I'd like to fully admit I'm a moron...
The cord wasn't fully plugged in which is why my recording device and etc were having issue detecting the raspberry pi..

I am so so so sorry for wasting your time.
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@Jaimie2485522 said in Games crash on startup and return to game select:

I went into the Retropie Setup menu and selected "Update". This updates the Retropie system to the latest version. During the installation it asked 2 times if I wanted to replace some configuration files. I did choose "install the package maintainer's version" : So that replaces the currently installed configuration file.

This is the reason that only the official install is supported here. Whatever the update replaced configuration file wise was at fault it would seem.

Always better to start with the original and best 😉

@Brandon12345678 It works now. Thanks for your help.

@mitu oh sorry didn't realise but still a pain

This is the one I followed and in general it works... If you don't mind not going into any settings or remapping the controller every time you turn it on.

@quicksilver I love this game! I was kinda bummed that they didn't include this on the TurboGrafix Mini, especially since I don't believe it was even ported to another console. When I first got into RetroPie, one of the first things I did was beat the Quest mode. It took like three or four months! I'm planning on streaming the Quest mode on my Twitch stream, FYI. I want to find a better way to stream it first but it will definitely happen!

@mitu

@mitu said in First-time user issues:

When using the Libretro (RetroArch) input configuration, then yes, you can't have different auto-configs for each player. You can, however, using either a core input remap to change the mapping or use the MAME input configuration, which can be accessed by pressing Tab (you'll need a keyboard for this).

Thanks! I'll have a look.

@JillSandwich said in appendconfig / dev/shm/retroarch.cfg?:

Some of the games that I try do not load and exits on launch. I went to /dev/shm/runcommand.log and it said appendconfig / dev/shm/retroarch.cfg Is this the problem?

No, it's not from that configuration file.
Enable verbose logging in the Runcommand launch menu and post the log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log) on pastebin.com.

Are you sure the ROMs are ok ? What format are they - .zip, .nes ?

I have a Raspberry pi 3b+ running retropie 4.6, Some apple power supply that undervolts the Pi

You should get yourself a proper power source, otherwise you're risking of corrupting your installation again.

@johnodon Thanks for the info. How do I install the image without overwriting the system files?

@cyclair Probably not enough. The link clearly asks for some logs and config files so that we aren't pulling things out of thin air. To be clear, with pretty much thousands of people running and playing vertical games on the official image, especially on the RPi3B that's been around for quite a while, I would vouch for the fact that what you're facing is pretty much configuration issues from that exact image.

But do share more details per the link shared above - type of screen you're using, etc.

@mitu Thanks again for all of your help. After doing the single game remap, I took a look at the generated remap file. In there I found:

input_player1_analog_dpad_mode = "1"

On a whim, I tried that in the retroarch.cfg files for SNES and PSX and it worked. It appears that the value needed to be quoted and that you were otherwise correct. I'm glad to be able to set that at the core level and have it apply.

Thanks again,
Craig

Looks to me you're using an Enterprise edition of Win 10, which doesn't allow - by default - connection using the guest account to file shares.
You may try using WinSCP to connect to your Pi and copy your ROM/BIOS files over.

Retrostone is based on Orange Pi not raspberry pi. You can find some retrostone support on the Retro Orange Pi forums:
http://retrorangepi.download/forum/

@Smeg this is why we have it disabled by default. see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Input-Lag#unsupported-tweaks. on a pi4 there seems to be the CPU headroom to disable it on the 16-bit cores at least, but i've not done extensive testing.

You have the emulators installed, but the systems will not show up until you actually copy games/ROMs on it - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/#emulationstation.

EDIT: when using macOS to transfer ROMs, use the Finder's Go menu and then Connect to Server, type smb://retropie and then hit Connect. See https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/#samba-shares.

Thanks very much for the detailed reply, it seems like the benefits will outweigh the pretty minimal cost.

Thanks as always for the swift response.

If you have a 4k tv/monitor, then use raspi-config and change your default video resolution to 1080p.