@dankcushions said in Random Button Presses When Using Wii U Pro Controller:

if the issue is with the pi's onboard bluetooth, then the only people who could fix it are those supporting the linux drivers/firmware, not retropie.

This thread seems to suggest that some controllers don't filter their signals sufficiently and the Pi doesn't do that either. USB and wireless adapters tend to filter these micro signals, thereby fixing the problem, as does adding capacitors to the faulty controllers (final confirmation).

The question is, can it be considered an error on the part of the Pi that it's "too sensitive", if the actual fault lies with the controllers.

I’ll try your game mode as soon as I get home. Sub note, I put retropie on a raspberry pi 3. Same tv and same hdmi cable and it works perfect. Thanks for your time marky.

Thanks so much @mitu. It now will remember the save and won't show the ES loading screen even if it gets unplugged. Thanks so much for the reply.

@dankcushions
Good point! I was planning to just pick a representative game or two for each system and play them for the first level or so. Maybe repat a few times per game to minimize the effect of random hiccups and player actions.

already in the pretty docs too

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Atari-2600/

@kaptainsteve No, however you need to restart ES in order to get the ROMs to show up once the transfer is complete.

@caver01
Thank you for this

@jonnykesh Thanks for your answers and tips!
I re-download the Retropie image and ApplePi-Baker, formatted the SD card and installed the image all over again. The result was the same, the controllers would not respond.
I then got my hands on another Raspberry Pi Zero W, inserted the SD card with the same image, booted up and everything works perfectly now. Both controllers and the keyboard.
So I guess you were right, that it was an issue with the Pi.
Thanks! :)

I remember, when reading about xboxdrv that it had a specific option for this problem. Would you be able to use xboxdrv with your current controls to work around the problem

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Universal-Controller-Calibration-&-Mapping-Using-xboxdrv#2d-restricting-directional-control-to-four-ways

@usarmyvet That depends on the emulator in question. Most emulators of Retropie are so called "cores" of RetroArch. See here how to smoothen their graphics in RetroArch and even "upgrade" them to some extend, i.e. making them look more like the vintage monitors the games were originally run on.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Shaders-and-Smoothing/

@usarmyvet said in NOOBS distro scraper issue and game saves:

However, I now run into the issue where when I attempt a scrape, it kicks me out of emulation station and into terminal and says "no space allowed" . I was told its because its a NOOBS distro?

Update all installed packages and try again. You might be using an older version of Emulationstation.

@paulmartin Try looking into the options described in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/672/a-stop-job-is-running-for-lsb-controlblockservice-init-script/18, either boot the Pi in 'safe mode' or mount the card from another Linux system and delete the powerblock driver start script to stop the reboot cycle.

@jackknife18846 the partition you're referring to is not recognised by Windows as it is a Linux partition. You can either put it into a Linux laptop to browse it, or use other methods of getting ROMS etc on (these are all in the official documentation).

You can use your local network to browse to the Pi and copy the ROMS that way, or us the USB copy method instead.

@mitu

Ill try that, just for fun. My intention is to set it in Kiosk eventually and leave it alone. Its not hard to SSH into the pi and change it if needed on occasion. ok, im an idiot. I was "assuming" that id press the buttons during the splashscreen, not in the second after it dissapears. It is working perfect. My misunderstanding. Thats an interesting idea, I will try and check it out, I will need to undo some things on the core options and move them but I feel this may actually work. I was obviously thinking too hard and forgot about the retroarch.cfg overrides. GREAT IDEA!

@dj-wheels That's too bad about the microswitches. I got all of my pushbutton and joystick components from them (this was ages ago) and I have not had problems. I think I had one switch failure since 2009 out of 48 switches (cherry).

@alturis most likely a game which only run on x86.