I've cloned my 8gb to a 64gb with win32diskimager, after that you can expand the partition with easuspartitionmanager.
It works great ;)

@cyperghost thank you. That solved it. I set a permanent automount point for my HDD, then deleted my existing roms folder as I had no plans to store any on the pi SD card. Symlinked to the folder and I was good to go!

Is the pi connected to a LAN? I'm asking it because you can connect to to it via SSH and investigate what is happening. Maybe your bro needs to configure port forwarding in his router to let you connect to his pi...

@Kvitekvist said in Root Password prevents SSH and WinSCP:

@meleu So, press F4 + Any key, then: sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config to undo the changes i did? Is this the right steps to get there?

I'm not sure if this was the only change you have made, but it seems the right thing to do.

BTW: Pressing F4 only is enough to exit emulationstation.

If your gamelist.xml is being over written you can check to see if you have "save meta data on exit" enabled (press your start button and go to 'settings' If I recall coreectly). If you do not disable it, emulationstation will overwrite your manual XML entries. Turn it off before you jump to prompt or ssh in to edit your game list.xml. You will also need to restart in order for your manual entriesnto appear as well.

I assume you're trolling me. I think I put it on Kiosk mode. I tried your Konami code, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. -_-

I should mention...I did that for about 10 seconds before realizing vfat sucks and committing the drive to ext4. Same principle though.

@meleu yeah. I call the retropie menu "settings" because the carbon had a gear logo on it and i named it settings in my theme.

This one can be marked as solved. I unplugged my wireless xbox receiver and the controller started working. I guess even though the xbox controller wasn't on just having the receiever plugged in cause it to choose that controller first and blocked the wii controller.

Well, thanks anyway all, I've managed to get it working.

Word of warning btw if you ever try that ES "kiosk/kid mode" branch, when you uninstall it, it gets rid of the whole of emulation station :(

Still, looking forward to how that branch progresses.

Great that did the trick, runs very well too.

@shanet94 unfortunately I'm a little dim when it comes to these types of things. I'd love to be able to help but I feel at this point a chocolate tea pot would be more help :) thanks again for your help.

i will try that, originally I chose it because of a few roms that seemed to work better with mame4all,

thanks for the tip I will try it for a while.

no probs! glad it's working on the new install at least.

I'm having the same issue with my n64 games with a pi3 as well

You need to keep them in a .zip format

I was extracking them and you just leave the file in a .zip format and put them in the correct rom location

Also I'm having issues with my x box controler not working with the meme games
When I hit Start Select I can't get out. I have a keyboard hooked up so I can get out but the controls are off for all my games I have tested so far

OK, the gdi to chd program worked, it just expects exact naming, i.e. track01.bin, track02.raw, track03.bin, etc