@Loatman Glad you liked the guide. Hopefully we can resolve this issue with startx; I've run through the installation instructions at least four times, using three different recent versions of Raspbian Jessie on a Pi 3; it'd be good to work out what the issue is.

The clue may be in you saying you don't have an 'exit to command line' option.

It's a little confusing as you seem to have the system configured to boot directly to the console, which happens when you use the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool (Raspian desktop, Menu, Preferences) to select Boot to: CLI. Setting this option is also what adds 'exit to command line' to the Shutdown menu in Raspbian.

Did you set your system to boot to the command line in some other way?

Just to clarify, is the prompt where you type startx the main console - e.g. does you Pi boot, scrolling a few pages of status messages, and leave you with a full-screen command line?

When you run startx what happens? Do you get an error message?

Did you use the option to resize the filesystem (assuming you weren't using the latest Raspbian image, which seems to run this automatically now)?

You can check the amount of free disk space from the command line with:

df -k

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 61271084 36856840 21869428 63% / devtmpfs 437064 0 437064 0% /dev tmpfs 441400 67696 373704 16% /dev/shm tmpfs 441400 6268 435132 2% /run tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock tmpfs 441400 0 441400 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mmcblk0p1 61384 20960 40424 35% /boot tmpfs 88280 8 88272 1% /run/user/1000

My system has a 64GB SD Card. In the above example, the main partition dev/root is showing a total of 61271084 1k blocks; divide this by 1048576 to obtain 58.43GB total, of which 63% is used

Btw: apologies for the delay in responding, I didn't have 'watch' set on the thread.

@Joebo happy to help - glad you got it working

Just a (probably daft) thought: how unreachable is "unreachable"? Completely or just from where you're set up? All you have to do is temporarily get the pi on the network and use SSH to set up the wifi from the laptop. Think you can start RetroPie headlessly. You'd have to work out the IP address etc, but I think that would work.

Also, assuming the laptop has ethernet, you could directly connect it to the pi via a crossover cable - though tbh, getting your hands on a usb keyboard seems easier (and they always come in handy)

@Kristopherson05 you won't find help for that here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules

@dankcushions im using lr fba emulator that only emulates cps2 games (runs a little bit better cps2 games compared to the default lr fba, here it is https://github.com/libretro/fba_cores_cps2) with dispmanx video driver which gives some boost on fps. i know about the pifba but the problem is that my controllers doesnt have sticks which pifba only use stick for directions and not dpad, i know about recalbox pifba which supports dpad, but theres a problem with 2nd player that i detailed on issues on recalbox pifba github page (link https://github.com/recalbox/pifba/issues/2 read last comments), but i dont have any answer on how to fix it unfortunatly

Its started to work now. Thanks for all the help. My win32 disk imager wasn't working properly.

@Zigurana Thanks for the feedback. I ended up dumping all roms into the default folder for that system. I'm only using Kiosk mode and I found that after doing (ANOTHER) clean install of Retropie 3.8.1 and installing the ES-kid experimental package directly afterwards, I was able to change into Kiosk mode from the ES front end this time without ES crashing. The crashing on my previous install could have been attributed to something else that was done in RP / ES.
I think placing all roms in the default system folder is a small price to pay for a great feature like Kiosk mode. Glad to keep testing this experimental package and will continue to report on any bugs found along the way. Keep up the good work.

@Floob said in RetroPie automatic reconnect at all times with 8Bitdo bluetooth remotes:

Just a note to say that RetroPie now supports automatic re-connection of Bluetooth devices:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1905/retropie-3-8-bluetooth-configure-issue/18

Wow! I'm watching it right now. I'm curious did my question help at all or was it just ironic timing on my part? I'm guessing I shouldn't follow the steps shown now that I have made everything work.

I found my roms in a bicycle shop in Cairo. The owner wanted them taken down to Dar es Salaam...

I have renamed the topic - Please use descriptive titles that illustrate the problem and not things like "I'm new and need help". Imagine if every post was like that - the forum would be unusable.

@kris964

I would be greatly surprised if you couldn't get it working.

@Steve said in Xbox 360 Controller defaults to analogue stick.:

No that doesn't work because the D Pad is not functioning in-game - just in the User Interface.

in the tab menu did you configure player 1 left/right/etc, not just the UI control left/right/etc? from memory they are different.

@Cole_48 said in Adding homemade games:

Is there a way to do this without serious knowledge of Retropie

Why so serious? ;)

You'd need to know how to add a menu to Emulation Station, as well as how to make use of launch scripts. I can't imagine it being one tenth the difficulty of creating your own Python games. Here's a link to a few people discussing the specifics...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/2wi6ud/adding_a_new_option_and_theme_on_the/

@adamspc said in Shutdown with keypress:

Do you know whether the script uses much CPU power to run in the background?

Any software solution to something like this is going to take the tiniest amount off the CPU, but it's negligible. I tend to doubt there would be a game that even saw a drop in frame rate here, but I guess there's always that possibility. For your purposes, a hardware solution may be the best answer.

That cleared it. Thanks much, I was scratching my head since I assumed "image write ok" meant I could rely on it. Guess not.

bumping my question I miss my c64 and it was working so beautifully!

So i've been experimenting with no luck so anyone got any ideas I am guessing i have to manually edit the vkm and vjm files but i dont really follow the format totally so even if someone could help with that i would really appreciate it.

There must be some other 8bitdo C64 fans out there ???

Many thanks

Paul