@Razzle Tech is easy, people are hard. But here you will find some of the most helpful and gracious people I've found on any forum. Keep up the good work guys!

@Concat, @BuZz

I really appreciate the extras eyes on this to confirm what I was seeing. I can't reproduce the problem on Windows or the MacOS, so maybe it's a Linux-specific issue. I'll open a ticket and see what the RetroArch team has to say. Thanks BuZz, for searching the sourcecode. I need to learn how to do that somewhere down the road. Also, thank you Concat for the map testing. I was beginning to think I was imagining the whole thing ;).

In an effort to move forward with my own goal, I'll have to rethink and even compromise the idea of a universal gamepad control scheme for now, but I have a few ideas in mind to easily allow switching between control schemes for all the systems that currently lack Joystick support. Perhaps a series of script templates that can easily be installed and launched from a sub-directory in the 'RetroPie' menu in Emulation Station. This might be better in the long run as the end user could duplicate and configure the templates on a game-by-game basis for systems like the ColecoVision that need a more refined control scheme depending on the game.

Edit: Also, thanks for the last suggestion Concat. While it doesn't meet the global requirements I need, I'm definitely going to keep that trick in mind for the future.

I was able to get past the controller config with the psx controller, so now I'm able to set the keyboard as the default, hopefully. I ran into some other issues and will test later to see if I can have the joystick plugged in and still use the keyboard. Thanks for the help!

@Duhjoker Most of the Bluetooth changes are since 3.8.1 - so you would need to update the RetroPie script to have them.
So I'l probably update the Wiki once the next image is produced.

Mame scraping is based on filenames rather than hashes - do you have an example of a filename you have in the folder?
Obviously the mame roms should remain zipped.

Oh okay sorry about that. I'll make that correction in future posts.

I changed the driver from udev to sdl2 and restarted a couple times and that seems to have fixed the problem!

Thanks so much for the help!!!!!

For future reference I edited the above mentioned config and the Gamepad.cfg to resolve the issue!

Thanks again!

I did a full reinstall and used a PS3 controller over Bluetooth and it is all working now.
All I can think of is that my old 360 controller is on it's last legs or it was pulling too much power.

I personally have been running RetrOSMC which is basically having RetroPie running as a 'Programme' that you can launch from within OSMC and this has worked marvelously for me.

@Krakolis
Hey, thanks for bringing this up.
Kid-mode UI is not supported by the RetroPie folks, who have enough on their plate as it is. Please open up an issue at the repository: https://github.com/zigurana/EmulationStation/issues

@tekn0 awesome! Keep me posted!

i managed to get it working how i wanted in rgui.... not sure why it wasnt before but owell ...

@herb_fargus thank you very much everything works great now!

Thank you @BuZz.

I can not seem to tie-down what the cause is yet. Here is the runcommand log for Vectrex now:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 804: 988 Segmentation fault /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-vecx/vecx_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/vectrex/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/vectrex/Pole Position (USA) (C10F37D8).vec" --appendconfig /tmp/retroarch.cfg

Awesome, thanks for the quick fix @BuZz :)

Thanks for the help @ProxyCell :)