@Zigurana Thanks for the feedback. I ended up dumping all roms into the default folder for that system. I'm only using Kiosk mode and I found that after doing (ANOTHER) clean install of Retropie 3.8.1 and installing the ES-kid experimental package directly afterwards, I was able to change into Kiosk mode from the ES front end this time without ES crashing. The crashing on my previous install could have been attributed to something else that was done in RP / ES.
I think placing all roms in the default system folder is a small price to pay for a great feature like Kiosk mode. Glad to keep testing this experimental package and will continue to report on any bugs found along the way. Keep up the good work.

@Floob said in RetroPie automatic reconnect at all times with 8Bitdo bluetooth remotes:

Just a note to say that RetroPie now supports automatic re-connection of Bluetooth devices:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1905/retropie-3-8-bluetooth-configure-issue/18

Wow! I'm watching it right now. I'm curious did my question help at all or was it just ironic timing on my part? I'm guessing I shouldn't follow the steps shown now that I have made everything work.

I found my roms in a bicycle shop in Cairo. The owner wanted them taken down to Dar es Salaam...

I have renamed the topic - Please use descriptive titles that illustrate the problem and not things like "I'm new and need help". Imagine if every post was like that - the forum would be unusable.

@kris964

I would be greatly surprised if you couldn't get it working.

@Steve said in Xbox 360 Controller defaults to analogue stick.:

No that doesn't work because the D Pad is not functioning in-game - just in the User Interface.

in the tab menu did you configure player 1 left/right/etc, not just the UI control left/right/etc? from memory they are different.

@Cole_48 said in Adding homemade games:

Is there a way to do this without serious knowledge of Retropie

Why so serious? ;)

You'd need to know how to add a menu to Emulation Station, as well as how to make use of launch scripts. I can't imagine it being one tenth the difficulty of creating your own Python games. Here's a link to a few people discussing the specifics...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/2wi6ud/adding_a_new_option_and_theme_on_the/

@adamspc said in Shutdown with keypress:

Do you know whether the script uses much CPU power to run in the background?

Any software solution to something like this is going to take the tiniest amount off the CPU, but it's negligible. I tend to doubt there would be a game that even saw a drop in frame rate here, but I guess there's always that possibility. For your purposes, a hardware solution may be the best answer.

That cleared it. Thanks much, I was scratching my head since I assumed "image write ok" meant I could rely on it. Guess not.

bumping my question I miss my c64 and it was working so beautifully!

So i've been experimenting with no luck so anyone got any ideas I am guessing i have to manually edit the vkm and vjm files but i dont really follow the format totally so even if someone could help with that i would really appreciate it.

There must be some other 8bitdo C64 fans out there ???

Many thanks

Paul

Thank you for the reply but I ended up restoring from a backup. I know I did set the retroarch.cfg in the RGUI to save cfg upon close when this happened. This issue kept happening on anything I ran. Its not a big deal for me now but I am not sure if doing something like I did causes an issue. Either way I am up and working now. Thanks.

Oops, sorry about that. Thanks for moving it.

@rdm190

This problem really seems to defy all conventional wisdom, but before you give up, we don't we try mapping the controller directly from inside the RetroArch gui. If you're up for it, go to the RetroPie menu in Emulation Station and launch the 'RetroArch' listing. From there, go to 'Settings' and then 'Configuration'. Enable 'Save Configuration on Exit' and then work your way back and quit RetroArch. When back at Emulation Station, launch RetroArch again and go back to 'Settings'. This time, go to input and finally, 'Input User 1 Binds'.

Make sure the 'User 1 Device Index' is set to your controller and then look for a listing named 'User 1 Bind All'. Select that and you will then be prompted to move through a mapping process very similar to what was seen in Emulation Station. When you finish, work your way back to the first menu in RetroArch and select 'Save Current Config' just to be safe and then quit RetroArch.

Now, all that is left is to test a RetroArch emulator to see if the controller and mappings are recognized. Two things to remember, if this does work, is that it is simply sidestepping whatever mapping problem you are experiencing in Emulation Station and not resolving it. Also, these mappings are obviously only for RetroArch emulators. If it still doesn't work, there are a few more things we can try, but it'll involve a lot of backseat troubleshooting, as there is no obvious reason why you're experiencing these issues. In any event, I wish you luck.

That's happened to me before and it connected fine after a reboot. Could you try that?

Another note, at some point when disconnecting and reconnecting my N64 controller, the custom settings I set were overwritten. Not sure why this happened, I do not want these settings overwritten.

Is there a way to set the InputAutoCfg.ini file for n64 to read only so that only I may edit it?

In the meantime, I redid my process, and made a backup copy of my file, so if it happens again I can easily replace the file with my settings.

@laxattack

I figured out that it is reading as js0 due to me plugging in my xboxone controller.

Wow, that is indeed a strange issue. I'm surprised just removing the controller didn't solve the problems as the jsX listings are supposed to disappear afterward. Assuming this was the problem, you might still continue to run into the same issue if you don't first consider the order in which you plug your controllers. I believe the order in which the usb ports are read at startup is upper left, lower left, upper right, lower right. If these controllers are plugged in after the system has booted, you should also remember to plug in each controller in order of the desired player number.

@Gators
Not sure what search engine you are using but if I use google for rom set 0.78 I can find a link in about 1 second.

I have 37b5 rom set for Mame and all the games I have tried so far have worked straight from the zip file including frogger without any sound issues. Not tried donkey kong as yet.

Cheers

Paul

@sparecycle said in Questions on saving state with Xbox 360 controller:

I'm attempting to save state on SNES with Xbox 360 controller. I've seen a few different hotkey assignments from the GitHub documentation and in various forums.

such as? there's really only one thing that's worth reading - the official documentation :) https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration#default-joypad-hotkeys

Is save state enabled by default on RetroPei?

yes, if you use a libretro/retroarch emulator. lr-snes9x-next is one of those, and that's the default snes emulator, so...

What Xbox 360 buttons should I be using to save state? I've been trying select + L1, select + L2 and select + Left D-Pad which leads to my next question...

see above link. that does presume you configured your controller correctly, mind.

Is there any form of on-screen confirmation that the state was saved?

yes. yellow text appears at the bottom.