I ended up flashing the image (for the 3rd time) and ordering some new controllers and no issues now

I would aslo check to see what the buttons are programmed for say button "a" is connected to the "t" key on a keyboard, retropie wont do anything because it thinks you are pressing "t" instead of the key that is programmed of retropie

@Floob said in Mame easiest way ?:

If it doesnt violate the rules here, it should be fine.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules

Sorry I did read through it which covers for lack of a better word "code" in the form of files. I guess my more direct question is the supplemental material connected to MAME such as pictures of actual arcade material and sound samples would they be considered in violation such as Progetto or Mr. Do, several good Italian ones, etc. A few times I didn't link to them as I wasn't sure if this type of material is ok?

Well gParted is a Live Linux system :)

So part 1 is as I wrote - Resize Partition (maybe 0,5 Gigabyte)
On the gparted system you can also try to use the fdisk -l command... That should also work.
So you can also use Linux Reader for Windows and then create a 100% fitting image without chunk size calculation :)

Nothing is easy :)

You could see if its responding to jstest

Thanks for the help everyone.

The issue for me configuring my controllers came down to an edit I made to the following config file, a while back on an earlier version of RetroPie when trying to find a way to enable multiple players:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/autoconf.cfg

I had changed the following value to 4:
reicast_input

This change broke my controller auto config as the only options are 0 or 1 - which I now know is for enabling input auto configuration.

@EdwardMurphy said in N64-Controller, D-Pad & Analogue Stick recognized as the same:

I already bought two other controllers.

Always an elegant solution. Glad things are working now.

@MancunianLee Yeah, that's how you do it, but I recommend keeping a spreadsheet or some notes about what ROMs came from where. For instance, I have a list of the games I have loaded in Arcade, and I list the ROM set version they came from and the emulator I am using to launch them.

With all of your ROM files sitting in Arcade, you need to go through them one by one with the runcommand and pick which emu you want to use to launch each game. You can pick a default to cover most of them, but those that vary from your chosen default will need to be set once using runcommand.

I find it very handy to have the Arcade group, especially for friends that want to play, but have no idea what it means to run FBA for NeoGeo games for example. All they need to know is that they are launching the Arcade version of a game and it's not important to the player what emulator happens to run it best. You set all of that up for them.

@cyperghost said in Can my usb device have data on it already?:

Can we pin this post? Or add the symlinking inkl. bash to the wiki?
The info in this thread seems to be very valueable.

personally i'd prefer we only have one method of mounting USB drives in the wiki so less to support. no point having two if they both achieve the same thing.

@Russelkm I got that configuration from here: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Overclocking and it was the cause of my issue. As of now I'm back to using the default configuration settings.

Here is what I'm currently using (it's the default settings) and the scraper seems to be working fine:
#For more options and information see

http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode

#hdmi_safe=1

uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible and your display can output without overscan

disable_overscan=1

uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border

#overscan_left=16
#overscan_right=16
#overscan_top=16
#overscan_bottom=16

uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus overscan.

#framebuffer_width=1280
#framebuffer_height=720

uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output

#hdmi_force_hotplug=1

uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)

#hdmi_group=1
#hdmi_mode=1

uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in DMT (computer monitor) modes

#hdmi_drive=2

uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or no display

#config_hdmi_boost=4

uncomment for composite PAL

#sdtv_mode=2

#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.
#arm_freq=800

Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces

#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on

Uncomment this to enable the lirc-rpi module

#dtoverlay=lirc-rpi

Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)

dtparam=audio=on

#gpu_mem_256=128
#gpu_mem_512=256
#gpu_mem_1024=256
#overscan_scale=1
gpu_mem=320

@edmaul69 No unfortunately the only other buttons are for assigning and clearing turbo. It is so strange that it wont work, as the joystick is picked up in the device test in console, and every other emulator is OK with it (or is should say emulation station.) Thank you for the help by the way.

@darthpaul
i guess you followed https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive ?

what's the output of df?

if you navigate to your USB driver, what are the contents if you do ls -l ?

what is the output of ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ?

can you paste the contents of /etc/fstab?

@bobchiba yeah. No clue. What bothers me about these if you arent putting it inside the playstation 1 like i did is the first player is on the right. I dont recommend buying any single player versions. They still read as two controllers and the port you have to use is player 2. The radio shack one is the only true single player one. Also look at the solder points on the bad controller port. Do they look like bad soldering? One of the pins doesnt get soldered

I actually use the lr-pcsx-rearmed from retropie 3.7. I had the same problems on the latest version along with the mess of problems with the added multitap and not being able to have second player on analog.

@BuZz Thank you! I currently reformatting an SD card to start fresh. Hopefully I will have better luck this time.

Over here is says that the gamelist.xml is just for games that you have Scraper info/pictures for:
https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/master/README.md#gamelistxml

It's not a complete list of all the games you have.

What file(s) do you have in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads ? (Can you post them on pastebin.com?)
Are you sure no yellow text appears in the extreme bottom left of the screen when you start a game that uses RetroArch?