@DJQuad the most supported is lr-mame 2003 even if it has less games. If you play a game on lr-2010 vs the same game on lr-2003, lr-2003 more than likely will run better on a lower processing board like the pi. Just try both because the games vary and pick which you think works best for the games you want to play. I generally just stick with lr-mame2003

@BuZz
My sincere apologies about the formatting BuZz. I did read that first and had full intentions of following it, but in my haste to post totally forgot about it. Again, my apologies!

I think you're correct with the date and time thing. I noticed this before and tried to fix it, and with that too now, I am having issues.

I've googled and followed a ton of ways to try and get the time to sync, but no dice.
I suppose that should be a separate thread, and if that is what you want, just let me know. I'm totally at a loss as to whats going on with this Pi. I've just installed the image again and no luck changing the date, OR using the scraper.

For the date/time I've tried:

Setting the timezone in raspi-config (didn't stick after reboot)

Tried these to no avail:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=144095

https://victorhurdugaci.com/raspberry-pi-sync-date-and-time

And a few others I don't remember the URL's.

Thanks a lot!
I've installed the ua4all emulator (<Retropie Setup / Manage Packages / Manage Optional Packages / ua4all / install from binaries ) and it works!

@leejsmith @Twitch0815

The AMD driver download at http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/embedded?os=Linux x86_64 will not work on Ubuntu 16.04

AMD's proprietary Catalyst driver (called fglrx) is not compatible with the Xorg shipped in Ubuntu 16.04 or later. AMD are no longer updating Catalyst for Linux so this proprietary driver is no longer an option.

The only option available is to use the open source driver (called radeon) which is already included.

There is a newer AMD driver framework upstream (called amdgpu) which has both open source and proprietary options, but it does not support the older HD8000-series in the Gizmo 2 (nor does it support the HD6870 I'm running in my desktop PC).

The free radeon driver used to be fairly terrible, but it's quite good these days. Current performance on the Gizmo 2 (and my PC) is as good as it's going to get on Ubuntu 16.04 onwards.

The only way I can see to maybe get better performance is use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and the proprietary embedded driver linked above, but I don't know if that's possible with the Gizmo 2, nor if RetroPie will still compile on older Ubuntu releases.

Thank you so much! That fixed it for me :D

Great idea! I've never tried it before but I found this:

redoid - A Node.js package that provides an API to control your IKEA Dioder LED light strip on your Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/ffraenz/redoid

Hi,

If you have overclocked your Raspberry Pi at all, the first thing I'd suggest it removing all overclock settings and seeing how the system runs.

Secondly, I'd check that your power supply is up to the job: Looking after your Raspberry Pi – Part 1: The importance of a quality power supply (PSU)

Whether or not you have overclocking enabled, the following guides will allow you to stress/stability test the cpu, ram, and sd storage.

Part 1: Overclocking the Raspberry Pi
Part 2: Stress testing the CPU with mprime
Part 3: Stress testing the RAM with Memtester
Part 4: Stress testing the SD card storage with the Stability Test Script

Regarding the appearance of the yellow square, overheating is common on the Pi 3, however the single-core nature of the emulators in RetroPie generally means this doesn't become a problem - for more information, please see:
Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 3: Thermal Limits and Optimising for Single vs Multicore Performance

Please note that soak testing is important - I found some stability issues that were uncovered only when running these tests for up to 24 hours (that said, for any serious instability these tests will reveal problems far more quickly)

Thank you @edmaul69

@bfenty if it is activating the unused c buttons try mapping those c buttons to non existing button numbers. (Like 20 and 21)

I am just starting a game. I tried 3 different games but no sound with any of them.....hey its working thanks, that worked

Thank you BuZz! Going to try the scraper today.

This is what RetroLink and Retro-Bit N64 USB adapters do, because they don't adhere to the USB HID standard.

I posted a couple of possible userspace drivers here https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/53bt1d/retrobit_aka_retrolink_usb_adapter_driver/ but nobody has reported trying them out yet.

Alternately, get a different adapter. I have had success with one which looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/cC8iegW.jpg