@mitu I just loaded goldeneye and it did load successfully so it appears only the ones I tested werent working. Thanks for taking a look.

Edit: Ill also add that this core runs goldeneye surprisingly smooth...

@pjwentink It worked ! Thanks so much

@mitu
haha let me check again :)
2.1 ...

@mitu sorry, it doesn't work 😢
Thanks

@Dwarfboysim Why don't you ask it here ?

So far, I got a really long usb extension cord ($5) and a cheap 4 port hub ($7) that sits on my coffee table next to the couch. Not wireless but works well enough so far.

I use a couple of generic snes usb controllers for a bunch of systems (nes, atari 7800, snes, game boy, game boy advance, sega master system, and other such games). For the a+b button systems, I just remember to use only the bottom buttons. I do have some nes usb controllers, but TBH have found the SNES ones to work well enough.

I use a couple of the official Sega 6 button USB controllers for the sega games.

I haven’t worked my way up to any modern controllers yet, but plan to at some point.

ScreenScraper has a limit of requests per day (like TheGamesDB has) - you may be over that limit or simply their servers are too busy and they're only servicing registered users.

@mitu Yes the exFAT format is definitely the issue. Now I just need to figure out if renaming the few roms that have a : is easiest or sticking with ext4 but only having access to it via WINSCP. Thanks for figuring it out for me.

@Faye alright you are using Raspbian/ Debian Jessie. Jessie is the older version as everyone stated. You want to Stretch and that will mean you need to start from scratch with new image. That is no problem at all and good way to learn :) .

BEFORE you start with fresh image i'd highly suggest you copy to your computer the roms, bios, configs folders connecting through your computers network. Now you said wifi isn't connected?

This video below by ETA Prime will walk you through the whole setup of a fresh install of RetroPie. But skip to 6:13 mark in the video there he shows how to setup wifi on the Pi.

Setup your wifi when done back out to the selection screen click '' show my ip '' write down the ip address. And now go to your computer and go to file explorer. Find and click network and give it few secs to show up '' RETROPIE '' .

Now if you don't see RETROPIE when you click network this is where the ip address comes into play. At 7:31 of the video where he puts RETROPIE in you replace that with your ip address you grabbed from the Pi.

Click Retropie and now copy to your computer roms, bios, configs folders.

Once you have copied the folders i asked you to copy from the Retropie image you are using now.

You will now have to get erase the RetroPie image you have now in order to install the new RetroPie image. Follow this video on how to do so.

After you have erased your micro sd card you will need to download a image here https://retropie.org.uk/download/.

Now watch that first video from start to finish and everything should be good.

Sorry if this makes no sense. I'm just trying to help.

@mitu It was a Christmas present to me along with the Raspberry Pi, so I really don't know. In any case though, thank you very much for the help. I see that I was confused thinking I had assigned the "hotkey" button to the minus sign. Using the select and plus sign does indeed restore volume.

Note that this setting might slowdown the emulation for some systems. If this works to fix the core loading issues, then you should add this setting only in the respective systems' retroarch.cfg, i.e.

/opt/retropie/configs/msx/retroarch.cfg /opt/retropie/configs/x68000/retroarch.cfg

while keeping the video_threaded="true" in the main configuration file to be applied to other systems.

Another thing you can try is to use the retroarch.cfg.rp-dist file instead and see if replacing the (long) retroarch.cfg with it would still make the bluemsx and px68k cores to crash.

That's ok mitu. I would be willing to run a .bat file in the background if need be. I tried doing it myself and I was successful getting music to load up before the main screen finishes loading up on EmulationStation, as well as when you exit out of a game and go back to the menu. The problem I'm having is getting just one splashscreen to randomly load up/play before the loading screen and stopping/closing the media player that displays it.

The code for my splashtest.bat is the following:

@ECHO OFF

REM Your splashscreens file path:
start "" --play and exit "C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\Splashscreens.wpl"

REM Kill your media player:
C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC\vlc.exe /F

REM Run the frontend (EmulationStation example):
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\EmulationStation\emulationstation.exe"

REM Run the media player (WMPlayer example):
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" -L "C:\Users\Username\Music\Playlists\EmulationStation.wpl"

If anyone here has ideas on any mistakes you can see or a better way of executing this, please let me know. A big thank you goes out to those who can provide these answers :-D.

@john need more information

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@quicksilver Sir, you ARE amazing.

Future people, here is the link

Software Installation

SSH the Yodeck player by using this guide here Run the below command and when the installation finishes, exit the command line of the player
curl https://download.argon40.com/argon1.sh | bash
Link: https://www.yodeck.com/docs/display/YO/Configure+Argon+1+case+with+Fan+and+Power+Button#ConfigureArgon1casewithFanandPowerButton-SoftwareInstallation

@BondenSpey you can use a Joystick or Gamepad as using a Mouse.