@mediamogul

Hi,

Oh my bad. LOL.

Glad that you spotted that and thanks for pointing it out.

By the way, I think @Riverstorm explained it well. That names should be the best guess by jstest. I designed the board and wrote the firmware. I don't name those buttons so :)

@dankcushions Thanks anyway.

Yes it executable. When it starts, on the first screen with image of Doom on the bottom text "failed save configuration" and path to it (i don't remember it now)

@Riverstorm said in Daphne & Basic Auto-Config Failure:

Not sure what you mean here. In the capacity you're writing drivers for the Libretro cores to make USB compliant devices work with Retroarch/RetroPie?

RetroPie has a universal gamepad driver available in it's default installation. It's just that, due to it's name, many people tend to overlook all that it can do. The xboxdrv can be used to adapt any input device that the system can read as an event, which pretty much opens the door to anything. It can also be used in a capacity to map keyboard commands to a gamepad, allowing controller support to those emulators that only support a keyboard. After being setup, the system (in this case RetroPie) assumes the input device is a standard XBox gamepad or basic keyboard.

Doesn't every platform open, closed, proprietary, etc. have some dominant controller sort to speak. I would guess the top five controllers probably make up the lion's share of the user population simply because they are widely used and supported. You have to start somewhere when supporting devices why not the #1 best sellers, top used controllers, etc. I do appreciate those that support the one off devices that have potential to be the next best seller or niche usages or simply as it sounds in your case a collector enthusiast.

It's just a difference in computer philosophy. There's nothing wrong per se with a dominant controller being used by the masses. We should consider ourselves lucky that there is one that works very well and is available to all. But to some, at the heart of running a hobbyist computer is the notion that practically anything is possible with a little imagination and perseverance. It's easy to forget this as we live in a time where the computer is being thought of more and more as an appliance. Which again, isn't necessarily a bad thing for the masses, it's just that notion limits what is possible for the sake of convenience. Thankfully both philosophies are well catered to in the open source world we find ourselves in here. Things can be as simple or advanced as any one of us wishes.

Ok, so - UPDATE

I dropped the ideas of re-building the Emulationstation image and instead realized Kid mode works fine with any theme, it's only if you want the extra UI options you need to mess around with custom themes.

My next challenge is to prompt for the password when returning to the terminal via F4.....

@w3bboy I'll take a stab at this as I've seen something similar to what you are describing and it was a storage issue in my case. You might try going here to see if it will help in your case. I had trouble (for whatever reason I don't know) upon first boot that the automatic resizing of the partition did not take correctly and had to do it manually. You can ignore the parts about changing the cmdline.txt file for using a USB thumbdrive (but I'd HIGHLY recommend you investing in one! I've got a 128GB stick with only 8GB free on mine after loading it up with everything I had) and just jump to the part "Once booted, " area about deleting and recreating a primary partition.

Keep in mind, you're limited with that 8gb card in the number of roms you'll be able to throw on there...

This may/may-not help but thought I'd give ya a poke......

@danny_boy85 said in PSX Titles will not load 3.7 Pi3B:

@dankcushions @opensourcefan

Cheers for you help people! managed to change the bios file to lower case, seems the extension was in capitals so maybe the pie couldn't find it? no idea!?

Glad it worked out for you. This is something that should be noted on a more prominent install page some where until it's fixed.

There is no known probem on Jessie - and nothing I can do without more information - the governor is automatically set to ondemand on my system.

@Finhead Thanks for the info!

I think i fixed this.

change default render resolution to 640x480

Mystery solved (for me anyway). Add the following to /etc/rc.local:

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Found the fix here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1251

MAME is up to .0173 now. I threw in the towel around .145.

I have 3 MAME cabinets, each running the same ROMset. 2 uprights, and 1 cafe.
It just got to a point that I didn't see a reason to upgrade anymore. I only run retro stuff anyway, all games from the 80's and early 90's. After a while, they all start to look the same. How many clones can you have of one game?

JR

Thank you for the help, much appreciated.

Looks like I just have to install everything Retropie manually.

@Cole_48 RetroPie is already built on raspbian.

This is what you're looking for:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#where-did-the-desktop-go

When using dd you must allways remember the classic uncle Ben's quotation. ;)

@bagheera369 Glad you got it working :)