@mfreshwater the sd card is 64GB and I installed retropie from the official website and extracted the files and reformatted the SD card.

@Brunnis Wow that was very in-depth, glad there are more educated people than me looking into this kind of stuff. All my tests were done using slow motion iphone video with side by side comparisons, not very accurate in the technical sense. Thanks for the extra info!

@miramanee said in Original Arcade Feeling 15Khz:

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http://sommerp.net/doku.php?id=raspberry_pi_arcade

Interesting. RetroRGB recently made a video about the RGB-Pi and ArcadeForge Pi2scart

ok ty

Not really anything to do with your problem but those are not Sanwa buttons just that you know.
Most won't really care but if you are into arcade sticks or arcade machines then you'll know the quality differences.
There are no Sanwa buttons that look like that and I guess they'll feel different when pushed. Look it up on google, search for OBSF-30 and you'll see what i mean.
I myself own 2 self build arcade sticks and I bought Seimitsu and Sanwa buttons and sticks and they cost way more then that set price.
For 33 GBP you could probably get 10 buttons. Looking at the sellers info...no surprise, China.

Like I said not that most mind but once you have used quality stuff you won't get satisfied with that and it kinda angers me that they actually write Sanwa Push button in the title description.

parallel doesn't replace glupen at all. parallel is the new name for lr-mupen64plus (which you weren't previously using). lr-mupen64plus is now a fork of glupen. your saves should work on that. @jdrassa 's link explains all.

@mfreshwater

Thanks for your response.

You're welcome

And I just read your second link and that looks like exactly what I need to know. I hope that all the buttons correlate with the games like they should but that helps a ton! I will give those a shot tonight.

Also there are some Video Tutorials further down on that same document that might be of some help as well.

You can see which emulator you are using from the Runcommand screen (which is what pops up for a couple seconds when you first launch a game). If you have more than one emulator for a system install, you can change the emulator from the Runcommand. Here are the documents about Runcommand:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/

@simmy Hello i too have problem with 3H arcade 2Players controller. up and left not working. One think i can manage is to have 2 players configured. You need to insert at the end quirks line in /boot/cmdline.txt file. :

usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e0:0x040

This entry enable 2 players in retropie.
But unfortunatelly left and up is not working at all.
In recalbox and windows everything works ok
I have found some info in this thread :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4361/20-pin-xin-mo-wiring-diagram-set-up/7
Maybe this is a solution.
I cannot test it right now. Can someone test if changing pins can help ? Is P1 & P2 sides of the board Pin 2 and 4 are dead. ?
Any help ?

Thanks ! I'll try that and report back with more details if not working.

@Spl1ff Thanks for the kind words. Admin buttons are extremely handy. As you probably noticed, I have five, which is a lot I know. One is for EXIT, two is for PAUSE, three and four are for volume control, and five is power button around the back of the case. Not everyone agrees with this, but I would never build an arcade panel without some obvious way for users to exit at minimum. Pause is a bonus, as is volume.

ive just managed to get this working by half following what you did and adding in some bits.
ok
1)install drivers in the same way you did, but after configure,itll do it for 2 snes pads just accept that for now,
2 ) add your db9_gpio_rpi to modules as you did ( -the map)
3) added a db9.conf (db9_gpio_rpi map=4,0)file to modprobe.d/ folder

that was it

im pretty new to this so hop that does it for you as well ?

@edmaul69
So there are "stand alone" emulators (like dosbox) and libretro emulators. The feature of overlays only come with the libretro ones, I guess.

I found in git a libretro-dosbox (unfortunately I was not able to compile it out of the box on my pi...)
https://github.com/libretro/dosbox-libretro

I will try again...

@tygr20 We're here to help!

@zden Have you tried lowering the audio sample rate in the RetroArch GUI? Do this then restart ES.

Buzz, you were right mate. Lowered the clock speed from 1400 to 1200 and lr-mame2014 installed. Trying 2016 now as well, not expecting any issue.
I didn't have any issues running games at 1400, but it must have been a bit to high to be perfectly stable for compilation.

Thanks again mate.