@alistairgd said in Wired XBox Controller works in menu but not in-game:

Now, it works for P1 in some games, but as P2 in other games.

Do you have any configuration overrides for the games where the configuration is not applied ? Try removing them. If that fails, give an example of such game and maybe provide a verbose log from running the game.

@mitu Finally got it working ok with your help (THANK YOU), full upgrade using Putty worked although my laptop crashed and corrupted the SD card at around 80% of update and had to reflash it and start all over again.

But copying the two files across, then updating via putty worked in short.

Thanks,
Tom

@mitu ok, i will do just that. i will have my old image restored, update the OS and retropie, then follow the instructions in the previous thread.

@mrnoholster what happened is you updated fb-neo which requires a new rom set. The old roms are not for newer versions.
FYI. Updating arcade emulators to newer versions is risky as there is no guarantee that the update will work with your roms. Don’t update them if you have a working set of games. Most roms may be fine in if you just go up to the next update, but if you keep updating, there will reach a point where fewer and fewer roms run.

@jimiretro Usually you get a message only on errors.
If the mount command worked, then check if the roms folder is populated, then start EmulatonStation.

@mitu

thanks, after a folder search i found it.

@quicksilver dont quote me on this, but yes i UPS will help level the spikes. a surge might, but i think the choke if there is one on a surge protector will not be that big compared to a UPS

@officerdibble

I found that by editing the config.txt file that corrects it.

I used sudo nano /boot/config.txt and removed the # in front of disable_overscan=1 to enable it.

@crush ... Ok testing complete. The powered hub will work with or without the adapter pulling power from the adapter if present.

--> Shutdown Pi.
--> Add USB hub *unpowered.
--> Add USB audio.
--> Bring back up.
Result: Same odd behavior with the controller etc. on different newer hub.

-->Shutdown Pi.
--> Plug in power adapter to USB hub.
--> Turn on.
Result: Everything works as expected.

So in my case it was a voltage issue with the X-Arcade and the USB audio being on the same USB hub.

i just updated system and is on 5.10.11

If anyone uses bgm with livewire setup it seem update removes the python-pygame which is needed. (tested on another base and was ok)
So you need to reinstall manually
or use the install script to remove and re install BGM and missing package

If you use @mitu tweak in cmdline.txt
snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=1
you can set audio so mixer can work to SYSDEFAULT or HW with PCM
if you dont use this and have new default setup
you use SYSDEFAULT or HW and HDMI

NOTE
If you touched the retropie config section audio settings, go back and set to reset to default

@mitu said in Resolution/Video Mode/Aspect Ratio...:

Set your Pi to 1080p and then don't alter any configurations - you don't need to choose 1080p again in the launch menu.

This worked great, but....

I had to edit /boot/config.txt directly and tell it to ignore the resolution my tv was requesting.

This was the missing magic for your simple solution to work for me.

hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md

You can also set the resolution in the same file.

Otherwise, regardless of how I set the right resolution something was wrong with either the desktop, console, or retropie.

@mlcampbe said in Confused mapping ipac buttons to retroarch for mame:

Is there a standard retroarch <--> mame key mapping that says retroarch "a" = mame "1SW1" and so forth?

1SW1 is an ipac designation, but afaik it effectively means "mame, player 1, button 1". with that in mind, you can see what retropad button = what mame button number via observing what is displayed in the core input remapping menu: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#core-input-remapping (where you can also adjust the mapping).

please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first for more specific advice - not all mame cores have the input descriptors required for core input remapping.

@papa-roux You might want to report this in the Pegasus topic.

Fuse has a series on video filters available - scaling/simulating the video output on a TV, etc. Try one of those filters (TV x2 seem to simulate a CRT scanline display).
Not sure of Zesarux has more advanced options, you could give it a try.

Is the controller detected when RetroPie starts up ? Are you using the USB cable that came with the controller - does it work on a PC/other system ?

@gorf said in Can't get older ROM's to appear in the GUI.:

The contents of most of the directories of roms are full of .bin files. Trying to run the latest version of Mame on my laptop (Arch Linux) with a few test roms seems to be... uh, odd. It gives me a huge list of games that I don't have. And doesn't seem to see the test roms I setup.

You need to filter the list by the 'available' games, I think by default MAME will list all the games it knows about.

I've seen several people mention on this forum older versions of Mame. But the main Mame site has a LOT of older releases. I'm not sure I understand which versions I should try against. All of them? Yikes!

Matching random ROMs to a MAME release is pointless, since the ROMs don't have a version attached. The recommended method is to get the ROMs for the version supported by the MAME version you have/intend to use - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/ and the links from that page.

@efriim said in Can I Set the Disc Control Directory?:

@alphabetapie

There are other default folders that can be set maybe it is one of those. It could be non-implimented though.

I actually tried pulling the retroarch.cgf file and copying/pasting the folder I wanted it to open to to every single line that mentioned anything about a directory. That did change them all in the directory list when I loaded back into Retroarch, but disc control still defaults to the root of the main rom folder. Will have to track down the retroarch folks and ask them.

I pronounced it linux for almost 15 years and then I hear my boss call it Line-ux and I started calling it Line-ux but I like linux pronounced lin-ux like linear or my counties dispatch center name lincom.

@mitu THIS WORKED!! THANKS!!!