@Kristopherson05 That's not what you asked. You asked this:

is there anyway to make my joystick and buttons the arrow keys and escape button?

One solution is to use an Ipac2 keyboard decoder. You have not provided enough information (again) https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@Alwaysbored612 said in Newbie Needs Suggestions:

Are most people using external speakers for similar builds? If so, how do you route the power through the Pi? USB maybe? Do you have a suggested product that works?

Don't route the power through the pi. Get a power brick with 5 usb ports on it rated at 3A then from that you can power usb speakers, led lighting and anything else. Use a separate power pack to power the Pi. Se my speakers here. Just a cheap set from Amazon, ripped apart. Really good quality.

@cybermrc you probably figured this out by now, but the cocktail switch only serves to flip player 2 upside-down. It won't induce the initial rotation.

@BuZz thanks for the help, I'll try a fresh install and give kodi17 a go. Not sure why I had neither xpad or xboxdrv installed on 4.1 and the controller worked fine after only editing rc.local

@daeks said in Getting neogeo to run:

i have read both, but didnt know that I am not allowed to rename it.

Well, the fact that the name of the zip file decide which game will be launched is written on the wiki.

And honestly, the opposite make no sense : if you randomly rename zip files, how could the emulator know what game it is ? How could the emulator find parent rom if it needs it ? You think he'll scan up to 10 GB of zip files and/or compare with his database of 10000 games to find the right one ? Launching a game would be pretty long... And what would be the purpose of having a software who put the right file into the right zip with the right name if the name is irrelevant ?

unfortunately I don't remember how he plaied gba, but in GBA ROM folder there are no saves.

@TitQuentin no problem. Glad to help.

@dankcushions Okay thanks for giving me a straightforward answer.

I've been fighting this same problem today. I have a bunch of different RetroLink controllers (Atari 2600, NES, N64, Genesis) and they all overwrite each other. My workaround was what @meleu said. I had to hardcode the mappings for each specific retroarch.cfg file and then I configured the NES controller through ES. The fact that you can hot-swap controllers makes it not too bad. I just use the NES controller to navigate and once I fire up a ROM, unplug it and plug in the proper controller.

I think i have this figured out. It was a zip file extraction issue. I extracted the files again and it is working. Thanks for the assistance.

I ended up setting up a cron job and got this working.

@herb_fargus Sounds good, thanks for all your help!

I fail to see how my answer was condescending. And you confirmed what I thought anyway as you said you didn't have time to read the wiki.

At the least fill in the details as to what you're running in the link. It's just a bullet-pointed list. That way we know how you're build is setup and will be in a better position to help you.

@epicrean https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
Which system?
Which Emulator?
Which Rom?
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration#hotkeys

@BuZz said in Re-download Optional Packages?:

@billybag You removed part of the RetroPie-Setup script ?

cd ~/RetroPie-Setup git reset --hard

i deleted all things Kodi from the SD Card. Been doing a lot of dumb things this holiday season.

anyway, have not tried the 'git reset --hard' command but will.

EDIT: That worked! Deffinitely bookmarking this

@BuZz thanks to you!