@Bravenstein Does the controller work in Emulationstation, browsing the games and launching them ? Please add more info about your setup as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

"Built from: [Deleted this reference myself] (Pre made SD website)" This site only supports the RetroPie images hosted here. I use the K400+ and mine has no problem working as a controller from ES.

Download and burn the SD image hosted on this site, and not only is it likely to work, but we will actually be able to support it!

https://retropie.org.uk/download/

EDIT: I just noticed that is a pre-made image site complete with copyrighted games included in the image, so removed my reference to it from your quote. Links or mention of images or sites distributing copyrighted games and/or BIOS images are also not allowed here....

I figured it...
Firstly configure the new machine withing AmiBerry and save the config as whatever you like - in my case to set up a compatible Amiga to run a game which the default configs do not run.

Next hop over to RetroPie Configuration Editor from the main menu and choose option 2 - Advanced Configuration.
Then option 4 - Manually edit non RetroArch configurations.
Scroll down to option 26 - amiga/emulators.cfg and copy any of the standard existing default "rp-xxx" lines and replace with your own new filename from AmiBerry which you just saved.

When you next boot press a key to enter runcommand as the info window for runcommand pops up during the booting of the game.
Change the option no 2 - Select default emulator for ROM and select the emulator you saved.
Press x to launch.
That's it. From now on your game will load with the emulator you configured to work with the game and is launch able from ES directly.

Hope this helps to make someone elses' life a bit easier.

Happy xmas.

Cheers.

Rob.

Sorry! My fault :) thank you for the help.

@kingcraze Hi, first, post the details requested here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

How did you write the image? Is your card genuine?

@Bravenstein
How did you update without a network connection?

RetroPie does controls per controller/encoder name, so if two controllers share the same same name, if you change one, you change the other. If you have 2 different controllers using the dragon rise encoder, but they are different, it may be that one is wired up differently than the other.

@jakejm79
Cool thanks for the speedy response.
Suppose I'll just give it a try over the Xmas period.
Don't suppose you know how to get the kodi main menu to show that comes with @lipebello retrorama theme do you.
Thanks
Rob

Metadata (which includes number of players) is stored in the gamelist.xml file that is situated in /.emulationstation/gamelists/SYSTEM/ - there will be a separate gamelist.xml for each system.

While you could generate a gamelist.xml file manually the preferred method would be to use a scraper (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/scraper) there are both the in built one and many others.

@mitu said in only shows picture when HDMI is connected at startup?:

It's normal - for some TVs - https://kodi.wiki/view/Raspberry_Pi_FAQ#TV_is_not_detected_unless_powered_on_first.

Thanks for the link @mitu! This happened to me too once. I had to unplug the pi as got no display on my TV (luckily my SD card survived the ordeal!). Great to know there is a solution (other than just remembering to turn on my TV first).

@mitu I thought it maybe a fake SD card as well with a lower amount of storage than I thought. But I've been installing a lot of more PlayStation 1 games and those are all working fine.

@mitu I shouldn't have to do it that way. The point is game override should work, shouldn't it? Also, I just used Terminal grep command and searched every cfg file that contained "video_black_frame_insertion" alt text
You can see it made a game override for metal slug but I don't see the one made for Rampage. The only emulator I'm using for Metal Slug is FB Alpha. Every other game is using Mame2003 as the default.

Hi,

all good now, just needed to run the scraper tool, once completed the console and the games were displayed.

Thank you mitu. That has worked quite well.

Re-ordering the controllers can be done through @meleu's Joystick selection tool, give it a try.

@mitu its reinstalling now thanks so much for your help i love the rasperry pi and am having a blast learning this

@mitu ok now i'm having the same problem again probably my fix didn't fix it as i thought

What fixed it was going in quick menu > controls >
And making device type go retropad and analog to digital to none
And then going to option and changing pad 1 from default to analog

But now that doesnt work any more
The fix now is puting user device type to retropad w/ analog
And analog to digital to left analog
And change pad 1 type to default

But that doesnt even fix it

Every time i launch this game the controller will work in the menu but when the game start i cant move or do anything unless i go into retroarch quick menu and changing retropad w/ analog to retropad and analog to digital to none

And then change it back to retropad w/ analog and analog to digita to left analog

I can't figure this out

@DrSubsonic said in Updated Packages and now system shuts down before launching retropie:

@mitu the seller sold me the arcade system.. just came with retropie installed thats all.

If RetroPie came with the system, it was sold with the system.

@DrSubsonic said in Updated Packages and now system shuts down before launching retropie:

ran sudo raspi-config and it did not ask for a username or password...

That is normal in RetroPie. It's less secure than in most other Linux systems, but I guess it's just a compromise for convenience.

guess i need to do a full flash of a fresh install

That may be the best course of action if you neither can fix it by yourself nor get support from the seller.

Problem is I don't think that works with my overlay as I've set a custom viewport size and location so that would also have to be flipped