@BJRetro said in New to this, need help!:

@drevil2002 yeah you should have a dedicated start and select button. Makes it much easier for people to use when they know how to put a coin in and how to start the game.

I second that, although without the currency symbols that I fail to add to the yellow coin buttons on my own DIY upright cabinet (recently updated with two spinners, yay!), some people likewise fail to recognize them as coin buttons. ;) I still can't decide if I want to use Dollar ($) or Yen (¥) symbols …

@drevil2002 As for the number of buttons, I recommend at least six per player, or, if you have the space, even eight. Apart from being able to map the four-in-a-row button layout of the Neo Geo and Vectrex controllers accurately, you could put additional functions on the excess buttons like pause, screenshot etc.

@markyh444 I know it’s a raspberry pie 3b+ but forgot the rest of info about what version of RetroPie I have installed I’ll check and report back once I get home thank you.

@mitu I can personally confirm an rpi-update fixed the overscan settings on my Samsung. Obviously I don't recommend rpi-update as it can cause other system issues but in this case overscan was a specific issue it fixed for me.

@pjwentink https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Please read it through carefully as it requests that you open your own topic, not necro one from 2 years ago. Appreciate the log, but also in your post please supply all the info requested in the above link. This isn't to be tedious, it will save us a lot of time troubleshooting if we know what we are working with. Nobody wants to spend all day guessing what the problem might be. Thanks!

Ok Thanks.

I have installed the latest version of retroarch, and it ignores the configuration of ../retroarch/autoconfig/*.cfg. Has something changed?

My fault, I gave him update joypad and it blocked my configuration. I deleted it and everything worked perfect.

Anicetus_Cer
Anicetus_Cer 21 minutes ago

I know this is an old topic, but I tested the given examples in previous posts and they did not work for me, that is not to say they did not work in older versions of retroarch, for the record I just tested on retroarch 4.5.9 on my retropie handheld system.

To get the ingame hotkey volume control working add the following two lines to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg;

input_volume_up = "up"
input_volume_down = "down"

Below is an example excerpt showing that I added the new lines underneath there reference lines in the retroarch.cfg file, Lines starting with a hash symbol (#) mean that they will not be interpreted, and as a general rule of thumb in linux, often show what default values will be overriden by adding the new lines.

#Line 602... #Increases audio volume. #input_volume_up = kp_plus input_volume_up = "up" #Decreases audio volume. #input_volume_down = kp_minus input_volume_down = "down" #Line 609...

Note: I tend to use the volume control menu in emulation station to set the "master volume" for want of a better phrase then the in game volume for fine grained adjustment.

Hope it helps someone, if so upvote.

That did the trick.....installing lr-flycast, the controls working perfectly. Thanks!

@mitu I just loaded goldeneye and it did load successfully so it appears only the ones I tested werent working. Thanks for taking a look.

Edit: Ill also add that this core runs goldeneye surprisingly smooth...

@pjwentink It worked ! Thanks so much

@mitu
haha let me check again :)
2.1 ...

@mitu sorry, it doesn't work 😢
Thanks

@Dwarfboysim Why don't you ask it here ?

So far, I got a really long usb extension cord ($5) and a cheap 4 port hub ($7) that sits on my coffee table next to the couch. Not wireless but works well enough so far.

I use a couple of generic snes usb controllers for a bunch of systems (nes, atari 7800, snes, game boy, game boy advance, sega master system, and other such games). For the a+b button systems, I just remember to use only the bottom buttons. I do have some nes usb controllers, but TBH have found the SNES ones to work well enough.

I use a couple of the official Sega 6 button USB controllers for the sega games.

I haven’t worked my way up to any modern controllers yet, but plan to at some point.

ScreenScraper has a limit of requests per day (like TheGamesDB has) - you may be over that limit or simply their servers are too busy and they're only servicing registered users.

@mitu Yes the exFAT format is definitely the issue. Now I just need to figure out if renaming the few roms that have a : is easiest or sticking with ext4 but only having access to it via WINSCP. Thanks for figuring it out for me.