Thnaks for the suggestion, I checked this but unfortunately according to the configurator it already should be using the left analog as the d-pad...
http://postimg.org/image/g04pxppw1
I'm going to do a fresh install soon and before I change anything else I'm gonna test this first

@Cole_48

depends on how small you want your handheld to be, if you don't want to solder your only option is to find the smallest usb controller you can find, rip the guts out and work around that. breadboarding still entails soldering, not getting what you mean by "build around a breadboard" but don't want to solder.

this would be smaller than a snes controller but still sports 4 action buttons:

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Boy, am i dumb. It is a Core Option for the Virtual Boy Emu

@dankcushions
That did the trick! Just slap the roms in:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/
(you need the 0.78 romset).

Download hiscore.dat from http://highscore.mameworld.info/ and rename the hiscore(pre_mame0133u1).dat to hiscore.dat and put it in:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/mame2003/hsdb/

Now I have high scores, correct aspect and the DPad and Analog stick works. :) Thanks!

Hotkeys work by default for most users in n64. But you must specify which one you're interested in. lr-mupen64plus is just like any other libretro emulator and doesn't really care about the n64 controller shape. All the typical hotkeys should work the same as if you were in SNES. Since retroarch uses button values and not button labels for hotkeys.

In the case of mupen64plus, you have to realize that the only hotkeys most people use are save state, load state, and joy mapping stop(exit). There are other options, but there is no retroarch GUI for this emulator, so select+X is pointless. All of these are found in mupen64plus.cfg. InputAutoCfg.ini is only for in-game controls. Now if for some reason it's not setting up hotkeys properly by default(happens mostly to xboxdrv i think), you can disable the auto script. It's located in autoconf.cfg. Just set mupen64plus_hotkeys to 0. From there you'll be able to set up you hotkeys for good in mupen64plus.cfg without being overwritten. Autoconf.cfg can also be accessed through the configuration editor.

The format for joypad hotkeys in mupen64plus.cfg is like this J(Joypad Index)B(First Button Value)/B(Second Button Value). So pretty typically it looks like Joy Mapping Stop = "J0B8/B9". You can do multiple controllers by just adding a comma and typing out another definition in the quotes. You can do a single button press hotkey by omitting the second half of the string, /B#.

If you drop to the command line, or open a Terminal window under the Raspbian desktop, you can use the top command to view running processes.

For details, please see the section The Top Command – Monitoring Running Processes: CPU and Memory Loads, and More as linked in the following guide:

https://retroresolution.com/2015/12/06/dont-fear-the-command-line-raspbian-linux-shell-commands-and-tools-part-1/#li_topcommand

Nice one - I'll make the switch too then!
Thanks chaps

@bisus as @dudleydes mentioned it's easily reinstalled through the setup script, no need for a reflash of your system

@iconrumble Thank you. No problems at all once I accessed and then modified the file from samba. File didn't revert back upon a reboot and the game list in Retropie is centered again.

Will need read up on how to scrape screenshots for the arcade emulators when I have some more free time.

Ah cool. Will check it out, thanks.

@jsawhite thank you man thas exactly what i was looking for lol

@Cole_48

absolutely. you could do a search, there are many like it from many manufacturers, varying prices, you can't go wrong with any. they all do the same thing, breaking out the gpio pins so you can hook up a breadboard for experimenting.

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@BuZz Yes thats it. Some of the dependencies of the armv7 kodi are pulled from the main repo, so you need the 2 for armv7. I just saw the update, I think it is good now.

Doing the regular update (as opposed to just apt-get) did indeed fix the issue. My bad.

If you want to learn more markdown, there are probably some good guides available online with the syntax. I only really know enough to get by. For the code you can either start each line with four spaces or you can use three backticks(`) to start and end the block.