Or maybe I overlooked, or jumped the gun on what was the problem.
If you see the pretty rainbow screen then you wrote the image correctly.
It may be very likely as I was reminded in the forums that there are different versions of the retropie image that will work for the different raspberry pi models. The pi 1/zero are bundled up into one image and the pi 2/3 are bundled into a different image, with older images not supporting the pi3b+.
I don't know about the 1b+

Did you notice if you turned force_turbo off?
I think you would have stated if you were using a usb.
I haven't used romsets, I don't know how everything handles a huge job, but you say it was rather suddenly that you noticed and not after you add roms.

If you use ssh, you could login and type htop to display the processes to see if there is something slowing down.

Changing the name of the folder as suggested in https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject/issues/30 worked just fine. The bezels are now showing. Remember, only the (USA) bezels are available. I thought that maybe for the (Japan) games, the generic TG16 bezel would show up but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Brilliant. Words perfectly. Thank you once again.

@lawarmotte no worries, you're not the first person to make this mistake. :)

@mitu Well as I said, the Bluetooth functionality was working perfectly when setting up the 8bitdo controller and problems only began when the Pi was restarted. As regards the SD card, it's a 32GB card, branded 'Team' and was bought from a local computer store. To be honest, I've had my doubts about it, so I think I'm going to purchase a 32GB Sandisk Ultra card to replace it. I have also since sourced the official Raspberry Pi 5.1v 2.5A PSU to replace the one sent with my ABOX kit. So between the two new pieces of kit, I'll set up Retropie afresh and see how it goes.

Thanks for your patience and help with this issue, it's appreciated.

@DaveGeorge
I am facing the same issues.

Can you please share/confirm the final settings that worked?

Thanks a lot for your support

Well go to retropie,then go to file manager,now go to retropie,roms,(the console where you added roms),and check if they are there...if you have the roms in archives,that means the console deleted the direct access,to go to roms again,go to a snes game plsy it and click select and x at the same time,this will open a menu,push b and select settings,video,video filter,then select /,home,retropie,roms and the console,then select the game,select browse archive and select game file.

I got the same problem,i made that,but now the problem is that my disk is write protected...and if i use a new usb,the archives aren't there...

Found driver, installed it, connected pad. All good. Thanks @mitu

@mth75 Yeah i managed to figure it out, my configs/all/retroarch.cfg global override was doing something, so i deleted retroarch.cfg in config/atari5200/ and it reset it and save directory override and all good got sound now

Hi @psyke83,

Thanks very much for your help with that ... worked perfectly:).

I connected the keyboard directly to my pi and ran the commands that way.

Really appreciate your help.

Cheers.

It might be worthwhile to uninstall and reinstall the Xpad driver. After my last update, I had to do that inorder to get my 8Bitdo controllers to fully function again.

@mitu i see... t y anyways

Just pair the 2nd controller as you did with the 1st one and - if they're identical - that's all. When starting a game, both controllers will be available as P1 and P2, there's nothing else to do.
If they're not identical (i.e. one is a genuine, one is a clone), you'll have to configure the 2nd controller in Emulationstation, just like you configured the first one.

Yes, it might be possible. You'll need to modify the autostart script in /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and start either Emulationstation or the desktop - depending on your current TV connection.
There's a way to detect which output is connected (see this topic), so you can use something like this:

if (/usr/bin/tvservice -s | /bin/egrep 'HDMI|DVI') ; then # Start the desktop xinit else # Start Emulationstation emulationstation fi

@mitu Ok, just tried that. Controller disconnected on 3rd lap in Cortex Castle time trial. I executed the command through SSH while the board was connected via wifi (duh), but then I was unable to connect again and checked in Retropie wifi settings and there was no info of any connection, so I guess the command worked. But it apparently didn't help with the problem...

Do you have an arcade panel configured or are you just testing out with a controller ?
The X button is mapped to the input_menu_toggle_btn action, so you can remove the line containing the mapping from the controller configuration file. The file is generated by Emulationstation in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads, named after your controller. To be honest, I'd be more concerned about the Hotkey + B (reset content) combo, since it will reset the game, while Hotkey + X merely pauses it.

If you're using a keyboard, I think F1 toggles the menu.

@Tackskull The configuration files for the systems are in /opt/retropie/configs/<system_name>, so check out

/opt/retropie/configs/psx /opt/retropie/configs/gba