Right, so after many hours of fiddling around with Amiberry, reading docs, etc., I have figured things out on my own.

As a little bit of help to others who might be scratching their heads when little more than a terminal is loaded instead of a game I'd highly recommend double checking the settings. Amiga (Amiberry) emulation is no where nearly as straight forward as other plug-and-play systems. While I figured I could simply make global changes and have things run easily I quickly (that is lie....way too much time if I am truly honest) came to realize that each and every game has to be setup and configured before they are booted.

With that said, setting up for the proper BIOS, ram, etc. and saving the configurations are key.

@Razak I was just about to suggest you do that it happened to me but on my other topics of homemade ones I didn’t do. But it happened to me on my joystick

I reinstalled everything and its all working, i love this program

https://itstillworks.com/12412891/how-to-link-visualboy-advance

Maybe this will help, i remember back then i did this once.

@lmjiang1 hello i had this same issue with xu4 retroarena, m30 after reboot i get no pair, m30 would pair but couldnt do anything in game or ES, i updated m30, no luck.
Xu4 has only 3 ports i had a hdd connected, wifi usb, bt dongle all my usb connects gone so i thought maybe i need to connect to 3.0 usb, i bought 2 bt and same issue happen.
I then added a multi usb but it would do the same thing, i had some try m30 with thoses 20 dollar usb bt by with like super mario block design and i thought i need one of thoses, same thing happen, no pairing all what i have type above.

So i gave it about 2 months and asked again and tried again, once i had turned on the xu4 after months it paired right up like nothing had happened, so i played.
I had help and we tired to pair with switch mode and android but no luck i was fed up dude.

The guys at retroarena dont know what it is, i been waiting for about 1 month in a half but i havent bothered anymore.

But the m30 works fine with all other machines, just might be the xu4 cos someone else tired and did the same thing, might be your pi2 is the samething.
Works fine on my pi3b+ i used thme and pair just fine.

So my solution at the end since i got xu4 for saturn and just more power i put it away and ordered a pi4 and works super awesome!
I installed yabause on desktop and played dracula x.

Im sorry that it acts the way it does and i hope someone can help.

Hey @nestor1924 , I’m not sure if you noticed, but it’s “scraper” not “scrapper”. These helpful little apps “scrape” the internet for images/video/metadata. I know, is seems like scrap-booking, pulling all of the media together, but I thought you might appreciate the difference, not that it really matters. I guess it’s a pet peeve of mine which is obviously my problem, not yours. Anyway, it might help doing research too, to avoid misspellings in a search.

@Tackskull .ecm files are not supported by the emulator, you need to convert them to .bin - https://visihow.com/Decompress_PlayStation_1_Games_from_ECM_to_BIN_Using_UnECM

@GoodBoy said in [PiShrink] Creating new /etc/rc.local does not end - takes forever.:

@mitu

My apologies.

I would say I waited about an hour and it was still trying to create the etc/rc.local

It is a 64GB card, with about 32GB used space. I have just put the image on a 128GB card and I am going to camp this one out for a few hours.

If that doesn't work, I am thinking about removing the etc/rc.local and retrying it. Not too sure what that will achieve but it's worth a go.

@GoodBoy Why are you trying to shrink the image if you are going to place it on a 128 GB card ? Do a backup of the image..transfer it to the 128GB card and .you will have to expand the filesystem to access the full space on the card

@akav05 I jus back round to trying to figure this out and thanks from the help on another thread I was able to get it to work. My game was Pinball Mania on MAME and through the MAME settings it’s possible to using any button for player 1 regardless of it being from the player 1 or player 2 controllers. I do not know if that’s possible with all systems but in case it worked perfect when playing the game on MAME

@mitu hey thanks so much. Just finally got the chance to get back on the arcade machine and using your method I was able to map the buttons to the left and right paddles respectively and now I can play the pinball game the way I wanted to. Cheers

Thanks :)

When you change the Options in RA, the values apply to all games - it's always been like that. Use the 'Create Game Options' menu item after you change the options for the game, then switch the option back so it doesn't affect all games.

@alrotem said in Joystick orientation swaps:

I am pretty sure, this can be resolved by meddling with the configurations/scripts, but I suspect it would be too much work, and overkill, rather than take 10 minutes and just make sure one controller set is identical to the other.

Not quite, since the names of the gamepads (P1/P2) are identical and the configuration file governing both is the same (it's created based on the device name). The approach suggested by @grant2258 is the correct one - there's just one configuration for both controllers, so making them work similarly is the best solution.

Sharing is caring. Thank you.

Okay cool it might be a while I am doing a portapie homemade so I have to get that fixed and finished before I do that

@mitu Not really, just wanted to use a up to date image.

@barbudreadmon
Initially I did not have any intention, but after I read this on "validating, rebuilding and filtering":
"Sample: Some games require an additional zip file with recorded sounds or music in order for audio to work correctly"
Then the doubt came up
I will read your link and will come back later. Thanks

The installation error is caused by

/usr/bin/ld: impossibile trovare -lGL

Do you have any 3rd party repositories enabled ? It looks like the OpenGL libraries are not found, which is not something that should happen on a normal installation.

@shaunus70 at a guess perhaps this?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#why-emulationstation-doesnt-start-automatically-after-an-update-