@mitu Good suggestion, but still no luck. I even verified the setting in the Retroarch Menu-Settings-User Interface, and although the setting shows active, it does not seem to have helped. (The behavior is unchanged)

Good, because that was going to be my next question anyway. So this will fix two birds with one stone.

However, is asking where to "source" these audio samples in the same boat as asking how to get/where to get ROMs to download?

UPDATE:

Never mind, I found them and now things are all good. Thanks!

@psun03 read https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/szlxkz/i_want_2_controllers_active_on_port_1/

A somehow recent version of retroarch is required, so make sure you are using the latest version available on retropie.

@mitu Pi4 and I’ll check it out

@jollster101 Nope, ever was what I meant - as on my Raspberry 3B with 2 connected gamepads, each of them can navigate ES and launch items, but only the gamepad for player one can use the configured "hotkey"-features (exit emulator, open libretro-menu, save/load state, etc.).

If that's not possible with your IPac configured as 2 Gamepads, more Info is needed: What IPac (pre or post 2015) and which Firmware/Mode??

How are the controlls detected by ES? What does "configure input" states if you opt for it in the "?? Devices detected... press a button on the one to be configured" window?

Some older (Pre 1.5) Firmware with Gamepad enabled Mode where not "usable" on retropie as such (I think those may have been the old one currently called Mixed-Mode Firmware (which nowadays needs a seperate version of the Winipac tool for configuration)) ... Between the old Firmwares (the times with different firmwares for gamepad and keyboard only setups), may have been in the time around 2019/2020, there where some changes in the naming of firmware-/&modes on Ultimarcs behalve and sadly I haven't archived the "inbetweens" and properly named my old-archive of the tools/firmwares to use the terms in a correct/everyone knows whats meant way :/

@bruceDaMoose77 said in Random crashes in Emulationstation menus:

My pi just crash randomly in menus after around 1-2 minutes sometime less...

You mean just letting EmulationStation idling, without any actions performed, or when you open the EmulationStation menu(s) and go through the options ?

@alan-miller3 said in need help understanding screen size/orientation etc.:

@dankcushions

ok, physically my display's visible area is 15 x 12 inches. That's a 5:4 ratio.
So I changed my screen resolution to 1280x1024@60Hz (also a 5:4 ratio) and rebooted.

if that’s the native resolution of the screen then fine

vide_rotation=3 is still set in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

After starting a game and hitting tab, the video options offer 3:4 or 7:9 or cocktail.

tab should get you to the MAME menu (not retroarch(. you probably don’t want to to be changing options there.

Disabling any of the options (backdrops, overlays, bezels, marquees, etc.) doesn't seem to do anything.

because bezel project adds retroarch bezels, not MAME ones. how did you install it? presumably the same script permits the disabling/removal of the bezels.

or did you use a pre-configured image?

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If I revert the video_rotation (back to 0) in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
I still get the same 11 x 11 screen with "Arcade" bezels but without rotation so players 1 and 2 are both looking at the screen from the side.

Is it the fact that the original game was intended to be on a square screen?

no, it a a 4:3 crt screen rotated on its side (so effectively 3:4)

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@theboundlesssky said in Retroachievement image clipped:

I wasn't able to find the base /boot/config file anywhere

Just download the RetroPie image for your Pi model and open it with 7zip, you can look at the boot partition and extract the default config.txt without writing the image on a sdcard/usb stick.

@mitu Well that can be arranged as I tested the VLC mode and it still worked right, however there's still no game info displayed.

What could possibly be causing that? Something wrong with the chosen fonts? The font files? The resolution I'm forcing it to display at (resolution mode is meant for a screen installed in an Arcade1Up gen 3 cabinet)? I'm trying to think of anything that might mess with its subtitles and can't come up with anything.

EDIT: FINALLY figured it out. In video screensaver settings, VLC Resolution needs to be set to Max. Doing that finally shows the game info. Gonna guess this has something to do with video mode, but I don't know for certain. Either way, that fixed it.

@mitu said in Usb drive mounting problems:

Just assign a letter in Windows to the partition and erase the folder on it.

So yeah, apparently that was the issue, that somehow a retropie-mount folder was also in the EFI partition:

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Assigning letter H: to the EFI partition and checking through admin in powershell I can see that there is a folder structure and it looks the same as what I see on the desktop on the RPI400 when it fails to load the HDD. I just removed everything from H:

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So let's see how it behaves from now on. If I don't come back to this thread asume that it was solved.

Thank you very much both of you for your help!

@Addison said in bsnes-hd availability:

Do we not have this for Retropie?

No, bsnes-hd is not available in RetroPie.

@lostless thanks, I think that did it! Will need to test some more, but it seems to do the trick.

@em you have to give more information.
What Pi, which version of retropie, which emulators, which roms,....
Please read this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and fill out all the requested informations.

@friendlist21 I'm afraid I'm not familiar with those roms. This qualifies for a ticket on Github please. Just ensure to rely on the latest Amiberry (5.3) and Retropie (4.8) please.

@Bernie @sliderem Hello, My Pandora 3d controllers does not detect by raspberry pi4. I have installed Sanwa joysticks in my Pandora 3d. Also added usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e0:0x040 inside cmdline.txt. Do you have any idea? Is this because of my Sanwa sticks on pandora or should the Pandora ID remains same after joystick replacement? Really appreciate any suggestions.

@JimmyFromTheBay

Yea, nice summary, looks like we did not get far. haha ;-)

I think we have to keep on digging.

I found an quasi88 for sdl2 and have succeeded to compile it on debian 11 on x86_64.
Will try that on the RPI4 too, and hope I will get it fullscreen.

@hawkes_84 I'd like them to do an M30 Pro with dual analogues, hard to fit on the 6 button layout though. There's a cheapo Chinese one that sort of does it, they've tilted the buttons the other way to make room for the right analogue. From what I could work out though it's not a proper 6 button layout, one of them is for turning on autofire.

Got a 2.4G M30 on the way for my real Mega Drive, can't wait!

@mitu Thanks a lot! Unfortunately this didn't fix it after re-installing them all, so time to reflash!

@Darksavior thanks for the advice. I think I'll return the 1440p monitor and get a 1080p one.
I can always upgrade down the line.

The issue seems to be the mirror chosen supports IPv6 and the PI tries to connect via IPv6 to it, then fails. Changing the mirror may work, but you can also configure apt to use IPv4 only - see here.