@tim-mac

It's best to stay away from video tutorials anyway, as they become outdated often. Everything you need to get the system up and running is covered in the official documentation. If you have any questions about the specifics, or hit any roadblocks, post back and we'll try to help as best we can.

Also, if you do end up making a help request, make sure you detail the information requested at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

CSO compression works fine with PPSSPP.

So to update.. Yes it the retroarch-joyconfig idea I had above works :)
I finally got my head around the joystick stuff

Global style:
input_a_btn

Individual Player style
input _playerx _a_btn

So if you only want a certain brand of gamepad to take over for player 3 and 4, you'd edit the retroarch-joypad/mygamepad.cfg file and add the "_player3" bit there. You can add a _player4 copy as well. This will leave player1 and player2 alone and force the gamepads to 3 and 4.

Alternatively, if you don't want it to be limited to certain gamepads, you can remove the retroarch-joypad/ files and just put those same lines directly into the main retroarch.cfg file (or per system if you like) and have any gamepad of the same mapping style work. This is good for those generic chinese ps2 style gamepads with the usb dongle.

As herb_fargus shows above, follow the usb index and set the indexing in the retroarch.cfg with
input_player3_joypad_index = "2"
input_player4_joypad_index = "3"

Which doesn't necessarily follow the usb ports one for one... but those usb ports assign the default indexing on startup. For example, I have a dongle that supports 2 ps2 gamepads in one, but it still indexes them as 2 and 3 because they are loading up in the system as those indexes, regardless of actual physical usb port.

Thx all

might not be related but when i shutdown and physically take the power off overnight. My wifi stops working i have to remove the usb dongal and put it in again for the system to work again. It doesnt do this everytime just most times it does. The thing is i have to shut my pie down because its in a bartop and there is no support to turn the monitor off just a screensaver that leaves the backlight on

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/MAME#advancemame-14

compatibility list link

@Nossral

I would go with RetroTINK Ultimate and a VGA to Scart cable with two external Audio connections.

To get better audio instead of using the built-in 3.5mm audio jack a would recommend a usb soundcard.

@buzz thank you so much...... this has worked...... will just a normal download and install work now as I’ve a couple of PCs to do for the kids bedrooms...

Thanks so much

thanks, currently reinstalling
first time i have installed this so panniced a bit thought id done something wrong haha

ok. built fine here on my Ubuntu 18.04.

@skullmonkey It's already done and in version 0.81
I called it BashROMManager

It does not support subdirectories but let us select ROMs folder for each system.
Feel free to test and report bugs into the thread.

Thats a good question because the wiki doesn't describe anything about it anymore. It seems like the information has been removed.

That is by design. When you create a custom config and put it in the .emulationstation location it will not be overwritten by updates and other changes.

This post popped up at a great time as well. Looking to get this system running soon. Thanks.

@thepuffpuff30 I’ve decided to give up on this controller.

Hallo ich habe auch den speedlink torid (xbox360 nachbau) und er wurde bisher am retropie als xbox360 erkannt und plötzlich im spiel als speedlink hat den nachteil bei der einrichtung der tasten wird die mitlere taste nicht mehr angenommen

@dankcushions Hey nice, updated MAME2003 from binary and it worked. Thanks!

Lol, ffs. Yep, that has fixed it.

Thank you very much, @mitu :D

If I'd known from the start that this thing pretended it was an Apple keyboard this would have taken a lot less time.

I guess the Fn key on the i8 works differently than on a real Apple wireless kbd, hence why holding the Fn key and pressing the F1-F10 doesn't generate the correct keycodes, but reversing the Fn switch with the driver parameter does.

I can now F4 out of ES and F12 to bring up Amiberry config, etc. Yay.

(I just now realised that taking a screenshot on an iPhone is the power button and home buttons together, which explains Fn+F5).

@fantomas That depends on the theme used, each theme has it's own convention on where to store the image for the system. What theme are you using ?