@omission229 The question should not be will it work, in electronics the question should be how can I make this work? The only limiting factor is your drive to learn and how much work you want to put into a project.

I got it all working and wrote up notes on what I had to do in this post.

@emulatre71 Thanks for the info.

I ended up just connecting to my Pi via wifi and just selecting/deleting after searching for the correct folders. :)

@pjft i hear you but there must be a diferrence in the dev code
as 2.9.4 installed handles extensions ok
but dev not and its just the binary changed

I havent looked more into the ES dev as i have removed it when discovered the extension prob and needed to work on something else.
Latest weird thing happens now , is that video snaps dont play sound unless OMX HW is enabled. Videoscreensaver has no sound whatever i tried. I m using 2.9.3 at the moments as its the last ES that I can start the game from VSCR.

Im checking one at a time but everytime something fixed something else happens. I have latest OS updates, April FW
Ill post more. I ll put back 2.9.6 to do more testing on the sound things

PS i ll test more ES dev but that extensions prob displays rom counts and roms incorrectly

@mitu Yes, it is!

So I thought I had better post to say that I solved my own problem. I had to get sync from SCART pin 19 on the Pi2SCART's female connector, not pin 20. I did not know about male SCART leads swapping pins 19 and 20. I hope this post might help somebody else out one day.

@landyvlad yes. There's a menu item at the top of the optional packages to do that.

@2play also, please share your es_systems file here, debug logs, and while you're at it find other files with the same name on your system.

The link I shared earlier should help troubleshoot though.

@sirhenrythe5th said in Change Order that Systems are Displayed on Home Screen:

So that means that even if you get the sorting managed as you like it to be, "Favourites" will be displayed between "E" and "G".

I think the collections are shown first, then the normal systems. So any collections will show up before any actual systems.

I will try to use pastebin, but as i only have a smartphone and the Pi itself i have to tinker a little bit :)

You can post from the command line:

curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io < $HOME/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg`

OK I fixed it! I went bleeding edge & downloaded retropie-buster-4.7.12-rpi4_400.img.gz and for whatever reason I was able to connect using the raspi-config script - I just entered my county code, SSID & password. So from my vantage point something got tweaked (eeprom update?) in the network setup routines in V4.7.1 - because it was working several months ago....

Thank you everybody for your help!

@folly Thanks, I always read this topic, I like to walk around it and I always see interesting things.

@pedrovay2003 well the keys were leaked many years ago. Possible that they are in there. Or they have some hackey way of decrypting like the programs that will extract a clean iso from a bought pbp.
You may be the one of the very few people to attempt to run a DRMed file in an emulator, because for the most part, it should not work.
Also beetle-psx is practically the same emulator as mendafins.

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So this what I have. The grid actually works and all I really need to do now is add in all the Metadata and positioning of everything. I used <autoLayout>1 5</autoLayout> under imagegrid to specify how many columns I have as well as how many games are shown in the grid. Anyway, thanks again for the help, even though I ended up figuring it out for myself. At least I know that what I did matched your suggestion to a T.

@sirhenrythe5th Thanks for your reply. I will check the dreamcast version.
For the arcade one I'll then use latest mame via Retroarch on my i5 USFF PC.

@therealtitleist said in USB Ports not working Retropie 4.7.1 / Raspberry Pi4B:

Does that point to a hardware failure?

Most likely yes.

Check if you have Subscribed to a category from the forum and remove the subscription. I see you've set all categories to 'Watched', you might want to remove that also. The forum will automatically set any topic you reply or open to 'Watched'.

@greenhawk84 The line you're looking for is "video_font_enable." What FroyoXSG recommended doing is going to RetroPie -> RetroArch from the main system-select menu. Then, when the RetroArch menu pops up, you can go to

Settings -> On-Screen Display -> On-Screen Notifications

In there, "On-Screen Notifications" are the little text messages you see at the bottom of the screen, while "Graphics Widgets" are those more elaborate boxes telling you about remap and other files being loaded. You can set each to "OFF." I'm not sure what the corresponding line in the config file for the widgets is.