I had the same issue with the same controller. I suspected it was the Xpad driver and was correct after updating everything else individually.

I'm not certain it will fix the issue, but here is my working Xpad driver's entire folder.

Working Driver: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HYT5lnioWIvuF3LuNHe4Wf91DzfLM5-k/view?usp=sharing

These go in /opt/retropie/supplementary/xpad, but everything in there requires Root access to alter.

SSH Method: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#why-cant-i-ssh-as-root-anymore

I hope I was helpful.

Please give more details about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Bluetooth connection can induce lag, but I suggest you test first with a wired controller (I think the SFC30 has this option) to see if it's the lag disappears or if there are other factors that add lag. Make sure your TV is set to Game Mode - if that's what you're using.

One method to improve the Bluetooth connection - and reduce the input lag - is to get an external BT USB adapter and disable the onboard BT or to disable the Wifi on the Pi. The 3B+ model has a better wireless chip (BT and WiFi), but since you didn't provide any info about your device, it's hard to determine what's the status on that.

Sorry it took me a while to copy some roms over and check everything out but yeah they played normally.

@malixx Good to hear you figured it out!

@mitu na all roms are running on the sd card, 32GB sandisk. I have a few of them that I cycle through during updates etc. All of them have shown the same behavior. I haven't changed default config.txt.

I'm using an LCD monitor with hdmi, not sure if that was the screen question :)

Also the map message only happens with Galaga so far, Berzerk does not show that it just completely freezes, screen does not go black like Galaga does.

I was able to edit other gamelist.xml files in each individual roms folders and modify their content. Why would this be unique and not have those values shown? I would at least hope to see the xml have some sort of tag or comment. Then I can go in there and remove them. Is there a way to reset it back to before I scraped it?

Update, I've gotten it semi working. Somethings wrong with my retroarch setup, the default bios directory is not the actual bios folder, i had to manually set it to that. Semi working because I can't seem to get retroarch to use global configs, i have to manually set each systems directory.

But thats not the topic of this thread. I guess for the time being this is a moot issue, the asterix dont seem to mean anything and arent causing the problem. Thank you all for your time.

I wonder if my issue stems from doing an update to retropie 4.4 rather than a clean image?

@columbo just go to the official image and download that. The documentation is excellent and it's really easy to get it up and running.

@jinsta It should work with the Pi0/1 image. Is the Raspbian - official - image working for your model and the RetroPie image does not ?

deffo sounds like a case of burn-in have this with an older plasma of mine that was permanent due to extended sessions of halo with my friends we ended up with a permanant ammo counter on screen plus other hud elements

mediamogul's suggestion should sort you out if its not permanant

I am guessing this is similar to the problem I have an trying to figure out. The controller works in EmuStation but any game that uses Retro Arch it doesn't. I have an Xbox usb controller and the solution is to unplug an replug. The Commodore 64 emulator for example doesn't have the issue.

@mitu I made some comments here - https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/336f1398c7040f39ae057338978a739ffe8a5a60 - but I don't think I want to worry too much about the old LTS now 18.04 is out.

@clyde Thanks alot for the help, I'll read up on it :)

@cder Well after playing around with it (and with your advice) I finally got Advance Mame working how it should. I haven't got a clue on how I managed it but i'm just happy that it is.

Thanks again for you advice and help.

@dankcushions Thanks, many handy things on that page!

@hansolo77 said in Stretch and RetroPie:

Is there anything I need to do differently when building a new system with the Raspberry Pi 3B+ other than using the Stretch OS?

you don't have to even "do" that - current retropie images use raspbian stretch.

@mitu I see. I'm able to install Vice using Ubuntu app center. I wonder if I could copy binaries and libs to the /opt/retropie/emulators/vice ...

@ben63 Try setting Device type to just Retropad.
Your current setting only applies to certain games that support analog control. (for example some ps1 games)
I've noticed some issues with my controller when I had the same setting, so I only set Device type to Retropad /w analog for the PS1 and N64 games that support analog control.
If you set device type to Retropad and Analog to digital to Left analog, you can control the game with both dpad and the thumbstick.
Also don't forget to save your settings (either to the game or the core).

@mitu
Yes. It was just like that. I enabled it in the configuration to test its effect on the boot and got the system shutdown as a result. Therefore, I suggested above the method of recovery in this situation.

Thank you.