so i can only guess that there's something in a retroarch.cfg somewhere that's conflicting.

That's my only guess too but I don't know enough about that specific issue