@jigidyjim

Well, this looks a little disheartening. I can't believe you would have to hardwire a shift/alt button, but I'm glad I found this thread before I went down the rabbit hole. I'm currently using a controller called the iPac and it has a mode that acts like a keyboard as well as a mode where it acts as a USB controller. There is a keymap/button configuration tool and also provides a macro setting. I'm hoping this will be the solution because I don't like the idea of getting into a situation in the future where I have hard-wired macros and the software changes the way it works. Regardless, thanks for the thread which really shortened my research time.

@mitu, perfect. Thanks for the help.

@windg Ok, thank you!

@segasonic ...and we have a winner! Thank you very much!

@muldjord said in Skyscraper appends 'T000000' to <releasedate> tag with '--flags unattendskip':

3.6.15 re-released with a fix now based on regular expression. I've tested in in various ways and it seems to work now.

Looks good. I can still break it if I try, by doing weird stuff like:

19970303T12 becomes 19970303T12T000000.

19970303T123456T000000T123456 becomes 19970303T123456T123456.

...but that's me trying to trick it on purpose. For regular use it looks to work fine: the multiple T000000's that got in there automatically, are now automatically removed, date codes with proper 6-digit time stamps are preserved, and ones without are given a single T000000 (which is then preserved.)

@alistairgd having extra loads can increase, whats called, the rise time. no power supply supplies full voltage when first turned on. I work on power supplies and The rise time can be upwards of 100ms. And while that’s a very short time, its enough time to run a few cpu clock cycles on the pi under volted. Add in the extra stuff and you may get a few more dips as those devices power up.

@mitu umm so I was trying to get the blender package and tried to update and that made my retro pie work so sorry for wasting your time 😅

@lister-of-smeg I was halfway through another process on resolving the issue when I saw this post, so I didn't get a chance to try it myself. I appreciate your help and the knowledge you shared though!

This whole mess was a lesson learned for me, so I'm on the same page with backing files up now. Copying that RetroPie-Setup folder was my first priority before running git reset --hard. Thankfully, it doesn't seem like anything broke.

@retropieuser555 Multiplayer is fine for any other emulator. Goldeneye is actually the only game in which I use lr-parallel. I understand it, it is pretty outdated, but seems to work best for this specific game.

When I attempt to play multiplayer for Goldeneye, player 2 looks fine, but the window for player 1 blinks super fast. It is definitely unplayable in this mode.

@kartillian said in No Audio but only in ES / Roms:

I now still get the error message.

This means the Audio Device is not set properly in the EmulationStation settings. Make sure you have chosen 'HDMI' as the output in the Audio settings dialog in the RetroPie menu, then configure again ES with Default/HDMI as Audio Card/Device.

EDIT: I've merged your new topic here. Please don't open separate topics for the same issue.

@mitu fixed

This was solved by using a different controller. Both sticks work fine with my new Logitech F710. The issue still exists with my generic ("Microntek") gamepad.

@mitu said in I think the latest xpad driver (Aug 14, 2021) is broken:

@windg said in I think the latest xpad driver (Aug 14, 2021) is broken:

It seems that they have fix the bug, but when I try to install the new version I have an error Failed to install xpad

They fixed the code now, can you try updating to the latest version and see if the controller(s) work ?

Yes everything is working fine now. Thanks!

@mitu Thank you very very much, that did the trick :)

I just gave up on Retropie 4 it so bad I can not do any update it just keep on trying to do update with Error so i am format the sd card and no longer installing Retropie again.

@genos98 Yes.