@herb_fargus said in Mehstation?:

If it's any encouragement there is currently more active development on mehstation than there is with emulationstation

It's good news for sure, looks like a great frontend. Hope it makes it's way to RetroPie at some point. :)
Thanks for the quick replys Herb.

IT WORKS!

I went back to using a configuration file (the same one I posted earlier, I'd backed it up to a folder outside the pi) and used the hotkey configs that Floob had mentioned in his post, and it works! Emulator quitting and all.

Thank you all kindly for your help and support.

@wetriner I'm really sorry, but can you give me step by step instructions on that? I don't want to F anything up after I've came this far...

@JoargTheBard

Unfortunately this won't work with the simple-dark theme currently, because the genesis and megadrive themes contain exactly the same images as I mentioned above. If you change es_systems.cfg you will just get the same images on that theme. Not the case for other themes though, which do have different megadrive and genesis imagery.

thanks buddy

@jmebd said in Can't get Kodi to run with Retropie 3.7:

I ended up ssh'ing into mine and "sudo apt-get remove kodi" then "sudo apt-get update", "sudo apt-get upgrade" then finally "sudo apt-get install kodi" and it finally let me boot to kodi but had that move to the left ordeal going on still with the kodi dashboard and freaking out acting like it exited out of kodi and reloaded it. Played wack-a-mole with a keyboard holding down the right cursor until I could get it timed right to push cursor down and was able to get into settings, input, and disabling the "joystick and gamepad" entry in kodi and now it's acting fine....just not with the 360 controller......BUT....I never did any manual keymapping (editing anything to set what keys did what because I didn't understand all of that yet).

So, the stuff above able to actually let me and others use the 360 controllers without any crazyness going on now?

Move your /home/pi/.kodi folder to "start fresh" and see if it isn't any problem with your current settings.

Also the problem with XBOX 360 controllers was already fixed. You just need to reinstall Kodi via the Experimental Menu.

ok thanks, got it!

So mine maybe just a timing and mis-config. I had some left over .cfg files from when I set up the controller via the USB cable. I wiped those out and all appears to working now. (Well almost. The controller doesn't work in any of the games.)

Pulled down a config from:
https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/blob/master/udev/8Bitdo-SNES30-GamePad-Bluetooth-Mode(START).cfg

Works.

You will need to wait until that version of the firmware is packaged up (Unless you want to risk using rpi-update)

@RetroTARDIS Raspian Wheezy is no longer supported, Please backup and perform a fresh install

I would do as it says.

@dankcushions said in Mame help:

@Meneer-Jansen you're going to make me link to the wiki again, aren't you? :) that answers all your questions: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

the full mame 0.78 romset is 8GB.

Ooops! Indeed al the info I need is there. Now all I have to do is to get RetroPie working again. It seems like my SD card has been corrupted for the n-th time (topic link).

Thanks @glennlake . I too am worried I might overheat my pi. I have heatsinks, but that is about it. I decided I will plug my Monitor into the control socket and the Pi into "Constant", speakers into the slaved sockets. I am going to install a power button onto the pi and the monitor has auto sleep mode. So when the pi is turned on the screen comes on and that triggers the speakers. When I turn off the pi, the tv goes into low power mode, shutting down the speakers. That's my plan anyway.

@dankcushions Ah thanks for looking into it already! It does add to the nostalgia for sure, hope it can be implemented at some stage :)

add "usbhid.quirks=0x289b:0x0002:0x040" (without quotes) to the end of the line in /boot/cmdline.txt. it will split the controller into two. Check out anything about the Xin-mo arcade controller to get more info, a lot of the same stuff applies

i have 4 controllers attached to all 4 ports my powered hub but i occasionally plug controllers into the pi itself (i have 1 spare USB on that), and it's fine. all the ports are the same AFAIK.

Great work :)