@colebeansbroskie if you have two sets of joysticks and buttons you have to set up the buttons the exact same way. You never have to configure player 2. Once you set up one, after rebooting your system both will work. If the buttons are different on player 2, it means you put them in the wrong order. You need to set up player one then reboot. Then go into a game that uses all your buttons and in that game press a button on player one and see what it does. then find that same button on player two. Now put that button in the same spot player one has it. Keep doing that until all the buttons match.

my bad guys, my cfg file was wrong, sorry. its all working now.

OK, to answer my own question, I found the problem soon after posting here (Murphy law in action).
For some reason I had a file ~/.config/retroarch/config/MAME 2003/MAME 2003.cfg that was overlapping the configs. Removed it and started to work.
I don't know WHAT created this file, but I will let the infromation here in case someone has the same problem.

@johne79 said in Boss Key:

EmulationStation takes over the ALT-F7 an

not really a solution, but an idea: take a screenshot of your desktop while doing actual work, and use that as an overlay you can toggle along with mute, via hotkey combo :)

edit: just had another thought: a script your could call with a hotkey that saves your game state and kills the emulator, starts up a work related app/project file, etc.

@colebeansbroskie

You should start by reading through these links.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide/34
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

@incrediblekyle second that, I cant get n64 to work yet, I need a working config file for the ds4 on the n64

@edmaul69 i got it

i removed the garbage lol
good tip

@briandamico i dont know the name of your controller but its config file will be located in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig/ .

I can't seem to find any documentation regarding the flags. Which flags should one be using for video scrape?

Thanks

Thanks so much i figured it , cool thanks a lot dudleydes!

@Dair2BD said in Can't update setup script (Or download experimental emulators):

could not resolve host: gitbhub.com"

Is it really gitbhub.com or is it a typo? The correct should be github. Are you sure your pi is connected to the internet? That classical ping on google.com should be enough to ensure you're connected. ;-)

just reinstalled retropie... SOLVED!

Most adapters out there converts USB signals to HDMI (or other video format) signals to output video to monitor/TV. I have not known an adapter that converts HDMI signals to USB. If that can be done, you will also need a software in the tablet to interpret the USB signals back to video for the tablet to display. Also, said HDMI-to-USB adapter cannot be DRM compliant as it will be a means to pirate copyrighted video contents.

@wrusst i would try updating the setup now that you did that and try install all main packages

@edmaul69 Is there no fix?