Couple comments:

When using a USB drive through the auto-move capability of RetroPie, the entire RetroPie folder is read from the USB drive; i.e. it "replaces" the RetroPie folder on the boot sdcard. The videos you place in the USB folder of RetroPie/splashscreen (which becomes "/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen") can be read by the Splashscreen functionality, and even randomized - with some caveats I'll note below. You can always move the video splash screens to the sdcard folder of "opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen" and use them from there as well. You can do that in a number of ways: from the command line (F4) then copy or move the files from the "/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen" folder to the "opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen" or do the same through SSH or through the built-in File Manager application from the RetroPie settings subfolder. Hint: sudo cp "/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen/whatever your video.mp4" "/opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/whatever your video.mp4" wil copy the file. Replace cp with mv if you want to move the file. You must do this as SU (sudo) because the opt folder allows only root read/write access Caveat 1 for randomizing: Best to append the video files to the splashscreen list, and then randomize off that list Caveat 2 for randomizing: Frequently the very first file name on the splashscreen list will be multiple files all in one long line. Recommend deleting that entire line and manually typing in the first line. Editing the splashscreen list is fairly easy.
A. In the Splashscreen settings, go to "Append splashscreen to list"
B. Choose Own/Extra splashscreens (if your files are in the home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreen folder) or RetroPie splashscreens (if you moved them to the opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen folder)
C. Select the line you want to append (add to) the list and hit OK.
D. Hit Ok again to confirm the appended line
E. Repeat B-E for all the files you want to add to the list. Again - I recommend after you're done appending the files that you go back to "Manually edit splashscreen list" and make sure that first line has ONLY the one file on it. I also again recommend you manually type that one in. It might be easier to do this after you've appended a few files because you can just copy one of the lines you appended as the first line, and then delete the original (now duplicated line.) Once your splashscreen list has all the videos you want in it, one vide per line, go back to Disable splashscreen randomizer and enable it (or disable and then re-enable it.) You'll want to select the "Randomize /etc/splashscreen.list" selection.

Thank you for your feedback and assurance. I needed to discard that option so your feedback is so valuable. In the end, I have used the good ol' method: copy Pre made SD Image to SD card and set things up anew.

I have elaborated the table below to clarify the relationship between an SNES USB Gamepad , its Retroarch Port Binds and Default Actions as a result of Hotkey Binds. It's just a bit of an expansion of the Default joypad hotkeys section in the Wiki article on RetroArch configuration

+------------------+------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------+ | SNES USB Gamepad | RetroArch Port 1 Binds | Default Action | Hotkey Binds | +------------------+------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------+ | Up | -1 | [AI SERVICE] *Free to use* | SELECT + Up | | Down | +1 | [PAUSE] *Free to use* | SELECT + Down | | Left | -0 | Savestate Slot - | SELECT + Left | | Right | +0 | Savestate Slot + | SELECT + Right | | SELECT | 8 | HOTKEY | | | Start | 9 | Quit Retroarch | SELECT + Start | | A | 1 | *Free to use* | | | B | 2 | Reset | SELECT + B | | X | 0 | Menu Toggle | SELECT + X | | Y | 3 | *Free to use* | | | Left Shoulder | 4 | Load State | SELECT + Left Shoulder | | Right Shoulder | 5 | Save State | SELECT + Right Shoulder | +------------------+------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------+ Select button in SNES USB Gamepad is set as the HOTKEY button Free to use means Retroarch does not set a default Action, so it can be used for any purpose. [ACTION] = name of the manually-set action

Setting a specific Hotkey Bin to pause the gameplay [PAUSE] seems particularly useful when setting AI Service Pause Toggle to ON (RGUI > Settings > AI Service): Retroarch will pause gameplay, allowing time to read translated text, to continue only upon pressing the Pause Hotkey Bind. And of course, Hotkey Binds for actions can be redefined.

Cheers,

If the game as a PQ1 folder that you copied, just create a save under C:\PQ1 when prompted.

@mitu thank you for your help. when checking for the info you asked I saw that after the update it changed the default emulator from MAME4ALL to FBNEO. I changed it back and all is well now.

Thank You
Ken

Hi

Anyone have any clues about these issues?

I've had to resort to lr-puae for some games due to these issues, but that has its own problems too (can't seem to use trackball as a mouse).

Any help on the above appreciated.

Thanks

We don't support 3rd party images - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Case sensitivity INSIDE another file has gotten me multiple times.

@jthomas5150

This should cover it mate
The recent Skyscraper does it automatically WHICH IS AMAZING

but if you really want to know how to do it - i found this

Some of the ETA Prime (Whilst so helpful) don't have recent updates, so hit me up with any issues, I am only 6 months from a NOOB but the way things go here your questions will be answered

@IceChes1 said in USB ROM Service isn't working:

If you don't want to help me you don't have to.

You've been helped more than once on this forum and I personally answered to some of your topics - there's no reason to take it personally, it's not. Diagnosing 3rd party badly/mis-configured image is not something we do here and there's good reasons to do so.

The Pi is a learning and educational device - if you don't want to put up the time and effort to learn some of its intricacies that's up to you, but don't expect everything to be plug-and-play. Given the popularity of the device, there's tons of information and documentation on how to configure/create things with the Pi and you can take advantage of that.

Everything worked flawlessly, I really appreciate the event lookup code, I never would have figured that out. I did notice that if a hotkey was enabled that it does not work which I believe you mentioned in the other thread. All in all it does exactly what I wanted it to do.

@RetroRick said in where do I put the CREDENTIALS from SCREENSCRAPER.fr in retropie for SkyScraper OR SS Scraper?:

$HOME .emulationstation/downloaded_media
but will not show up on the metadata screen, nor play.

You might have an existing gamelist that's overriding the one generated by the scraper.

@notthesame HAHA DERP. Thank you.

@mitu
Sure! I will post all my findings to help others as well.
Thanks for your time.

@mitu it's the same emulator, and the menu runs normal on desktop, I assume it's the drivers for the gamepad or something? In retropie it runs like that but on desktop the menu doesn't run glitchy Couldn't we run in retropie but some how when launch, use the desktop I want to say x11 for now? Idk I guess for now, I did try n2 or xu4 a few weeks ago and one ran a bit less glitches out, I'll let you know.

@krullbeast i'm only asking because the teensy hasn't arrived yet, otherwise i would just try it! hahah, sorry...

@gokuh306 said in Dreamcast multi disk games:

@pscotto1234 m3u is a plain text file with a list of the disc images. I can give an example later, but the page for the Playstation emulator has some good examples.

@gokuh306 thanks; I managed to do that. Now it works ;)

@mitu when the crash happen, i hard reset then restart the system as i can't get a tty in a freeze status.. so i go like you suggest me to get log from /dev/shm/runcommand.olg but i can't find nothing. infact as sometime get no crash i find there the log without error as a list the operation in the retropie like type of emulator rom launched etc. so crash without log or log without crash.
i can't go further..infact i can't understand what happened different when one time things go perfect ( sometime i change the kernel ... but second chances to run other rom all crash so i think is not depending on this ) i don't know if depend on using a particular type of emulator : neo geo or version of mame and i don't know, it's own configuration ( video settings, audio .. ) but i can't get log after crash ... so i dont know to proceed to fix. have a nice day and thnx for all the detailed reply.