@Rickt1962

Do you have an original controller? Or is it a clone PS3 ccontroller? How well does the bluetooth work? Are you using a dongle of Pi3´s own bluetooth?

@unkis17 No problem. Glad you got sorted. It's a really handy tool written by @meleu

Thanks.

One last thing, i have noticed for the Windows version of RetroArch when you press the menu button (F1) you are taken to the 'Quick Menu' screen but with RetroPie your taking to the main menu screen, is there a way to configure RetroPie version of RetroArch to go straight to the 'Quick Menu' screen when press the setting menu button?

@AndersHP

After main (240V) power on, it sits and waits for the button at the back to be pressed (because it's a latching switch and will still be in the OFF position).

Since this thread I have changed the monitor in my cab for a 12.1" one, which needs it's own power supply, so I now have 2 plugs - these are connected to an power extension lead.

So now when I power on at the wall (240V), the screen comes on for a few seconds, realises there's no video signal, and goes into standby mode. The Pi does nothing until I press the latching switch, at that point both the Pi and the screen spring into life.

The only time the pi will turn on instantly is if you have previously killed the power at the wall instead of using the switch. Then the switch will still be latched to the ON position, so when wall power is restored, everything will start up.

However I'd not recommend cutting power at the wall like that, as it's likely to result in corruption to your SD card eventually.

You might intend to use the software 'Shutdown system' option in RetroPie before cutting wall power, but that won't work, because as soon as the pi shuts dow, because the latched button on the Powerblock is still set to the ON position, it boots right back up again!

There's probably a way to do what you are trying - the Powerblock has points for connecting an additonal 5V device, so in theory if you had a 5v fade-in/fade-out dimmer, you could run that off the Powerblock and have the effect you want running from the Powerblock switch rather than the wall switch.

That's getting a bit beyond my abilities now though.

Brill :) thank you both so much, I'll let it all update tonight when I'm home, the only thing I ever alter is the boot config to make my xin-mo work as 2 player and not just one, but I can easily edit that again if it changes.
Thanks

@tygr20

Unless you have an older RetroPie install, high scores should be saving in lr-mame2003 according to:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#high-scores

MAME4ALL I'm not sure about, but I would think you could add the same file or perhaps an older variant.

@Hubz yeah there isn't any support for that as far as I know with ES.

@Richard1234 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8878/new-4-1-20-retropie-images-for-testing

I have a similar controller (mine is red and black). I wouldn't say it is automatic compatible. I configured for retropie months (a year?) ago, and as I remember I had to restart the bluetooth registering procedure several times until the controller was recognized by the Pi3.
After that it was OK for me. Well, I had some issues with vice (C64), but when I figured it out and fixed it (my mistake) I could - and I'm still able with the latest Pi - play with my C64 games.
Emulationstation menu is also ok.
And the twist:
a couple of days ago I wanted to try out some other games (PSX, and gamesandwatch) and it seems that there are some mapping issues. I can't find the reason, I guess it is just again some configuration glitch... Still investigating.

@dosch said in Back to ES from CLi:

I launched the RetroPie-Setup script from the CLI. In there I went to script>>Configuration / tools>>autostart and changed it back to Start EmulationStation at Boot.

I just did this again, but then used the option in the same menu to reboot the system, instead of doing a reboot from the CLI. Now it boots back into ES.

Thank you for your help @obsidianspider, but I guess it fixed itself ;-)

thank you very much for help ;) sorry for problem ... my english is not so good, but im trying my best ;) cheers

Another two days, and still no joy on Windows.
I just read HERE, however, that installation of Apple Bonjour is recommended as a way to help the raspberry Pi getting an IP, when connecting it via direct ethernet cable on Windows...I don't really remember if I have already installed Bonjour or not...I will check tonight, anyway, and see if installing/reinstalling it does the trick.
I'm still open to suggestions, eh...don't be a stranger, if you know something I might have missed. ;)

@padremayi Because the RPI hardware is not all emulated.

Cool I will try this out guys would love to build a much better system but need to come up with more money haha. Hopefully someday will let you know how this works. Any other suggestions you have let me know

@meleu Yes your explanation about config save on exit makes sense.

I will not be doing it again.

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If I navigate to this section on the UI it will only change the hotkeys for the system I am in at that moment
eg: Mega Drive?

All the other systems will still be set to the defaults?

Is there a way to change all the systems at once from putty like a master retroarch.cfg file?

Inside: /opt/retropie/configs/SYSTEM_NAME/retroarch.cfg.
If I go into each of the systems I use can I change the hotkeys for each system in this file?

Copy the PSX gamelist.xml file to your PC and create a backup copy in case you get undesired results and you need to start over. Open the file in a text editor and use the Search for and Replace feature. Copy the file back to your pi after you have exited ES.

Maybe the gamelist.xml is being stored in another path? I believe with the internal ES scraper, it defaults to storing the gamelists at... .emulationstation/gamelists ? I can't quite remember, but I'm sure there will be references to it here.

Maybe take a look there.

OK, I see the coolcv_x86_64 and coolcv_i686 binaries in the latest "all" bundle.
Not sure how I missed this earlier.
In any case, coolcv isn't enabled on retropie x86, so I can't install it from the retropie_setup as it doesn't show up in any of the package lists.

Might be worth adding now? Perhaps try to determine which build would be required (i686,x86_64) at module install time?
Or perhaps just go with i686 for compatibility? (I hardly think it's going to stress the computer's memory :) )

@BuZz my edited config file?

@AlexMurphy said in Pocket PiGRRL image won't boot:

@basteluwe You are asking RetroPie why their image works and a third party modified image doesn't? You would really need to address your query to adafruit whose image it is.

No, I'm not asking Retropie! I'm asking experianced guys here at this forum for advice!
But forget it. I used the basic package and did the changes manually myself. So, problem solved (for me at least).