This ended up working quite well.. I picked up an Intel NUC instead of the Zotac.. Plays everything from NES to PS1 with no problem.

Tripe is know to be a delicacy in some cultures. 😆

Update

I bought another of the same psx to usb. the one I linked to above. Works flawless when i plug the psone controller into the psx to usb device. I then soldered wire on top of the existing connection and wired it to the original controller port. Plugging the controller into the original port i get the same issue mentioned above, but i can unplug it and plug it in to the adapter and it works fine. I have also noted i get quite a bit of brownouts when i plug it in to original port. Could it be the power supply is not powerful enough?

Box Art is not included in the ROMs, so it must be downloaded separately. You can use a 'scraper' program to do that, there are 2 included with RetroPie - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/ - but you can try others as well

Skyscraper - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11826/versatile-c-game-scraper-skyscraper Univeral XML Scraper - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5291/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2-easy-scrape-with-high-quality-picture

@sano

i had to chown my permissions back but this is now solved. windows powershell format and partition to fat32 on my drives originally as the guide was fat32 then changing to ext4 and it seems that when i was doing the new partitioning it just wasn't taking effect for some reason but this is now solved.

thank you sano and shadowron

i've been banging my head on the desk for a week trying to understand linux commands and forcing myself to learn a new OS.

@flightrisk Alas, I can't help you with that. Good luck.

edit: For manual removal of unwanted roms (among many more features), you could check out WebtroPie.

Thank you so much. I have a friend I'm setting up a disk image for and he really wanted to have the cheats work.

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

Your anwser can be found on RetroPie wiki.

@edmaul69 That's true

@gbh You sound like me. I want to know why it happened too. It's such an odd case. I've never seen anything like it in 2 years using RetroPie, so we may never know.
If it happens again then we can be pretty sure it is something in your set-up or something you are doing.

Hi,

Could you not read your SD card on a PC running Linux, or with a bit of software on Windows to allow you to read the microSD card, and get your ROM files that way; at least that would save you some work?

Although the horse has bolted, so to speak, if you're going to upgrade anything, always do a backup first. It is so much work to lose if you've built your own image from scratch.

All the best.

This won't work.
The vfat boot partition should contain only boot files, and the linux OS has to run on a linux FS type. Period.

What you could do is shrinking the ext partition, then create a new one, format it VFAT and mount it on /home/pi/roms, but this would cause issues with simlink ans so, and it's really FAR from being straightforward.

SMB and USB should not be so slow, especially if you only need 2Gb, and I would recommand to use them.

@mattyl42 you may have accidently changed one of your start and select buttons (or hot key) and saved it fudged up.

Try reconfiguring the controler in Emulation station like when you first load it up. Vids on you tube. Done all this myself too :)

@madmodder123 I've found some similar issues with some old games in that regard, what I ended up going for was either FBA, Mame 2010 or AdvMame as it was caused by incomplete emulation in that version. Can't quite recall the titles though, but worth a shot.

Well they all work fine for me too. The sound coming out a different channel id due to hardware not dip switch settings. More information than you would ever want to know is here. As far s im concerned the script that does a great job if you dont like the dipswitch a good reason report it so it can be fixed so far ive had no troubles.

https://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/D/Dragons Lair Troubleshooting Manual Oct2001.pdf

@mitu many thanks, it's now updating to 4.3.15, appreciate your spent replying.

@caver01 Also, the DIP switch settings for Cocktail mode has existed in AdvanceMAME for years. I was using it in other PI solutions before trying RetroPie (what was I thinking?).

NES has button B configured as "0", while SNES has button B configured as "2". SNES's "0" is button X. That's why my NES B button does a page-down in a game list instead of exiting the list, as well as why inside a game the B button does the same as the A button (NES games only see one bit for each button, so "2" becomes "0", which is button A). :-)

"0" isn't A, so my logical thinking doesn't feel correct. :-) Anyway, in order to make things more clear, here are the two configurations:

NES controller:

input_device = "usb gamepad "
input_driver = "udev"
input_start_btn = "9"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "9"
input_up_axis = "-1"
input_a_btn = "1"
input_b_btn = "0"
input_reset_btn = "0"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_right_axis = "+0"
input_state_slot_increase_axis = "+0"
input_select_btn = "8"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "-0"

SNES controller:

input_device = "usb gamepad "
input_driver = "udev"
input_l_btn = "4"
input_load_state_btn = "4"
input_start_btn = "9"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "9"
input_up_axis = "-1"
input_a_btn = "1"
input_b_btn = "2"
input_reset_btn = "2"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_r_btn = "6"
input_save_state_btn = "6"
input_right_axis = "+0"
input_state_slot_increase_axis = "+0"
input_x_btn = "0"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "0"
input_select_btn = "8"
input_y_btn = "3"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "-0"

@tomaz Thanks for taking a look.

@willindiana You can edit retroarch.cfg and set the driver. May I suggest you try also the lr-beetle-psx core ? It has Vulkan support and since you're on x86 it can be installed from the optional packages section.