Thanks all above for the help. I was able to clear that in the mame2003 core, but for some reason, mame 2010 was not as cooperative. It automatically binds the mame menus to the L3/R3 thumbstick buttons and can't be cleared (I tried using the same method as mame 2003, but to no avail). But I came up with an easier work around for both. I simply unbound my l2/r2 and l3/r3 buttons from my controllers themselves. I find there is no real need for any of these to be used for classic gaming, as all you really need are the shoulder and face buttons. So that uncomplicated things, and the menus are now no longer accessible. Easy peazy.

@mitu Thanks! I am not hoping towards full speed, just hoping to find ways to improve performance!

@mitu Thanks, apprecriate your responses, I'm actually now just formatting the SD card and starting from fresh. Will then install approriate roms.

@gvfo Yea, I forgot the name. It is the ps2 compilation orochi saga, but the japanese version has 95,96,97 with arranged cd audio.
Yea, the load times in the neocd emulators are fast, but the music restarting was always a long time annoyance. I do appreciate that it exists, though.

@darom

Please say which controller, emulator and game you are using.

I had a similar problem. Try other emulators (Atari, NES, etc) and see if those work. If your controller/s also works in EmulationStation (the menu that pops up when u first activate retropie), then the problem is that the controller isn't configured right in-game or for the specific n64 emulator.

If your n64 emulator starts with the letters lr, you can access the retroarch menu to change the controller settings in-game. You can do this by plugging in a keyboard to ur RPI4B and using Hotkey + X (in-game) to open the retroarch menu and change your controls. Play around with changing them till something works.

Here's the link about retorarch on the docs: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Core-Options/
Video I also used:

Also make sure to check this out and include all the info in it: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Hope you have fun. I really recommend trying Rogue Squadron on n64 and Star Wars racer (for 2 persons). Relatively hard games, but worth it.

@brandflake11 said in Is There a Way to Emulate Louder?:

@alphabetapie As of the current retroarch version, I don't think you can set the audio output gain per game (correct me if I'm wrong!). It's a system setting. I think the first step would be to find out if you can load different system settings depending on what game you launch.

If that doesn't work, you could do it with this step (although I don't know how retropie manages retroarch.cfg since they have their own scripts that modify settings):
You could implement a script using sed to change the
audio_volume in ~/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg before launching the game from retroarch. Maybe there would be a way to do this in the menu before retroarch is launched with retropie. Changing the audio_volume in retroarch.cfg would be trivial with sed, it would just be a matter of figuring out how to change it depending on what game you would want.

Thanks for all the helpful info and trying to assist. I guess the best I can do at the moment is to just adjust the audio volume in the arcade game's dipswitches for now and see if it persists. It is what the arcade owners would have had to do back in the day using that method.

Well, you guys are awesome. Once I figured out where to change input settings in Retroarch..and then how to save my configuration...I got it working. The mappings for the left analog stick were blank, somehow. Note: I edited the main RetroArch config, and not Core configs. Both were blank, but I wanted it to correct every N64 rom.

I assume that means the Dpad was working, and it just wasn't being needed by Mario64, which I was testing on.

Try changing the video driver in retroarch to vulkan or glcore (working for me). The gl implementation is currently busted but you can try the workaround: https://docs.libretro.com/library/dolphin/

There is also currently a bug with this core and the GL driver that can be worked around by going to settings > user interface > show advanced settings ON and then going to settings > core > allow cores to change the video driver OFF.
The Dolphin core will now work without issues.

After some tries clearing my head i erased the interfaces file (auto lo iface etc...), rebooted and i got connected though ethernet.

Then i installed all the latest versions of everything.

I tried to connect to my WIFI and it dint, BUT it connected to my 5G WIFI!

Now i have internet through WIFI. Its working im not touching anything else!

Thank you!

@crush Thanks for the info, will get another PSU.

@mitu I can confirm that works. Thank you!

Hi, please see this
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30346/issues-with-bluetooth-on-4-7

@marky161 said in Adding other system roms to Arcade (Dragons Lair/Space Ace):

Everything perfect! Time to configure controller and button mappings!

Great news there. Glad everything worked out.

Select runcommand from the RetroPie menu (or through configuration/tools in RetroPie-Setup). Ensure Launch menu is enabled. Check Launch menu joystick control. If joystick control is disabled, either enable it, or use a keyboard plugged into any USB port, instead of the gamepad, to access the launch menu.