I guess I should have checked here before I bought it, only got it to work in raspbian so far, and the half baked manual doesn't really clearly shows how or witch drivers to use .

@diaofeiqiang Please report bug Here

@soonerdoc

I've just been playing 'Congo Bongo' with that control scheme and that game is still unreasonably hard due only to that odd isometric view. Fun fact; Ikegami Co. Ltd., the company that created 'Congo Bongo' was the same company subcontracted by Nintendo to shadow develop the original 'Donkey Kong'. Nintendo had what was to be an ongoing distribution deal with them, which Nintendo broke after they reverse engineered the DK hardware so that they could distribute 'Donkey Kong Jr.' on their own.

The whole thing was settled privately out of court, but it is strongly believed that the reason Nintendo has never since released the original arcade version of 'Donkey Kong' in any way is because they likely don't have the distribution rights to do so, Much like Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd. doesn't have the distribution rights to the original 'Star Wars' film. It's also funny when you think about it that Ikegami Co. Ltd. would turn around and sell 'Congo Bongo', a clone of Nintendo's most popular game at the time about a guy climbing platforms while dodging projectiles thrown by a giant gorilla, to what would ultimately become Nintendo's biggest rival throughout the 90s, SEGA.

I would think that ES has to be looking for the game art in the wrong place.

I had the same problem on a pi zero running the 4.1 image from the retropie website and using sselph scraper. I would have the same problem even after starting with a fresh image and re-adding roms. This would only occur with NES.
I could see the game art in the downloaded images folder, the meta-data would display in the ES game list, but no art in the ES game list.

The only thing I could finally find was that a gamelist.xml had some how gotten placed in my NES roms folder. Once I removed this I started back from scratch, used sselph scraper, and everything worked as should.

@allintospace most games on the psp suck on the pi. There are some older ones that run ok'ish.

Thank you for that super-fast reply! I was looking at gparted but hadn't managed to get onto it around work - but that auto script seems to be just the ticket! I'll give it a crack and come back if something goes horribly wrong - if it doesn't we can assume this thread is closed :D

@cassini12 do you have the rpi near a router of other wireless equipment ?

What PSU do you use ?

please post the output of dmesg typed into a terminal via ssh (please use pastebin site)

@rbaker
As in playing the roms for consoles outside of the zip file as opposed to inside the zip.

MAME roms have remain zipped due to the game actually being multiple files workign in tandem. While roms for home consoles are single files held in a zip compression, and can be played either zipped or unzipped.

@dankcushions said in Any performance difference for playing console un-zipped roms?:

i guess it might take 0.1 seconds to load the whole thing into ram rather than 0.2 seconds :)

Yea, I assumed the whole program was running from ram instead of constantly referencing the compressed file... but wasn't sure, so I thought I'd ask here if there was a performance difference.

Though I've had seen some threads on reddit talking about how certain games only seem to run when not zipped.

@Timmiejane

Thank you, that's not the one I had. Mine was the same, but it was .img, not .img256

I think some of the emulators support per rom configurations but not sure about all of them.

Check out this link:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4524/per-rom-core-config-file/3

@mediamogul I think I found out the source of the bug, it seems to be the steamcontroller driver. For whatever reason there was no log of it yesterday, but the syslog is filled to the brim with error message from its py script. Plus the timing fit perfectly, one message every 2 secs.
Gotta afk for a couple of minutes, but will report back on it soon enough.
I'm just gonna leave snipet of the log there: http://pastebin.com/qk9uW2dh

Gonna uninstall the steamcontroller driver for now and report the bug to github

EDIT : confirmed steam controller driver is faulty. Back to smooth footage and xbox controller for now I guess. Thanks for not leaving me alone on this one guys ^^.

@paffley Glad to hear you got everything working.

Regards metadata, have you tried Steven Selph's Scraper?

You could try using the scraper on your PC . Download the relevant version here and place the binary in a folder containing your roms. They can be from any system but not a mixture of MAME and consoles as they use different databases.

Running the scraper will create a gamelist.xml file and a folder containing boxart which you can place in your roms folder on your pi. If you want to keep your scraped data in configs/all/emulationstation, then you have to use the -image_path flag (or use the find and replace facility in a text editor).

@dankcushions okay that makes sense than.

Moving to the usual option of just using the second player controller to play, I read that people sometimes having problems when using two different types of controllers. I could just configure a USB Keyboard as controller player one and then configure my iBuffalo controller as player two to play correct?

Having the same issue, but I can't find any USB daemon tools under retropie setup and tools.

@Kilika

You need to find a PSX bios file and put it in your BIOS directory. Try looking for SCPH1001.BIN or
scph5501.bin those are both very common.

@Spag said in Too many ROMS & Systems showing up:

looks like its just the gameslist which is showing up for some reason.

Sounds like attract mode

@markyh444 haha whoops. Leave it to me to miss the big red ban flag next to the name lol