@sleve_mcdichael aahh ok, so it's cause it's not on a Raspberry, ok that makes sense then. Thank you

Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your topic.

@marconemusic also, lemme add.
That the controller order changes if I use a different emulator…
Currently I’m using the LR -

Thanks for your help, I will give it a try.

Thanks again

@metal-ghost

Hey I got it to work. When pairing via Bluetooth I don’t wake up the VCS Classic controller until about 30 seconds or so after the searching for Bluetooth with the pi. That way the VCS controller does not turn off before it finishes.

Once I set it up in emulation station I launch a game and the controls get mapped all wrong for some reason so I go into RetroArch under settings->input->port 1 (or something like that I’m not at my pi right now) I’ll reconfigure the controls and save controller profile.

Now it works except the paddle. Unfortunately it’s using a different scheme (I believe it starts at 0 and wraps all the way to 1 when it resets to zero, I’ve seen people explain it better on Reddit). It works great on stella on my windows. But I haven’t figured it out on Retropie. I’ll keep looking and trying things to get the paddle to work.

@melovegames

Thanks !

And did my advice using mame with -autoframeskip or the video-mode help ?

With mame you can also use the F8 and F9 to specify your own frameskipping.
F11 will show the frameskipping information.

We don't offer support for 3rd party images - only for the image you install from retropie.org.uk/download. Ask the seller of the image for support or install the official image and we can provide support.

@mitu yea it did remove it. Added that back in commented a few other statements. It works but I don't think my screen has a good enough refresh rate for this project. Oh well, learning has occurred.

@mahoneyt944 I was mainly looking at the history of the official driver, which had quite a lot of fixes over the last 15 years. I don't know the status of mame2003+ about those fixes.

@sleve_mcdichael I'll give it all a shot when I get home. I'm also going to try and reinstall the RetroPie image without Raspbian. See if I can get the lcd to load. I think it would make for better gaming in the long run.

@mahoneyt944
Hey man, no nothing worked, dont know why it didnt let me "enter" any key. It just didnt do anything an no no key was stuck or sticky ;)
Anyway, thanks to the help of Mr sleve_mcdichael i managed to do it. Yay :D
Thanks for you as well.
Big up

@rhino said in RetroArch version:

So after using one of prebuilt images you end up with proper distro and can stay up-to-date by re-running the script and there's no need to reinstall even after major Retropie releases?

Pretty much yes. At some point though the current OS (RasPI OS) becomes unsupported (both upstream and by RetroPie) and you'll have to upgrade your OS by installing a new image.

Here's an example, assuming you have the online/offline-onstart/onend scripts created and saved in the /opt/retropie/configs/all folder.

Create a script that will toggle the online saving features, called Enable Online.sh: #!/usr/bin/env bash cp /opt/retropie/configs/all/online-onstart.sh /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh cp /opt/retropie/configs/all/online-onend.sh /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onend.sh Create a similar script to disable the online saving, called Disable Online.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash cp /opt/retropie/configs/all/offline-onstart.sh /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh cp /opt/retropie/configs/all/offline-onend.sh /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand-onend.sh Copy the 2 scripts in $HOME/RetroPie/retropiemenu and then restart EmulationStation. There should be 2 new entries under the RetroPie system with for the 2 scripts, which you can execute when needed (i.e. for online play or offline play).

The names of the scripts doesn't matter as long as you remember their purpose, you can name them as you like.

@mitu It looks like there were some dependencies missing that we're causing the issue.

user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo apt-get install -f libgbm-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libqt5widgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed or libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed libqt5x11extras5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.8+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.8+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed qt5-gtk-platformtheme : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed or libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

To fix this, I ended up installing aptitude and installing the missing packages simply because aptitude gives much better verbose output for dependency issues as well as a simple way to resolve the conflict.

user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo aptitude install libgbm-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libgbm-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libgbm1 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 52 not upgraded. Need to get 9,092 B/38.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 93.2 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libegl-mesa0 : Depends: libgbm1 (= 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1) but 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 is to be installed The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Upgrade the following packages: 1) libegl-mesa0 [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] 2) libgl1-mesa-dri [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] 3) libglapi-mesa [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] 4) libglx-mesa0 [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y The following NEW packages will be installed: libgbm-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglx-mesa0 5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 48 not upgraded. Need to get 9,092 B/10.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 138 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo aptitude install libdrm-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libdrm-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 6 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded. Need to get 131 kB/284 kB of archives. After unpacking 680 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo aptitude install libpciaccess-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libpciaccess-dev 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded.

After installing the missing packages the basic install went through without issues.

@babyboodle said in PulseAudio unable to connect; poor emulator performance issues and menu crashes.:

reset to default settings

If you have reset RetroArch to default settings in the RGUI and then saved the config you have probably set non ideal defaults. Our defaults are not the same as the RetroArch defaults. You should remove /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and reinstall retroarch from "Manage Packages/Core Packages"

@mitu yes, you are right

@quasimaddboy neither. They mean the script itself. From the main menu (not the "manage packages" submenu), choose Update (updates the setup script and all installed packages) or Update RetroPie-Setup script (does what it says on the tin, updates just the setup script but not the underlying packages. The first one takes a lot longer.)