I would LOVE to have a dynamic marquee that changes when cycling through games. I’ve seen some posts about it but to be frank I don’t quite understand if and how they have really made it work.

If you get this to work I would be eternally gratefull for details on how to do it. A little guide would be awesome. I would then do/buy/programme type exactly the same :-D

Thanks!

Thanks guys I'll install a psp emulator 😎

@epicrean It's not the scraper that shows the images, but Emulationstation. Try adding them in /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/<system>, with the name of the image having an -image suffix to the ROM name, i.e. for Ecco - The Tides Of Time in segacd, the image is in /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/segacd/Ecco - The Tides Of Time-image.jpg.

@mitu It's an actual Sony PS4 controller. I've had my unit for a couple of years, so it's at least that old, but it is a real controller. Glad to hear there aren't any issues with the 8bitdo controllers since I'm planning on those being my long term solution.

@edmaul69 said in PCE CD stuck at "Just a moment...":

Yes, openining up the .cue file you will see the bin name. Make sure all caps and lowercase match the real .bin file including on the .bin .BIN part. Linux is case sensitive.

@lostless said in PCE CD stuck at "Just a moment...":

@jiryn check your cue file and see if the case of the file name matches the bin file.

Yep, right after I posed my question/problem, I started up my Pi and decided to double check the naming/pathing. I removed all the gibberish people put in parathenesis in the game title, but forgot to remove it from the cue file. Now it works perfectly!

You guys were exactly right, thank you so much for answering my problem.

The 001, 002 etc extensions means that they are sequential parts of the same compressed file. Try opening the 001 file with 7Zip, or something else that reads 7Z files.

You can install the atool package which includes arepack. Then use this to convert the 7z files to zip.

$ arepack -e --format=zip *.7z

We don't support third party images. Start from scratch with the images hosted on this site and then people here will be able to assist.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@tictac_93 This works in most cases ... yes

But look. You take PID of runcommand and use pkill -P switch to kill child PID. That works in most cases but some emulators also just call annother process and this won't be catched by your method. You need at least annother pkill -P call.

You should just use your python script and you can use the multi_switch and it's command line options. Therefore use a python call like output = int(subprocess.check_output(['./multi_switch.sh', '--es-pid'])) and you can check if ES is running. If the ouput is 0 then python interprets this as false if a PID is detected the value is grater than 0 - this interprets python as true.
So the sniplet in python itself would be look like this.

if output: os.system("./multi_switch.sh --es-poweroff") else: os.system("sudo shutdown -h now")

@wesleyaraujo Ask for a refund and get a working system with 4 USB ports.

Someone would mind to post the download link again? Its unavailable and i got same problem!

@trendkiller

I just wanted a retro machine to play some games and now it's backfiring on me and I'm out of a lot of money

We see problems like this come up a lot with pre-made RetroPie setups found on places like EBay and Amazon. Unfortunately, the machines shipped out are usually just hanging by a thread of functionality due to the seller's lack of care/knowledge. As a result, we are unable to support these particular setups. RetroPie is actually free and runs on very inexpensive hardware. It's really important that you set the system up yourself so that you'll be more intimately acquainted with the components and better understand what may have gone wrong as problems arise. The good news is that, despite being initially scammed by an unscrupulous seller, you now own all the components necessary to begin fresh with a clean install of your own making. Should choose to do so, all the information you'll need is laid out here.

@affleck001 What was the problem ?

Search on YouTube, easy hax background music. I am using his work, very simple script he made for background music.

@thedatacereal came with a kit also it’s an lcd monitor

@rooli said in Two Dragonrise Inc. controller boards in Emulation Station:

What means wire my joystick up identically? (I don't know how to do that and what that does)

Are all wires connected the same way on both joystick / Dragonrise board combinations? It's easy to make errors in the wiring.

Could you take photos of both joysticks' wiring and post them here?

@khryss said in help error loading all of a sudden:

ok so i re partitioned and formatted and it lets me move large files onto and off of it ...

Did you fill the card to its maximum capacity? Did you compare the moved files to the originals byte by byte? Only then, you could be reasonably sure that the card is okay. That's why I recommended the tools above. Both do what I described; they fill the whole card with a test pattern and read that pattern afterwards to spot any faulty memory cells.

After poking around a little longer I have realized that I am in fact an idiot and dropped the file in the wrong folder. This is embarrassing. That being said, this controller is pretty great for retro console gaming.

@dishins I ran these test on a stock installation of RetroPie. My Retroarch config is “hard coded” for my Xbox 360 wireless 4 player setup. It doesn’t play well with other setups unfortunately.