@simonster yes, that is exactly the problem. Thanks for the walk through!

@joykill06 Please give details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Answer the questions there, then describe what package you're trying to install and the exact error you're receiving.

@adamf4i Please do not ask for links to copyright material.

@edmaul69 darn! Was one of my favorites back in the day.

@sjlurker2018 No you type commands into the terminal or command line interface (CLI)

You can enter a terminal

Exit EmulationStation via Main Menu > Quit > Quit EmulationStation
1.1 You see now the command prompt
1.2 Enter commands via keyboard via SSH and a second PC
2.1 you enter also a terminal but this is remote
2.2 you need a second PC/Tablet.... for this

Follow the instructions I've posted you. Then we can help you further.

@mitu

i've tried that already with no luck
the resolution within the black bar will change, but it wont show the full screen

the smaller Res i go, the more the image gets cut out within the black bars (kind of like enlarging an image, or zooming in with your phone by using two fingers)
and the highest Res it will go (1920x1080 at 60hz) will not display the entire image

@project_gamer You messed up the permissions on the /etc/sudoers file. Boot the PI in safe mode and restore the permissions on the file - it should be owned by root and not by the pi user. You probably chown-ed the /etc folder to the pi user :(.

Hi,
Yes in the end I decided to get a snes-style USB controller, and it seems to be working a treat!
Sorry for the delay in replying...

awesome thank you

@mvp Please give more details about the problem - see the questions template in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What game/emulator/controller are you using ?

@spudsmctoole And for your autostate thing, I've faced exact the same effect that the option was activated! .... I've written a small script that will alter your retroarch.cfg as you want.

You can find it here: Dirty Little RetroArch.cfg writer

You can call the script to disable autostate_save feature like this

$HOME/RetroPie/scripts/SetRetroArchCfg.sh "$1" "savestate_auto_save" "true" "false"

@patientx How did you add those folders - which file ?

@mitu I prefer a small Linux installation via Live CD or USB storage device to access and modify Linux partions. ;) Do you know Puppy Linux? You can get it from here

@ianmoone1138 To just extract files to a Windows mashineDiskInternals Linux Reader is great. But please don't do cross postings - this is a bad habit.

@vodkanakas said in Linking rom folders but keeping directories:

@keigan I want them all to show up under snes system but have seperate directories.

I've tried adding both directories to es_systems.cfg but it didn't work. I'm just trying to keep the translated seperate from the us but play them from same menu. It may just have to be a folder inside of the snes rom but I thought that looked tacky. Also tried adding a system which worked but can't find/make a logo that I'm happy with lol.

Hey,

maybe take a look at this if you haven't figured it out yet

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/EmulationStation#platformscfg-edits

Inside the platform.cfg you could add this

sfc_theme="snes" sfc_platform="snes"

or whatever the proper

<platform>

and

<theme>

are.

I'm not at home, so don't have access to my Retropie to test, but thought it may work for what you need.

Alright, so I double checked photoshop and both layers are at 100% opacity with a Normal blend mode @edmaul69. The opacity is definitly set to 1.0 in the retroarch settings and yes, I do have a viewport set to the size of the transparent area of the overlay @AndrewH:

video_fullscreen_x = 1920
video_fullscreen_y = 1080
custom_viewport_width = 1440
custom_viewport_height = 1080
custom_viewport_x = 240
custom_viewport_y = 0
aspect_ratio_index = 22
input_overlay = "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/tv-old/Nintendo.cfg"
input_overlay_enable = true
input_overlay_opacity = 1.000000
input_overlay_scale = 1.000000
video_smooth = "true"
video_scale_integer = "false"
video_shader_enable = "false"
video_font_size = "16"
video_message_pos_x = 0.17
video_message_pos_y = 0.06

@edmaul69, I'll try using two overlays but I have a feeling I'll either get none or it'll display only the first one that appears in the cfg file.

This isn't about RetroPie directly, but it is about EmulationStation. The most up-to-date version of that seems to be managed by the RetroPie organization, which is why I posted here.

Thanks for the pointers, everyone. I don't have much time to dig much more into this right now, but if I end up finding a good solution I'll post back on the forums in case anyone else is interested in something similar.

@psyke83 thanks my dude im still really new