@greenhawk84 you're absolutely right, apologies for the mistake. It's actually technically 4: The Revenge of Death Adder.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/golden-axe-revenge-of-death-adder/

weird stuff: i tried running once again FF7 and it works now, without changing anything...
i'll try with the other PBPs i deleted now, really dunno why it didnt work before

Please ignore this - I found out what the problem was, I'd turned on Shader #0 Filter to LINEAR. That is what was causing this effect in lr-genesis-plus-gx.

Interesting development, I just wrote a romflix image to the card and its worked fine.... I may try acquiring another sd card and give it another try as I do want retropie

@mitu Thanks, that might be enough to get somewhere.

I've seen quite a few requests to allow the user to choose the first selected system. Unsure about how to implement that (i.e. need to think about that), but noted.

[As you've come to see the past few weeks, though, "noted" just means I've made a note of it and added it to a list of things to be done. Unfortunately I haven't been having any time to contribute to ES in terms of testing or developing recently, but hopefully when I have some more time I can pick up some of these things.]

Well, I'm glad that's all straightend out now. Nothing like a new pair of glasses.

@meleu thanks meleu! now my cfg look like this;

input_device = "HORI CO.,LTD. POKKEN CONTROLLER"
input_driver = "udev"
input_l_btn = "4"
input_load_state_btn = "5"
input_start_btn = "9"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "4"
input_up_btn = "h0up"
input_a_btn = "2"
input_b_btn = "1"
input_reset_btn = "1"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_down_btn = "h0down"
input_r_btn = "5"
input_save_state_btn = "9"
input_r2_btn = "7"
input_right_btn = "h0right"
input_state_slot_increase_btn = "h0right"
input_x_btn = "3"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "3"
input_select_btn = "8"
input_y_btn = "0"
input_left_btn = "h0left"
input_state_slot_decrease_btn = "h0left"
input_l2_btn = "6"

which causes select+start to save state
select+right shoulder loads state
select+left shoulder exits

@buzz

Regardless of pre built images how do you fix this problem ig its on a self install image?

Perfect! Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

@herb_fargus Yes it should be, I indeed spoke about Pixel because it is easier to setup.
About the addon, I never took a look at its code but I am almost sure that in either case it wont work. For example in the raspberry pi, kodi must be closed to use any other graphical application, it won't be easy to change the addon.

I tried to uninstall and reinstall retropie. I removed the binary drivers but nothing helped. :/

@mitu Alright, it's the lr-snes9x2010. Thanks for your help with that one.

@dankcushions Damn. Okay. Others on Reddit said they were able to update from binary successfully. I think it’s a me issue. 2010 for some reason has been trouble since jump for me.

Thanks again.

@deeobat the manufacturer confirmed that the cable is not compatible with Retropie. Oh well.

@cdromce did you read point 5 in the link I posted?

@pjft
My power settings are the stock settings.
I think this is what happens: When the boxart image size is large, the Pi needs a bit of time to load the image. This causes a slight delay when scrolling from one game to the next. Other controllers ignore this, but the DS4 seems to remember the directional button input during the delay and keeps it going, without me having to press the button anymore.
But yes I am very glad I found the solution. Thanks for your input, as you asking me if specific games were causing this, got me on the right track.