Vice isn't a Retroarch emulator, it treats a keyboard as a real commodore keyboard. If you press f12, do you get the config menu? In there you can setup controls.

Also some c64 games seem to want joystick 2 instead of joystick 1 for control.

Does it look like one of these?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arcade-MAME-DIY-Kit-2x-LED-USB-Encoder-2-Joystick-20-Illuminated-Push-Button-/261564066052

If it does, you may have connected the connector from the usb board to the joystick the wrong way around. I have 5 of these and I managed to get it wrong on 2 of the joysticks. In both cases, the result appeared similar to what you've described. Turn the connector (the end attached to the joystick) around and see what happens. That fixed it for me anyway.

Please answer :
What kind of display are you using?
Which Pi is this
Please post your "es_settings.cfg" file

I also use the PowerBlock and it is well supported here. The guy who runs the place is a Global Moderator in this forum. Check the unit here:
https://blog.petrockblock.com/powerblock/

Is there some way I could give myself a turbo button without switching emulators or buying a new controller?

@derikpelser we do not support third party images and if you use third party images most are illegal, but you're also opening yourself up to likely malware.

Please use the official image we provide.

Yes updated the config file as per @XD3l post and the audio works great through the VGA adaptor. I prefer audio from HDMI as previously I find the 3.5mm output jack audio to have a slight white noise/hiss

SSelph's scraper for windows can auto resize videos if you run -convert_videos true with handbrakecli.exe in the same folder as the scraper.

Anybody had any success with the mapping instructions posted here?
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8618/retrobit-8bitdo-n64-controller-configuration

The .mcr file should work. PBP is the format for the image of the PS1 game, not the save game. After launching the emulator you will have pull up the retroarch menu to point the memory card location to wherever your .mcr or .gme files are and it should work. I think it also helps if you are using a BIOS file for the PS1. I know it works but it's not the easiest thing to do.

@vondes I don't see why any screen casting software wouldn't work on games you play natively on your phone.

Something worth checking.. If you use multiple controllers (I do too), the RetroArch config may be setup to use a different controller as the default. If you have a keyboard, trigger theRetroArch menu and check the sttings. If it IS set to a different controller, and you typically use the one it's not set to, change it and save it as a core override. From now on, it'll load up the override every time a game loads, and the controller you like to use will be set as the default.

@crashpsycho also if if you set it to 800x600 i would try 1024x768 and see what that does.

@buzz iv had this issue just by not having the time set so the year would be 1969. Setting the correct time fixed it for me. I have a rtc now which solves the issue for me. I think i set it to set the internet time while booting as well, so if my rtc failed it would set the internet time.

@dankcushions Okay cool, thanks! For the bit of time I tried without the speed hack it seemed to run smoothly but I'll turn on the FPS counter to confirm. So the speed hack does exactly what it says, speeds it up, I guess it was self-explanatory after all.