@notthesame having a saturn "2d games emulator" running on pi3 is still totally unrealistic. Usage of gles3 is actually there to help with speed so you would end up with only the sh2 improvements over the old yabause, which means an emulator running at 10 fps instead of 5 fps. Don't bother people with pointless things, thanks.

On a sidenote, kronos is now available as an alternative saturn libretro core. It still requires a somehow decent computer (i think a dual 2.8ghz cpu with a gles3/gl3.3 compatible gpu would be able to run this pretty well)

@mitu - Sorry for the delayed response...RL gets me busy :(

I think this weekend I will give it a try just to see how ES reacts, but overall no worries, I'll just get a matching pair :)

I am just trying to be cheap and use old and odd things I've got laying around

@edmaul69 - As you know I am always on the hunt for bargains :)

@JToivonen got what you mean and here is the "un modified" solution...simply if you're playing plug the usb controller and when you finish just unplug it and it will shutdown automatically!, even when a power trigger happens "electricity went off then come back again" and found that your gamepad isn't connected it will shut down :)
here is the python file you just need to edit the line that kills qjoypad to kill whole system add poweroff or shutdown -h as you use in your momentry switch
don't forget to make the file run at start and special thanks to pablo

idea behind the script is that system creates a js0 file for controller 1 inputs and js1 for controller 2 when connected and so on, the script searches for that file if it's found that mean you've connected the gamepad and probably playing a game and when you finish unplugging the gamepad removes js0 file and when the script discovers the file is not found it kills an app process called qjoypad which you'll change to shutdown

please note you're not gonna use //User Variables section in this code so just ignore it.

@Clyde yeah it worked without the remove command. ty :)

Thankyou sir!

@DingoSlayer44 did you ever find a solution to this? I have exactly the same issue.

@mitu
Replaced with the branch you mentioned, new setup kind of messed up my pad profile. Was scared first but works nicely after deleting es_input.cfg :) Scrap also now works as intended. Didn't work in vanilla version.
Thank you very much again, you saved me tons of hard work, cleanup scripts, etc... that emulationstation website should mention clearly it's abandoned state + links to updated forks... I guess a lot of people get scraping issues.

@UDb23 Yes, this way if you use the scrape all option within the ES scraper it will skip it automatically. This is the boxart available on thegamesdb.net site.

@kaltefusion

In this link are the hdmi modes for group 2. Make sure you look at group 2’s
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md

I have always used 'File Rename Turbo' by Kristanix Software.
It allows you to rename most of your files in batch mode easily.
Hope it helps!

@arif Please don't post links to dodgy Kodi add-ons, it's agains the forum rules. For any detailed Kodi usage, as @rbaker said, use the Kodi forum. Thank you.

@SpudsMcToole Oh, if it helps - when I get the MESS copyright splash screens and it says "Type OK or move joystick left then right to confirm", the joystick is recognised and works but the keyboard doesn't. (The keyboard works fine with other emulators.)

Sorry, I actually forgot I posted that, my bad!

@Clyde said in Hdmi switcher help?:

My HDMI splitter also causes problems. It causes my Pi to choose a wrong video mode on the first cold boot of a day.

With hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080, the problem is gone! 😄 Thanks again.

@mitu I tried that link but I don't have a C:/Users/Herb Fargus/ folder on my Windows 10 installation. Do you think Herb would be willing to swing by and log into my machine sometime soon? :^()

@BuZz said in Help quitting game and returning to menu!:

@Stevezx81 it defaults to 128k spectrum so some games won't work. Can switch via options in. Retroarch or use 128k compatible games

Thanks!
I can't seem to switch it into 48k mode, I've even found the retroarch-core-options config file and changed fuse_machine = "Spectrum 128k" to fuse_machine = "Spectrum 48K" but it's the same.

@SpudsMcToole

Also, earlier today I answered your question on how to get the Bally Astrocade running with MESS. You can use either of those examples to get just about anything else running.

@BHazard thanks for your suggestion, I will check that