Alright...never mind. Fixed it again. You are definitely right Buzz. Seems that my permissions keep changing or something.

I was able to fix the resolution not switching by inputting the sudo chown command followed by the ls command in putty. Without restarting my pi I went into each system runcommand menu and adjust the resolution settings.

@Pawka Had the same issue and this fixed it. Thanks!

@BuZz The procedure you suggested completely fixed the problem. The new advmame-1.4.rc contains the correct paths and /home/pi/.advance is now a symbolic link.
Thanks.

Nice i will play around with AdvanceMESS and see what I can do.

Whats with all the rom requesting crap here? It literally takes just a couple seconds on Google to find a good source or even a complete torrent romset. I don't want to sound harsh but if you really didn't figure it out on how to get them trough Google, you really shouldn't buy the Pi at all.

@Spiky strange. It works for me on auto.

I would also be quite interested to hear people's opinions and experience with this. The advanced controller mapping guide is excellent and very comprehensive for xboxdrv however the retropie wiki does seem to suggest xpad is the preferred and is even the default.

I would especially be interested if anyone has any suggestions for xpad tweaks to improve ScummVM analog control.

Thanks very much.

Oh how do I launch into Kodi first and exit to emulation station?

@PetroRie i used the wrong type of rom (.iso was supposed to be used)

Many thanks!

I tried removing the es_input.cfg and re-setting them. The controller still went up from time to time in menus so I mashed up then clear, clear then up, hold up then clear, hold clear then up a few times (I don't actually know how the clear function works). All good now :-)

@BuZz I deleted the driver though, even sudo purge sixad

@caver01 thanks for such a quick reply, I thought this might be the case, and it would make sense to do the re-wiring to suit UAE4arm, before re-mapping MAME using your config suggestion!

@dansharpy said in Completely lost- noob warning!:

ok so ive just downloaded a different rom and put it in its relevant folder so think it may have been a problem with the rom download. Thanks for your help anyway!

What was the extension of the rom file you uploaded to your Pi? Open it and see if there are more files in it.

No, I have not access samba shares via the mac before. I do have file sharing enabled. arp -a returned the following
Kxxxxxx-Mxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro:~ kxxxxxxxxxxxxx$ arp -a
? (10.xxx.x.x) at f4:3e:9d:3:65:15 on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
? (10.xxx.xxx.xxx) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
Kxxxxxx-Mxxxxxx-MacBook-Pro:~ kxxxxxxxxxxxxx$

it does not find the Pi