@Necrobot20XX said in Not very user friendly.:

I am an above average computer user and have been using emulators for years.

This is hard to believe as I know there isn't a single emulator that would work for all systems RetroPie has or even half of it...

Also Above average Computer user would know the difference between a console and computer board...

Something very odd went on, not sure what (tried different power up modes, different boot modes, just wouldnt take the input from SFC30).
Just wrote RetroPie 4 final to a card. Chose basic install.

Added controller with hack off, added udev rule, left the boot mode where it was, didnt choose "boot" or "background".
Turned controller off after it registered and connected.
Rebooted.
Waited until fully in ES, turned SFC30 on, connected automatically.
ES happily saw its inputs - wrote the correct values. All power ons were with Start+R here.

All good! :)

Now just trying to work out how I managed to get ES to not see inputs from a SFC30 but see the FC30 Pro....

thanks nicapi, I had already updated my packages so I just went into option 1, '1 select default emulator for dreamcast (reicast)' and the option for oss-audio was there.

@BuZz
Thanks. Once I get home I will try this.

@sselph thanks for the extra command it speed things up for sure and it does seem to be working now :)

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -img_format=png -add_not_found=true -download_images=false -image_suffix= -use_gdb=false

worked wonders for me maybe it was just a cold boot on a cold morning that got the other stuff working to :)

@sselph
I used it for the task I explained here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3353/take-and-scrape-your-own-screenshots/47
And it's working fine.

It's a scheme to let the user take screenshots of a game and set the most recent screenshot as the emulationstation image for this game.

Here is the complete code:
https://github.com/meleu/src/blob/master/screep.sh

OBS.: It's intended to be the runcommand-onend.sh script.

Cheers!

With RetroPie 4 there is no need to manually remove stuff - you can remove it from RetroPie-Setup and it will remove the entry from Emulation Station - although you will need to remove any roms folder yourself. If you have a System Manager entry the roms folder is not removed.

@herb_fargus Hi, yes well I have a load of ROMs in the arcade folder already, but wanted the NeoGeo ROMs in a separate folder to get to them easier basically.

Thanks for all the help!

@Floob Thats awesome, I will try it out right away! :D

@dankcushions @caver01

It was the DIP switch! Thanks guys! Works great.

Quick update:

Since I'm using a switch for the PowerBlock, I'll change it to a DPST ON-OFF switch (rather than SPST), this should control both circuits with one actuator and light up the LED's when the rPi is powering up.

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this earlier. :-)

Thanks to all that responded.

@11fdriver the image was slimmed down and optional ports can be installed from the setup script if the server is lagging thats something that will be sorted server side or it is a network issue on your end

thegamesdb website is slow currently - you can use openvgdb with sselph's scraper.

sudo ./retropie_packages <NAME OR ID/PACKAGE>

which could be used in a loop

eg

for pkg in lr-mame2003 scummvm; do sudo ./retropie_packages.sh $pkg; done

or building all # ids from 200 to 210 (note ids are not static and change when new modules are added/removed)

for pkg in {200..210}; do sudo ./retropie_packages.sh $pkg; done

run retropie_packages with no parameters for a list of support modules and their functions.

Yup. Def pifba. Have just popped the control panel to check it's wired correctly. It is, however just as I was puting it back together I noticed I had to rotate the player 1 stick to make it fit! This would make left and right swap and up and down swap. This also explains why the configuration menus outside emulationstation were working this way too. I had just put up with that as it wasn't too much of a pain. Hopefully re-wiring it will solve my problem as I can't mount it the other way

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That solved it. Thanks!