@barbudreadmon @mahoneyt944 Sage advice from both. Thank you again for taking the time to help!

@mitu @mitu
Sorry for the late reply, I didn't get notified for some reason.
I ended up using WinSCP, but I prefer it much less than the file share.
I'll try the registry fix and will report ASAP

@davindersangha @churchill7

Tried it. Didn't work. Just too unstable and some of the keys just didn't match up.

Next solution is to dismantle the old Atari joystick and replace the insides with joystick and controller. Need something quite small though, as the existing arcade ones seem to be a bit too big.

So, the plan is. Dismantle the joystick, have the standard single button and directional stick in the joystick, but on the controller board I would add some extra "buttons" connected to the Reset, etc. switches on the Atari machine to map with Start and Select and Back.

Most likely the .xml you created is not correct. If you look in the es_log.txt logfile (you can find it in \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation) you'll see any errors from parsing the gamelist.xml (careful, not gamelink.xml).

Post the gamelist.xml on pastebin.com to take a look.

Get a verbose log from lr-picodrie - see here how to enable it during startup - and post the log file contents on pastebin.com.

@kyussgaming
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/
here is the methods of getting roms to the pis sd card
or probably the best way is to use an external USB drive and its just plug and play using this method
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/

@kylelgamer420 please fill out all of https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

i presume you're not actually running retropie, because we use retroarch v1.8.8

@johnl52
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/

Many games from the last 30 years or so on consoles have guides, walkthroughs, cheat codes that can all be found there. Most of the time, a walkthrough will explain the controls for a game.

Another trick if you want to see what the instructions that came with the game look like, you can google "[name of game] manual scan".

@jmcdra I must have fixed something. It works

@popegg235 said in Can't find Drastic emulator for ds:

can anyone tell me what's the name of the drastic emulator in the retropie setup script and where i find it????

The name is drastic, it's in the experimental packages section.

@mitu i'm back if you're still here for some reason...
i tried again for the log.
here it is: https://pastebin.com/U96FjKBt

Thanks. Much appreciated.

@akamming I’m in the same boat as you as far as running an ipac2 in redream. I can’t seem to configure my input for more than one controller per port. Can you please walk me through how to get it up and running. I did read what you did for a workaround but I’m pretty new to the raspberry pi and found it a little hard to understand. Thanks in advance!

@mitu
I've never tried before to install 2016 before yesterday. I just recently finished getting the matching romset and wanted to give it a go.

I'm reading the PR and I see there is a potential fix but it hasn't been incorporated into libretro if I'm reading this right. I'll see if I can work out how the fix can be incorporated but I'm still learning the terminology workings of github.

@mitu argh! Fantastic - thank you! It was indeed the incorrect x character. 2 Player Virtual Fighter on the arcade cabinet here I come

@tango said in SDCard Unreliable - Move all RP to USB card? Or fix SD?:

Or does it do that because I have no boot sector or boot programs on my USB stick?

If you haven't programmed the OTP bit for USB boot, the Pi will always boot from sdcard.

@jambo069 said in Flycast hotkeys for retroarch:

So should I just delete the retroarch cfg and see how it goes?

Rename the retroarch.cfg from the dreamcast system (/opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast) and then immediately re-install lr-flycast, this will re-create the default configuration for the system.

There is some configuration that can be done by modifying the ALSA configuration file ($HOME/.asoundrc), but looks complicated and there's no 'one-size-fits-all' solution (depends on the devices present on the system).

You could try installing PulseAudio and configure the module-combine for simultaneous output.

@yfzdude said in Should i get Debian x64 ?:

@crush
Dolphin does require a 64-bit operating system. To fix that you need to reinstall using the x86-64 or amd64 version of the installer or image.

When any documentation here mentions x86 it is simply using it as a term to indicate PC/Laptop hardware as opposed to ARM based hardware.

Ok thanks, i had misunderstood then, and you're right, it works fine now on the x64 distribution.