I suspect a memory leak related to video previews. I just posted something similar I noticed after implementing video previews. While running 'top' logged in via ssh, with each video preview, the free memory went down a bit and stayed down, bottoming out around 80k. Even when left idle overnight, the memory did not free up. Only rebooting the pi freed up the memory.

@chromium I am having the same problem.

or you can just buy a 64gb memory stick and copy the roms/bios files to it and put in in a folder called retropie-mount. Samsung has one that is almost flush mount for $20 US and you have the bonus of plugging it into another retro pie and have it as like your own "cartridge" with all your own games and saves. Also if you ever have to reformat and start over you don't have to reinstall all the roms again.

@lordbarker in a terminal eg via SSH.

I didn't even know about RGUI until I looked it up... Now I understand what was going on....Emulation is on point, the controller doesn't work until you turn the analog button on.

Thanks @BuZz i have update NP2PI and LR-Hatari without any problem.
Do you write to not use lr-hatari because the original hatari emulator is better like ever ?

I always have my problem with RETROARCH :(

You are real for the SHADER directory, it was root access i don't know why ? I have change it for pi.
But now it is my retroarch.cfg it don't like and crash the update :(

install -m644 docs/retroarch-cg2glsl.6 /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/share/man/man6 install -m644 media/retroarch.svg /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/share/pixmaps « /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/retroarch/retroarch.cfg » -> « /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/retroarch.cfg » /home/pi /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch /home/pi = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Configuring 'retroarch' : RetroArch - frontend to the libretro emulator cores - required by all lr-* emulators = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = error: bad index file sha1 signature fatal: index file corrupt fatal: Reference has invalid format: 'refs/remotes/origin/rpi ' error: bad index file sha1 signature fatal: index file corrupt error: bad index file sha1 signature fatal: index file corrupt Copying new default configuration to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg.rp-dist /home/pi Error running 'git pull' - returned 1 Error running 'git submodule update --init --recursive' - returned 1 Log ended at: jeudi 24 août 2017, 14:44:20 (UTC+0200) Total running time: 0 hours, 7 mins, 8 secs

I try many things but nothing works for me :(
I read there you write to remove the CONFIG dir and install again RETROARCH but it is impossible, i work so many days on my configs ...
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9147/default-all-retroarch-cfg

I have try to remove the retroarch.cfg and expect it will create a new one but it crash too :(
Maybe if some one can share his file with me, i will use it to update and after i will update settings with mine.

Thanks

Not sure it will help but i noticed in the RetroPie Setup that there was a driver section from which you could install XBox and XBox360 driver. I also use a XBox 360 wired controller but on a Pi 3 model B and i didn't have to install that driver. I just know it's there so you might want to try, we never know.

Also i don't know about pre made SD images but i sometime hear people saying that some unexplained issues may occur on pre-installed systems, and would recommend users to install RetroPie manually usuing the official download.

That's all i have. Hope it helps.

Oh my. I was suggesting something simpler at the RetroArch emulator level, but that certainly works :)

Thanks for sharing, glad it worked out!

Morning,
I'm experiencing a similar problem when trying to do the same thing (2 pi's, 2players on each for TMNT in MAME) - where the client Pi will load fine and connect to the host but none of the controllers work once connected. Did this fix the issue?

Regards

Looks like I got it to work now (THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING). In the end I just tweeked both files with the same control config info.

Also this link was handy:
https://wiki.debian.org/Mupen64Plus

I found that to use neo-geo from the fba core I had to put the "neogeo.zip" inside the roms folder not the BIOS folder as one would assume.

and rbaker is correct you may have a bios problem...best thing to do is to use the Final Burn Alpha emulator itself..not the core or the one for the pi...the "raw"one from the FBAlpha website...make sure to get the correct version.

Look here to see what version of the emulator you are using (0.2.96.71 or 0.2.97.30 or v0.2.97.42)
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FinalBurn-Alpha

Yeah this is "the hard way" but..the full FBA emulator will give you information you might need to make sure you have what you you need. i.e. name(s) size(s) and correct CRC. BIOSes are a pain in the butt....but that is how it is.
Then you can drop that onto your pi and it should work.

Try dropping it into your folder with your roms first though..or leave a copy in your BIOS folder and have copy in your roms folder..doesn't hurt.

I thought RetroPie did everything for you...but this is coming from a guy that has "built 'em by hand" for 20 years....

RetroPie does make it easier..but Linux halts a lot of that stuff for noobies...

what we need is an "ArcadeOS" (no not minwah's DOS frontend (Yes i go back that far)) or a "EmulationsOS"..

squirrel..

yes those things that gather nuts...in fact the is what squirrel files are called ".nut" files ;)

Apologies I've remedied the issue now by updating Retropie :)

Out of interest how do I set the Bluetooth Snes pad to player 2 and my wired Buffalo pad to player 1? Many thanks

Try these tips here.

@dunginhawk ---awesome, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Glad you found the dimensions!

@mottmegwaa said in setting up my first retropi send help!!!:

cannot find where I am supposed to post this question

What question?

@ionic noone skipped anything. It was impossible to answer you as you provided no information.