@rascas the issue was one of my controllers that was plugged into the pi.. no idea why but once i unplugged that one from the pi it worked.

@jorgenjl Get a Linux live distro (Ubuntu/Fedora/etc.), write it on an USb stick/CD and boot it up on your PC. You'll be able to read the SD card's contents to copy over your configs/roms, then write the latest RetroPie image on your SD card and transfer over your data.

Thanks guys - that sorted it. No idea what config files I've been finding and deleting until now, but that first location had the default.cfg and tons of seperate game ones too. Wiped them all, rebooted and mame seems to be fine now.

Many thanks for your contributions. Case solved!

~Z~

I've been on a journey to get retropie rootfs booting from an NFS drive connected to (and served by) another Pi. Not quite there, yet - but oh so close.

You can see my journey at https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=212242.

Once I have it all running properly (it is, now, but not straight from a fresh boot) I'll provide proper documentation.

@delladar The 4 raspberry icons and the multicolor screen is normal, there's no error there. But you're using a charger which probably is not suited for the RPI, which needs 5V and 2.5A power supply to work. Use a proper power supply and re-try.

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@sub_atomic It should work with my latest commit.

It does indeed. Thanks!

@sub_atomic Press Ctrl+C, I think this will get you back.

Scraped again and changed it to use the rom directory for images and gamelist. Now they most of the images and Metadata are there. Just an update for anybody else who has this issue.

@lookin4fun79 you should fill out your own thread in the help section. Be sure to include the information requested here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@cyclair I have never created a theme, but it seems to me that this page describes how to setup sections for metadata. Have you tried removing the sections for both the labels and the data (ie: md_lbl_rating, md_rating sections)? I think you have to make backups and try this. It will be trial and error, especially to get your positions correct since you also said you wanted to raise the text. There are no simple answers here. You will need to get in there and make adjustments.

Also, I tried clicking your pastebin link and it looks like the XML is in a different language than your long post. Did you know you can go back and EDIT your long post? Folks might be more inclined to respond if you clean up that first post a bit.

I had a similar issue while building my 4.4 set up with my new Pi 3B+. For me it seemed to be just a timeout due to the website not providing the image fast enough for the scraper. When I tried it again after each failure it would work but would happen frequently. I recently tried again several days later as I had 100+ roms and didn't feel like sitting through them all and it worked fine without a hiccup. I'd still provide that info requested by mitu as that may not be your issue

Hey @momaw27
Have you tried overclocking your GPU ?
The reason why I'm asking is because I experienced the same issue.... but after 5+ hours of screensaver.
I tried a bunch of stuff... Regenerating and removing most of my gamelists, building Retropie from master, updating just about everything on my Pi, trying various settings in ES....
And then I noticed a video glitch in the ES interface when a video preview started, then all the interface froze except for the preview.
I changed my GPU overclock from 550 to 525 Mhz.... and no more freeze.
I hope it helps
Toitoinou

@mitu Yes, it is definitely connecting. As the Pi boots, the light blink, but then when it connects, it vibrates and goes solid.

Just keep the hardware you have, and create an image on a clean SD as @mitu suggests, and you will have a proper retropie system, which will as you point out, will probably be more fun and reliable. Make sure your power supply is good enough though. Lots of people have issues with poor or under-powered ones. If you start getting a lightening flash on screen, you definitely have a power supply issue.

@mitu Ok I guess I'm going to reset the pi. How will I go about doing that

@edmaul69 That could well be awesome:) I won't say no yet, but I may well have a go myself (eep) I didn't think I was using a hackfile, but i need to compare my two systems to see if one had been loaded via the Donkey Kong rom I put on there.
Not going to burn any bridges, your offer is genuinely nice:) I'll see what I can tonight. Thank you!