I have updated retropie-setup to use a custom sdl2 for X11 targets now, which should hopefully solve this issue without having to manually build a SDL. Feedback welcome.

@ExarKunIv

Thanks for the response. I have manged to make progress thanks to the seo-michael.co.uk link. However, now that I have 5 VPN locations configured, my connectivity is failing me. I won't say more until I've fought for a while longer. It's possible that I overcome this obstacle, too.

@Xyb0t Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - you should start a new topic as detailed

The freeze issue you quoted is fixed

@loop315 Which image are you using? What hardware are you on? Please read this as agreed on signing up to the forums https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and give us some more info.

From your post, I can kind of deduce that as you got this Retropie "kit" for Christmas, that it was purchased with the SD card pre-loaded. That type of image is not something that the devs here will support and you'd be better downloading the official image and following the initial setup guide on the wiki.

@AlexMurphy thank you. And there is no other addon to get them working?

Thanks for the reply. I thought that sounded confusing when I read it. Personally, I think it would be helpful to newbies like myself to see a separate page for the FDS since it is technically different hardware.

Thanks a lot for the help and advice. I appreciate taking the time to help us newbies out. I'm trying to learn as much as possible on my own in the docs but sometimes things get a bit confusing.

About the Famicom system (not the disk images - the .nes roms) - can I just put them in the "nes" folder with the standard nes roms or would that cause confusion with the emulator or scraper? I can't figure where else the Famicom roms would go if not in the nes folder.

@edmaul69 Nope no mausberry, I'm pretty comfortable just going through the menu. I would really like to, someday, figure out a way to plug in the power supply, and have a functioning switch to power on/off via the on/off switch on the Sega USB hub. It functions side to side but it's just for show, along with the vertical volume knob. I would like to plug in, switch it on, and it boot up, then switch off, and shutdown the system properly as if I went through the menu somehow. This one guy said he was able to accomplish this using python script, and I believe the switch wired into the GPIO. I'm not familiar with python or how I'd even go about configuring that, but I'm sure it's possible. Just need the know-how. That would be pretty sweet to just us the on/off switch like an actual Genesis console.

Also note that you will definitely, like no ifs ands of butts NEED a wireed controller (or at least a keyboard) to re-connect your Bluetooth controller when it looses signal. Which in my experience is pretty friggin often (not like constantly, but at lease once every other day...if not several times in a day if I'm playing a lot and rebooting a lot and such).

This is why I recommend Xbox 360 wireless controllers with the USB adapter that's half the size of the Pi 3. It simply works 99.9% of the time. It's a dedicated receiver so it doens't have to deal with the limitations of Bluetooth even if it's using pretty much the same ghz band.

EDIT darn it, replied to a 2-hour-old reply who replied to an 8-month old topic...

Yeah maybe a bad SD card, but scandisk ones work well for me on the pi3.

Maybe try some of these popular ones. https://nostalgiatechs.com/retro-games-controller-usb-wireless/

Perfect, worked great. Thanks!

Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

FYI I simply updated all the packages and it works.

I've been Reading about this, and well, I don't have problems with my favourite games speed but yes I do have one single thing that bugs me and it's about Double Dragon 1. The game speed seems ok but the sound pitch is a Little higher than the original and sometimes sfx's sound really way too different from they actually are. Would this Hz thing fix that too?

@BuZz I'll check, but I believe they are under arcade..anything else it may be?

One other question. Is there any way to leave it as is if they are in the wrong folder, but get Lrmame2003 and lrmame2010 to show up when selecting A on loading? Maybe a config file or something?

Thanks

@Laddy981 Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

yep came with the retropie installed no games though. I will install the version in the link you sent. thanks for your help.

@lurkout performance / familiarity. We don't use retroarch as a frontend, so there is less need for xmb. I'm quite happy leaving it with the boring old gui for now anyway - but users can switch if they want.

Just use the default nds emulator from the experimental section and tone the resoulution down to as close to native as you can, native resolution for ds is 256x192. Got advance wars ds working smooth with minimal grafical errors when started with default settings it wouldn't run without lagging.