@mitu thanks for replying .I was trying to get the x68k emulator swap-disks to work rather than the retroarch's . its odd that there are not any info about it on the internet! it got to be a common issue. anyways I gave up :) its seems retroarch is a much easier option now.

thanks again.your guides on this website helped me alot with the whole retropie/launchbox thing . I appreciate it.

@thegrayfalcon No, user settings are not deleted when updating or removing an emulator. Look into the \\retropie\configs\all\retroarch\config folder, this is where overrides (game/core) are stored, and delete the offending overrides.
For remaps, look into \\retropie\configs\<system>, where <system> is the name of the RetroPie rom folder, and delete any .rmp files you find.

@iandaemon that’s how I started, but your luck may vary. I found that most Konami beat em ups (tmnt, simpsons,, X-men) were not changed over the years and most neogeo games have not been changed in years. A lot of my old 2010 roms (actually from 2010)set worked on those particular roms worked with FBneo. And some even worked in mame 2003.

@muldjord
Thank you for your answer. And congratulations on your fantastic work on the Skyscraper, the best multi-platform scraping tool, in my opinion.

Actually, I'm not very comfortable with the process of adding a .m3u file to each of my 2500+ individual Amstrad CPC games (or to every game in my other retro-collections).

And, @mitu, I'm not comfortable neither with the idea of adding a non-standard extension to my games, just to have ES showing the .m3u playlists only. I understand that ".cd1", ".cd2", etc. are like a standard now in PSX multi-disc games, but I suspect a home-made ".dsm", ".disk1" or whatever I could invent in my room for Amstrad CPC/MSX/other Libretro would drive me to a lot of issues when I update/scrape/configure something in the future. The same applies to hidden folders: if I want to update the scraping info, I would have to rename the folder before, re-hide the folder after... Even the idea to manage ".disk1" or ".disk2" sounds laborious when you have hundreds of folders, thousands of files...

But, I still think one scrapped entry in ES for a multi-disc game sounds like the most elegant solution.

So, I share here the solution I took:
1- As mentioned before, I create a .m3u playlist for each multi-disc game and put all the files, including the .m3u, inside a folder with the same basename (I do this with the script in my first post)

2- As @mitu told me, I edit the Skyscraper's config.ini to add the .m3u extension at the platform I want to scrap.

3- I scrap everything. So regular files, regular files in subfolders, and .m3u files get an image+description in gamelist.xml.

4- I duplicate the information related to the .m3u files in the gamelist.xml to create new <folder> sections with the same scraped information. Here is the command lines I used to do this:

# extract the XML sections about .m3u files to a new tmp.xml file perl -ne 'BEGIN{$/="</game>\n";} print m|(<game>.*m3u.*$/)|ms' gamelist.xml >> tmp.xml # change any <game> tag to a <folder> tag sed -i .bak "s/<game>/<folder>/g" tmp.xml # change any </game> tag to a </folder> tag sed -i .bak "s/<\/game>/<\/folder>/g" tmp.xml # crop any .m3u filename to keep the path only sed -i .bak 's/\/[[:alnum:][:blank:]\.\+\&,\(\);_-]*.m3u//g' tmp.xml # delete the closing tag at the end of gamelist.xml sed -i .bak '/^<\/gameList>/d' gamelist.xml # add the content of tmp.xml to the end of gamelist.xml cat tmp.xml >> gamelist.xml # add the closing tag at the end of gamelist.xml echo "</gameList>" >> gamelist.xml

And I must say, I'm quite happy with the result : now I have in ES only one scraped entry for any mono-disc game as I have one scraped entry for any subfolder (multi-disc game). When I select a game that is a multi-disc game, It opens the sublist - that is also scraped with the same information - and I just have to select the first entry to run the game.

I hope all this sounds useful.

@mitu Ok, I can access log files from Retropie's file browser, just more comfortable with Raspbian but I can learn :-)

The runcommand docs page looks very helpful; I bookmarked that. If the TOC had said "Launching Games" instead of "Runcommand" I might have looked there :-)

@mitu

alright, thats good to know,
i read that some others had issues playing other emulators afterwards, thankfully i didnt get no problems.

Please add some info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Are you using RetroPie or just RetroArch ?

RetroPie is based on Rasbperry Pi OS (Lite), you can install the desktop and then separately install IDLE with

sudo apt install idle

You can then find it in the list of programs in the start menu.

@common763 Why can't you control things with the arcade controls? Also, are you in a standalone version of MAME?

@mitu
Tried it on a 4k tv and now it works

My suggestion would be to use the RetroPie image directly and not through BerryBoot.

@mitu yes

@telmocamargo said in Error on resolution - Desktop Version:

16:9 wide NO

This option seems to be fine for the resolution - are you using it as the current option or did you toggle widescreen on ?
When using a desktop environment, like on a PC, you can use xrandr to adjust the overscan:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/508358/overscanning-picture-problem-using-hdmi-with-intel-graphics.

You can stream to twitch via RetroArch - see here or here on how to configure streaming.

On a PC (Ubuntu & forks, Debian, etc.), EmulationStation should be started from a desktop environment, not from a terminal.

@sirhenrythe5th I completely agree! Needless to say we are very disappointed, but doing our best to make it work. And yes, I would LOVE to learn how to build my own image, that is something I think I would enjoy. I just need to educate myself further....much further to make that happen, which is what led me to this forum. I am just now piecing together all that goes into a proper image so I can explore building one of my own.

@agtrigormortis Dosabian! Thank you... I will check that out. It's all changed from a few years ago.

I'm no good with Linux script. On my acrade build I tried 3 different screens all wider x 16:9 and they all looked awful. I went with a 2000's style 4:3 flat 20inch monitor but I had to get someone to set the PI up for VGA output and resolution and sound output on the headphone jack for the amp. I also used a VGA signal booster. The screen filters on retro arch are amazing for getting the CRT scan lines and barrel shape...I'm still in awe of the display after 3 years!
The guy also took all the things off that take away from a stand alone arcade machine... I found people go for a look in Amiga or PlayStation(keyboard+analogue inputs) and that makes it poor because it doesn't work with pure arcade inputs. I'd much rather get an expert to help with the script though. 😎

@amook11

I had the same problem and with my pi in the network and under

\\retropie\configs\amiga\amiberry\conf\

I opened and edited this file:
rp-a500.uae
it has a line:

kickstart_rom_file

there goes the exact name of your 1.3 rom in the bios folder.
of course you can also rename your existing rom to name that's already there.

same procedure needs to be done for the 3.1 kickstart I 've just noticed..

for people unsure about the correct roms: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Kickstart-ROMs-(BIOS) there you can find information about the versions needed including a crc check code, to see if you've got the right file.