@cyperghost ok I figured it out :)
it's a little bit of a bug but totally fixable.

ES uses both gamelist.xml found at /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/"console"/ and /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/"console"/

so if there's no gamelist.xml in the console folder under roms, it will use the one found in configs. for some reason it doesn't remove entries, only adds them.

it will also not untag favorites if you DO have a gamelist.xml in your roms but DON'T have an entry in your gamelist.xml for the tagged favorite game.

Best word of advice: scrape like you've never scraped before lol

UPDATE

I'm back home at it. I check the video_frame_delay and it was set to 0. I decided to take @BuZz 's advice I saw earlier and opened up Retropie Setup and updated the Retropie script to 4.4 (I dont think I actually updated the platform, just the script). From there -> Manage Packages -> Manage Main Packages -> lr-pcsx-rearmed -> selected "Update from Binary". Rebooted. Final Fantasy VII seems to be working correctly now. I appreciate the help and advise other people experiencing slowdowns to follow the tips in this thread.

I think it is fixed. I reboot multiple times and only once it flicked black for about 1/2 a second.

I moved my splash screen to /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/

then I

edited asplashscreen.sh and removed the -b from around line 37 near OMX (that removed a black background that used to be needed to hide post text.

I had to use the command sudo chown on the directory to get write access

Great, thank you for the quick response I appreciate it!

Nothing?

I use a 2 TB USB drive. It runs right off the PI without any power issues. Entire PSX library is around 800gb. Why stop at 64? 😁

Ok!! I will try again, but I know now that the problem its my setup. Thanks!!

@mitu Thank you for the help! It didn't work, but then I got to thinking, just for the heck of it, why not take out the keyboard and dongle. That fixed everything. Thanks to the community for putting up with a noob.

I was using the power suply from my canakit and would get the shocks and yellow bolt. I switched to the offical power supply and no more shocks or yellow bolt for the last two months.

@caver01 @mediamogul Thanks for the additional testing; surely that's the reason for the issue.
Maybe @amadvance can fix this.

Libretro overlay implementation shows that it's possible to get high res overlays without affecting performance.

It would be really nice if libretro could support also backdrops.

@johnny5126 What was the complete scraper command you used?

@rbaker alright. I apologize. I'll look for help elsewhere.

for me, what I did was to display the overlay instead of box art.

Can't see it during the game, but you at least get to see it before you start the game.

@dankcushions ok. My wii madcatz fightstick is setup the way i mentioned so they at least kept with that layout on the wii. Honestly i think its retarded to have your R buttons on the left side of your L buttons. Makes no sense.

@bulletbutter no, but you could copy the relevant config files/directories over, with much the same effect. it depends what kind of things you've configured.

No I'm still using a normal pi3 although I am considering getting the 3b+. Im starting to believe that it's the actual image at fault as wrote a new official image to this card and other cards I have without issues.
The strange thing is that win32 said it was read and completed fine. But now my backed up image seems to be 'broken' and unbootable when written to cards.
Any ideas?

Thank you! I am now playing Pokemon Emerald! Thanks for helping me set this up I am so excited!!!

@darksavior Everything is possible, but strangely is, nobody else experienced this. I wonder, if i use an older backup image where it occured, if it still occures. I may test it someday and if I do, i will report here. Until then, I run around with a big question mark above my head.

@cuneyt said in How to quit game?:

I had this problem. Finally solved.

Why? Just read the documents provided