Thanks for the info, to workaround the issue I was able to choose the games from a list in the scraper since I changed the platform and it was not found. It only worked w/ TGDB, not screenscraper, but I was able to scape the games I needed

The platform name is correct, so scraping should get some results when using ScreenScraper as the source. If you don't, then add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, and specify which games you tried scraping.

I also noticed there's no gamelist file in the rom folder. I would think scraping would have created one?

The gamelist is created by EmulationStation regardless of any scraping operation. By default is not in the roms' folder.

There's nothing out-of-the-box for this, but you can use triggerhappy to map a gamepad button (or combo) to a command that will stop the video player (omxplayer).

@wasddsaw Try asking directly in the Raspberry Pi forums - https://forums.raspberrypi.com/ - in the Troubleshooting forum.

@directandrew said in Question on Ubuntu laptop with two user accounts:

If i just install on one account, does Retropie require Admin to run correctly on Ubuntu?

Yes, but that's needed just for installing packages by the RetroPie-Setup script, not for running the games.

If so, i would need to elevate my "son" account from standard to Admin on the laptop.
During use, Retropie may look to modify folders below:
...

Those folders are always owned by the non-admin user that was used for installation, you don't require any special/admin rights to access or write to them. They're used mainly by the emulators for saving configs / game progress, so there's no need for extra rights to work with them.

@miclamcm Thank You

@cjc1972 I am replying to myself as I didn't know how else to close the post and for any others that may run into a similar issue. under scaling/integar scale I had enabled and after disabling resolved the issue.

@YFZdude said in RetroPie Docs File?:

I'm not familiar with the way you apply the style sheets to make it look good.

There's more than stylesheets in place, the Markdown (.md) files in the repository are run through mkdocs to produce the site.

Unfortunately there's no easy way to produce an offline form of the docs and that's unavailable at the moment. There's an option to mirror it into a sub-folder with wget, but because most of our images are not locally saved this will save an offline set of HTML pages without images.

Pi Model or other hardware: 4B
Power Supply used: Pre-Packaged Power Supply (Came with it)
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): 4.8
Built From: Raspberry Pi Imager
USB Devices connected: X-arcade PS2 connection through PS2 to USB adapter
Controller used: X-Arcade (keyboard inputs)

Runcommand.log:
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-flycast/flycast_libretro.so </dev/null --config /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/dreamcast/mvsc2.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

@sleve_mcdichael though most games seem to work without vfsroot available, I'm not sure it's not internally used somewhere.

If preview.bmp does not already exist in $romdir/ports/cgenius/games/[game], one will be created in ~/.CommanderGenius/games/[game] (since these are no longer linked to the same place.) If it does exist in $romdir, nothing is created in ~/.CommanderGenius.

Is this broken or legit?

I don't think it's broken.

@appas
Ok, I needed to revert another change, which was to set GL Driver to "Legacy" with raspi-config. This gave me the message "GL Driver is disabled", or something like that. No wonder projectM was slow!

@lostless Thanks for the insight and all the help. I will give it a try!

@chrisw99 said in will retropie SD card work on Okdo Rock single board computer?:

Just curious if it is a direct Pi replacement and my retropie SD card from my dead Pi would work "as is" in one of these ?

No, it will not work.

@Sailing_Nut i used to map "CANCEL UI" to "´select´ & ´start´" in AdvanceMAME.
This quits a game with the hotkey-combination we all know from the lr-emulators ;D

Please add the rest of the info as asked.

A single dance pad can't be used even to get half of the Power Pad because the center square on dance pads is not active. Assuming the Power Pad works inside like a Konami dance pad, the sensors are analog (pressure sensitive resistance), so you can't just hook up the guts to a PI, and you need a microcontroller with 12 analog pins. I don't know if the Power Pad's digital electronics can work with the PI's 3.3v GPIOs. A full solution for the Power Pad 12 button side is to overlap TWO dance pads and use bleeding edge fceumm libretro core: https://www.instructables.com/Playing-NES-Power-Pad-Games-in-Emulation/

@mitu said in Shanwan usb controller analog/d-pad switch issue:

Which manual ? The one that I found for this gamepad mentions the Home button to switch between XInput/DInput.

I refer to the same manual

@mitu said in Shanwan usb controller analog/d-pad switch issue:

Since most games don't support the analog controls, it's normal. RetroArch has a setting for the controller (Analog to Digital Type) to make the joystick control the D-Pad, without the game supporting it.
Open the RetroArch menu, go to Controls -> Port 1 Controls and set Analog to Digital Type to Left Analog or Right Analog to use the joysticks instead of the D-Pad.

I have also a PS1 controller and I'm able to switch between analog and digital in games, so I thought to do the same with shanwan too

@mitu You're right! Thank you very much.

@lostless the number of pulses are just to tell the microcontroller (or computer) which coins you are putting in. So you can set a quarter for 5 and a dime for 4 and so on. So when you set up an electrical piggy bank. The computer can tell which coins you put in. I'm guessing I would have to put some type of resisiter for this to work which is beyond my present capabilities. I went ahead and bought one off of X Arcades site. They have one with the microcontroller and stuff hooked up so all you have to do is Jerry rig it to your buttons or just connect it straight to the USB encoder. So hope it all works when it comes in lol