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Retropie 4.0.2

Fifa 98 works like a charm.

Retropie 4.0.3 and 4.1

Fifa 98 only works if I skip the EA logo video by pressing START, if not I only get black screen after the EA video. After that, the game works fine.

Just found a way to do something, by using Select+X while in the game: from there, a Quick Menu allows me to see the options you mentioned (but not the rom I added, so you may be right about the static options). Anyway, not sure any change I make here is persistent...

Thank you. I have spent like 3-4 hours, deleting folders, configs and formatting/restoring backups and it only boiled down to that one option that I completely over looked.

@Jazzy

How many games have you tried and which ones? Some only support the keyboard.

@synack

Thanks a lot!

I'll have a try at this !

I ended up changing /opt/Retropie/config/all/autostart.sh. Within this file I changed the word Emulationstation to attract. Worked great! Thanks!

@Slugz https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@kajih You have to be joking right? You are not seriously asking this?

In bold at the top of this page:
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 need to read the very clear guidance provided on MAME. Your post has been replicated hundreds of times and answered hundreds of times. A search on here would reveal hundreds of threads on this topic. Just by typing in MAME HELP into the search bar will reveal them.

But more importantly, it would reveal this:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide

This answers everything.

You should also read these after the above as it will reinforce the above:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/MAME
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

@boie said in How can I setup 2 player controls for emulators other than Mame. Specifically for the "arcade" set of emulators.:

After doing more reasurch I found that my problem is that I need to configure my second player for PiFBA.

This is true and once again, if you read the guide it will tell you how and with what file. Please do not ask any further questions until you have read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. It is obvious that you have ignored it despite it being printed at the top of the page and despite agreeing to it when you signed up.

@meleu said in Disable 'Configure Input' menu:

Hey guys, a confirmation after selecting "CONFIGURE INPUT" was implemented today (2016-12-03). It's cool isn't it?! :-)

You have to update emulationstation from source to get it.

I didn't try out so far. Nice to see such developments are done. Those tweaks are not essential but I'm sure the response is the same like the wifikey import for ex. - positive! Things are getting better 😀 ... Thanks to the dev team

Ok, updating the script worked. It installed the latest RetroArch GIT. I then #commented out the cheevos_enable = "false" line and it boots up just like it should. So yes, I believe this issue was resolved. Thanks for all your help guys.

@meleu I changed the emulator from Snes9x 2002 7.2.0 to Snes9x 2005 v1.36 and I do have core options now. Thanks

@Trinity2069 said in Two Players, One Keyboard:

How would I hard code that?

I forgot to provide the link: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration#hardcoded-configurations

@herb_fargus
I've just added a link to that FAQ entry :)

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Manual-Installation#boot-to-emulationstation

Unplug any controllers and plug in a usb keyboard It worked for me. I have an xbox wireless controller and it worked fine. For some reason no matter what i plug my wireless controller into the retropie sees it as #0 and confuses it with the keyboard. so now it only works with the keyboard

@Haemogoblin said in RetroPie is v4.1 RPI2b advice:

I'm just looking in to how to direct Retropie to use one single rom directory for both emulators.

The /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/ directory was made for this use case. And then you have to define what arcade emulator to use when launching a game in runcommand menu (you just need to set this once).

edit: this post seems to have some useful info for you: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5674/solved-rom-version-numbers-to-match-emulators