I discovered that the Magic SysRq key Ctrl + Alt + PrtScr + r frees the keyboard after such errors. I don't know if it's a "good" way in technical terms, though. :)

On the https://screenscraper.fr site, there's a list titled "Server" in the upper right of the page. There, you can see the current CPU workload in percent. If the load gets too high, the green checkmarks will go red to show that these users will be blocked from scraping until the load goes down. Non-registered users will be blocked first, then registered, then (maybe) contributors.

So, I guess registering will get you blocked later. But I'm not registered there so I can't tell you for sure.

@matchaman There is a command line option for that:

-missing file The file where information about ROMs that weren't scraped is added.

The script that runs the scraper from the setup menu is located at /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/scraper.sh. It doesn't contain any -missing parameter, so I assume this option isn't used by it.

Nevertheless, adding the line params+=(-missing "/home/pi/missing.txt") right after line 76 (local params=()) should add a parameter that writes all missed roms into the file missing.txt in RetroPie's home directory.

I just tested this with my Atari 2600 collection and all roms with missing hashes were written into the missing.txt. Thanks for inspiring me to do this, I've been planning it for weeks. :)

@crocodiletom You only need to update EmulationStation (from binary), once the fix will be commited to the stable branch.

@mitu

Thank you all for the help!!

ROM's are on my system, and it works perfect!

Next, I'll just need to hook the raspberry pie up via Ethernet cable to make sure it's updated.

Thank you both for the replies. The rev 1 was a typo on my side, it's actually rev 2. It is from a MAME 2003 / 0.78 reference set. After reading your posts, I also tried steelta1, steeltag and steeltap and none of them work, so I'll just let this one go.

Since the Mame 078.dat from the Wiki doesn't have status entries like modern mame's listxml has, where can I lookup if a particular ROM runs with mame2003 at all? Is the Mame 078.dat mame2003's own listxml output? If not, how can I generate one?

@mitu said in Steel Talons (rev 1) doesn't start with MAME 2003:

For code formatting you can use http://commonmark.org/help/ as reference (linked from the Compose help link on the editor).

Thanks, I didn't notice the Compose link until you mentioned it. It is quite tiny and grey. :)

@sammylj Hmm. That escape exit situation sounds like you still have hotkeys enabled. Scan through your retroarch.cfg for hotkey and set it to "nul" or comment out the setting. I am running with a dedicated exit (escape) and I don't need to press anything else, just my single exit button.

@trailjacker said in Sselp Scraper Command Line vs Sselp GUI Menu:

No, I hadn't used the -mame=true command, I must have missed that one.

The Wiki page has an outdated parameters list. You can list the current parameters by running the command

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper --help

@spiky
Well thanks for trying anyhow! I have it working on dosbox on my laptop, no issue what so ever. Must be some config in my Pi's dosbox that won't allow it to work. Will need to continue research, thanks!

@mitu Thanks for the quick response. I just ended up using my Pi1 and used a 2.5 speaker jack. Odd reason that pi3 did not want to pick up the 2.5 speaker jack or find the USB speaker... Weird.

@jocaedu Are you sure your controller/usb cable are OK ? 1 gamepad detected implies the keyboard is detected, but not the controller.
As for the image, I don't think there is such a thing as Windows User-Friendly drivers on the Linux, but over USB the controller should be detected ok. Please give more details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - especially about your controller model and version.

tags: this is not twitter.

@_moosh_
I ended up just putting all the ps1 games on my new 500gb HDD, so solved

Okay, I'm not sure what happened, but suddenly Genesis games work. I'm not sure if it was bad roms like @mitu said or if it was bad naming conventions on my end (changed both at the same time), but seems to function now either way.

Thanks again everyone for the help!

@barmanphysics Is the save file a STATE save or did you use an ingame save point? If it's ingame, then you could also try the other ps1 emulators, to see if it's related to the emulator you're using. (I'm not 100% sure if you can use save files between emulators.)
I am planning to play FFVII on my Pi but it will take months before I'm where you are now.

@dogeymon Check the docs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FinalBurn-Alpha/#pifba - you should edit the config file at /opt/retropie/emulators/pifba/fba2x.cfg.
Btw, why don't you give lr-fbalphaa try ? It has support for more ROMs than pifba and you get the RetroArch RGUI for any kind of settings you want.

Well, then I voided the warranty, I knew that in the back of my mind but didn't think about it so late at night. :( Luckily it's a $10 board.

But being back in March, this was resolved in Raspbian according to the links but I had the issue on a new Pi Zero W the other day with the latest image of Retropie for Pi1/0.

I'll have to remove the flag and see if it fixed it when I upgraded the sd card ( cant remember if i did it right before or right after, I was half distracted by Smallville reruns).

Thank you

For anyone interested, this has been tracked down to the use of an external Bluetooth dongle and having the onboard Bluetooth disabled with dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt.

The retropie_wiimote_lights script by pyhammond works fine with the onboard Bluetooth. Fingers crossed they can sort it for an external Bluetooth dongle as well as it's a really useful script for people with WiiU Pro controllers!

Thanks.