@mitu Before I considered dismantling the buttons from my arcade, I found this other command called jstest, which allowed me to see on the command line what each button was configured to on the USB encoder.

Once I ran jstest /dev/input/js0 for player 1 controls and jstest /dev/input/js1 for player 2 controls, Player 1 appeared to be configured correctly with buttons A and B. However, Player 2 clearly is the one not configured correctly. Here I finally found my problem where player 2 had buttons A and B setup to the wrong physical pins of the USB encoder.

Now that I had SW proof of my mistake, I disassembled my controller case and flipped the connections for those two buttons on player 2 onto the USB encoder. Put everything back the way it was, and behold my arcade is now acting correctly with both controls synced up.

Thank you very much @mitu for your suggestion. I do appreciate it.

@thorr69 Great solution, thanks a lot :).

I turned the scan off and removed it from the gamelist.xml it's gone now and it stays away, awesome!

@yfzdude Actually thought we had this one.

I sent back and took a CLOSE look at emulators.cfg (where you add the link to the hack file) as I found it odd that mine was already there.

What I realized is that it was there, but for the tzintvecs (which I assume has something to do with running things in the expansion port). So, I added it to the main program as you can see below, but still nothing. Changing the JS1's to JS0's also made no difference after this fix.

jzintv = "/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -p /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -q --kbdhackfile=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/intellivision/hackfile.cfg %ROM%" Advanced Controller Mapping %ROM%" default = "jzintv" jzintvecs="/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -v1 -s1 --kbdhackfile=/opt/retropie/configs/intellivision/hackfile.cfg -z1920x1080, -f1 -q -p /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS %ROM%"

@omission229
I don't see why not. I do everything on Manjaro Linux with no issues. I'd have thought a Chromebook would be much the same. Never used one though.

@mitu
Thanks for the help.

After some reading up, found that the Nvidia driver 340.108 has already EOL.
Last supported was for Kernel version 5.4.

Perhaps this is the reason why the driver is not running well in the latest Ubuntu.

@mitu yes in this case "tweaking" does refer to uncommenting all the lines which I read was necessary when doing this. I'll re-comment them and see what happens . Thanks!

@mrpacman17

There is no response at all to the keyboard, I am not sure how it handles the Raspberry Pi400 built in keyboard. I would like to build a Bar top game system but I would like to search for the game in either the "ALL GAMES" section or my "FAVORITES" section. Also, I am undecided whether to go with a 6 button layout or a 8 button layout, and if I go with the 6 button layout, can I use those extra buttons for features like "LOAD/SAVE" Volume UP" "Volume Down" "ESC" ? Thanks for any help!!

@rateye777 Is it possible to download retropie 4.6 anywhere? For either Raspberry 3 or 4.

Re: Looking for log/clue why ES video screensaver may get stuck w/black screen

Closing the thread on this. There is nothing wrong with the randomizer. While there was exactly one (1) "Little Computer People" video, there were ~100 variations of the game in the XML referencing the same video. So it's probably by design. It would seem that each game listed in XML with a valid video has the potential to play. Like throwing 100 tickets into a casino raffle drum... You're more likely to win.

Ideally each video found should act as 1 potential. Not a big problem, but since games with multiple variants that reference the same video are more likely to play, making things seem less random than they truly are.

Mystery solved after spending way too much time staring at random videos.

@quicksilver I can do VERY minor graphic changes. I'll have to take a look at where that's at and see about changing it.

@majorocd Heck of a point....

@mrnoholster Cool. As a courtesy for other users may I ask you to edit your heading of the post and add [Solved] or something similar, thanks.

The audio jack is not grade A at any Pi I own, so I moved to USB-audio, but good to know that HDMI with dedicated audio outlet does also work well.

@zering okay thanks I will do my research now but thank you for all the help

@hermit Thanks a lot, sorry i've don't see it before.
I have try with Snes9x 2005 Plus v1.36 and the game work fine :)

@dankcushions Sorry, yes. I want to get a smaller image on the screen. That's what I get for posting things in the middle of the night. Thanks.

The reason I caught onto this at first was a really large bezel for Pac-Man. Suddenly I found my scores going up and just realized I could see the ghosts better. Duh.

Out of curiosity, do you know if this approach can be applied on a per-game basis? Some games with bezels may end up too small, for example.

@buzz said in RetroPie Setup only installs lr-Vicex64:

@windale You can use the module from the PR on github.

Thanks, the script works great. Feel free to add it. Although wouldn't it be better as separate scripts per core instead of force installing all of them and increasing the source install time ? I suppose up-to-date binaries would be OK.

@louf
This happens to me when I route my audio signals from the Pi through my home theater receiver and then into the TV. You are spot on in calling it an 'audio-screensaver' as that seems to trigger it when absolutely no audio signal is detected for a second or two.

Side effect of using fancy electronics on audio I suppose. If the device "conditioning" your audio signals doesn't have a setting to disable this behavior then you are stuck with it acting this way. There isn't really anything that ES, RetroPie, or RetroArch can do to fix this since it occurs within the audio conditioning device itself.

On the plus side, this normally doesn't occur too much in games while actually playing. Only when going into/out of games from ES or at loading screens, etc.

@george-spiggott I found the solution:

in terminal type cd /opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu

then type dolphin-emu and it will open dolphin

@agrajag

try and disable omx player in menu.