@zkreider I use a wireless Xbox 360 controller, works pretty good and you can pick them up for cheap. I have heard ps3/4 controllers are also good.

@mitu yup I'm very aware of all of that. and I did some snooping around in retroarch.

and now this is VERY weird. I accidentally deleted the entire rom list I had in the SNES dir. sent it all back on SSH, tried a game and VOILA, now it saves.

I have no idea as to why or how its working now

@cyperghost out of curiosity, could you install rpie-art and see if the checklists will work?

You could just use a wireless video sender, if you are not using HDMI anyway, these can be had for a tenner off eBay..

Might save you some headaches trying to solve something that looks like it's not possible, and even if it was I expect it would be a significant drain on the CPU of the Pi..

@isrnick said in Emulationstation crashes after RetroPie boots up - Permission denied:

@mitu But the keyboard is disabled when it crashes, so you can't type the commands to even open raspi-config to be able to enable SSH.

Sometimes, I can free the keyboard by pressing Alt+PrtScr/SysRq+R simultaneously. It's a Linux Magic SysRq key combination that switches the keyboard from raw mode, which graphical programs tend to use, to XLATE mode. May be worth a try.

Note that on some keyboards, Laptops etc. the key combination is slightly different. See the link above for the variations.

I ended up re-encoding all of the videos as I none of them were playing with the OMX player enabled, so the Pi was getting rather hot and videos were going choppy - this has had the nice side effect of fixing the squishing problem I had.

@darthlink Has anyone found a resolution to this? Just got a raspberry pi3 and having the same issues with the ps4 controller. How can I get the controller to automatically pair once the pi3 is turned on?

@flagrant99 said in retroarch.cfg:

and yeah STAY AWAY FROM #'s keys.

Not true. I have SELECT and START for four players all mapped to numbers on a keyboard and this works just fine. These are MAME defaults, after all. However, if you pay attention to the allowed values commented in the default retroarch.cfg file, you see that you have to specify numbers as "num1", "num2", etc. not "1", "2", and so on.

Found it! Looks great. I'll give it a try and let you know how I go on. Thanks very much, its really very kind of you to help.

@stonemp What did you have to install to get the Atari800 emulation working? I don't care about 5200 but they seemed to get mentioned together. I downloaded RetroPie 4.3 a few weeks ago and followed directions but no-go. Granted, the directions & video I saw were for the 3.7 version of RetroPie.
I have all of the Atari ROMS and a bunch of game images (because I emulate atari800 on my Windows PC).
Is there more to the installation then copying ROMs and program image files?
I've visited a ton of links...there's a sea of information out there I'm drowning in.
What part am I missing?

@mitu Thanks, I'll try that.

@dsstrainer said in Is there a way to control the retropie-setup menus with joystick?:

but I have my keyboard encoder mapped to other buttons besides enter, space, etc.

That'll do it. I run into this using xboxdrv's key-mapping functions. I just keep a mini keyboard handy where I can grab it for quick maintenance purposes.

@jbryan1984 Wobbly pop (beer) money ! haha

never mind it is editing just cant see the cursor anymore so hard to tell where im at.

jimmy i think that was meant for thread but do this

sudo pico /boot/cmdline.txt

add this to the end (make sure you make a space from the last letter)

usbhid.quirks=0x0079:0x0006:0x40

press ctrl+x to save and exit

you will need to reboot as well

sudo shutdown -r now

The ports folder was missing so I copied it from my USB to my network location and now I can start Kodi again

On my system
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

install kernel 4.9.35-v7+. DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick works without any problem (just redo controller configuration from EmulationStation).

You should never use rpi-update ;-)

@totallyice Please re-read my previous message. Your system is stuck in a reboot loop so you're not going to be able to access the command line to make any modifications to fix the problem.
In order to fix this error, you'll need to delete/disable the Controlblock service, but you'll either need a Linux computer to read the card's Linux partition (won't work from Windows/macOS) or you can try booting into 'safe mode' on your PI system to have a command line to make modifications. See https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/672/a-stop-job-is-running-for-lsb-controlblockservice-init-script/13.

@jonnykesh "site:" is google's function to restrict results to a specific site.
And yes Google works great to search the forums, especially with multiple terms.

There are also other interesting google functions to refine searches.