Generally you do not want to mess with the permissions of such system files :)
Just modify them with sudo or on a computer, its safer overall.

Nice another OCD person, Its took me a week to put my games on because im so fussy about presentation etc...and picking the splash screen took a while...

Thanks, worked like a charm!

I'm no expert in this (so disclaimer over) but could it be setup to happen automatically using the idle settings?

@heroshade644

What method did you use to migrate your roms to the thumb drive?

thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it

After some consideration, I think I might leave emulating the PSX, N64, Dreamcast and Saturn on the Pi, alone as I have another project in mind to do those one that wont require the Pi. At this point I just wanna make a emulation console that can play the classic stuff (NES, SNES, SMS, SMD, ect, ect) So with that being said, will that still require a heatsink?

Asking because I wanna know what I need to buy so I can do it all at once >.>

@diegzumillo said in USB gamepad plus more buttons?:

I just need a couple more! not an entire gamepad

You could get one of the many usb NES pads and map the event codes from its B&A buttons alongside the event codes from your Sabrent into one virtual joystick device using "Linux Joystick Mapper".

Hi, Thanks for your quick answer,

I put it in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/neogeo folder.

@BuZz well maybe it's just me then :( ..

Thank you very much - that was it!
Sorry, looking back, it was a silly question... :-/

Regards.

Hi, thanks for the reply. I did SSH into the unit and used nano to analyze the contents of the config.txt file located at "/boot/config.txt" however none of the settings in there seemed relevant. The only overclock setting I could fine in there was for the "Arm" and it seemed as though the setting was meant for the first generation Pi board. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Wrong file location perhaps? Below is a link to a screenshot.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5og4t50cb412x3m/config.jpg?dl=0

OK thanks!

I updated the readme with a couple of new photos, including a shot of it installed in my cabinet. Hopefully that clarifies a few details.

Thanks for the props guys.

That is not how to install retropie - that is manual installation of the Emulation Station frontend only. You might do better to use a premade image - note that the RetroPie images are Raspbian Lite.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/manual-installation

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (note the part about posting logs / using markdown)

You are missing the part of the es_input.cfg that triggers the retroarch configuration - you should remove it and re-install Emulation Station from RetroPie-Setup menu 5 and reconfigure

Not sure what version you are running though - so more information might be helpful. You should also try a RetroPie image to compare vs OSMC in case it's an OSMC related issue. retrosmc has it's own support thread here https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/howto-retrosmc-retrogaming-on-osmc/6671