Hi,
Yes in the end I decided to get a snes-style USB controller, and it seems to be working a treat!
Sorry for the delay in replying...

awesome thank you

@mvp Please give more details about the problem - see the questions template in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What game/emulator/controller are you using ?

@spudsmctoole And for your autostate thing, I've faced exact the same effect that the option was activated! .... I've written a small script that will alter your retroarch.cfg as you want.

You can find it here: Dirty Little RetroArch.cfg writer

You can call the script to disable autostate_save feature like this

$HOME/RetroPie/scripts/SetRetroArchCfg.sh "$1" "savestate_auto_save" "true" "false"

@patientx How did you add those folders - which file ?

@mitu I prefer a small Linux installation via Live CD or USB storage device to access and modify Linux partions. ;) Do you know Puppy Linux? You can get it from here

@ianmoone1138 To just extract files to a Windows mashineDiskInternals Linux Reader is great. But please don't do cross postings - this is a bad habit.

@vodkanakas said in Linking rom folders but keeping directories:

@keigan I want them all to show up under snes system but have seperate directories.

I've tried adding both directories to es_systems.cfg but it didn't work. I'm just trying to keep the translated seperate from the us but play them from same menu. It may just have to be a folder inside of the snes rom but I thought that looked tacky. Also tried adding a system which worked but can't find/make a logo that I'm happy with lol.

Hey,

maybe take a look at this if you haven't figured it out yet

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/EmulationStation#platformscfg-edits

Inside the platform.cfg you could add this

sfc_theme="snes" sfc_platform="snes"

or whatever the proper

<platform>

and

<theme>

are.

I'm not at home, so don't have access to my Retropie to test, but thought it may work for what you need.

Alright, so I double checked photoshop and both layers are at 100% opacity with a Normal blend mode @edmaul69. The opacity is definitly set to 1.0 in the retroarch settings and yes, I do have a viewport set to the size of the transparent area of the overlay @AndrewH:

video_fullscreen_x = 1920
video_fullscreen_y = 1080
custom_viewport_width = 1440
custom_viewport_height = 1080
custom_viewport_x = 240
custom_viewport_y = 0
aspect_ratio_index = 22
input_overlay = "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/tv-old/Nintendo.cfg"
input_overlay_enable = true
input_overlay_opacity = 1.000000
input_overlay_scale = 1.000000
video_smooth = "true"
video_scale_integer = "false"
video_shader_enable = "false"
video_font_size = "16"
video_message_pos_x = 0.17
video_message_pos_y = 0.06

@edmaul69, I'll try using two overlays but I have a feeling I'll either get none or it'll display only the first one that appears in the cfg file.

This isn't about RetroPie directly, but it is about EmulationStation. The most up-to-date version of that seems to be managed by the RetroPie organization, which is why I posted here.

Thanks for the pointers, everyone. I don't have much time to dig much more into this right now, but if I end up finding a good solution I'll post back on the forums in case anyone else is interested in something similar.

@psyke83 thanks my dude im still really new

@twinparadox

Nice troubleshooting. These types of problems with RetroArch turn up often when 'Save Configuration on Exit' is enabled, so be sure to make those files your first port of call for any other inexplicable issues going forward.

@paddyo41 No probs. These type of issues tend to be hardware related 95+% of the time. Hardware is always the easiest thing to swap out. If it persists after checking / replacing hardware then software is the next stop obviously.

hello again
gave up and just whacked a fresh MLP image on my 500gb ext USB disk. backed up my game saves from the rom directory 1st! :-)
Wish I'd done it ages ago, as now everything works brilliantly! woohoo

I did manage to break it again after trying to put a kodi build on (wont be doing that again!) So now refreshed my build and everything hunky-dorey again! Just thought I'd let you guys know.

Did you try?

nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg

and editing:

pcsx_rearmed_vibration = "enabled"

to

pcsx_rearmed_vibration = "disabled"

Regards,

@caver01 @edmaul69 The Fn plus F-key is how the keyboard is designed to work, so just changing the kb type will make it function as designed. It needs to be adjusted to get "normal" PC behaviours.

@maegirom said in All scraped data and games in favorite list are gone oO':

What is that append option you are talking about? where is it? I think I haven't noticed it anywhere.

I only used the scraper from the RetroPie-Setup menu, where the Gamelist appears alt text
I didn't use it from the command line and I don't know what's the default.

It's adviced to update drivers or something?

If you like to get bugfixes and new features, yes, but it's not mandatory. Make sure to update from the RetroPie-Setup menu, as explained in the docs.

PINN allows you to install Retropie directly to an USB stick. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=142574

@lupacexi said in Overall controller recommendations?:

Is this possible to have lag due to Bluetooth

Yes, it's possible, especially if you're also using the Wifi. People usually get a separate Bluetooth USB adapter and disable the PI3 onboard bluetooth and this improves the lag situation.

What is a decent wired controller that I could have 4 of so we could alternate from simple NES games to some MAME games like TMNT.

If you want cheap, then the Buffalo Classic controllers are decent (though they suffer from mild ghosting - search the forum for details) for their price. The Logitech F310 is also good and works nice with RetroPie.
Don't forget to check the Controller section of the docs for compatibility or just ask the forum if you have a model in mind.

Try the official image from the RetroPie website. Custom images are not supported here. If you have an issue with the official image we'll be glad to help. If you're using one from another source, contact who created that image for assistance.