I'm happy to announce that I have discovered the source of my problem.
So, I checked the key map file (/opt/retropie/emulators/vice/lib/vice/C64/sdl_sym.vkm) and I had found in its last line this:
0 -3 1
which is the 'second RESTORE key' responding to the scan code 0. I don't know what does the 'second restore' mean, and I'm not sure what the 0 scan code stands for. I guess it somehow connected with the 'do nothing' action in the joy-map file (which is also 0 coincidentally).
Commented out this line and now I can shoot clouds with Loco, I can fire happily with WoW (which definitely stands for Wizard of Wor and not that new stuff), and... and I'm a happy man!

Thanks for reading!

Hi Pifan :)

Yep, it's the same project! But as much as I like the idea, things are not looking very promising so far. All solutions available are way too rigid it seems.

I am new to everything here. I did know about the key combination but assuming I don't it's a lot safer :P

I don't really need that many keys though. I do find it more elegant to have a dedicated key for the most used commands like save, load, quit/close and turn on/off. But another way of doing this is taking advantage of the key combination feature and wire a button that triggers the combination internally, no need for messing with software settings. Then I don't need to find a freakish control with more keys than usual.

@BuZz said in Disable all Console Text:

I haven't used attractmode yet - can't advise. You should ask @floob perhaps if you are using his image.

No I complied my own image since his has some issues on the RPi3, well on my testing anyway.
And I did ask on the AM forum but no reply. It's still running on the Retropie image along with EmulationStation, I can switch between the 2 by dropping back to the console.
Just when Advmame loads a rom it drops to the console , it's fine if no one knows how to hide the console after the frontend loads I can live with it. Just thought I would ask. ;)

Excellent, I'll check this out.

Looks like it might have been a bad rom and I needed a better power cord... Replaced both and now it works.

@Rascas said in 8bitdo fc30 pro does not work in kodi:

In Kodi 16, you were suposed to configure only the d-pad, so only 4 axis lines with the corresponding ids of your d-pad. Something like this:
https://github.com/HerbFargus/kodi-joypads/blob/master/keymaps/retrolinksnes.xml

In Kodi 17 you have to activate the Joystick Support in the peripheral addons. If after that your joystick still doesn't work, you have to report it upstream since I didn't touch the joystick support in Kodi 17.

sorry for taking for ever to try this stuff out just been a little busy.

in kodi 16 i have tried every single combination of axis and still was not able to get the dpad to work. i may just wait until version 16.2 as i can still navigate through the menu even though it's not ideal.

in kodi 17, the peripheral addon for joystick was enabled but the "configuration attached controllers" is still greyed out. I guess i'll have to report it upstream.

Interesting, I've kinda been deleting roms that I don't like as I go but it's so hard to keep track which ones I've wiped out. I guess those images aren't that big so probably not too much of an issue. It would be a cool clean up option though for a scraper to delete orphaned data.

Copy wrong forum.

The rest of my graphics are great to my eyes that's why I searched for gba graphics prior to posting this thread. Just my gba graphics are ugly so was hoping for some suggestions ie run command options or whatever else.

@kris33 Did you follow this guide?
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation

@Abs Thanks for your answer! I wasn't even aware of the fact that EmulationStation also came for PC itself. Pretty silly that I didn't look into this. Cheers!

@TheStrayMongrel
You only have to worry about breaking links between clone and the parents with arcade games, as opposed to console games.
If you wanted you could filter out all clones using a tool like romlister
https://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

This also helps explain it a little
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/docs/htm/merger.htm

@Meneer-Jansen said in Performance Problems - Raspberry PI 1 Model B+:

Oops. I meant disconnect the Wifi dongle in my post above.

OK. It makes sense now. :)
You can edit it to avoid misunderstading for future readers.
Thanks for your replies. My rasp1 is running very well.