@Mamemeister said in Emulators bring up Retroarch:

Getting no luck with any of the FBA emulators. I've tried a few versions of the rom too with no luck. Does this game require a bios file per chance?

yes. pgm.zip. all required BIOS will be in a verified set.

sorry for late response i was a bit busy this days, where should i put this post?

So if i understand correctly, you have it running arcade stuff with arcade controls but if you want to play something like n64 you want to be able to use that controller correct? If that is the case all you need to do is plug in your usb controls in the correct usb ports to set the order. The usbs on the pi have a boot order so if you have all three controls plugged in you want the extra controller to be seen as the first controller so put that controller in whatever usb port makes it the first controller. Now if you dont have that controller plugged in your arcade stick will be seen as the first controller but once you plug the "extra" controller in to the correct usb port it then automatically becomes the first controller

@leeevans

That method is not very reliable and may be causing your issues. The recommended technique can be found here. Along with potentially unreliable mounting issues, modifying the es_systems.cfgwill actually break functionality with a few emulators, as some facets of RetroPie are hardcoded to use ~/RetroPie/roms/ and don't reference es_systems.cfg for a possible new location.

Hi All,
Im still struggling with the button lay out.
I bought a RPI3,2.5a psu and heatsinks.
Fresh sd image of 3.8.1
Xin-Mo dual arcade.
I have all the buttons mapped in Emulation station, and all register in Jstest, js0 and js1.
The fresh install got rid of the Xinmo not configured error when loading roms in FBA-next and mame.
When I load FBA i can bring up the RGUI and map the input binds for users 1 & 2 and Bind hotkeys, save the configuration, tried switching on save on exit, but reloading fba has lost the mappings?
Has anyone else experiencing the same?
I am also confused with the button layout best to map for FBA, reicast, and N64.
I have chosen a six button layout, see image below of the JStest outputs, wired as described in the Xin mo help thread. USBQuirks line was all that was needed to see two users.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fb44oek14BRzZQUmZ0bU1PSlE/view?usp=sharing
This image is my proposed six button SF FBA Mame button map;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fb44oek14Bc3g5cHFrN3QxTXc/view?usp=sharing
And final image is where I am confused how to map the buttons to be most compatible with Reicast and N64 and Vice etc, two proposed maps, which would work best in your experience?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fb44oek14BZ0YxUFJZOFI1Mk0/view?usp=sharing

Can anyone help uploading an actual working mapped retroarch.cfg and reicast emu.cfg files please?
Many thanks for reading.

Thanks guys

I'll try that later.

the numbers are dynamic. It sounds like you have updated to retropie 4.x in which case you need to install it from drivers first as mentioned by @edmaul69

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Updating-RetroPie

@BuZz said in Using composite video, can't see everything on the screen.:

Please try with disable_overscan=0 (or comment the line out) and enable overscan_scale=1 then adjust the overscan left/right/top/bottom

also note your gpu_mem=320 won't have any effect, as the gpu_mem_256, gpu_mem_512 and gpu_mem_1024 values override it.

Thanks for the tip, that did it! :)

Hm... It seem that the screen can not be configured the same way as with the other raspberries. I tried 3 times and the method does not work. When I type in ls /dev/fb* I only keep getting

/dev/fb0 when I should also be getting /dev/fb1. Without that the screen won't work. I worked fine on pi2 but on the zero I can't seem to get fb1 to show up.

@edmaul69 said in Atari 2600 with SNES controller woes:

i might make a thread one day showing all the cool raspberry pi mods i have done.

I'd like to see that.

@beastrow

Edit: My mistake.
You can add -version to your "commands" file temporarily.

If your commands file is lair.commands it's probably rev F2.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (Need more info)

also see https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

@dankcushions Oh hell, well now I feel dumb. Thanks for the help, it works like a charm!

Awesome! That worked :)

Thanks

Thanks @nschloe ! I just came across this now as I was looking for the thread again

I've noticed audio problems with Retropie as well. I recently switched to a fresh install of 3.8.1. I haven't really thoroughly tested it but the emulator in question is PSX. I seem to be having a hard time with it mainly. For some reason only certain games load. But I was testing a game and when I exited to test another game there was no sound. I exited again and tried another game and still no sound. So I rebooted and audio was working again.

You got the error if you launch a .sh-file?
Edit es_systems.cfg with sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and search for the PORTS Section
There you will find <command> section
simply add bash so it looks <command>bash

It happens if you use FAT filesystems for storing games on a USB-stick

If not then check owner and permissions in roms.... owner is user pi

...fresh ROM for AstronBelt has it working better. Enemy craft shooting again, collision detect working. Only bad thing is that when the "disc" is changing scene I often get a flash of an explosion out of context for what's happening in the game. I tried deleting the DAT file and re-parsing the files but no joy. If anyone has any experience of this and fixing it, I'd appreciate any pointers.

Strangely Galaxy Ranger seems spot on.