@meleu Well funny thing is that I fixed it for now. And I installed it via Raspian Desktop the first time.

@RedBatman Why are you resurrecting this old thread when you have a current one? Why don't you try the fix and see for yourself?

The command in that link didn't work for me, I got it to work with:
/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -add_not_found=true -append=true -download_images=false -image_dir="images" -image_path="images" -image_suffix="" -img_format="png" -img_workers=0 -no_thumb=true -thumb_only=false -thumb_suffix=""

from the rom dir
and it saved a gamelist.xml with the correct image tags in the same dir
not sure if all the above flags are needed, was just happy it finally saved the images tags

For informations, screenshot on screenscraper are in native résolution. Don't expect to have a full HD picture from a gameboy screenshot for exemple.

All picture you can found in 'better' quality are just a upscale of That.

If i was in your shoes and i had spare heatsinks laying around i would still put one on a Pi Zero just as a safety precaution and also like you said you are using a case for the Zero which leaves no ventilation for it as well.
Overall always best to be safe than to be sorry after.

Did you check this ? http://greatstone.free.fr/hi2txt/

Now all I have to do is find a pretty theme I like rather than the nasty black Carbon.

I'm sorry for posting up new threads. The "black screen of death" problem I created a new thread for here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10640/new-black-screen-of-death

The original error I had, about the invalid pointer, still occurs occasionally. I'm also having a new problem, where upon returning to the menu after playing a game, my D-pad acts like its stuck. I remember this being a problem before because of the raphnet NES adapter. It's weird. My whole system acts like the "update all installed packages" essentially did a format and fresh install.

@lostless aha, ok then.

@TheGamer What games in particular are you having issues with. The original NES had lots of slow down, and emulators are doing exactly what the original NES did. If the sound doesn't sound choppy, but sounds normal, its just the original slow down in the game.

As far as the EU vs US, EU games ran 4% slower.

The video preview are not working for me !!!! I use carbon and all i have is images as usual but no video preview !!

I have already done the update and upgrade but still nothing

Technically there is one:

https://github.com/libretro/reicast-emulator

But there is very unlikely it's in a state it would function on a pi.

@DarkWolf yeah but there is a Binary for 2010. The other MAMES 2014 / 2016 and current can only be built from source.

I've determined the problem was bad USB ports on my thunderbolt breakout hub. For some reason ApplePi-Baker doesn't notice that something went wrong and tells the user that the operation was successful. When I do it directly from my iMac's USB port, it took around an hour and the RetroPie is booting up successfully. This will now be the second time I have to return my OWC thunderbolt interface. :( Thanks for your help!

@BuZz

Ah thank you. Trying right now! Great support! Appriciated

Yeah I'm thinking it might just be best to start from scratch and be done with it. I'm just hoping I can put my roms back on it. I do have a back up on my computer but I can't access my roms individually, I'm still learning how this stuff goes but might have to start over on that which is too bad cause I had over 5000 games...

@kjcraig77 if you had read the read-this-first post you would see this:

Make sure you are using an official image, or have done a manual install yourself. We will not support 3rd party images.