@mitu Oh ok, that’s a bit of a bummer. At least I know why it doesn’t work though. No big deal, I mainly use it for MAME anyways. Thanks for all your help!

@traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78):

For some reason there were only 3 wav files inside that zip.

You probably swapped your samples file with your roms file.

@traveler said in Having trouble with donkey kong (black screen) but pacman works (arcade .78):

As far as I can tell everything is good now.

Might as well mention it even if some people prefer it that way or don't care : dkong colors are wrong in mame2003, as an example the red stages are supposed to be pink like this :
dkong real colors

If you are interested in getting the game to run with real colors, they are fixed in the recent mame cores (2015 onwards) and the FBNeo core.

I'm a bit confused - the right permissions for the gamelists are to be owned by the user pi. If you change the file to be owned by root, then Emulationstation (which runs as user pi) will not be able to save any metadata (writing back the gamelist.xml file).

Make sure the files are owned by the user pi, then try again to see if the metadata is saved. If it's not, show a screenshot of the file's permissions. Also, make sure you didn't accidentally disabled saving the metadata on exit from the Emulationstation settings.

Ah, thanks!

@mitu

Thank you again for all the help. Unfortunately I can not try advmame because my sd card got corrupted and I had to erase it. I tired to follow the tutorial I mentioned above to manually install retropie as I did before and its not working. I can't git fetch fkms_rpi4 because its telling me permission denied. Guessing something changed? So now I can't manually install it. Guess ill have to wait for the official retropie for the rpi4. I might look into buying a rpi3 instead, all I want to use it for is mame and no other emulators so I don't think I need the rpi4 for that and I can avoid this headache with the rpi3 and official retropie release.

@mitu Thank you. That was exactly what I needed to know! I have it working now. No idea how it got deleted, but glad this was the fix. Thank you very much.

Have you tried to see if the cable is working - on another device ? Are you using a proper power source for your Pi ?
Unfortunately without a keyboard or without using SSH is going to be difficult to diagnose this. Is your Pi Zero the W model, with WiFi ?

@Guto-Du it's a possibility it's defective. Try over volting the pi (without over clocking) to see if it's more stable. If it is then your pi isn't stable at factory settings and should be sent back for replacement. I have seen multiple reports of pi zero's not stable at factory clock speeds. I think the quality control on the pi zero might be slightly less than other models. Probably because it's a $5 computer.

@a4c8 said in NES30 found but can't connect (details inside):

I can start emulationstation afterwards, configure the controller and run games, but after restart they aren't solid anymore and blink instead. I tried setting the mode to boot or background, as described, but with no change.

I get the same behaviour with another model, they don't re-pair automatically if you restart RetroPie without shutting them down first. If you restart RetroPie, shutdown the controller and then start it up again, they should re-pair and the light will turn solid.

Hi,
my bartop is now finished and running, but still the (little) "problem" tp start the programs.

As written, some (ZS-Spectrum) Games need to press the "5" on the keyboard to start, others the "0" .

Is there an option to define the (phy.) 1P button to the "5" for Game-A, and for Game-B the 1P button to "0" ?
So a game specific setting?

Or any other idea or hints here ?

Thanks,
Martin

I believe the problem is the same as

https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/542

I have debugged it and described on the ticket how to fix it so you may not need the workaround soon I hope.

Did anything change in the dmesg and/or tail output?

@tobas I used the binary install on a 3b. So I know it works that way. Check the experimental install menu, I think the binary install is in there.

The PS4 DS controllers show as 2 devices - one for the touchpad and one for the actual gamepad, that's why you have 6 listed. There are some hints on how to disable this in this topic.
Also, please add the info detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first when opening a support topic, it's easier to diagnose things.

great - thank you!!

@perkunas https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Child-friendly-EmulationStation/

Hey,
anyone got it FIX?
i have the same issue

I have reset EmulationStation input configuration (Retropie Setup -> Configuration / tools -> emulationstation -> Clear / Reset Emulation Station input configuration), after all previous actions and everything now works as after fresh install.

I'm not sure if it's possible to remove a help option, but you can set a blank (transparent) image for the last/first slot of the help buttons row and then shuffle the other buttons left (or right).
You can also remove the mapping for the button from the /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg file - make sure you back it up first, just in case editing it goes awry.