@InfinityBeing I think that the problem is that ES shows all the directories that contain files with the extensions listed in es_systems.cfg.
For example my port system is configured to only show sh and SH extensions. I have several subdirectories in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports, but since none of them contains *.sh or *.SH files they do not show up. If I create a directory in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/portsand copy an .shfile into it, the directory will show in ES.
I guess that your CaveStory subdirectory contains a file with an extension listed in the port section of your es_systems.cfg. To have the directory to not show up in ES I suggest you move it to another location, and update the Cave Story shell script to point to this location.

I think he may be using RetroArch for Android and hoped for this place to be of help. However, this is a RetroPie site and not a general RetroArch site.

please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. the logs, especially.

@nm1886 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@mitu Will do. Thanks.

Please don't post the same topic in different categories - once is enough, the forum is not that large.

We don't offer support for downloading ROMs - it's in the forum rules https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

@InfinityBeing said in Help with Ports:

Why are
these installation pages so barebones?
Why not have an FAQ error section below
the instructions, so people can see common
errors other people have.

1st off the documentation is community maintained, it's nobody's job to update it. Or maybe I should I say it's all of our jobs to update it.

2nd, why do you assume that the issue you have is a common error?

3rd why are you hijacking someone else's thread?

@mitu wow thank you so much! I didn’t realize it was such a simple solution lol

@InfinityBeing I think your posts are unrelated to this topic. Please don't post here - you already have your own topic.
Sorry for the noise on the topic @BuZz, @magicfly.

@mitu I ended up figuring it out (by accident), I had 2 partitions on the SD card. Even though there was only one named root it was confusing the system. I was using the image for pi 0/1 and had imaged the card with Win32DiskImager.

@mitu thanks again - it worked! it actually worked without the "" surrounding the path of the subfolder (and wouldn't work with the "").

I use openretro for images, and screenscraper for info. Then execute de "generate game list"

@mitu Off course this will work. However each time I want to change another item have to create the retroarchcfg file again. When I use a simple copy script all other settings can't be changed anymore. So each time I go to the retroarch menu and change something the retroarch.cfg gets overwritten. So using two files (one with and one without the disabled hotkey) just isn't a working solution. I really want to be able to make it independent of other changes in the file I sometimes do using the retroarch menu.
A script that edits that single line is the best solution, however I'm just not clever enough to make the script.

@navi87 It's easy - the -dev package is the development branch, where all new features/changes are added. Once in a while, this branch is promoted to stable, from where the regular emulationstation package in RetroPie is created.
So, you're trading stable for development.

Hi, @TheGuruAU :

I had the same problem and had to change the approach. Instead of directly trying to remap the direct bluetooth configuration, I have used the xboxdrv to change the default driver. Now Retropie sees my Stratus XL as an XBox joypad and I can use it in any emulator.

Full instructions are here. I removed the --force-feedback option.

My final command line to be included in /etc/rc.local to launch the xboxdrv was:

sudo /opt/retropie/supplementary/xboxdrv/bin/xboxdrv \ --evdev /dev/input/js1 \ --silent \ --detach-kernel-driver \ --deadzone-trigger 15% \ --deadzone 4000 \ --mimic-xpad \ --evdev-absmap ABS_X=x1,ABS_Y=y1,ABS_Z=x2,ABS_RZ=y2,ABS_BRAKE=lt,ABS_GAS=rt,ABS_HAT0X=dpad_x,ABS_HAT0Y=dpad_y \ --evdev-keymap BTN_SOUTH=a,BTN_EAST=b,BTN_NORTH=x,BTN_WEST=y,BTN_THUMBL=lb,BTN_THUMBR=rb,BTN_TL=tl,BTN_TR=tr,KEY_HOMEPAGE=guide,KEY_BACK=back,BTN_START=start \ &

Please note that I had to point directly to /dev/input/js1, and that this might change in your setup. If you only have that joypad, it will probably js0 instead.

KR,
JP

@quicksilver I ended up installing a fresh image and it worked thanks for the replies or I’d still be stuck

@soge73

Thanks for posting - this helped me with lr-vice as well!

system_directory should be "~/RetroPie/BIOS". I think it defaults to the current content dir (ROM folder) if not set.