One game I cannot get to work even with flycast is Hydro Thunder. I get a black screen after the Dreamcast logo.

probably a question to better ask at the KODI forums. https://forum.kodi.tv/

Could someone explain to me why amiberry is seen as more plug and play compared to puae, and is the recommended emulator here? Everything I've thrown at puae (lha and hdf) seems to work, I get access to the lovely CRT shaders, and I'm probably going to have to mess about with config on a per game basis for either anyway? Amiberry seems way more of a pain in the arse on several levels, to me - and that's not even considering the strange resolution switching issue I'm getting.
I'm considering just binning it off and going with puae; am I going to regret that for some reason I've yet to experience?

Can you provide some more details here for the SN30 and how you paired it. I think I am getting lost. I currently have it in switch mode, and all buttons except a few are working right now. I will try pairing it another way to see where I get.

@retropieuser555 Superb - hopefully I've got a good one then!

@AdamBeGood Thanks! I didn’t know about that section. I will try it tonight!

@mitu Thank you, I'll check that path first and then I'll check on the image producer.

@mitu Yes, when I run "configure for two snes controllers", the players are reversed. So, going to configedit's "choose joypad order", it will be (1 0 2 3). The correct order is (0 1 2 3). It's just a minor annoyance, but the first time I did this a few years ago, I went as far as re-soldering my set up thinking I made a mistake. I do follow the schematic that's pictured in retropie-setup.

TheGamesDB site has a monthly quota for requests - I think 5000 (?). If you scraped a lot of games, then you probably went over that quota and your requests are ignored.
The scraper works fine - so there's not a issue with the site or EmulationStation.

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@mitu I've got it working now, I had a typo in my file, I had missed out the / before dev/input/. Schoolboy error but sorted now. Many thanks for the pointers and your help. Working between my PC and the cabinet is quite tricky. I'll need to get SSH sorted out so I can do the edits from the PC direct.

@csocsoi - Thinking of installing RetroPie on Mint 20 myself today, any issues to report? Reasons to use older Mint rev?

Thanks

Likewise, I came across this issue having a test with this game today. Seems it's not fixed yet.

thank you!

lucky I took an image to restore from...

BTW - the issue appear with his repo is that if I install his GSplus, it forces an update from raspberry.org and deletes or renames(?) the opt/config folder!

I'll post there. thanks again for the info how to revert.

@simpleethat Ah yes you're right, I can't even achieve 70fps on Pokemon I don't think it would be able to run anywhere near 300fps. Thanks for the welcome!

@mitu Awesome, thanks!

Please post some details about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Post the verbose log when running an emulator to pastebin.com to take a look.