@bberlin1 said in Help! Won't boot Emulationstation!:

I'm still curious however-- if you have any insight into how to a) edit files from an ssh gui or b) access putty with my pi login, I would be very interested. I can only seem to do these things via the root login and would like to not have to run into these kinds of issues again.

If you use Putty, you can edit the files via nano. Most of the configuration files are also available via file shares (under \\retropie\configs), so you can use a decent text editor from your PC (Notepad++/TextEdit) to edit the files. None of them require the usage of the root account for editing.

@mitu said in Multiple USB Ports + Controller order for Emulators:

@retropied You can try looking at @meleu's handy joystick selection script - https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection - and adapt it to automatically re-order the controllers based on the emulator started.

@mitu I installed the joystick selection script but I'm having a problem.
I have a system with two integrated controller (Dragonrise zero delay encoder) and I want to use a bluetooth gamepad for some games only. My target is to have bluetooth controller as number 1 controller when connected.
So I installed Joystick Selection Sricpt and setted Bluetooth controller as the first one and then the two dragon rise. The problem is that when the bluetooth controller is not connected the two dragonrise continue to act as player 2 and 3 and not as 1 and 2. Do you think it is possible to fix this whitout changing configuration everytime?

Nobody knows hot to help? Ah the above mentioned combo works with the italian layout which i sat in retroarch otions menu

@facelikebambi said in Migrate from SD card to USB SSD?:

If I make an image of the card (using DD), is there an easy way to write this to the SSD and boot from there? I'm familiar with Etcher etc, but I have a hunch that SD to SSD is not so straightforward.

If your bootloader is up to date, then yes, that would be possible. The problem is

SD card is 512gb, SSD drive is 500gb.

the sdcard image will be larger than the SSD's capacity and it will not fit. You may try and shrink the backed-up sdcard image with PiShrink first, before writing it to the SSD.

Got it. I found the issue.

Using that CRT/HDMI video mode switcher added a two line statement to my \boot\config.txt that wasn't there before.

framebuffer_height=1920
framebuffer_width=1080

Not sure why it added this, but as soon as I commented and rebooted, my RetroPie core was back to normal size and not shrunken anymore.

I don't have many statements active in my config.txt so I noticed an extra "list" of other video related stuff at the very bottom. It seemed to have duplicated some of the entries that are in sections above and placed them in the last [all] section of the file. I commented it all out so none of it is active.

framebuffer_height=1920
framebuffer_width=1080
disable_overscan=0
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
enable_tvout=0
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=82

@luzer

In boot/config.txt I added dtoverlay=disable-bt to disable the onboard bluetooth. The bluetooth dongle is a cheap one (€10 ish) but it works fine. I did connect my controllers through the bluetoothctl command line options just so I could check how things worked behind the menu in retropie.

Can't help you any further though, sorry.

@mitu hey man😉

Ok, will sort the Logging...my bad, thought I did it right🙄

Ok on adding 'new' P1 to retro.cfg. I must admit (from memory on the multiple tries) that, after installing as 'Gamepad' thru ES, that it did/does correctly show up in autoconfig directory 'but' (again memory) the joystick didnt work. I then added the 'js0' line in retro.cfg and it started working. Hence why I put in/tried to get as far as I did.

Anyhoo. I'll sort logging 'first' and if we can fix from there...great, if not then i'll do whatever you suggest/remove new 'P1' etc.

Will do tomorrow anyway (Tues).

Cheers, dw😉

@barbudreadmon said in Auto aspect ratio for vertical games?:

@strells said in Auto aspect ratio for vertical games?:

I left integer scale turned off so that the image, whether vertical or landscape, reaches the edge of my Arcade1Up 17

Just be aware that not enabling integer scaling is not recommended because it will cause gfx issues due to bad nearest rounding, those gfx issues being more or less noticeable depending on the context.

Great. I did not know that. Thank you for the heads up!

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks for the detailed report. It has been fixed and will be in the next release.

@hojo215
I know this is an old topic but I'm having exactly the same problem with reicast with exactly the same NUC and graphics, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 and Retropie. I've tried to follow your instructions but am struggling. should I:

remove reicast using the retropie interface remove 20-intel.conf if it exists reboot Set HAVE_GL3 to 1 ?? someplace? reboot reinstall reicast, load the bios files in the BIOS folder reboot profit?

@mitu YOU DID IT! I LOVE YOU!!!!
donated

@mitu said in How to boot from USB pendrive:

@pscotto1234 said in How to boot from USB pendrive:

distro Android based on te USB pendrive.

I'm not sure how that works or if the bootloder on the EEPROM supports booting an Android image directly. Does the image work if you boot it from the sdcard ?

Yes, it boots fine.

@folly Will do!

@luedi thanks for suggesting this, will try it out when there is time... :)

@mitu

yes, I'm scammed.
I clearly ordered a 3b+ model and got a b+ model.
I'm sorry for bothering you with this stupid mistake.

Thanks for the help!

RetroPie - on the Pi models - doesn't use the desktop at all and it runs as a dedicated application (EmulationStation) from the console. If you want to use your Pi4 as a desktop enabled computer, perhaps it would be better to use Raspberry Pi OS and install the same emulators that RetroPie uses and run them standalone.
You can start RetroPie from the desktop environment, but it's not a supported configuration and not something we recommend.

I think this was fixed a couple of weeks ago in the dev branch of EmulationStation, make sure you're using the latest version by updating from source.

Or, if you need Windows compatibility without third-party drivers, use NTFS or ExFAT. Both are better than FAT32 and can be used out of the box in Windows and RetroPie.

Which features do you need the FS to have exactly?

@greenhawk84 advmame is usually the best choice for ST-V (sega saturn arcade) games on rpi.

@x20011I got that message the first time I tried to install desktop, pixel or the raspberry OS or whatever you want to call it, from retropie.
Fixed by re-burning the retopie image, Installing the Safe Shutdown and OSD Software on the PiBoy DMG.
After this I installed pixel and it worked.
But all this in my model 4.