no need to worry anymore, I was messing with the files here on the computer and I
managed to edit the files, thanks for the help :)

Sorry for two post, bit any idea?

@t3stin I don't know, I use a stock config and this is not set on my system. If you just want to test the sound, there's a command line speaker-test command you can use. Or download an .mp3 and play it from the command line with cvlc.

It appears that in /opt/retropie/configs/n64/InputsAutoCfg.ini that under the relevant controller there was no entry for B button, and A button was incorrect. I edited this manually to correct for this, but I still get the same problem when i run the emulator - e.g., my attempted fix makes no difference to how it actually performs!

I will try that, thanks! Sorry for being ignorant and reading the rules correctly..

On a somewhat related note: will retropie support CRT / 240p right out of the box?

@Kvitekvist if your display supports lower resolutions change the window size in the gles2n64.conf file to 640x480. Then when you launch a game, enter the runcommand menu before the game boots and change the default video mode for gles2n64 to 640x480.

@inolen thanks - your post made me realise that I could just put the TV into 4:3 mode, rather than try and make ReDream correct the aspect ratio somehow. Doh! Will try that.

@mitu Thanks that did solve it, was able to save emulator settings. Just uninstalled and then update retropie setup script =D

@Darksavior That's what I was referring to. If you have saved out your retroarch config on older version the offset will be wrong (the aspect ratio is a number which is an offset into a list - they added a new aspect ratio, but not at the end, so it broke old configs).

@duiz I'd recommend FBNeo for CPS2/3

@Dagna The beta image at: https://retropie.org.uk/download/
Might be unrelated, but I've had random issues with this build and previous ones, but devs can't reproduce it. For example, ES wouldn't save my inputs until I re-installed ES from retropie-setup. Maybe it's my bad card (a few months old) or the card reader's bad.

OMG I am a moron. As is often the case it was user error and such a monumentally stupid one. The one thing I hadn't thought of since I last played Sega CD was I use a different controller. With this one I guess since in most systems it doesn't matter I have been pressing one of the face buttons to start instead of start, whereas it matters that it is actually the start button on Sega CD.

Ok... so there´s no fixing that... thanks!!

Here is a final snippet

"May 03 12:11:25 lvl3: UIModeController::logInput( Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver (XBOX) ):Button 0, isMappedTo= a, , value=1
May 03 12:11:25 lvl2: req sound [video.launch]
May 03 12:11:25 lvl2: (missing)
May 03 12:11:26 lvl2: Attempting to launch game...
"
So no errors.....

But I have managed to find a fix.

I'm also using the gtx970 as my sound card. if I disable this retropie works fine.

Guess this will just be one of these really odd bugs that only effects me :)

Thank you for your time

shot out of left field here, but did you ever end up figuring this out? same issue and the web is completely barren of references to the issue apart from yours lol

Hey,

it's me again.
I guess I am a bit closer. I was wondering why my custom gamepad driver which generates a uinput device is not working. By incident I started the game directly without the start script, so I could see the information output. One of the very first lines was "couldn't find keyboard event file". I recognized that my custom driver creates a eventX in /dev/input but not in the subdirectories by-id or by-path.
So I tried to create a symbolic link in by-id, pointing at my event.

Now the keyboard-emulating gamepad worked in the game!

Playing that a bit further I went back to my gamepad driver which behaves like a gamepad without keyboard emulation. Running on top xboxdrv with mouse and keyboard emulation. again with a symlink in by-id.

Now the regular gamepad-driver with xboxdrv on top worked in the game!

Only point is, that no regular keyboard is allow to be connected (maybe be game only uses the first keyboard?).

BR
Florian