Yeah, went through there and didn't find it before 'cuz it was buried in Raspbian Tools. Was just coming back to say I found it. Thank you though! :)

@markyh444 Thanks! I was looking but probably had too many tags in my search. Thanks!

@AlphaOrionis In the middle of playing a game the bluetooth connection disconnected and I'm back to square one with the same issue I had previously.

@CaelThunderwing Did you find any good 1:1 settings from a GB game to GBC? I haven't, even in the RetroArch config options. Eg. the color from Pokemon Blue does not match what it would be if I put it into an actual GBC (where Charmander would be red and Bulbasaur be green). I tried changing the file format to GBC with no avail.

I have now narrowed the steps to reproducing this issue on a newly flashed USB and boot Micro SD.

Use this guide to enable wiimote connections. Install the "old format hiscore.dat" in the mame2003 bios as explained in the high scores section here. Enable Root Login over SSH by doing the following: sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Change PermitRootLogin to "PermitRootLogin yes" Enter "sudo passwd root" then enter in the root password. Restart for changes to take effect

I'm still trying to narrow it down even farther.

So far, finishing with the Wiimote steps has triggered the issue and finishing with the hiscore.dat has triggered the issue (which is really strange).

Edit: Upon narrowing it even further. You don't need to be running off USB for this to occur. All you have to do is follow the wiimote connection guide to cause this issue.

Based on this info I can assume that it's also inconsistent when the issue will first occur after following these steps, as one reboot often wasn't enough to cause it.

I've now narrowed down the cause to the following line in "/home/pi/bin/attachwii.sh".

wminput -d -q -c /home/pi/mywminput 00:1C:BE:F2:D8:64 > /dev/null 2>&1 &

The '&' at the very end of the line is the cause of this. Removing the '&' and then running it does not cause the same issue.

Now the problem seems to be that removing the '&' at the end will not allow your system to finish booting if you have "/home/pi/bin/attachwii.sh" run on startup. Now the question is getting a little more specific as what to fix so I'll create a new post and link it below:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7296/wminput-command-with-on-the-end-breaks-wifi

Did a clean install of retropie and PS3 controller works now! I just can't get disk swapping to work now;)

@synack

autostart.sh says the following

emulationstation #autostart

Tried adding it after that I must be typing something wrong lmao

UPDATE - figured it out.. Found this from @meleu

"/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh" --no-exit "$@"

thanks guys :) much appreciated for everything

I have had to add the line video_shader_enable = "true" to the emulators I want the shader to work in as well. I may not be doing it right, but I don't use shaders on all emulators, so I just use the line in the individual configs to enable it. I did find out the other day that I need to configure the settings within the in-game retro arch config for scaling and nearest vs linear too or else the default to "don't care" and don't look the way I want them to.

@miXza-81 The QC on this kinds stuff is non existent. Back in the day when stuff was built better, my dad would get stuff from free from friends and sometimes pawn shops and thrift stores that was broken. He taught me how to open it up and look for bad components and traces. Used to be that you could solder in a small wire to bridge these kind of bad traces.

As a side note, that soldering on that thing makes me cringe. It looks like it was hand-soldered by 10yr old me.

This is why I ended up using my old OEM Playstation 1/2 controllers for Retropie. Even then, the cheap dual PSX adapter had bad soldering on the connectors so I had to re-do that!

@synack Thanks. Looks like I thought I was smarter than the initial setup and I didn't need to change anything. Got to go undo what I did.

Exactly - meant for it to add line breaks or go to the next line if it doesn't go over. I found the font size settings, but without it going to the next line a lot of info is still going offscreen.

@Patzfan by default images aren't distorted. borders are added where appropriate.

if you stretch to fill, yeah it'll stretch all games.

Weirdness. Out of the blue, it's working now.
Might have been an error at the server that's hosting all the stuff.

FYI
Other MIX Template is downloadable from the menu configuration.
You can create you own MIX template ( https://github.com/Universal-Rom-Tools/Universal-XML-Scraper/wiki/[TUTO]-Making-a-MIX-Template) And if you want PR them to the github repository ;)

@Cerealkiller You are asking for support with an illegal 3rd Party image. You are also posting links to the illegal 3rd party image which is in breach of the forum rules which you agreed to read when you signed up. For support with your image, you should consult the creator of it. Nobody on here will know anything about it. I looked at the page you downloaded it from and there are hundreds of comments. Many posters have commented that their controllers do not work. Dr Maxwell claims that he has "taken the best of the best" and made it better. Seems not to be the case. My advice is to use the correct image from this website and start again.

@vladdracul said in ResidualVM help:

I had the same problem, solved it by pressing button x while the game is loading (to launch the configuration options), and changing emulator from "residualvm" to "residualvm-software". I also changed the resolution and 640x480 in all other configurations.

Hey thanks! I'll give that a spin tomorrow, I totally gave up on it since I could never get it sorted.

@columboscoat school boy error on my part the joystick cable from the board was plugged in upside down,
Its now registering all axes 8-)

@BuZz I have a premade retropie in my raspberry pi zero, I use this one to play with 8/16 bit consoles and c64 emulators, with my raspberry pi 3 B i try to learn what are the things I can do, try which mame roms works and which not (without mess my primary retropie in raspberry pi zero), try to instal 3.5 lcd.....

@edmaul69 Ok awesome I'll try that!