if its available for rpi4 try installing drastic-ds youll need a keyboard connected to my knowlage to correctly map the inputs the first time round but it runs brilliantly even on a pi3

The message about the controller being detected / configured means that RetroArch starts ok. Can you try and enable verbose logging from the Runcommand launch menu when running the game, then exit the game and copy the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file over. Post it's contents on pastebin.com to take a look at what might be the error.
You'll probably need to enable SSH and use WinSCP to copy that file, since it's not available via file shares.

My problem with that solution is the available HDMI splitters are all much too large. Adding a HDMI out port to the case will take a lot less space. I'm using these with 20cm ribbon cables inside the casing and they are quite small.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3556

@Gameeplayhard you can install KODI and play all the movies you want from your harddrive

Oh that's interesting. I'm using the default driver, I guess rotation did not work for emulationstation when it was done through config.txt. However adding the --screenrotate, it definitely worked.

I'm also looking at the script they provided to set it upt.
https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show/blob/master/MPI4008-show

sudo echo "dtoverlay=ads7846,cs=1,penirq=25,penirq_pull=2,speed=50000,keep_vref_on=0,swapxy=0,pmax=255,xohms=150,xmin=200,xmax=3900,ymin=200,ymax=3900" >> ./boot/config.txt.bak

Guess I need to be using the ads7846 driver instead of the default one. For now I'm just happy it worked. Thanks.

@mitu Awesome thanks. Will let you know when I do.

Sorry, i've just noticed entering in each package menu that a few ones can just be downloaded from source and compiled.

Thanks.

I believe it was 4.5.14

The reason I was trying to install Retropie as an app over installing as a stand-alone is that I wanted the flexibility to switch back and forth. I thought it was a clean option as opposed to running multiple Pi's or having multiple SD cards kicking around to keep track of.

edit: also thank you for splitting this out.

@sirhenrythe5th said in Amiberry screen position:

Done, works great!
Thanks again for supoort @davidgrohl

Great! I’m glad it helps.

Finally i get rid of save/load state functionality. i change the following:

1- This is for the gamepad.

From/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads
i remove the lines for save/load states.

2- This is for the keybord.

From /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
i change the lines from

# input_save_state = f2
# input_load_state = f4
to
input_save_state = f22
input_load_state = f44

3- This is to hide save/load state option, in rgui quick menu.

i add to the/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

the line quick_menu_show_save_load_state = "false"

Got it solved.
I outsourced the config-files to "/home/AMIBERRY Inputs".
Now everything works, i learned that retroarch seems to browse also the subfolders within "opt/retropie/configs/all/autoconfig/" ;)

Which file, exactly ?

I downloaded the Pi2/3 from retropie.org.uk/download and the MD5 checksum of the .gz compressed image is identical to the one published on the page (eb62ee88bf890e6d9ac9164bcb3e4a23).

You'd need to modify /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the folder you want to share, with a similar set of configuration options as the other RetroPie share

[...] [pi-home] comment = pi-home path = "/home/pi/" writeable = yes guest ok = yes create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755

The easiest way would be to enable SSH and use WinSCP to see the files on the RetroPie system, you'll have access to the entire filesystem.

@NewAgeRipper Never mind. I just realized this is for a wired controller.

@Tango Another thing you can do to cleanly shut down your system if it's too stuck to get back to the command line is SSH into your pi and run the command sudo shutdownThere are a lot of apps and programs for SSHing in. One example is JuiceSSH for Android. There are times it can be too frozen to even allow an SSH tunnel, but other times it's the only way to get a clean shut down. Just know that sudo shutdown "schedules" a shutdown a few minutes out, so if you use this method wait a few minutes to see the shut down actually commence.

I went through config files and even used the rp-dist in /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro to replace the modified one in the retroarch.cfg in that directory. Still no luck.

But I've come upon a frustrating issue that does not seem to fit in with the situation. It's so different from what I'm dealing with, I started a new thread and went into long and careful detail of what I did and what's going on. It's here.

Ah, so it's not the RetroPie system that you cannot see, it's the EmulationStation menu. Did you, by any chance, switched EmulationStation to Kid mode ?

@mitu Ah I see.. I was always getting confused when I looked at cfg files and saw the # lines, just cos they looked nothing like technical instruction/code to me 😊. Glad I cleared that up...

So for my own reference I could put a # line in saying here are my latest attempts at the control inputs THEN after after that start that actual control inputs (WITHOUT #)?

@hawkes_84 No problem, glad you got it sorted. Yeah, a you can see there is no single best solution for ZX, but Retroarch offers lots of ways to deal with it. And you figured out why Q & W don't work, congrats, this has annoyed me to no end back in the day.