@tommeesawyer I know this is pretty old thread... I’m about to try 2 xin mo for 4 players plus a ultimatc trackball. Did you have any issues assigning 4 players in emulation station controller setup? All working good with mame and 4 player console games? (ex. Mario kart 64)
Hopin for some insight with this option rather than single player zero delay controllers taking up all 4 USB ports...

@jenny18 a spinner automatically detects as a mouse. You shouldnt have to do anything to get it working. In a mame game you might have to enable spinner/trackball/mouse in the game. A spinner never will detect as a controller.

@stuart2773 Thanks. Yes I already use this site, they have some really good scans.

I think it is definitely related to the cheevos. When I load up RetroArch from the RetroPie menu, the controller is detected instantly like always. When I try to load a game, it takes a long time before detecting. When I disable the cheevos and load up the same game, the controller is recognized instantly too. The strange thing is, it waits like it's connecting to the server, but doesn't pop up my profile being logged in until AFTER it detects my controller. Even then, it's slow popping up the list of earned cheevos for me. I wonder if there's work being done on that side of the system?

@meleu - Anything going on you know of?

@rsn8887 RetroPie doesn't automatically maps the keyboard as a controller - it only saves the gamepad configuration from the configuration you made in Emulationstation. Unless you explicitely map the keyboard in ES, it shouldn't generate any configuration for it.
You can find the saved configurations - one per gamepad configured - in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads folder.

Must be a new RA thing, does it do the same without the keyboard plugged in ?

@buzz I figured as much after posting.

Just on idea on the splash screen set-up: right now if the system has a launching.[png|jpg] in the /opt/retropie/config/$system folder, it's shown as splash screen. Can we add also the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/$system as search path for the launching.[png|jpg] file ? This way copying the ROM folder would copy the launch image and it would make it easier to transfer/backup the launching image ? It can also be something like /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/$system/images/launching or /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/$system/media/launching (which I'd prefer, since scrapers can save information in the media folder).

@tackskull said in Psx emulation is bad:

So why my pc can run more powerfull systems so well, but the psx emulation go so bad?

Because it is not about how powerful the original system is, it is about how the emulator was designed (see http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/High/Low_level_emulation), beetle-psx is more on the LLE side, i would recommend pcsx-rearmed instead if your computer is not fast enough.
Emulators generally don't care about the cpu generation, the number of cores, ..., they only care about cpu frequency : if your cpu is at 2.4Ghz, for beetle-psx your computer is as good as a 2.4Ghz single core pentium from 15 years ago, which is kinda crappy to run this emulator.

@tackskull said in Psx emulation is bad:

I am able to run psp games on 4x graphics perfectly, dreamcast is running well too and the gamecube with low settings works fine.

ppsspp (psp), reicast (dreamcast) and dolphin (gamecube) all include HLE stuff.

Just follow rsn8887 advice, but keep in mind that if you changed Retroarch option save on exit the core will revert to rgui despite main configuration, you have to edit cfg file on system folder.

About the rgui default
I think the big thing is the compatibility, xmb is not so snappy with shader activated and 1080p on Pi3, it decrease to 30 fps immediately and is slightly laggy. Nothing to worry too much, but is noticeable.
Also the 4:3 format i suppose, xmb is not so good and even i prefer rgui since i like bezels, but the rsn887 point about additional info cannot be overlooked, is more complete for sure, seems xmb is the new gold standard of Retroarch dev.

@tigerknee That seems an over complicated stuff to do. The problem with ES running at same time as X.org was because input devices losing controll. I don't know if that is still true. Does it work fine, while the desktop is still running, like playing games and return to the desktop?

Do this under

wget http://www.berryterminal.com/dl/ioquake3_99.1.36-rpi01_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i ./ioquake3_99.1.36-rpi01_armhf.deb

and run it from raspbian it should work normal

@wihaedud

I have this exact same issue. However the fix doesn't work for me. The bluetooth disconnects after 5 seconds as it should but then never connects back to the pie and wont until the pie is rebooted. Any ideas or anything I can check using ssh to ensure the bluetooth service has restarted?? I am a bit of Linux noob but can find my way around a putty window :)

@juj Thank you, I think I should try change the GPIO pin if any progress I will report again :)

@rsn8887 said in Hide clones without deleting files?:

In general I am missing more display options, like what I have in Mamextras on my Xbox already: I want to filter only 2 player games, or only 4 player games, only clones, only parents, only fighting games, only games starting with a, etc...

EmulationStation does support filtering by the metadata so you can filter by player count or genre. However, clone/parent status is not part of the metadata that ES is aware of so you cannot filter on those. The filter options are available in the menu when you press 'select'.

Is there a hack of something for Retropie that will allow the D-pad to work instead of the Analogue stick ?

Perhaps it would be helpful if there were a readme file on https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/ saying which versions are currently hosted.

@cyperghost with or without the parentheses its the same. One other thing I noticed is when i run “sudo i2c-detect -y 1” it says 68. It never changed to UU even though i put the info in my /boot/config.txt