Actually, your mileage may vary by doing this when it comes to the emulators because although they all compiled, some of them crashed when executed.

Much better to use the latest 16.04 LTS or later on a PC with a CPU with core2duo or later.

@zmb187 said in want to save just save files:

thing is we got new internet recently so the network was not set yet....I did a amateur move and deleted the button to get into options in config....so would need to use my PC to pull off the saves if that would work.......

You just need for the PI and the PC to be connected to the same network, you don't necessarily need Internet connection. You can access the ROM folders from the PC using file shares or WinSCP (if you enabled SSH). Look at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/.

@mitu
Thanks again! Your idea worked, copying away as I type.....

@smashing also the sd card is probably inside that case. You probably have to open it up and remove it and plug it into your Mac and use Applepibaker to rewrite the image. I’m assuming it’s a pi zero as a pi 3 won’t fit into a nes cartridge

@mitu Weird, is there someplace to mute the audio inside emulationstation that isn't obvious? The audio tab on the emulator had the mute setting set as "off", the volume setting kept defaulting to zero and it reset to that value and wouldn't allow me to save a value. Obviously, I still have a ton to learn!

@simonster yes, that is exactly the problem. Thanks for the walk through!

@joykill06 Please give details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Answer the questions there, then describe what package you're trying to install and the exact error you're receiving.

@adamf4i Please do not ask for links to copyright material.

@edmaul69 darn! Was one of my favorites back in the day.

@sjlurker2018 No you type commands into the terminal or command line interface (CLI)

You can enter a terminal

Exit EmulationStation via Main Menu > Quit > Quit EmulationStation
1.1 You see now the command prompt
1.2 Enter commands via keyboard via SSH and a second PC
2.1 you enter also a terminal but this is remote
2.2 you need a second PC/Tablet.... for this

Follow the instructions I've posted you. Then we can help you further.

@mitu

i've tried that already with no luck
the resolution within the black bar will change, but it wont show the full screen

the smaller Res i go, the more the image gets cut out within the black bars (kind of like enlarging an image, or zooming in with your phone by using two fingers)
and the highest Res it will go (1920x1080 at 60hz) will not display the entire image

@project_gamer You messed up the permissions on the /etc/sudoers file. Boot the PI in safe mode and restore the permissions on the file - it should be owned by root and not by the pi user. You probably chown-ed the /etc folder to the pi user :(.

Hi,
Yes in the end I decided to get a snes-style USB controller, and it seems to be working a treat!
Sorry for the delay in replying...

awesome thank you

@mvp Please give more details about the problem - see the questions template in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What game/emulator/controller are you using ?

@spudsmctoole And for your autostate thing, I've faced exact the same effect that the option was activated! .... I've written a small script that will alter your retroarch.cfg as you want.

You can find it here: Dirty Little RetroArch.cfg writer

You can call the script to disable autostate_save feature like this

$HOME/RetroPie/scripts/SetRetroArchCfg.sh "$1" "savestate_auto_save" "true" "false"