OK so my mausberry finally came. And it looks like it is different but not too different as the 3V LED pad is present so my concern is null. I can confirm that they have terrible communication and shipping took forever. I only got an order confirmation after I threatened to dispute the credit card charge. never even got an initial email saying my order was received.
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@mitu said in Video's Playing in Background of Grid View:

Have you tried using the dev branch of EmulationStation ? You can install the emulationstation-dev package from the experimental section and it will pull that version, instead of the stable one.

UPDATE:

So I finally was able to circle back on this and test it. I can confirm that installing emulationstation-dev did do the trick with the audio glitch in the grid view. However, I'm a little concerned I might introduce instability or unintended consequences by not using the "official" stable one. Is that a legit concern? Could issues arise by using the dev version as my regular one, or would I benefit from more improvements (even though it's not fully released yet)?

never mind because i put the on/off switch in the middle. ugh. it says on the website that this battery bank stays on, but it goes to sleep after inactivity. does anyone have any reccomendations on a dual output usb battery bank that charges via a micro usb port and stays on? and is relatively small?

If you have a Linux system, yes. Windows cannot read the SDcard's contents. You may take a backup as an .img (with Win32DiskImager, as mentioned in the docs) and try to open it with 7Zip.

@romstar said in What's the correct aspect ratio I should be using as a config for a HAPP / VISION PRO 19" LCD arcade monitor for MAME Horizontal / Vertical games:

I changed the bottom line to mame2003_tate_mode = "enabled" which ultimately resolved my issue. now The vertical game is finally displaying the way it should on my HAPP Vision pro monitor mounted vertical !! At some point I'd like to build a vertical only list of games and have the menu / retropi running exclusively in vertical mode.

I knew it would change your life. I would not recommend trying to make the whole of retropie itself work in vertical mode yet, though. I stayed with my rotating monitor because rotating emulationstation causes performance issues. I believe it also became more difficult to rotate emulationstation on the Pi4 because the option was deprecated. I stayed with my Pi3b for my vertical MAME games for that reason and hope that a good solution for a fully vertical system presents itself later.

OK, i worked it out. Please consider this help request closed.

For anyone else having the same issue: don't map the "Retroarch keyboard as joystick" to any of the four available ports in Amiberry's controls menu.

The keyboard then works as a keyboard. I find it counter intuitive, but hey! It works.

@saku00 Well, the addition is now part of RetroPie, so you don't have to edit the file again if you update Dolphin.

@jamrom2 Well for the sake of full testing, delete all your .dat files. That fixed the parsing issue. Let Daphne just recreate them.

After installing a translation KIOSK mode stop saving favorites, anyway i can activate this "bug" again?

@b39_ https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30144/issues-with-retropie-and-brook-wireless-fight-board

@mitu Hey there - so just a quick update, I've managed to get the stick working - but it took some effort!

Firstly, you have to the stick into PS3 mode before the emulation station interface will recognise it, even then - it won't appear on-screen as a controller (the UI remains blank as if no controller is plugged in)- but if you hold down a button on the stick - it is suddenly recognised as a Brook PS3 controller and then configuration / calibration can start.

Emulation station refuses to recognise the L2 or R2 buttons, but you can configure the rest.

However I have noticed that it is then possible to get these buttons recognised after if you manually configure inputs in RetroArch(?) interace (the one with the green pixellated text that you access from in-game) - then with lots of fiddling around you can finally get the Wireless Brook Board working as a retro pie controller (as a wired PS3 controller)

I will try jstest next

Sorry for not posting details on setup - it's a RP4, with offiical usb-c power supply, (but was testing on RP2 with usb power last night) but will get the rest of the details when I can

@sleve_mcdichael @mitu thanks for the help. I reversed all the changes I made except for the location of the cache, just like in @sleve_mcdichael's example. Everything seems to be working now.

thedudester80 I am trying to create almost the same thing. Did you ever get this working?

@shavecat Delete the AUTOBOOT.DBP file ...

@alphabetapie Overclocking takes hardly any time though, in the scheme of things it isn't anything to worry about so far as having to do it twice goes. It's a few lines of text in a config file.

Yeah, I'd say the vendor probably "locked" their version of EmulationStation and it can't be altered without their action. The free official image as mitu directed is the best option if you want control over your system.

@mitu
I had a pretty bad go of it with this controller. I moved to the ps3controller driver and I did not get that to work per the docs. I tried to sort out which clone I may have, using lsusb, evtest, and dmesg but none gave me any indication other than Sony. So, I tried them all-- Official Sony, shanwan, and gasia. Although I appreciate the info to get additional bluetooth debugging, that project is "crossing the line" with regard to the time I am willing to invest.

Perhaps to make you laugh a bit-- I used retropie for several years with a Logitech F710 controller and an Intellivision Flashback controller. The F710 was getting worn out so I bought another one. It worked terrible! While the new F710 connected no problem, it was very clunky in terms of usability--buttons didn't work quite right, sometimes the control is sticky. Odd! Years ago I had a PS3 and I remember the controller fondly so I thought, I'll try one of those. Needless to say, instead of playing games I'm troubleshooting why this apparently poorly made clone isn't connecting. While the "thrill of the hunt" for the solution to the problem was fun, I'm done.

So, I'm not quite sure which controller I will try next, but the PS3 dualshock clone just found its way to my electronics-recycling box while I sort out my next step.

@rott42 said in Cant get 2 games running, killer instinct and wind jammers:

@adambegood KI 1&2 run for me on lr-mame2003, but graphically compromised, slow and lag. I use pi4.

Fair enough - I thought there was certainly some issue with them.

@mitu I use the rpi3 official image updated to 4.7.11. I haven't added anything extra that wasn't included in that image audio wise.