@BennyProfane
I saw some people on internet saying that 64Gb SD Cards need some special treatment, in order to be compatible with Raspberry Pi, I don't Know, but if you say it works, I'm not worry :P

Thank you for your help! :)

@cyperghost
Thank for the advice, I'll see what I can do! :)

@Lloltic Every card is a little different. That being said, if you have a card formatted in one format it will show a different amount of disk space in another.

It sounds like you have downloaded/backed up a pre-built image and are trying to burn it to a new card. The best thing you can do is burn it to the SD card and see if it will fit. Let the application tell you it won't, not your eyes. The other suggestion is to use PiShrink to shrink it down.

Keep in mind if it is a 3rdparty image you'll be hard-pressed to find support for it here if you do get it going.

@sokhanh21xn said in NOTE: possibility to choose a rom from anothe region when launching a game:

Is it a possible feature for the future ?

Not quite, the front-end doesn't care or know about what regions. For Emulationstation 1 file means 1 gamelist/game and it only knows what command can run to start the game for that particular file.

@mitu Thank you. I had read that guide several times. I can’t believe I overlooked that. I rebuilt a full non merged set with clrmamepro and then used the same batchfile I mentioned earlier. Now it works.

I don't have a HDD attached at this time. I won't until Kodi is operational on the Pi 4. I had to use the manual set up to get emulationstation up and running. I am not sure it fully took. I looked under "retroarch" in the menu and see no core, even after I have installed cores.

@LiveFreeDead
Okay, I understand that. Thank you for the replies.

Glad that I could be of help. :)

@joec https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive

presumably it would have to be the manual method.

Yep, all sorted now, ta.

@mitu The problem I was having with Win32DiskImager was getting an error dialog box when trying to open the SD card device. It was a "cannot lock volume" error.

Turns out this is a big problem with Windows (10 in my case). Some applications (typically music players or photo catalogers) traverse the file system looking for things and can have things open on your "boot" drive letter so you can't use it.

I was finally able to get it to work using a fresh laptop machine. So if you have this problem you might be able to find out who has files open on your SD card using Microsoft's "process explorer" program and close that program or be forced to another Windows instance.

I'm doing testing with my "dd" idea now that I have media I can experiment with.

Got it resolved by editing /etc/modprobe.d/xpad.conf and changing triggers_to_buttons to 0

Thanks for the update.

@E3L1 said in Can’t built emulationstation:

@Clyde it’s more.... why can’t raspberrypi release a SBC with a GPU faster that 300mhz.....

Because the Raspberry Pi was never meant to be powerful. It was (and is) developed first and foremost to be an educational device "to promote teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries" (Wikipedia).

@BadFurDay said in Retropie - Attract mode question:

@darkmenace That setting should boot Attract Mode into the last display it was on before you quit it last time. You need to quit for it to work though, if you force shutdown or pull the power it won't save where you were. You should set a button for exit (not just back) and exit it from Attract Mode while on your Arcade display. If you then do force shutdowns or pull the power you won't need to do this again.

When you exit Attract Mode does it go to terminal or have you set it to shutdown?

Thanks again BFD. It is now working as expected :)

Could be a throttling issue. I have decided to move the amiga games one folder at a time into the roms folder.
So I will scrape all games beginning with A in the roms folder.
I'll then do the same with B etc and create a number of gamelist.xmls
I'l then do a merge of the gamelist.xmls and edit it to point to the correct folders.

A bit of work but it should hopefully do the trick rather than scraping all at once in different folders.

Regards
Jimi

And I didn't get around to make the aforementioned changes for your setup either, because I'm on vacation for a movie festival where I watch 2-3 movies every day over the whole week. :)

About the artwork's space: Yeah, I figured as much. But none said that retrogaming is a piece of cake (and if they said that, they lied). I'll keep this on my to-do list and look forward for any updates on your side.

@Sebiohazard Ah ok.

As far as the media question, the theme configuration file(s) will pick what media it uses, so you're safe to include all the gamelist supported tags that you want.

Most of the time with themes, in [Detailed] view it will show <image> and possibly <marquee>, but when using [Video] gamelist view, it will show <image> for 0-3 seconds then it will be replaced with <video>, so you can add whatever supported tags & media you want and the theme itself will determine which one it uses.

(I've seen some themes that only use <video> in video mode so it will show an empty box if there is no video, but other themes will use <image> in place of <video> if the video file is missing, so it's a good idea to have both <image> and <video> )