@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@mitu said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Mar 4 2021 - 19:57:50

That's not the RetroPie version. You may be installing it through RetroPie-Setup, but you're starting another version.
RetroPie maintains a fork of the original EmulationStation, which is installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary.

How exactly are you starting EmulationStation ? When installed via RetroPie-Setup, the main binary is in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/ and an emulationstation script is copied in /usr/bin. Check if the script points to the correct EmulationStation binary.

You are right. When I run EmulationStation from the /usr/bin folder, it runs correctly.

That poses another question... When I call 'emulationstation' in the terminal, how can I get it to point to the right script?

Actually, I found the version that was running incorrectly in /usr/local/bin.

Upon deleting emulationstation from this folder, all works well.

Thank you for your help!

Maybe I read it wrong first time - it does look like you mean running the monitor from the RPI? It's possible for a small screen if it's 5v and draws 500mA or less (usb2). But I'm not sure that's a good way to do it. What are you trying to achieve by wanting to do it this way?

Actually you can probably draw more (see "FAQs - Raspberry Pi Documentation" https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/faqs/#pi-power) if the PSU is up for it, but powering a monitor is best done separately really.

@lostless Hyperspin too

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

You mean you downloaded the cheats through RetroArch's menu and the unpacking fails after download ?

@dominodomino please ensure you fill out all of https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first when requesting support.

a verbose log for when it works vs when it doesn’t would be useful. note that shaders aren’t save via overrides: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Shaders-and-Smoothing/#installation

@dch It seems you're using an older RetroPie version and from what I see in the Docs, UAE4ALL doesn't seems to properly support joysticks.
Try to update to a more recent RetroPie version and use Amiberry. If your gamepad works in other games/systems, Amiberry should be able to read the configuration created by RetroPie and use your gamepad.

In $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs there are logs for each update you've made through the setup script, including what packages have been updated.

@majorocd said in Game description file location:

So do you know if it is possible to move /opt/retropie/configs to the SSD?

Not without a reinstall and without re-formatting the SSD to ext4.

If you wish to keep the artwork on the SSD, you'd have to either

copy the downloaded_images folder on the SSD and then make a symlink from $HOME/.emulationstation to it. When moving the SSD to a new system, you'd have to re-create the symlink there, so the downloaded_images points to the SSD folder. move the downloaded_images folder on the SSD and adjust the paths in each gamelist.xml file to point to the new location. Useful if you don't want to add new games and/or scrape again.

@raulitob said in Skyscraper .ini editing for network share.:

And that works great but my question is do I need to add that to the skyscraper config file as well?

No, you don't need to.

@mitu Thanks. Much appreciated.

Please don't bump your topics in short amount of time.
Have you tried setting the control type to Dualshock - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#the-controller-problem-digital-only-analog ?

I tried using inputFolder for both [nes] and [atari2600], but neither seemed to do much

The scraping dialog that you start from RetroPie-Setup doesn't read your .ini file to look for folders, but expects the standard RetroPie folder structure.

If you changed the folder in the .ini file, run the scraper manually:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper -p nes -s screenscraper ... other flags ...

EDIT: just to make it easier, you can probably symlink the folders from your SMB mounted drive to the actual RetroPie folders, i.e.

/mount/network/Arcade -> $HOME/RetroPie/roms/arcade /mount/Consoles/Atari Xyx -> $HOME/RetroPie/roms/atari5200 /mount/Consoles/Nintendo Entertainment System -> $HOME/RetroPie/roms/nes etc.

@nitrohepcat So...
Situation A) Do you want left shoulder to be "2" and right shoulder to be "2"?
OR
Situation B) Do you want left shoulder to be "half of 2" and right shoulder to be "half of 2"?

I'm not sure you map a controller input to "half a keyboard key".

If the switch maps ZR/ZL to axis (instead of buttons), then EmulationStation (where I assume you try to register them) will ignore them as buttons. Have you tried to map them to LT/RT (the should trigger buttons) ?

that said, if you want a dedicated x86 emulation box, you don't need windows and can run retropie directly: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/

@dankcushions my issue there isn't just hardware based. There is very little support for Sega Naomi , let alone Lindbergh, RingEdge, and NUu2 emulation in RetroArch. These systems are PC based to begin with, and so far I've only seen any of them successfully emulated in Windows based emulators.

@tim-s-up Glad you got it working, @lostless is the one that provided the solution though :).