i waited 4 hours and now both the sd card and the external drive are empty.

That's weird, since the USB rom service doesn't delete anything from the sdcard when copying. Is your disc powered from the PI or externally ?

@mats164 said in Problem with controller mapping being different in games and menu:

@mats164 Could I delete the es_input.cfg.bak as well, and then reconfigure the mapping?

No, that's not the way. You can reset your input configuration through the RetroPie-Setup script - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#es_inputcfg-edits.

You should have a 'Disc Control' menu in RetroArch when you open the RGUI menu, from where you can append a new disc, then eject/load insert the 'virtual' disc tray to load that disc. It's described also in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#multi-disc-games, but your version is a bit old,so the instructions might not match.

@hermit NTSC filters is not the same thing as setting the machine itself to be NTSC. NTSC filters is a bunch of settings that let you do finetuned video effects, sort of like the shaders in Retroarch. They work in the standalone atari800 emu, but not in lr-atari800.

I have NTSC working just fine here in lr-atari800 -- in fact, if you see this thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22392/lr-atari800-5200-artifacting-basic-and-other-guidance you will see comparison shots of PAL vs NTSC.

@VictimRLSH That worked! Thank you very much for the help

That will probably work.. I'll give it a try.Thanks

@OldSchool Did you research if this is actually necessary? I used my 250 GB Samsung EVO 840 connected with an SATA-to-USB adapter to one of the USB2 ports of my Pi 3B (without +) for over two years without any problems, and now its connected to my new Pi 4B Rev 1.2 via USB3 for a month, again without any issues.

What problems exactly do you expect and where did you learn about them?

edit: I should mention that I also had/have a PacDrive LED controller for my 18 illuminated buttons and a wireless Mayflash Wii-U Pro gamepad adapter connected to the USB ports of both of my Pis, all of them without external power. The only somewhat funny "issue" I noticed is that the buttons flicker ever so slightly when the ssd is being accessed. 😊

@xtv Just out of curiosity: Did you actually use beetle-psx on a Pi (which one?) and if so, how did it hold up since it's known for being too slow on ARM?

That's very unfortunate. 😔 I was hoping myself to get rid of my hardware HDMI splitter now that the Pi 4 has two outputs.

@quicksilver Oh! Thank you for all your advice <3

@mitu said in RetroPie 4.6 crashing with video snaps on Rpi 4 4GB:

@Clyde said in RetroPie 4.6 crashing with video snaps on Rpi 4 4GB:

: With OMX, the videos froze the Pi 4 only in the game list, while VLC froze only in the video screensaver.

Hm, that may be something new. If you disable the audio for video, do you still get the crash with omxplayer ?

I couldn't reproduce this in my new installation from the official image before the update. In fact, I found out that it was not the videos that crashed, but the navigation sounds from Emulation Station! I did suspect the videos because any time I tried to move to another game in the list, the system froze so hard that only the Magic SysReq keys REISUB or a hard reset could help.

I'll post my further findings in the thread Failed to find mixer elements… since they are definately off-topic here now.

@tiffanitza I had exactly the same issue. I could edit the controller config in redream and assign a button to exit the emulator but it only worked once. When I went back into redream the button was set back to none. I ran the command chmod 777 /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/dc/dc_boot.bin and chmod 777 /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/dc/dc_flash.bin

Now when the button is set and I exit redream it is saved. Works every time now and even after reboots and power downs.

@scousetrooper In this case, the disc usage might come from Skyscraper's cache. Try moving the cache from $HOME/.skyscraper/cache to your disc - besides moving the actual folder, you'll have to amend $HOME/.skyscraper/config.ini to point it to the new location - see https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper/blob/master/docs/CONFIGINI.md.

@sexbeer

I had a similar issue. It's related to a Pi OS update rather than RetroPie itself. There appears to be a few solutions depending on your setup, but the quickest, hassle free way of fixing for the time being is to open up your /boot/cmdline.txt and add the following to the end, which enables ALSA compatible mode:

snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=1

If you haven't changed anything else to try to get it to work, a reboot should be all that is required.

Thanks

Hey bud, we are in the same boat. Run jstest and write down all the inputs and corresponding numbers. Use your Rii to hit f1 while in lr-mupen64plus-next to open the retroarch GUI and scroll down to "controls", then remap everything according to you jstest results. This got me to the point where every button works except for c-up and c-right. Please let me know if you can get any further or if you've already solved the issue.

@pegasus1130
I am dealing with a similar issue and I am now very, very close to getting it working. I found a post from a year or so ago which suggested that opening the retroarch GUI from within the emulator, then remapping from the "control" menu therein. For me, this involved hitting f1 on a keyboard to bring up the retroarch gui and then switching each button around according to the results of jstest, and finally saving a "core remap file". This let me fix everything but a few buttons. The issue that remains is that there is no listing in that controls menu for buttons 0 and 1, which are my C up and C right.

@mitu I have the exact same issue (I made a post about it [here(https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26598/problem-with-controller-mapping-being-different-in-games-and-menu)). If you’re able to help: I use a RPi 3 b+ with a pre made SD image (v. 4.6) from the official Retropie website. I am using a wireless Arrogant Bastard controller with dongle.

@mitu Hey mitu! Thanks for the suggestions. I figured it out after - I simply tried plugging it into a TV instead of my monitor, and no issues - I can see everything just fine. I think I had the wrong resolution settings perhaps, or maybe it was something to do with the high refresh rate. Regardless, thanks!

No, you can't re-use the same image on the Pi4. You'd have to either reinstall RetroPie (manually) or use a Pi3 compatible image.