@mitu Thanks again for your help.
It appears to be every Emulator, nothing is working now. Will start again and hope it works.

Update your Retropie-Setup script - make sure you're using the latest version - and see if you get the same issue during update.

@citaria that's great 👍

@uberlumby I have one img for CRT and composite. If possible Go to my Chanel on YouTube, have link to download.
Chanel name: Granny Games.

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@mitu said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

@bmjohnsn said in White and grey screen when opening emulationstation:

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Mar 4 2021 - 19:57:50

That's not the RetroPie version. You may be installing it through RetroPie-Setup, but you're starting another version.
RetroPie maintains a fork of the original EmulationStation, which is installed in /opt/retropie/supplementary.

How exactly are you starting EmulationStation ? When installed via RetroPie-Setup, the main binary is in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/ and an emulationstation script is copied in /usr/bin. Check if the script points to the correct EmulationStation binary.

You are right. When I run EmulationStation from the /usr/bin folder, it runs correctly.

That poses another question... When I call 'emulationstation' in the terminal, how can I get it to point to the right script?

Actually, I found the version that was running incorrectly in /usr/local/bin.

Upon deleting emulationstation from this folder, all works well.

Thank you for your help!

Maybe I read it wrong first time - it does look like you mean running the monitor from the RPI? It's possible for a small screen if it's 5v and draws 500mA or less (usb2). But I'm not sure that's a good way to do it. What are you trying to achieve by wanting to do it this way?

Actually you can probably draw more (see "FAQs - Raspberry Pi Documentation" https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/faqs/#pi-power) if the PSU is up for it, but powering a monitor is best done separately really.

@lostless Hyperspin too

Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

You mean you downloaded the cheats through RetroArch's menu and the unpacking fails after download ?

@dominodomino please ensure you fill out all of https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first when requesting support.

a verbose log for when it works vs when it doesn’t would be useful. note that shaders aren’t save via overrides: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Shaders-and-Smoothing/#installation

@dch It seems you're using an older RetroPie version and from what I see in the Docs, UAE4ALL doesn't seems to properly support joysticks.
Try to update to a more recent RetroPie version and use Amiberry. If your gamepad works in other games/systems, Amiberry should be able to read the configuration created by RetroPie and use your gamepad.

In $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs there are logs for each update you've made through the setup script, including what packages have been updated.

@majorocd said in Game description file location:

So do you know if it is possible to move /opt/retropie/configs to the SSD?

Not without a reinstall and without re-formatting the SSD to ext4.

If you wish to keep the artwork on the SSD, you'd have to either

copy the downloaded_images folder on the SSD and then make a symlink from $HOME/.emulationstation to it. When moving the SSD to a new system, you'd have to re-create the symlink there, so the downloaded_images points to the SSD folder. move the downloaded_images folder on the SSD and adjust the paths in each gamelist.xml file to point to the new location. Useful if you don't want to add new games and/or scrape again.

@raulitob said in Skyscraper .ini editing for network share.:

And that works great but my question is do I need to add that to the skyscraper config file as well?

No, you don't need to.

@mitu Thanks. Much appreciated.

Please don't bump your topics in short amount of time.
Have you tried setting the control type to Dualshock - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#the-controller-problem-digital-only-analog ?