@markgrindcore in the retropie setup script under configuration/tools I think there's an option to reset the retropie menu. If not it might be under core. Don't have access to my pi right now to check

@melbmatt50 You are limited by the romset. AdvanceMAME may have the other games you require. Which games are you wishing to run? Post here and people can tell you what they use.

Pi Model or other hardware: (3b)
Power Supply used: (The Recommended One)
RetroPie Version Used (retropie-4.4-rpi2_rpi3)
Built From: (The Original Image)
USB Devices connected: Keyboard Only
Controller used: IPAC 2 Controller In Keyboard Mode
Error messages received: N/A
Emulator: (Not Working In Any)

The joypads folder is empty, I`m not using a controller I am using a keyboard and an IPAC 2 controller in keyboard mode. IPAC is running latest firmware.

I have not intentionally disabled the menu toggle, I have accessed RetroArch and changed the Enable Hotkey and that seems to work, I have also specified the Menu Toggle which I`m assuming is to launch RetroArch from within the game?

@mitu said in Date/Time synchronization:

epending on the timesyncd service

Good idea, I'm going to try that. Thanks.

@melbmatt50 said in Retropie power switch:

As I mentioned before many of the emulators I am not sure if you can program a hot key to escape back to the main retropie menu like you can in mame4all

more or less any default emulator in retropie should do this by default. there should be no reason to unplug the pi to turn it off whilst retropie is running.

Ok I've tested jslisten but only accept 4 button pressed at once and seems no button sequence working...

@rontra74 said in Can no longer save game data, retain Favorites category, or update setup script.:

It looks like it is an SD card space issue. I was able to pull up:

Indeed it does. :) One quick way to make some space is to invoke the pre-installed file manager Midnight Commander by entering the command mc in the console. It is rather self-explanatory. With it, you could delete some files you don't need to make the system at least usable again.

@stephendm said in Move game collections on retropie, to individual folders? Can it be done??:

I wanted to separate them as the image is not mine and I wanted to use them in my own image?

Then why not just copy them into the same directories on your image?

@redrumpanda Some things you can't dumb down much further, and the Wiki is already written (mostly) to be understood by laymen. But you'll need to be willing to learn and that always requires some time and effort.

Let's start by collecting more information:

Which operating system is on your Laptop? Are your Pi and Laptop connected via network?

@nevisx Think about using favorites on ES. There you can collect your files so maybe a list with NES translations and NES Homebrew will help you. Real folders are not intendent to work .......

There is a bug in ES that makes folder navigation possible.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11308

But it needs modified scripts to define right emulator calls - from the edge view it is possible with lots of manual editing gameslist files.

@watford98 said in Switching between arcade and gamecube controls:

Q1 - Can i plug some of the mayflash type adapters into one of the ports and have this work in tandem for certain games.

Yes, sure.

Q2 - How would i set it up so that the control type could be switched for different games.

You can use the joystick selection tool created by @meleu [1] or look in the RetroArch configuration editor and switch the player mapping (i.e. P1 would be the GC controller for a certain system).

[1] - https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

@ramez said in RetroPie and MagicMirror:

EDIT: @cyperghost I can see that your MSS script requires a hardware GPIO button, am I right?

No it can be tight to a button but it can also just be called by script itself. Read more about on its help screen.
The option --es-closeemu brings you back to ES as long as you used to start Pixel officially installed by RetroPie
The option --es-poweroff performs a safe shutdown with metadata saved. So you can tie several parameters to joypad described in your how to.

But it is fundamental that any program must he launched through EmulationStation by runcommand call. The script uses runcommand as starting entry to determine all PIDs that will be closed by script call

Update: I found the culprit! Turns out that the file libretro.h had this struct definition twice:

struct retro_midi_interface { retro_midi_input_enabled_t input_enabled; retro_midi_output_enabled_t output_enabled; retro_midi_read_t read; retro_midi_write_t write; retro_midi_flush_t flush; };

This confused make since you can't redefine a struct once you declare it, causing errors and an eventual crash. Removing one of the struct definitions appears to have fixed this issue.

I found this Howto about mounting a smartphone via mtp and jmtpfs in the directory tree of a Debian-based Linux system (such as Retropie).

https://www.khalidalnajjar.com/connect-android-nougat-to-linux-using-usb/

It looks quite comprehensive and step-by-step to me. I can't say more about it, however, since I don't have a smartphone. :)

@amishgamer Have you tried the suggestion in the docs for the config hierarchy ? Create a romname.cfg file alonside your ROM file and put there the setting you'd like.

Well, I gave up on this and sent the controller back to Amazon. I then took my wife to Gamestop to buy a second Wii U Pro Controller, which is, by far, the best and most reliable controller for Retropie (that I've experienced, anyway).

I only have pics scraped. I used the default scraper, so I will backup my roms folder and the mentioned paths, I hope they are accesible in windows over the network . :)