@bmulligan

The image includes Raspbian, thats the OS. Then the RetroPie scripts are on top of that.
But yes, there isnt an X window system pre-installed on the image.

I'm not sure why they arent showing up for you, unless its a permission related issue.
Are they all accessible by user pi?
Did you follow these steps exactly?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setu

From your previous comment. If I where to accidently change permissions how would I go about fixing it? My problem is my emulators aren't showing up. All my files are in order but I have noticed my /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
does not update automatically when I install a new package I have to do it manually. It worked for nds but can't seem to get it to work for snes. But I do remember accidently messing with permissions before hand at some point.

@bengalsfan88 said in Help with mapping 4 start buttons for Galaga/Ms. PacMan:

I'll be sure to make a post when the project is complete and the cabinet is restored to her former glory!

I'd like to see that, thank you !

I'm currently new to making posts on these and am wondering about if someone has found a solution yet as of March 25th, 2019. Thank you all in advance!!

Still no widescreen, right? hardcoded...

@mitu thanks for the input. I will order the 710 from amazon. You have been most helpful, and I appreciate your patience.

Hello.
I have now used another sd card with a fresh new image. Did all updates as soon as I could, before configuring any inputs. It took about 3 hours and finished with some warnings on emulationstation. But nothing wild.
I have then put a psx rom onto the pi and configured one ps1 controller via usb adapter and one ps4 controller via bluetooth.
Everithing seems to work fine right now. I am going to add the n64 controllers and some more cores. But for now: Thank you very much @mitu for your support.

@ByteThis Diffferent type of Bluetooth module, I believe. Could be wrong...

@Shaddonai swaping sd card is difficult due to the fact that rpi is in custom build case

@vinz3nt said in iPad 2 LCD + controller:

Had anyone tried these before? The LCD with audio board option on AliExpress?

€ 20,82 13%OFF | 9.7"inch 1024*768 HD screen display 4:3 LCD Controller LP097X02 LTN097XL01 monitor driver board HDMI VGA 2AV for Raspberry Pi

https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/AjrY3Mz

Would be fairly cheap, good quality and the right aspect ratio (or close at least)

I'm a bit hesitant to buy one so I was wondering if there's some that has experience with this one.

Or maybe someone has better option? I want to build a small arcade system.

Thanks for any help

I've not used that particular board and/or screen before, but I have ordered a similar configuration from aliexpress before (although I bought a much lower priced and lower resolution allwinner screen) and their service was absolutely fantastic. despite it taking nearly 2 weeks to arrive I got full tracking and I'd say in that sense it was better than ordering from the UK since you knew exactly where the item was at all times. It was well packaged and I was up and running within minutes of receiving my parcel (although I did have to make some changes to my config file before it would boot, due to the strange resolution I had to set it to). I'm dubious about it saying HD but then saying VGA in the same description. I didn't know ipad screen resolutions were so low and 4:3? But you know all said and done it's gonna be a great quality screen for what you need as most games run at that aspect ratio and for the price you're normally looking at double that for a decent screen, plus you get the driver board too so it should work straight out of the box.

@mitu It works now. Thanks alot!

@mitu Thank you for such an informative reply! Very much appreciated :)

@BJRetro Yes everything works good! Thanks for the extra info on Naomi/Atomisware!!!
Guilty Gear X 1.5 and Fist of the North Star works great.

@rodney007xx said in Help for new user please, retro pie issues on 3b+:

@simpleethat > My friend said that his interface of retro PI looked nicer, perhps its because he is using a pre-made image with a different skin?

You can install many so-called "themes" for Retropie. See the Docs about how to install them, and for a list of many (all?) of the themes with screenshots.

Welcome to the Retropie community. Have fun. :)

Huh. Now that's weird.

I tried what you described (thank you very much for that!), and while the script works like a charm, for some reason fbi fails to load the 1920x1200 splashscreen. It literally returns a black screen with

/home/pi/RetroPie/splashscreens/retropie-extra/rookervik-pixel-16x10.png: loading FAILED

written at the bottom. The weirdest thing is that if I run

sudo fbi -T 2 -once -t 20 -noverbose -a -l /etc/splashscreen.list >/dev/null 2>&1

after start up, mimicking the syntax in /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh, the image is shown normally!

So close, yet so far! Any ideas?

EDIT: UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE! That was happening because I’m using USB auto-mount for loading roms into the system. For some reason, that option also overwrites the splash screens directory, but the pendrive is only mounted AFTER the splash screen is actually shown on startup. Hence, when I moved the stretched image into the directory, I was actually moving into the pendrive, which is ignored by the Pi on startup! All I had to do was unmount the pendrive, copy the file into the SD card and it worked! 😁 Thank you very much once again for all the help!

@jthomas5150 If you press F4 in emulationstation then you can quickly find out how your keyboard is configured (by trial and error). For example on my big keyboard almost none of the symbols on my keyboard coincide with the symbols that appear on my tv screen when I press them.

@SpudsMcToole @mitu

I was able to run Casio PV-1000 using lr-mess. It took me 36 hours to compile lr-mess on my Raspberry Pi 3b (stretch) with the original power supply, a swap of 2gb and a gpio CPU fan.
After the compilation a hash folder is created in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/hash. The file pv1000.xml contains the description of the roms with the valid sha1 hashes. You can check if your rom has the same hash with "sha1sum <yourrom.bin>". If it's the same, you have to zip it.
The name of the zip file should be the "software name" which is defined in the pv1000.xml. And the bin file name inside should be the "rom name" which is defined in the pv1000.xml

So for your rom the zipfile should be "tutankhm.zip" but the file inside should be "tutnkham.bin"

<software name="tutankhm"> <description>Tutankham</description> <year>1982</year> <publisher>Casio</publisher> <info name="serial" value="GPA-103"/> <info name="alt_title" value="ツターンカーム"/> <part name="cart" interface="pv1000_cart"> <dataarea name="rom" size="8192"> <rom name="tutnkham.bin" size="8192" crc="a0b606d8" sha1="56efa2ab7c4a6db7b44714e46c5bf2ba71983ee8" offset="0000" /> </dataarea> </part> </software>

@mitu Thank you so much. This solved my problem. I never knew there was such trouble just copying files. And thanks again for the advice, copying over wifi and ssh 10.000 small files is really a bad idea.
:)

@jerryfudd It's a raspi-config configuration error. Modify the
/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf
file and replace its contents with

[Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin pi --noclear %I $TERM

then restart your system.

@The16BitGuy Please post the full error message and the step in the installation where you get it. What version of Ubuntu are you using ?