@mitu said in Removed emulationstation-dev help:

@paffley Just install Emulationstation (the regular package) from the core packages section.

Thanks @mitu

I installed a fresh ES from binary then had to re-add es_systems.cfg content from an old backup I had (modified).

All working now thank you! keep up the super work!

Looks like a permissions problem or a funky named controller that's not saved or possibly other problems (disk full ?) that prevent Emulationstation to save the controller configuration.
My advice is to start with a clean image and work from there - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/.

close emulation station before editing it

Two little updates now that I have the new Pi in my build.

No more lagging at all that I can discern. Whether the extra0.2GHz made the difference or there is another hardware issue with the other Pi is still unknown.

I figured out the undervolt issue, and it's something I think should be brought to people's attention for future troubleshooting issue with this type of build.

The WaveShare Game Hat I am using has a separate MicroUSB port for charging the 18650 battery you put in it. It seems that this port is NOT meant to EVER power the Pi directly under any circumstances, and cannot transfer full power from it. But because it completes the power circuit, it tries to do exactly that. To run this build on ANYTHING other than the onboard 18650 battery, the Pi's normal microUSB must be used.

Why I didn't think to test that sooner, I've no idea. I'm sure it was not suggested here by any of you who tried to help simply because you were unaware of the device's additional microUSB port - not everyone knows about this device, after all.

The good news for this is that it means I can continue to use the power bank I had been using before - it has an on/off button, allowing it to function as a switch for the Pi, and when plugged into the proper port, there is no undervolt warning and everything runs fine.

I thank you for your assistance, even though we were unable to find the specific issue with the previous board. Perhaps after I build my arcade cabinet with it, something else will come up that will lead us to solve it. But given what the cabinet will do and what kind of games were causing the lag, I don't think we'll be bumping into the issue anytime soon.

So @ExarKunIv , just update emulationstation and it now magically works?? Sweet! And no, you were not alone! I actually thought my controller was defective because it was doing this same thing over several very different builds.

@mitu Thank you for the advice, I'll do that.

I consider this problem solved.

This is the first time I ask for help on this forum and I'm not desapointed :)

@mitu Is solved now if I changed the theme and worked everything. I just have in some psx games issues with te control but is minimal. Thank you for all. Now is time to play after the hard work of configuration almost 3 weeks wow!

@mitu It was definitely a storage issue.

I deleted the Skyscraper cache, and it freed up over 40gb of storage!

The issue is now gone.

Thanks for your help!

@mitu It does actually makes sense. Thanks for the advice!

@mitu Still the game that was able to launch can't "insert coin". I will try to set the hotkey on "globe" and see.

Hi everyone

@nickstr138 I have created a "driver" for this, check this out :
https://github.com/retrobox/console-modules/blob/master/installinputsdriver.sh

Regards

@granderjoree We don't support 3rd party images - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Edit: So as to what mitu and the others spoke of, I feel so dumb. Like I said earlier, I was able to boot into noobs just fine, and I had raspbian full installed at the same time as my retropie. I tried accessing the files for retropie that way earlier to see if I could recover my retropie or change configs or remove powerblock drivers, etc... But the issue I had was nothing showed up under the Raspbian desktop file manager earlier. I reinstalled everything after having lost it all earlier, and when I reset up my raspbian desktop just now, I got a link for retropie on the desktop. GO FIGURE, it only showed up after updating and rebooting raspbian desktop....
Since i rarely ever use the desktop os and mainly only ever use retropie, it didnt cross my mind to try updating and rebooting raspbian and see if I could access those files again. So to reiterate, as the others have mentioned if anyone ever stumbles across this and is in the boat I was in, if you're lucky enough to have raspbian installed as well as your retropi, you CAN access your retropie files and fix the mess as mitu said. Hopefully this saves someone else 6hrs+ of recovering lol.

Well i could hack code into mame2003-plus to read it thats not a good global solution though so ill add it to my todo list which isint too long atm!

I don't think you'll be able to update from 3.6 to 4.4 - the release is too old and the OS you're running will not support 4.4. Start with the 4.4 image from retropie.org.uk/download.

Thank you for the replies....it was one game so I decided to just start from my last game save and catch up to where I was...

@quicksilver oops! Yeah I certainly wasnt trying to tell you that. 😂

@goobatroopa It is in the updated core.
"Quick Menu" - "Options"(/"Core Options"; if they were frugal about labeling settings). "PSX cpu clock (default 57)"