yes the controller was updated with win10 and ertm is disabled - the conroller works in emulation station perfectly - inclusive the "select" button and the "round x box one" button. But in the retroarch GUI it does not work any longer.

@vahnxdean Is your desktop running Windows or Linux ? How is your HDD formatted (partition, filesystem) ?

Thanks for the help! I was using that particular tutorial because I found the official docs too technical and daunting for that matter, but I'll get over my trepidation and try it again. As for trying to launch from a desktop terminal, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I have my RPi hooked up to my tv, never to my desktop computer. I didn't enable the GL driver, I skipped over everything in the raspi-config because I wanted just a basic set up, but I'll make sure it's off after I reinstall the image. Again thanks for taking time out of your day to read and respond! I can't wait to play!

What games are your favorite to play on retropie?

@nathiel in the RetroPie Setup click on the tools option and select the EmulationStation line. The first option in the next menu is clear controller configs. After reboot you will be prompted to configure your controllers again. Unless you have a very specific custom config setup this will be the easiest way to start fresh.

I have 160 now across atari2600, gb, gba, gbc, nes, snes, and arcade. And I think I need to stop adding new ones. But I can see how that will never happen. ;)

Some games I will literally never play like some of the atari2600 ones but they are there for the nostalgia and for my kids to see so they can experience the games I grew up with.

@jonnykesh I meant @rbaker. The TO got it right IMO, talking about transferring ROMs to the USB drive and linking to the right docs for that.

@mitu Yep /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/mame-advmame/artwork does exist. I don't think I even created that folder it was created when I installed advmame I believe.

But aha! Yes indeed. Moving the artwork zip files to /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame/artwork seems to have done the trick!

Thank you @mitu. ;)

@melusham said in Slow games list loading after a full update:

Is it a known issue ?

Not really

Is there any solution appart from reinstalling ? (a file to delete or modify ?)

Why would you reinstall ? Don't you want to try and fix the problem ?
Do you have a lot of artwork for the Arcade ROMs ? Are you running the ROMs from a network share or USB drive ?

@jonnykesh
Thanks to you both for your help on this!

@thereretrobros you will run 8bit stuff like NES, SMS and Game Gear just fine. Perhaps Mega Drive acceptably. SNES is going to struggle. Forget Neo Geo and most MAME games.

Sorry, I'm going to call time on this right here, right now. None of this has anything to do with RetroPie. Why are you even posting this here?

@alturis said in AdvMame Artwork: Missing something:

@jonnykesh Weird. The information I was reading about it seemed to suggest just the opposite. That the old format was .art and the new format was .lay

Yeah, you have it right, but wrong assumptions about which one AdvanceMAME requires. I tried to clarify that here, after @Meneer-Jansen's post.

@gamebennyboy said in Installed first time:

I've installed retropie first time on new raspberry pi 3 as there no emulators installed as how I add emulators on the menu? It my first time.

There are many default emulators that do come installed already.

But nothing will show up until you add game roms to your roms folder.

And no one will be able to tell you where to find the game roms. You will have to let google be your friend.

For arcade games you have to be careful about which roms you use as certain emulator versions are only compatible with certain roms built for them. But there is also a lot of crossover.

One thing that got me early on is that many game roms are dependant on having other game roms installed as well as they share the same files. But there are instructions on how to make is so that your roms have everything they need all in one too.

Ok, thanks for your answer. Then I have to use my old PS3 Controller

@kmetz7547 Glad to know you could solve :-)

@mitu +1 for you
That's the easiest solution indeed!
I always use this. It even works for annother RetroPie setup but not simultanous of course ;)

Which emu are you using for MAME/NeoGeo?

If you're using a libretro emu, you should be able to go into the RA menu (Hotkey+X by default), go to controls and there should be controls for User 1 Coin 1, User 2 Coin 2, etc.

Set them all to the same input, whichever input your coin controller is mapped to.

Do you have other buttons available on your USB joystick encoder? Maybe try setting it to another button instead of an axis?

@bubbypop666 Do you get sound using the standalone version of DOSBox?