Hi all,

Yeah I'm using the built in Bluetooth and I'm now 99% sure that is what's been causing my problems.

I've loaded a new sd card tonight and used an wired controller and not had a single freeze.

@JeZxLee

Should do a search first, already 2 topics on this.

Here is one of them

I'm still having a few issues but most games now work

Thanks
Josh

Check this link out to fix.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/311/found-a-fix-for-deadzone-issue-on-uae4arm-amiga.

Someone familiar with this system should take a look at your changes and see if they are worthwhile for retropie as a whole.

It was the renderer. Switching to GL fixed it. Not sure how it got unset, I must have been playing in there...

Thanks!

Try to change it to default and see if it works?

Also when yo login, this is automatically presented under the Filesystem heading showing Size / Used / Avail in human readable text

Thanks dankcushions,

I had seen the Bluetooth issues on the Pi 3 and think that might have been related to some of my earlier freezes.

I think my next step it to see what power my supply is giving...

@karimi

I would recommend the following videos

Runs like a dream on pi 3 even with HD Texture packs enabled

On a 2 I'm sure with an overclock, setting the glide plugin downscaling to 640x480 it will run fine.

Just look into overclocking especially v3d_freq and bumping up gpu_mem and setting your plugin settings correctly.

@sebmc86 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

all of your answers are in the documentation.

hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_drive=2

Those should force it to use hdmi even if a monitor isn't connected at boot but you might notice the resolution isn't set right. You can look at http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video_mode_options for more fun things you can tinker with.

old megadrive roms has metadata info from copiers and use mostly *.smd extension , usually *.md and *.bin are pretty clean roms, but to make sure you used the proper ones try verify them with no-intro http://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=download

Well, I've actually tried selling it to no avail.

To top it off, getting another arcade-like controller is financially impossible for me rite now. :(

Is there no other option to make this work? Maybe a mod? Maybe gutting a regular USB controller?

@herb_fargus Ah, thanks very much, I will do that now :)

With the update it seems to have changed things...

Pot the controller in the upper left port for right now

@herb_fargus Sorry Herb, I'll delete this (assuming I can). For the record, I know you're one of the developers. Great stuff. I figured my issue out. Take care!

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

There's more than one button on a keyboard

If there is accelerated X, you can try the generic x11 target

sudo __platform=generic-x11 ./retropie_setup.sh

but I cannot offer any help on this really.

not sure if this is what @ShootHere was getting at, but I have games that won't scrape even though they're in the DB, it'd be nice if I could just input the game ID from the URL to point the scraper at the intended data.