@2stick Did you happen to have the instructions for converting the save file? We're having the same issue with the Lens of Truth.

@horaceandspider I've got an arcade cabinet using 4 Sanwa-style arcade joysticks that are recognised as Dragonrise. The only way I've been able to address this problem of differentiating between joysticks is to use meleu's joystick configurator together with Attract Mode (which allows very easy programming of joystick controls "outside" the game environment) and xboxdrv (for in game control).

Basically, xboxdrv "ties" each joystick button/movement to keyboard inputs which have been set in Retroarch and also set in each non-Retroarch emulator (the key being that almost every emulator allows keyboard input). I then invoke xboxdrv via runcommand-onstart to start up the specific xboxdrv joystick configuration for that particular emulator. xboxdrv can even be used on a per-game basis, so it is very flexible.

This works very well and basically bypasses the problem of differentiating between each joystick as the effect is that you are "using the keyboard" when moving the joystick or pressing a joystick button, whichever joystick it might be.

However, I suspect it might prove to be quite a bit of work for you to set this up on an established system that is already devoted to emulationstation. You could achieve the same using emulationstation, leaving Attract Mode to one side, but I shifted over to Attract Mode about 2 years ago. Mediamogul is the guru on xboxdrv.

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Found the problem and delt with it: mkarcadejoystick > Uninstall
Now my controller lights are 1+2!
Thanks for the help.

i did put the same .exe back and everything is working again. i think my anti virus just got abit paranoid about the gameslist.xml it was creating perhaps

@mr_smt That seems to look like a warning, but it might indicate that your installation does not have hardware accelerated graphics (maybe due to running in a vm) and the emulator needs it in order to run.

I'd suggest to use something that's native to your os (macOS) like OpenEmu or RetroArch. You could also use AttractMode as a frontend, in combination with RetroArch, if the default RetroArch interface is not enough.

thank you @akafox !!! it worked!!

aah that was simple :-P thank you very much

@rrs run the command in the post directly above yours. It tells you how to do it.

@archer Glad it worked! Anytime I have issues with displays I try to SSH/SFTP in to see if the Pi is actually up and running or if it's just not booting.

I have them in my Amazon cart , just waiting to pull the trigger 😁. I will let you know how they compare.

@mitu thanks very much now i just have to see what worls

@eldgrim As far as the missing hashes, you could try a different database, as some may have hashes that others do not. You could also try the built in scraper in ES which let's you use a keyboard to alter the ROM name as you scraper so you can look it up and fix it real time. You won't get videos in the ES scraper but you might at least get metadata and a picture. If it's a handful of games you can also add the data/picture manually by editing the gamelist.xml file and adding an entry.

For the PSX games I'd double check that you don't have two cue files in the folder.

@mehmetcanhoroz said in Best microchip/board for performance and playable:

but some games are not playing fluently

Which games are not playing fluently ?

It could be your joystick is oriented wrong plug the usb in windows and do a joystick test on there to confirm

set your controller again with emulation station

@skeggylads Please give more details about your setup as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.