@edmaul69 thanks for the quick reply

@Dochartaigh not that I know of.

@meleu yes! weird isn't?

@Goosebuster hey. I got it to complie and work but i only changed it to set up the dead zone for the analog stick and so far all the games i have tired have worked fine

@Rey no such thing as a pi3 B+. Just get the standard pi 3.

Some links here: https://retropie.org.uk/documentation/building-your-own-retropie-machine/

Thanks BuZz! Yea...this is so my bad. I assumed since the Raspberry Pi I ordered from Amazon a while ago, since it was called Raspberry Pi "2" B+, was part of the 2/3 generation. But, after reading about the 0/1 vs 4 raspberry icons displaying, and not paying attention to that during boot, downloaded the 0/1 image file, and everything is working fine!

Again, sorry for being a goof and letting that one slip right by me...

Thank you all for the fast responses! I will be working on obtaining a faster Raspberry Pi in the mere future.

~Hugh

@johnnyskullhead

Does a micro SD with retropie on it need to sit in the pi still ?

After imaging a new SD card the HDMI picture came back on my monitor and all is good in the world.

In case anyone has this problem and looks at this post in the future...

If you have no signal on your monitor theres no green flashing light (data read activity) next to the red light (power) on your RPi circuit board your SD card is bad - re-image another one and you will get your signal back on your monitor.

After trying the XML files here I still have not got the wired controller working.

It does stop auto moving which makes the app and keyboard usable but I would still love to get the xbox controller working with Kodi.

I didn't mention that Kodi did not come out on the the main screen of ES even after multiple times going through the simple process.

I also didn't mention I got Kodi working and then tried to get Kodi on the main ES screen and it didn't work and Kodi stopped working with the controller, I have no idea why but even when I un do the steps taken to move Kodi it still does not work with the controller.

@megido https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Try getting different roms.

Turned out i was missing cue files:)

@BuZz all right, bought a new one, waiting for it to arrive.

but the "flash" signal shouldn't be appearing then?

So i set the keyboard to disable caps lock completely for now with:

XKBOPTIONS="caps:none"

So if i cant swap with the meta key i am just going to leave it like this and replace the click on/off key with a standard key that the rest of the buttons use so it never gets stuck "down" which makes the number keys be f1-f10 and makes the "-_" key and the "+=" keys plus some others unuseable when the caps lock key is down. That way if i need an fkey i will hold down the caps lock key but it wont stay locked so i dont have to worry about it being stuck in that mode

That did the trick. Thanks!

Found the issue... I guess somewhere along the line (before I loaded ROMS), I modified this - "Parse gamelists only" ... all good for now!

@robfilmmaker

I dont know how to downgrade my retropie. I dont have a pc so can only do it through terminal with internet connection, i dont think thats pissible :/