The Infocom games save and restore games using direct block access on the disk. This means you can use any disk image for saves. The saves won't show up in the directory. In fact, one of the save positions will overwrite the directory itself, so the directory will look all garbled.

This means you need to emulate a 1541 (or a 1541-II) and load a blank disk image into the drive. After a save to position 1, the disk image will still appear blank, but it won't be.

Hi all,
So just to clarify you are saying its possible to:

Disable the overscan via raspi-config to get rid of the black border Enable the overscan_scale=1 in config.txt

I did these steps but ES still had its own ideas. Could I use the manual settings in config.txt for the left, right, up, down etc values to re-centre it. I also noticed that with overscan disabled my MAME games get cut off at the top a bit as well.

Is there a preferred option I should be setting the display settings to in the rasp-config. I have a 55"4k Display.

Thanks,
Dwarfboysim

I recommend this thread also, for info about the different MAME versions on RetroPie, which games run best at what core, etc.

Unbelievable! THIS is how it should have been done from the start!

I've moved ALL configs over to the usb drive now and it easily shaves 8 secs off of boot time. The 4 raspberries screen used to sit longer. Now they are gone within 4-5 secs before loading my custom animation movie (which is still on the microsd). But everything else is on the usb drive now

I mounted dev/sda1 to /media/usb0 as I only plan on having a single usb flash drive in the system. I replaced the following directories with symlinks: /opt/retropie/configs to /home/pi/RetroPie/configs /etc/emulationstation to /home/pi/RetroPie/etc/emulationstation /home/pi/RetroPie to /media/usb0

As there are some symlinks within those folders, I simply renamed to the one I use. So for example in the download_images folder, "genesis" was symlinked to "megadrive", So I just removed genesis as all my roms use megadrive folder structures.

Now I can edit config files by simply inserting the usb drive into my windows computer and editing them, then simply pop the usb back in to see the changes. Plus I have all the theme settings, scraped images, etc all on the faster drive (usb much faster than microsd) so things like all the game images load much faster.

This leaves the microsd all but isolated to do just the core system work. I used to load my custom startup movie from USB too, but found that during startup, a lot of times the usb drive isn't ready yet so the video only played 30% of the time. Moving it to the microsd allowed it to be ready to go and plays everytime now.

I would definitely recommend doing this for power users but really I would recommend this for new users too as it is much easier to wrap your head around things when the data is all in one location.

I have not yet tried the readonly script, but I was more concerned about this part working first and it works even better than hoped! Long live the symlink!

@ryanh1323 no retroarch settings only work in libretrocores. All emulators that start with lr- are libretrocores. If you had two libretro emulators like lr-fceumm and lr-nestopia for nes then all settings in the retroarch.cfg for nes would work on both. However core settings are different and only work on that core

@herb_fargus said in Modified retropie sold with case, relevant emulators & no games:

@markwkidd let's not have this discussion again.

If someone posts here in good faith about copyright and licensing and is getting FUD responses, I'm probably going to try to address the FUD.

It's my personal goal in 2018 not to post the same thing in the same intellectual property thread more than once even if it seems no one understands what I'm saying (as we all have been tempted to do I'm sure). On the other hand, if a new poster comes around in good faith like this one who hasn't seen those prior conversations, then yes, I am going to point out what has been omitted by other posters including hyperbole like I did above if no one else will.

Dude! You're the best! Thank you so much!

how do i make it full screen? my tv is 4:3 640x480 and i see two black bars one on top and one on botton! i want to stretch it

thank you

@nevsan I find winscp to be the best way via ssh

@clyde many thanks.

@bobharris is it?

I posted a help article that explains how to edit a config file to force Ir-mame2003 MAME games that use trackball or dial control to use the mouse (in this case, Arcade-X Trackball) that may help:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15819/setup-retroarch-to-redirect-mame-games-that-use-dial-and-trackball-to-arcade-x-tankstick-trackball

Also, I would avoid using a USB hub. I used a third party case that used a USB hub and trackball on the X-Arcade would not work. When I plugged the mouse into its own USB port on the Raspberry Pi, the Arcade-X trackball started to work. I still had to edit the config file to get other games to work that used a dial controller (Tempest, Kickman, etc.), but pluggin the Arcade-X Trackball USB cable into a USB hub and not directly into a USB port on the Raspberry Pi caused issued.

@rafo254 R6EA6PE6R
Wire up the mode button . I am using the CY-822B USB led-joystick controller board . The mode button switches the joystick to point of view hat ( on my pc ) . For some reason this works ? acts like a d-pad mabey ? . So far switching the mode button back and forth even in game works . I was about to give up on Daphne too.

@shay90 gpsp needs a bios. Without it nothing will run

@thadoctor72 yeah most controllers that only have a dpad have an axis. No biggie there. The controller is probably just an absolute piece of junk.

@rak7145 said in RetroPie won't boot on Raspberry Pi 3:

I encountered an error numerous times that said Etcher couldn't locate the disk

I haven't had this happen myself though it's possible there's something up with your SD card/ SD card reader. There are lots of shady eBay SD sellers, I try and stick with reputable sources, if you have another microsd laying around might be worth trying and if for some reason it's etcher you can try win32diskimager instead to rule that out as well though I personally have never had issues with etcher.

If above fails also try diff HDMI if possible but I wouldn't necessarily go buying all sorts of new hardware until I've tried every software fix.

@edneyhelene said in Cant install ppsspp emu on raspberry retropie!:

error: unable to write file linux/aarch64/lib/libavcodec.a
error: unable to write file linux/aarch64/lib/libavformat.a
error: unable to write file linux/aarch64/lib/libavutil.a
error: unable to write file linux/aarch64/lib/libswresample.a
error: unable to write file linux/aarch64/lib/libswscale.a
fatal: cannot create directory at 'linux/armv7': No space left on device

Had to free more than 9gb of space to compile it...lol