I use this one for Centipede and Millipede (lr-mame2003): HAPP 3" Solid Color Trackball with USB & PS/2 interface.

FYI, problem was resolved by replacing the 3rd party power supply with the official Pi 3 power supply: https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-power-supplies/products/official-raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply

Problem has not returned since, my guess is that the 3rd party power supply had enough to power on the pi, but not enough to proceed past the RetroPie splash screen and onto Emulation Station, hence the reboot issue coming about.

Thought I'd post this as a follow-up in case anyone else falls victim to the same issue.

Understood, i'll have a look. I guess, anyway i need wait. But, thanks a lot.

Ok, I see what I missed.

On the Configuration Editor page of Github, the picture of the retropie page is actually a video, couldn't tell until I accidently clicked on it.

Great video and well done, Ive tried Wing Commander and it looks great, brings me back to the eighties and tron! Thanks for the help.

two more questions:

Have you tried playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Iron and Blood? the resolution on the main menu is so bad no matter what I do.. Sigh

What is the name of the old tv overlay you used on the first video you linked?

Thx,

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Okay, now I feel silly...

I forgot I had a Network Switch between my Raspberry Pi and my router and I power cycled it and reseated all cables and now my Raspberry Pi is working even though my Roku was working before without any problems.

This issue is resolved! Thanks for your help @BuZz and time on this!

Please update to the latest RetroPie-Setup - and try removing xboxdrv and instead using the xpad driver (from Packages -> drivers)

You probably need to use https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv

RetroPie is built on Raspbian. So to get to it just quit Emulation Station using the menu (Press Start) or press F4 on the keyboard.

This thread may be of interest to you https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3194/how-are-you-backing-up-your-save-files

well configs under might work if the entry didn't exist in the global retroarch.cfg, but you could run into trouble. I don't think the order is relevant to the problem - we are debugging in the other thread.

Perhaps, if possible, allow the amount of ticks/time required to activate the system menu to be changeable or allowed to be tweaked. Currently, the time to activate the system menu is relatively short. If I could make it longer, then all will be good.

So i cant remember if the audio had static before but before trying linapple today i went into audio settings and chose "restore to defaults" even though i have never been in the audio settings before. So now there is no loud audio with the audio mixer screen flickering every few seconds. So that may have been how i fixed it. Not sure where the screen it flickers is from but i am curious.

You may not want our xpad, as it may cause problems with Kodi on OSMC or other issues. We have some support for OSMC but I don't think I can help get xpad working if they are managing their own kernels that won't work with dkms.

The code is here

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/xpad.sh

It's this driver we are building - which contains newer xpad code than is in the currentl Raspbian 4.4 kernel - https://github.com/paroj/xpad.git

However due to problems with ES and the triggers, I have patched it so the triggers are forced to act as buttons (can be switched off via module param).

@Rural said in RetroPie binary issues:

@BuZz Fair enough, but under 4.0, I'm also not seeing any of the emulators that are visible on a virgin 3.8 install. In particular, Ports' absence was wined about by my main users. Is that an intentional change? With the exception of Ports, I like it.

When I find/buy another microSD card, I'll try making some .cue files.

Yes. A smaller selection of stuff is added by default, since it is now easy to add and remove individual packages. This keeps the image size down, and allows more flexibility - there were a lot of complaints in the past that we shipped with things people didn't want.

Thanks Herb. I think the Dreamcast strangeness was carried over from 3.8 and I only just noticed it later. Seemed to have swapped player 1 to player 2 joypad, but I've fixed that after some head-scratching.

Will try 4.0 when I get some spare time. Cheers anyway.

Phew!
phew

Can you post your controller file on pastebin, it should be in
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-configs/

Please also include this info here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@nemo93 because it is not "active" until buttons are pressed I guess. Not much we can do about that really.