Looks like I accidentally fixed it.

Yesterday I bound all the hotkeys to the same button, since that seemed to be the only way to "free up" the other buttons for normal use. Today I went back through the retroarch hotkey binding menu and re-bound the hotkeys to the proper buttons. Now they work! Button presses register as normal button presses during gameplay, and register as hotkey presses when the hotkey enable butten is also pressed. I tested on a couple different systems to be sure, and it seems that all is now OK.

I have to assume that something was wonky in one of the cfg files, and even though it was showing hotkey bound in the menu, it wasn't actually bound and that caused the problem like you said. I guess the act of manually re-binding them fixed the issue.

Thanks for the help.

@mitu I loaded retropie onto the sd card, then rebooted. then I started back up and put in the USB to populate it with the folders. Then took it to my PC and added all the roms. Then plugged it back in. So no I am not running them off the USB. I just didnt know if I plugged the USB back in to add more roms, with the original roms removed, if it would remove them from the SD card

@mitu Thanks, that also was my first guess (although I mentioned it secondly ;) ), but the other options seemed probable, too.

@sturbek I dunno about turning off a USB port, but if you are using a powered hub, you could trigger that on and off via GPIO as you suggest. Nothing is built into RetroPie to do this--you're gonna have to build something from scratch.

A recent MAKE article was published with details about how to go about it with a relay:
https://makezine.com/2018/03/19/control-electronic-relays/

Thanks mitu. I didn't see that topic in my search. I'll try a few things. :)

I have a sub to emumovies.com. I wonder if I can overwrite their files to my card. I'll have to check the file names.

@rbaker Yes. They used my Pi with their set up and their set up no longer worked.

@johnny5126 I am new to Vice having only installed it over the weekend.

The video tutorial above that I used to map my joystick encouraged me to Save current settings, Save hotkeys and Save joystick map each time I made a new mapping.

I followed this advice and when I looked at the Vice config files in /opt/retropie/configs/c64, I noticed that changes were only being made to sdl-joymap-C64.vjm and not sdl-hotkey-C64.vkm which was the same as when first created.

For your maps to the virtual keyboard, for example, you should choose Save joystick map for them to persist. You can check this by looking at sdl-joymap-C64.vjm and you should see a line like 0 1 0 5 Virtual keyboard.

@chuckyp said in Games on USB-Drive are not refreshed:

@clyde not trying to make things more difficult. Just giving another option in-case he can’t get the official method to work.

And I mistook you for the TO, that's where my last paragraph about helpful details came from. :*)

@edmaul69

Pi2Scart Hat

https://pcsx2.net/getting-started.html
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/

@clyde worked like a charm... now just have to fine tune it

Thanks

I'd love to be able to use the attractmode with OSMC, but I think it isn't possible

I use OSMC for KODI and installed RetroPie via RetroSMC, which now works perfectly with Debian Stretch now that RetroPie has been worked on for Stretch

I've even tried custom scripts I found that add the attract options to emulationstation so you can switch between the different modes via the emulationstation menu but that doesn't work either as the modes don't appear on the emulationstation menu. At least not with OSMC as no menu options appear and I've never seen the 'Configure Splashscreen' option either with OSMC

@turnerl Because this is the easiest way to transfer your ROMs to the Pi system. Since this is a gaming dedicated system, it makes sense to make this operation as easy as possible.

To follow up, I purchased a Logitech F710 tonight, and what I’ve discovered is that the issue seems to be related to xinput generally. When I switched xinput off for the 710, everything suddenly worked as it should. Previously, both controllers on xinput had another issue I forgot to mention above, which was when I did the controller button configuration process, things went wonky when I got to the triggers.

Pressing the triggers would actuate twice, or sometimes not at all, forcing me to restart the config process. Switching the Logitech off of xinput fixed this issue as well as the lag/freezing problem. Obviously for now, my issue is resolved, strangely by doing the opposite of what the wiki tells me. It would be nice to be able to make xinput work properly, but unless and until that happens, I do at least have a working controller.

So... doesnt matter. i use now my gaming latop and emulationstation...

@groviar Well I know this is a super late response but here goes. I have successfully played many FDS titles from no-intro on current retropie software. I don't know how relevant this is to you today. Also atari lynx tends to require headered roms to work at least with beetle-lynx.

@hurkgt18 No, see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Nintendo-Entertainment-System/