Rewrote the image, and everything was nice and fresh. I can register each controller through the menu prompt but they won't connect or be recognized at all now

@treedude well that sucks. It would be nice to be able to rule that out. But the xbox driver might be an issue too...

It's hard to say if you have the proper power supply. Maybe check your power cable. I use an extra long one and keep that in mind when I am troubleshooting. Maybe your Pi or new power supply is malfunctioning. Do you have a second Pi to test your current card?

Since it's global it sounds like you might need to do some additional troubleshooting. I would almost reinstall with a fresh image on the SD card (or a different one) to rule out the SD card, image & configuration. Maybe a different USB drive if that's what you're using.

It seems there's a lot that could happening to make a determination or if it was a larger/build related issue more would be posting.

I am having this same problem. Making it impossible to play some games. Did you ever find a resolution?

@wchl What power supply are you using? What is the current rating of it? How good is the micro usb?
Micro USB cable may have very thin conductors / be too long which can cause a substantial voltage drop when RasPi's CPU needs extra current.

Are you using HDMI to display the screen? Try using

config_hdmi_boost=5

in the configuration file. You may experiment with different values of config_hdmi_boost. The default is 2 for Pi1 model A/B, and 5 for newer Pi's (B+, Pi2, Pi3). At your own risk, you can go up to 11.
Note that various adapters, such as HDMI-to-DVI, can also cause power loss and therefore require high values of config_hdmi_boost even with short cables.

Please post all the information requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to enable further assistance.

i did a clean install of 16.04 and then ran the below commands. I also set the pi user to sudo with no password per the install instructions. At first i didnt think it worked because there are no icons for retroarch or emulation station, but i just ran emulation station from the command line and it worked. then i set it to start on login, much better that way. i copied some roms over and tried a few and everything seems to work. Thanks for the help BuZz!!!

These are the install commands:
sudo apt-get install -y git dialog unzip xmlstarlet
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

@kirk glad to help. Keep your other settings that you did too. All 3 keeps this as universal to tv's as possible.

I have also experienced this. I'll f4 to exit or exit from the menu and it will take me back to a blank black screen. If i type "emulationstation" and enter it will bring me back to emulationstation so the welcome screen is still there just not visible for whatever reason. If I restart and f4 again sometimes it will work sometimes it wont. It is very intermittent.

Im currently on a rpi3 , 4.2.8, built from image from this site.

I would be curious did it swap the first time? I have never tried to change it back to the default after swapping. I wonder if you would need to run configure input again after resetting to defaults.

@dudleydes - Have you tried the AdvMAME forums. It might be a long shot but it can't hurt to see if anyone has some suggestions. It sounds like AdvMAME is not doing some cleanup upon exit possibly? AdvMAME Support Forums

I recently bumped up to 3.5 and find it does has some issues that 1.4 doesn't have. I keep both loaded until 3.5 does some "optimizations".

@s1naloa10 said in Retropie shutdown:

how can i safely shutdown retropie to avoid corrupting my sd card?

The most famous/traditional/naive method is doing what @edmaul69 suggested:
press start, scroll down to quit, and then choose shutdown system.

Isn't it enough for you? In the OP you don't say anything about butons and GPIO.

@AndersHP
AFAIK deleting ROM from ES just delete the file, it doesn't clean gamelist.xml or downloaded images.
Maybe a feature request could be a good idea ?

@meleu made a great tool to clean all this afterward :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11074/a-gamelist-xml-cleaner-tool

@shizmartelpi Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (as agreed when registering).

Nice, msu1 audio works on this one.

@cerealspiller you could try to manually do it in /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg