@mitu Forgot about this! Thanks for the reply! You're right the theme works fine with RetroPie 4.8 on the download page. I read that the theme would break....I don't dare update 4.8 though! (I may DD it beforehand and then try!).

Since you asked which theme it is (but it might be a little sketchy):

I certainly don't expect any support here for it.

Also when I installed 4.8 the slowdown when using shaders is much reduced and actually tolerable now. Happy days!

Next item on the agenda is to read up on overclocking the Pi3B+ because I wouldn't mind having run-ahead enabled.

Cheers mate!

@mitu Cool, thank you for looking into this, and I look forward to the release that will resolve this!

@ExarKunIv said in [Pi5] Videos in EmulationStation "freeze" for about 1-2 seconds when stopping:

@roslof https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/35717/emulationstation-video-previews-on-raspberry-pi-5/22?_=1726283299547

Yes it has something to deal with that version of VLC.
So a downgrade is needed

Awesome! The details in that link did the trick. Ty @ExarKunIv

I see, thanks for trying

@henk Seeing as you CRT has Scart inputs it would be a downgrade to pair it with a Composite cable when the CRT has support for RGB. Look into PI2SCART or Recalbox RGB Dual instead and save yourself the hassle and trouble.

@tiberboi Seeing as you CRT has Scart inputs it would be a downgrade to pair it with a Composite cable when the CRT has support for RGB. Look into PI2SCART or Recalbox RGB Dual instead and save yourself the hassle and trouble.

I used 2003+ and the issue went away, very happy with it:)

Do understand that it is my first foray into emulation so there are plenty of things I'm not aware of(yet).

I'm using zero because I had it for a different project that didn't need it in the end. I hate having unused stuff around me and always look for ways to repurpose them. I understand that it is not fast enough, but I think it will do for now as I've only added pac-man, arkanoid, donkey kong, galaga, Tetris, asteroids and bubble bobble, games that might not be too taxing(I hope). Before the cabin is ready I will switching all of them to 2003+ and try to play enough to see if they lag, crash etc.

Thank you all for the help, much appreciated:)

As of 2024, I can confirm that @akafox's method still works.
In our case, we had two generic SNES-like controllers and a third generic PS3-like controller plugged in.
After pressing Select-X to get into the emulator menu:
The first two controllers had many controller type options.
The third controller only had retropad available.

On controller #1, we selected 3 button + 4 way tap.

Then reset the emulation from inside the menu.
Voila, 3 players.

Anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the Vulkan drivers back on the latest update of Retroarch?

@sugarfree THANK YOU!
this is solved

never would have thought updating the retro-pie set up script was how I lost the external drive loading.
i got busy for a few days, was wondering what to do, this am I was able to get on the forum, seen others having same issue after the update of set up script, then remembered "I did that too!" I seen it's been fixed and re did the update, now i have the drive loading again.

thanks for taking the time and adding this info!
also thanks to all others who commented advice

SOLVED!!

This works, but I'll need to test across other games which hopefully will not involve more than sorting out correct button mappings. I noticed that for scummvm, its only backend options are for SDL2 and therefore will not work (as far as I can tell) with xboxdrv.

That's because ScummVM is already a SDL2 application and there's no need for a compatibility shim like sd12-compat.

It's looking to me as if xboxdrv may be a bit of a dead end when it comes to button remappings for non-libretro emulators in RetroPie. Can such remappings be done in SDL2 or is there another option that could be applied system-wide?

Not dead, just not widely used. xboxdrv itself is mostly feature complete and there's little development nowadays, since compatibility with Xbox controllers is offered OOB by Linux kernel modules (xow, xpad, xpadneo).

There are no alternative re-mapping solutions in RetroPit, though anything that works in Linux and without X11/Wayland could work.

We don't support 3rd party images, especially the ones loaded with ROMs. Please install the RetroPie image from retropie.org.uk/download and report back if you have the same issue with it.

@mitu said in Error updating to the latest version of Retroarch:

You can delete the cores folder and it the .info files will be re-downloaded on future updates.

Awesome. Thank you!

@mitu Thank you! It's working again