Edited the post with a link for a breadboard pi 0 build using a spi display.
Please tell me what you think.
Final price would go down a fourth, and final build would be smaller.

@antnned Not trying to admonish you, at all. As I said, it's just friendly advice.

@ward614

Unfortunately, setting xboxdrv up in this way is a good bit more involved than just copying a few files. The documentation page is written to cover each and every little step, but it does require that you begin with a certain understanding of how to access and edit files remotely, as well as remotely execute commands. Even afterwards, you'll likely stumble around a fair amount before you have a working understanding of the whole thing.

If this hasn't scared you away yet, then my advice to you would be to not worry about the process as a whole and only concern yourself with the first few steps. If that works out for you, keep moving forward until you need help. Whenever you do need help, just come back here and I'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

aah sorry. I forgot we symlink the config folder to keep configs together. Kodi configs on RetroPie are stored in /opt/retropie/configs/ports/kodi

@DorkVonWaterfall said in Power on and off:

installed one of those remote control suckers today...works like a charm.....

Must be a conflict on mine, i pull the heat icon after about 15 minutes of leaving it on, i'll try it again on a fresh install.

@chip From the command line change directory into BIOS by cd RetroPie/BIOS then type md5sum name_of_file.extor if it is in your ROMs folder cd RetroPie/roms/pcengine

@meleu keyboard display. Sorry

@meleu I use emulated arm chroot with qemu on x86_64 pc with ubuntu, but also cross compiler on the host via distcc. (I don't have time to do any write up but there are some on the net).

@AlexMurphy I use sselph scraper.

I didn't check if any metadata or images have been downloaded... I will check it :)

@Danorak1981 First off don't use NOOBS. If you are going to install KODI on a separate card you should use a lightweight JEOS (Just enough operating system) for it. The most popular / supported are OSMC and Librelec.

Maybe go with Librelec as OSMC has a lot of customisations peculiar to itself.

I've not used a wireless controller with KODI, so can't advise but I would always advise people to have a USB keyboard for the PI as it always comes in handy.

The best smartphone app for controlling KODI is the official KORE app, another is YATSE but it is a bit bloated these days. Also bear in mind I stopped using a phone app for KODI as it eats battery life like crazy as it works over the wireless network and is constantly broadcasting a WiFi signal. You should get a mini keyboard like the Rii i8+, I have one for each of my KODI Pis.

@chrisdodgen said in Oops, I broke Retropie Setup. Question about re-imaging.:

Can I just use windisk32 and rewrite the image directly over this one without doing anything else?

Absolutely yes! When you write an image to a SD card all the previous data is overwritten.

@simonster yesss thanks so much! That was it, I had to renter the config and configure p2, I thought that for some reason if I re enter the config menu it would start over!

MAME libretro works with the arcade buttons, mame4all doesn't, neo-geo also works correctly, did not test with the rest.

Thanks a lot. :D

@Ecks if your sink is attached properly you might not need a fan. I don't have one, but if it makes you feel better, go for it. I would not waste the time nor the effort.

Well, here's what I'll do.

I'm going to try and fuss with the existing build for a bit, and if I can't fix it, I will get a larger SD card (not enough room on 8gb anyway) and use that for a fresh install of retropie from your supported builds. I assume that Retropie doesn't care how many gigs of storage I give it, does it? There's not like a 32 bit / 64 bit -style limitation on how big the SD card can be, is there?

At which point, i will probably be back asking a million and a half questions about how to set that up!

Thanks.

EDIT: I dunno if this helps anyone, but I've discovered that this problem is isolated to only Retroarch itself and it's Liberato-based emulators. Non-liberatro based emulators work fine, but the retroarch config or any lr- emulators crash on startup with no error message.

@meleu Well funny thing is that I fixed it for now. And I installed it via Raspian Desktop the first time.

@RedBatman Why are you resurrecting this old thread when you have a current one? Why don't you try the fix and see for yourself?

The command in that link didn't work for me, I got it to work with:
/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -add_not_found=true -append=true -download_images=false -image_dir="images" -image_path="images" -image_suffix="" -img_format="png" -img_workers=0 -no_thumb=true -thumb_only=false -thumb_suffix=""

from the rom dir
and it saved a gamelist.xml with the correct image tags in the same dir
not sure if all the above flags are needed, was just happy it finally saved the images tags

For informations, screenshot on screenscraper are in native résolution. Don't expect to have a full HD picture from a gameboy screenshot for exemple.

All picture you can found in 'better' quality are just a upscale of That.

If i was in your shoes and i had spare heatsinks laying around i would still put one on a Pi Zero just as a safety precaution and also like you said you are using a case for the Zero which leaves no ventilation for it as well.
Overall always best to be safe than to be sorry after.

Did you check this ? http://greatstone.free.fr/hi2txt/