i did complied it but i did not realise there was an ab_aniex in ab_aniex/build/src/
i ran it and then it worked,so now i feel stupid..xD , thank you very much for helping !

I tried to reproduce the issue, but I don't seem to be able to. Using the same emulator (lr-mgba), with or without the BIOS, the save file is loaded correctly.
Can you check if you have enough space available on your USB ? The save file (in-game saves) is stored next to the ROM, it's named <ROMNAME>.srm, if you don't see one, then the emulator cannot save the file.

How are you mounting the USB stick to the system ? Did you follow the docs or did you do it manually ?

Try to test the encoder using jstest - (see here) - to check if the joystick and buttons produce correct results.

Is there a schematic you've followed to wire the joystick and buttons to make sure they're correctly wired ? Or does the encoder has labels for each connections indicating the correct wiring ?

Can you try adding over_voltage=1 to config.txt?

Thanks @mitu. Good news. I looked around but I couldn't find a log file but while I was looking I found a gamelist file and a videos folder in my Roms/Arcade folder. I deleted them and regenerated the gameslist in Skyscraper. The Arcade section now works perfectly.

Thanks again

@quicksilver
please file this under bad behaviour on my part. Updating the setup-script and getting from source again fixed it..
Thanks... sorry for the run around.

@mitu I deleted them all. Thank you so much it finally worked. Too scared now to try and play speccy games incase it happens again!

Thank you for your support!

I can't find anything relevant to permissions. I've changed the title.

Now, to continue on your problem - add some info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. In particular, what version of RetroPie are you using and how did you install it ?

A little progress - there is very little, if any, documentation on using fs-uae in RetroPie.
I tried running a few games and kept getting a message that it wanted kick1.3.rom, so I renamed the kickstart 13. rom kick1.3.rom and then I would get a kickstart 1.3 splash screen but no more progress. I tried a few more games and finally Lemmings seemed to load, however this gets stuck at the Load Disc 2 screen?

So this is probably a configuration / path problem however I don't know how to resolve it?

@vasquez109 said in Pi information:

Erm...I dont have a gamelists folder. Is that the cause? I do have a retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists\ folder though. If it is the one, every folder within there has a gamelist.xml file in. Is it the one in 'zxspectrum' im deleting? As that was the system I was using when it all went wrong?

Oops. Posted this on the wrong thread. Having an awesome day today! haha

@mitu ok good to know, i'll blow everything away and start from scratch. i must have glazed over the part about it not being supported on a DE. Also i was never planning on using vnc for it and figutred it would never work, was just using it for troubleshooting and setting up other things unrelated to retropie, im just to lazy to switch the input on my monitor :P

thanks for the info to you both, much appreciated.

@windg usbmount is included in the image, but not in the manual installation. if you install via a manual installation, as it appears you have done, you will have to manually install it after the fact via the packages menu.

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Which MAME emulator are you using ?

@muldjord success! I updated and scraped and all the culprits were found correctly (two weren't but they always were tricky ones to scrape so not an issue).

Many thanks for the heads up!

Perfect! Thank you so much!

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
The save file is done by RetroArch, which I haven't heard or see to work that (doesn't matter the which core is used).