It should work, but the preferred method I think is now via an integrated overlay in order get support for KMS/DRM. You'd better ask in the RP forums with the exact display model and make.

I solved the issue. Apparently the order of the XML tags inside "system" is relevant. Looks like I was simply creating a new text behind the background... After moving it to below the background image tag, it finally showed up.
Here's the final code (after the background image tag)

<text name="by" extra="true"> <pos>0.85 0.969</pos> <color>ffffff80</color> <fontPath>./art/font.ttf</fontPath> <fontSize>0.02</fontSize> <text>hello world</text> </text>

Text tag reference on ES md documentation

@mitu

Hi mitu thanks for that info.

Apologies for not specifying the correct info as I am very new to retropie and struggling with some of the clever stuff. As I built retro pie four weeks ago still exciting about playing games with the game pad but naturally want to make it more enjoyable palying with the joystick. I will check the speed link FAQ and jtest instructions you provided and report back. I get the impression from your responses that this should work so its good news I just need to work out how to configure this.

My retropie build is:

Pre-made images for the Raspberry Pi
The latest pre-made image of RetroPie is v4.8
Released March 14, 2022.
Running on Raspberrypie 4 with 4Gb RAM.

Regards
Dario

@mitu I only rememebr following the instructions that came with the box. But yes, I defintely ran all the updates.

@mitu Hotkey + X worked, changed Sound to HDMI, perfect. Thank you both!

Hello! I realised that maybe you guys are assuming that my usb keyboard is a gaming keyboard. It isn't. I think I'll have to buy an actual video game controller eventually. Thanks anyway for your guys' help!

@Tango You can look in the Core options or the Controller(s) menu, both from the RetroArch's quick menu. I think Mame2003 has a core option for spinners - https://docs.libretro.com/library/mame_2003/#mousetrackballanalog-controller-support.

@mitu Thank you for that link. I had been looking for that information in the User Manual but couldn't see it. The closely packed layout and font do not help. I will have a look for .vkm files. My system seems to be using the Business (UK) keyboard layout, but there should not be much difference to the US one.

@sleve_mcdichael

@sleve_mcdichael said in Going from Pi 3 to Pi 4 and keeping all settings, high scores, and so on:

Yeah, probably the controller profile was in this "configs" folder, which didn't get copied over with the other three.

I did that - synced the config directory. I've run into a problem and, since I felt it really wasn't a part of this topic, I started another thread on it. In short, all the controls on my arcade cabinet work except the spinner. I'm hoping there isn't some timing issue or something with the Pi4 that doesn't get along with the spinner.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Going from Pi 3 to Pi 4 and keeping all settings, high scores, and so on:

Aye, then yeah will have to copy them over the new system.

One thing I just love about Pis is that you can do that. You can pull a card or USB stick out of one and plug it into the other and it'll work fine - or you can pull the "drive" out of one and easily plug it in another and copy all the data to the new system.

Okay I think I sorted it out.

I edited my xml files to remove any absolute paths and replace them with the old /home/<user>/RetroPie/roms/... equivalent line.
Then I deleted the <folder> lines from the bottom of the file.

Everything works again.

@lonestar I advise you to keep the default username and not change it, if you're using the RetroPie image.

This is a RetroPie dedicated forum - are you using RetroPie ?

If so, please add some info about your setup as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Does it work if you remove all bootable SDcards/USB disks - i.e. do you get the PI4 diagnostic screen ?
Please add soem info abour your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@duglor 2.9.0 isn't released yet.

Thank you for your answer. Actually I played a bit with retroarch.cfg, with someof the controllers pluged in in differents usb port and it seems to work now ! Not exactly sure what really made it work though :)

@Lolonois Those are all excellent suggestions. Lots to try. Thank you. I like the idea of sshfs. I don’t use NFS for anything else so that’s one less service to run server side. That’s interesting about eduke. I just assumed install from source would be the latest. Guess not. Do you know does prboom also not install the latest from source?

Alas shortly before your response I said enough and tossed Recalbox on my Pi. It’s playing Doom just fine from NFS which RetroPie was not. Another thing that points to it being a RetroPie problem. Next time I’m bored, which is pretty much always, I’ll toss RetroPie back on the Pi and try your suggestions. I had updated my RetroPie via retropie_setup. Did you do that? I always wondered if I reflashed and didn’t update if the ports would work fine. I’ll be sure to test that first thing before updating when i do flash.

@mitu said in Install Sixaxis on an old Raspi 3b+:

@pscotto1234 You can either look in $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs and unpack the latest log file or just post the error you're seeing on screen.

I tried to launch Retropie Setup script and I am not able to launch it anymore. This is the log I had:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie-Setup $ sudo ./retropie_setup.sh Did not find needed dependencies: subversion python3-pyudev dirmngr. Trying to install them now. E: Command line option --allow-releaseinfo-change is not understood in combination with the other options Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libbluray1 libgles1-mesa libiso9660-8 libmodplug1 libvcdinfo0 libvlccore8 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: libapr1 libaprutil1 libserf-1-1 libsvn1 python3-six Suggested packages: dbus-user-session pinentry-gnome3 tor python-six-doc db5.3-util subversion-tools The following NEW packages will be installed: dirmngr libapr1 libaprutil1 libserf-1-1 libsvn1 python3-pyudev python3-six subversion 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 2,850 kB/2,903 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.2 MB of additional disk space will be used. Err:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf dirmngr armhf 2.1.18-8~deb9u4 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] Err:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libapr1 armhf 1.5.2-5 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] Err:3 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libaprutil1 armhf 1.5.4-3 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] Err:4 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libserf-1-1 armhf 1.3.9-3+deb9u1 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] Err:5 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libsvn1 armhf 1.9.5-1+deb9u5 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] Err:6 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf subversion armhf 1.9.5-1+deb9u5 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/g/gnupg2/dirmngr_2.1.18-8~deb9u4_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/a/apr/libapr1_1.5.2-5_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/a/apr-util/libaprutil1_1.5.4-3_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/s/serf/libserf-1-1_1.3.9-3+deb9u1_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/s/subversion/libsvn1_1.9.5-1+deb9u5_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.9.5-1+deb9u5_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:75:0:3 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Unable to install packages required by /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh - Could not install package(s): subversion python3-pyudev dirmngr.

Resolved changing repository link with:

deb http://legacy.raspbian.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi

I hope this could help someone else with the same issue!

@CobraDesign47 said in Trouble Running Games:

Any further advice is appreciated!

Again - please provide the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, including the emulator and ROM/system where you have trouble.

You can also provide a log file after you've activated verbose logging; copy the contents of the log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log) and post it on pastebin.com, providing here the link.

Try to reset the controllers.

While you are in emulationstation press the F4 to jump to the terminal window, and type :

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Then choose :

Manage packages => Manage core packages => emulaionstation => Configurations / Options => clear/Reset emulationstation input configuration

After that, restart the system and it will ask you to configure again your controllers.