I am having this problem too and its really frustrating!

@Maynard At the moment there is no way to map joystick buttons to keyboard keys

EDIT: Except for some emulators such as (I forgot the name) one of the emulators for the zxspectrums that allows mapping keyboard keys

@mickw87 where is this webshop you speak of?

@stevefo Yeah, I get it. Even the crappy games are part of the fun / history. Just to reiterate the advice already given. Please don't ask for or give advice about where to obtain ROMs. It's the one thing you need to figure out for yourself, people are more than happy to help with anything else. Good luck.

For information I have try too with the cmd trust and the result is the same

@frobi

Topic moved to 'Help and Support'

Have you tried any other controllers? Also, more information on your setup and usage would help. The necessary information is found at:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Sounds like a bad sdcard.

@ApricotRembrandt

Is this happening with all MAME titles, or just certain ones. If it's the latter, which games are affect?

@Seeker

Is there anyway I can download them and place them somewhere so it can install?

There's always a way, but I feel that it's a bit more than I can relay in a series of forum posts. If this is something you want to explore, you should do some reading about how software is installed on Linux in general, which can then be applied to RetroPie. That kind of research and application is most certainly rewarding, but for simplicity sake, I'd recommend just getting a WiFi dongle.

@stevefo

I'm not sure. I've never tried it before.

You can pick up 1TB or even 2TB external USB hard drive that will easily be powered by the RPI 3B and will hold pretty much every system you can think of on 1 TB drive and have room to build a media centre

If you use a 2TB external USB powered drive then you'll also have plenty of room to put movies, etc, etc as well as plenty of games to play

If you choose to get an external hard drive , make sure its a decent brand and a true 2 1/2 hard drive (I have 2 1TB Toshiba USB powered and they are tiny) . They are smaller than the RPI in a case as I'm aslso looking at building a media centre with games that will fit on the back of our LED TV using the VESA mounts once I finally finish off the arcade desktop cabinet I've been working on since Christmas !!

https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/cases/vesa-mounts

I have to order the buttons and sticks and its pretty much done, with wi-fi if needed, but is really designed to plug an ethernet cable into it and USB keyboard as needed for updating, plus PS3 joypad for PSX games also buttons on the side for pinball DOS games

I may upgrade to a full hyperspin desktop cabinet as I have a spare Intel i5 when I upgraded my desktop to an Intel i7 along with getting a cheap motherboard with on-board GFX and 4GB RAM, but thats another future upgrade well down the to-do list. Actually getting it finished before this Cristmas would be a start

@caver01 thanks for your suggestions, I did change the theme and it helped a bit, but the main issue was my overscan settings. Uncommenting and increasing the left and right values slightly made a huge difference. Feels much more official now, lol. Thanks again.

@spykypie do you mean .7z? if so, you need to extract with a zip program (eg http://www.7-zip.org/download.html) - the files within hopefully are compatible types :)

Just one more thing on this subject...

This piece of code here...is it possible to add a image to the background? (of the actual text)....so instead of the background colour, add a background image instead?

<text name="systemInfo"> <pos>0.010 0.1465</pos> <size>0.980 0.050</size> <backgroundColor>FFFFFF00</backgroundColor> <color>ffffff00</color> <fontPath>./art/montserrat-regular-webfont.ttf</fontPath> <fontSize>0.02</fontSize> </text>

Thanks @funkybunch great info as always :)

I beat the 'white flash' anyhow.....I just created extra image elements and resized the png bg to 1280x720 (luckily it was a pixel background) and it works flawlessly now :)

Thanks for the heads up on ES, I might start a new topic regarding the change of language in ES (xxx games available).

To add to this I was able to get it connected again. It worked and I tested a couple games. I restarted the Pi and it would not work. If I shut down the pi and turn it back on, then turn the controller back on it connects. If I go to config to setup Joypad order it only shows '4' xbox controllers even though only 1 is connected. I shut down a couple more times like normal and booted up and controller connected. Now I shut down and boot the system back up and controller does not connect. Just blinks. When it does connect it will show player 1.

Still looking for some help :D