Is this likely to be something someone in the Retroarch forums could help with BuZz or do you not think it would work anyway ?

So, any clue why those things are happening?
The 8bitDo not being correctly usable, and the Switch pro regularly losing connection.

If you SSH into the Pi, you can run the following commands to reset permissions on some key folders:

sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi
sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs

That will change the ownership user:group to pi:pi for all files and folders under those paths. The first one is the home directory where ROMs and other files are stored, and the second has configuration information including games list xml files.

@bradleyhollander that could be your issue. But if you are using an hdmi to vga addapter you still want to do what i mention.

@Pixel0501 not sure what you exactly mean, but every controller has its own config (at least for the ReteoArch cores/emulators). It's usually at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/JOYSTICK_NAME.cfg.

@itsnitro yes.

input_player1_up_axis_btn = "" input_player1_down_axis_btn = "" input_player1_left_axis_btn = "" input_player1_right_axis_btn = "" input_player2_up_axis_btn = "" input_player2_down_axis_btn = "" input_player2_left_axis_btn = "" input_player2_right_axis_btn = ""

Just add your dpad numbers or hat info. No way to use turbo buttons to do it though.

@BuZz It returns:

Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

interesting about it being iso's all of mine are as well. Anyone know if you can use psx2psp to just turn them into pbp files the same way that you make multi discs for psx?

@DarkWolf
Thanx folks, worked perfectly :-)

@SIB217 https://retropie.org.uk/download/

@BuZz

Very keen!

Yup confirmed, it was rumble. After turning off rumble in game's option no more issue.

@Duxa It's installed by default so is under Main Packages

@Squatta
Default user: pi
Default password: raspberry

@kevreh Just keep in mind, the two methods conflict with each other, so I think GPIOneer turns off RetroGame. You can't use both at the same time.

Common mistake :)

I don't think the played counter is located in a file of atract mode itself.
The gamelist.xml files used to display art/video/metadata contains a tag for that:

<playcount>

if there is no tag in a <game> section, this means you never played it -> play count = 0
so to reset it loop over the gamelist.xml file for each system and remove the <playcount> tag

@edmaul69 I am using:
Tomee NES to PC USB Retro Controller Adapter Converter - PC Mac Linux

I have two of them, I tried having both used for the joystick plugs, and tried with one adapter for the player 1 plug. Thanks for the tip, I will give it a try👍

Basicly you have to edit the gamelist.xml for each rom
Here is a example for a game entry in a gamelist.xml (using a video preview):

<game> <path>./1944.zip</path> <name>1944 - the loop master (000620 USA)</name> <desc>1944 - the loop master (000620 USA)</desc> <video>/home/pi/Games/config/videos/1944.xmv</video> <marquee>/home/pi/Games/config/marquees/1944.png</marquee> <rating>0.5</rating> <releasedate>20000101T000000</releasedate> <developer>Capcom / 8ing / Raizing</developer> <publisher>2000 Capcom / 8ing / Raizing</publisher> <genre>Shooter / Flying Vertical</genre> <players></players> </game>

Basicly you have to edit/add the video tag! Insert the path to your video file into

<video>path/here</video>

For more information, here are some usefull links:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4820/video-preview-in-emulationstation/27

(pls think about it before following the steps as these informations might be wrong)