I've managed to get it sorted by using a different formatting tool.

@mrwookie Not often you can answer your own plea for help but in this instance I can as figured out the solution. :)

None the wiser as to why it changes upon a reboot but what I found to fix it is that if I exit emulation station (F4) and then edit /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg and revert the mappings that are there for the A and B buttons that it then fixes the issue and this sticks even after the Pi is rebooted.

Hopefully this may help someone out in the future if they have similar issues.

Buzz, thanks for the input. I've just updated to 4beta2 again and the issue has not happened again. weird, but all is good now.

Andysorry for coming across badly in my original post, didn't mean to be rude!

Have you added your kickstart rom? Make sure you read this all the way through if you haven't already.

@billythekid81 said in Emulationstation Themes shows games list, but not the graphical elements:

My bad for thinking that software such as this would automate some of the more basic tasks

In all fairness, this software does an excellent job of automating some of the more complicated tasks.

@backstander I would love to try, but I am sadly lacking in knowledge of the raspberry pi to utilize it in such a manner.

Do you have a USB-keyboard attached to your Raspberry?
If yes, try this:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1821/keyboard-control-in-msx-emulators

Thank you all for the advice. I will read through the suggestions and do some testing this weekend. I was on travel for work unexpectedly.

Fantastic! Thank you my friend :D

Going to bump this just to keep it on top just in case its hard to find.

Hope your sorta fruit let us know if you are. I would pm you my email but I don't think that's possible

if you don't ever scrape your roms it's much faster, but once you have a large gamelist full of meta data, it takes a long time to save (eg to save the last played time, it will have to save a huge file with all the other meta data). One of the downsides of the current xml storage (the unstable branch of ES was to resolve this, but needs some more work still)

That is by design currently. Just ignore them :-)

Thanks a lot, I didn't know about the es_swap_a_b = "1" option. It's ok now I feel better :)

@josvk said in MAME/FBA roms question:

Hio @dankcushions , thanks again.

Almost there ;-) I'd rather have one folder, so I'll put all my roms in the Arcade folder, including the neogeo.zip bios file. Would you suggest I use the 0.173 (fba 0.2.97.38) bios file, since it is the most recent?

it depends on what emulator you're using to run neogeo games in that folder - lr-fba-next will only work using the 0.2.93.38 neogeo.zip, and lr-mame2003 will only work using the 0.78 neogeo.zip.

I'll use fba-next as the default emulator, and use runcommand to play some 0.78 roms (that aren't in the fba 0.2.97.38 set) in mame2003.

Please verify one final time whether my thinking is correct :-)

hope that helps :)

consider to use a NAS if you have tons oft ROM data.... Whatever you want :)