@10vorne Yes, there is the Mayflash DC to USB Adapter, but it somehow can't map the C and the Z button. This way you only have 4 functional buttons, which might be enough for a lot of games.
Then there is the raphnet adapter (especially the internal one) where you can make a total conversion of the arcade stick. But shipping to Germany is expensive...

Hello @Chito , I'm lead project of a small free software that "generate" scanlines effect for pc games. I'm working on a new design and i need to ask you, would you agree that I use your beautiful Game Gear overlay you made please ?

Here is the design :

Here is a link to the software : https://s4windows.itch.io/scanlines-for-windows
Fingers crossed 🤞
i'll be able to credit you in a .txt file inside the software folder, maybe on youtube (description) and maybe on itch..io if i find a good spot ( i'm totally new on this website)

Have a nice day,

@ddragunsun The official pi4 power supply is usb-c 5.1V 3A. Not 12V. It will not fit on that particular board that requires micro usb psu. If you still get voltage issues with a micro usb 5.1 2.5A/3A then the board might not provide sufficient power. I'm not sure why the older micro usb port was used..maybe to save money on development costs.

Thanks. I modified pc/emulators.cfg to point to the installed dosbox, and it works. I am still working on setting up dosbox-staging, but it looks like that is going to work also.

@goestohollywood Don't worry about the order in the file: ES is always shuffling that around anyway if you have 'save metadata' enabled. The list SHOULD be in alphabetical order inside ES either way (or else it's conforming to any <sortname> tags you might have).

@Foolz I haven't had problems on my pi haven't updated it but my PC version seems to be having these issues. Not sure if it has to do with a core update for flycast.

@AlphaBetaPie Why not use kid mode? It locks everything away behind that trusty konami code.

@Addison your are welcome!
And feel free to add me to your friendlist :)

@mitu Thank you very much! It works!

@barbudreadmon Thank you very much.

Thanks for the info all. With a combination of core remapping and removing some lines I didn't realize 8BitDo stuck into the autoconfig by default, I have removed access to 99% of these menus. Still having some issues closing off Mame's menus, but that will be another thread for another day. Thanks as always!

Beautiful, worked like a charm! Super-helpful forum, as always! Thanks for the info!

Third party OS are not supported. Better install the RetroPie from official sources and test the controllers here.

@mitu your setup works because your emulationstation is running from the environment spawned by getty@tty1 and inherits its environment, including standard input and output.

With systemd, services do not inherit the environment of another service. So a process that owns tty1, like login will prevent other processes from other services from using that descriptor, especially when the other processes are non-root, like emulationstation.

I found when running getty as a systemd service, the instance getty@tty1 needs to be stopped fully (including a stale login process that getty instances seem to leave behind) before emulationstation can make use tty1 for standard input and output. Instances on other tty's may be left as is.

The following entry in emulationstation.service will stop getty@tty1 if running:

ExecStartPre=+sh -c 'systemctl is-active getty@tty1 && systemctl stop getty@tty1 || systemctl reset-failed getty@tty1'

ps auxf shows the tty a process is running with.

@2001-Honda-Civic the zip is compressed, so you would have to unzip it and compare the raw uncompressed file.

If it's working, though, it's probably the right one.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Do I Need to Backup .bak Files?:

@AlphaBetaPie it's not conflicting, we are telling you the same thing. The backups are never used by RetroPie, but you may choose to manually restore one if you wish. It is as Exar said, just a record of what the settings were, before the most recent change.

When you make a change, the current settings are written to backup (overwriting the old backup, if one exists, which is then lost forever) and the new settings are written to the active config (overwriting the old active config, which is now preserved, temporarily, in the backup.)

Makes sense, thanks for clarifying. I am running things in kiosk mode 99% of the time, and I don't intend for anyone to make any changes if I can help it (myself included, as I'll have it set the way I want when I do my initial setup). So it seems like the config file is the only real necessary one. Thanks!

@cimbaklm said in PS3 control on LR-PPSSPP:

Error messages received: no error, just not works

How exactly did you test this ? Did you start lr-ppsspp with only the PS3 controller(s) connected ? Are the Dragonrise controllers still present when you did the testing ?
Please post a verbose log from starting a game with lr-ppsspp, on pastebin.com.

I used this note https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/15577/ppsspp-controller-setup-guide-for-when-nothing-else-works

That doesn't apply to the libretro core, any gamecontrollerdb related configurations apply only to the standalone emulator.