Actually, Emulationstation has had some scripting added recently (see the docs about it), but it currently doesn't have any related events for screensaver start (the wake event might be used when stopping the screensaver).

@therexershow You're replying to a 3 years old topic - if you have a specific problem please open a new topic instead and add the info asked inhttps://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@sniper22b said in Cannot get Hatari Emulator to show up:

es_systems.cfg

You seem to have a customized es_systems.cfg - how did you install RetroPie ?

By "UI" you mean EmulationStation? Are the input devices being seen as two separate things or the same thing in Retroarch?

I had the same problem as you, to fix it I disabled the Dynamic recompiler in the quick menu settings.

It stopped the "micro stuttering" I was getting seems the PI4 can run the interpreter pretty well.

http://www.2600-daptor.com/

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/#samba-shares

@mitu that worked! Now I'm getting an error "1v10: VolumeControl::init() - Failed to attach to default card!" But the sound is working, so I dont know if it's a big deal or not.

@mitu when you say path to file do you mean CD (change directory) to get to omxplayer?

No, I mean the path to the video file

rule #5? I don't understand?

It's easy - did you download the image from this site or not ? My question was to provide more details about your installation - what Pi model, what RetroPie version, etc. You've not mentioned anything about that. Did you buy the kit with the image included ?

@mitu Oh ok, that’s a bit of a bummer. At least I know why it doesn’t work though. No big deal, I mainly use it for MAME anyways. Thanks for all your help!

@traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78):

For some reason there were only 3 wav files inside that zip.

You probably swapped your samples file with your roms file.

@traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78):

As far as I can tell everything is good now.

Might as well mention it even if some people prefer it that way or don't care : dkong colors are wrong in mame2003, as an example the red stages are supposed to be pink like this :
dkong real colors

If you are interested in getting the game to run with real colors, they are fixed in the recent mame cores (2015 onwards) and the FBNeo core.

I'm a bit confused - the right permissions for the gamelists are to be owned by the user pi. If you change the file to be owned by root, then Emulationstation (which runs as user pi) will not be able to save any metadata (writing back the gamelist.xml file).

Make sure the files are owned by the user pi, then try again to see if the metadata is saved. If it's not, show a screenshot of the file's permissions. Also, make sure you didn't accidentally disabled saving the metadata on exit from the Emulationstation settings.

Ah, thanks!

@mitu

Thank you again for all the help. Unfortunately I can not try advmame because my sd card got corrupted and I had to erase it. I tired to follow the tutorial I mentioned above to manually install retropie as I did before and its not working. I can't git fetch fkms_rpi4 because its telling me permission denied. Guessing something changed? So now I can't manually install it. Guess ill have to wait for the official retropie for the rpi4. I might look into buying a rpi3 instead, all I want to use it for is mame and no other emulators so I don't think I need the rpi4 for that and I can avoid this headache with the rpi3 and official retropie release.

@mitu Thank you. That was exactly what I needed to know! I have it working now. No idea how it got deleted, but glad this was the fix. Thank you very much.

Have you tried to see if the cable is working - on another device ? Are you using a proper power source for your Pi ?
Unfortunately without a keyboard or without using SSH is going to be difficult to diagnose this. Is your Pi Zero the W model, with WiFi ?

@Guto-Du it's a possibility it's defective. Try over volting the pi (without over clocking) to see if it's more stable. If it is then your pi isn't stable at factory settings and should be sent back for replacement. I have seen multiple reports of pi zero's not stable at factory clock speeds. I think the quality control on the pi zero might be slightly less than other models. Probably because it's a $5 computer.

@a4c8 said in NES30 found but can't connect (details inside):

I can start emulationstation afterwards, configure the controller and run games, but after restart they aren't solid anymore and blink instead. I tried setting the mode to boot or background, as described, but with no change.

I get the same behaviour with another model, they don't re-pair automatically if you restart RetroPie without shutting them down first. If you restart RetroPie, shutdown the controller and then start it up again, they should re-pair and the light will turn solid.

Hi,
my bartop is now finished and running, but still the (little) "problem" tp start the programs.

As written, some (ZS-Spectrum) Games need to press the "5" on the keyboard to start, others the "0" .

Is there an option to define the (phy.) 1P button to the "5" for Game-A, and for Game-B the 1P button to "0" ?
So a game specific setting?

Or any other idea or hints here ?

Thanks,
Martin