I was able to edit other gamelist.xml files in each individual roms folders and modify their content. Why would this be unique and not have those values shown? I would at least hope to see the xml have some sort of tag or comment. Then I can go in there and remove them. Is there a way to reset it back to before I scraped it?

Update, I've gotten it semi working. Somethings wrong with my retroarch setup, the default bios directory is not the actual bios folder, i had to manually set it to that. Semi working because I can't seem to get retroarch to use global configs, i have to manually set each systems directory.

But thats not the topic of this thread. I guess for the time being this is a moot issue, the asterix dont seem to mean anything and arent causing the problem. Thank you all for your time.

I wonder if my issue stems from doing an update to retropie 4.4 rather than a clean image?

@columbo just go to the official image and download that. The documentation is excellent and it's really easy to get it up and running.

@jinsta It should work with the Pi0/1 image. Is the Raspbian - official - image working for your model and the RetroPie image does not ?

deffo sounds like a case of burn-in have this with an older plasma of mine that was permanent due to extended sessions of halo with my friends we ended up with a permanant ammo counter on screen plus other hud elements

mediamogul's suggestion should sort you out if its not permanant

I am guessing this is similar to the problem I have an trying to figure out. The controller works in EmuStation but any game that uses Retro Arch it doesn't. I have an Xbox usb controller and the solution is to unplug an replug. The Commodore 64 emulator for example doesn't have the issue.

@mitu I made some comments here - https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/336f1398c7040f39ae057338978a739ffe8a5a60 - but I don't think I want to worry too much about the old LTS now 18.04 is out.

@clyde Thanks alot for the help, I'll read up on it :)

@cder Well after playing around with it (and with your advice) I finally got Advance Mame working how it should. I haven't got a clue on how I managed it but i'm just happy that it is.

Thanks again for you advice and help.

@dankcushions Thanks, many handy things on that page!

@hansolo77 said in Stretch and RetroPie:

Is there anything I need to do differently when building a new system with the Raspberry Pi 3B+ other than using the Stretch OS?

you don't have to even "do" that - current retropie images use raspbian stretch.

@mitu I see. I'm able to install Vice using Ubuntu app center. I wonder if I could copy binaries and libs to the /opt/retropie/emulators/vice ...

@ben63 Try setting Device type to just Retropad.
Your current setting only applies to certain games that support analog control. (for example some ps1 games)
I've noticed some issues with my controller when I had the same setting, so I only set Device type to Retropad /w analog for the PS1 and N64 games that support analog control.
If you set device type to Retropad and Analog to digital to Left analog, you can control the game with both dpad and the thumbstick.
Also don't forget to save your settings (either to the game or the core).

@mitu
Yes. It was just like that. I enabled it in the configuration to test its effect on the boot and got the system shutdown as a result. Therefore, I suggested above the method of recovery in this situation.

Thank you.

I've encountered this problem myself.
All you have to do is remove the dependencies for vlc

You should try:

cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/kodi/

And then:

sudo chmod +x ./kodi.sh

I got it working and can continue my build project !!

It worked when I put all the white wires on top on the COM side, and the blue ones on the NO side of the switch.

When I my project is finished I'll show ya'll what i've made on the project builds pages of this forum

Thanks again for being such a great help!

I believe super mario world does and I tested other games and super mario bros 3 on nes and 2 frames was causing issues with things happening before they should have like deaths. So 1 frame seems to be the sweet spot for 90% of games on nes and snes. Also without using runahead i believe dispmanx with threading turned off seems to be the next best thing for reduced input lag.