Apologies for resurrecting this old topic, but I tried to follow those instructions to get Ms Pac-Man to run and the Pi refused to let me copy the files over.

Permission denied. Error code: 3 Error message from server: Permission denied

Permission settings on the whole JZINTV folder are already 0755. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

@Shaddonai said in Unable to SSH into RetroPie:

Or this (The part of creating a .txt on boot)
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Wifi

Thx. this did the trick. I had to pull the arcade apart and plug in the network directly.

@Lugzyboy82

it should happend automaticly, once you configure the joysticks in emulationstation.
i suggest you start by testing using jstest command, to see if the joysticks is reconized as gamepads or if it still thinks it is a keyboard.

@Shandower
i do read posts, but considdering that you wrote "out the box" i assumed you installed xarcade2joystick via the retropie setup script.

either way, if this works for you, then it doesnt really matter anyway

@Clyde
crap :\

thanks @ericbsmith42 for your help tho it works the problem is that if i assign the new button to the new key it still sacrifice it because if i press up it will hook it for a second to up then cancel it with the hot key making it useless again

So it is impossible to program it to only shutdown, but not boot? Because I have it setup so it boots into on game, then another, and then shuts down and I don't want to accedently turn it off

@Daistaar said in Netplay questions: Can two Pi's connect directly via LAN?:

Would this allow, say full screen multi-player Mario Kart for each monitor? Would they still just see everything split?

That would require heavy hacking on the game roms themselves, while RetroArch's Netplay just uses the unmodified roms and spans the players' monitor & controller cables through the network, figuratively speaking.

@sirhenrythe5th said in Game Screen Captures?:

I guess it will do what it is named for and save the picture to the rom-Folder, where you can pick it up and copy it to every Windows-, OS2- , -MacOS or even Solaris-System ;)

The screenshots are saved in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/screenshots. For convenience, I made a link at /home/pi/screenhots with this command:

ln -s /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/screenshots /home/pi/screenhots

I’ll add this to the docs. It does say to select Atari Joystick, but it’s down in the lr-Atari emulator section and 5200 users may not read to there though they should.

@danmed yes I have the .78 romset rom and chd for area51mx running on advancemame and runs well for me. Just a bit of a hitch when entering a new area for instance.

thanks i will give it a try :)!

Okay, here's what I've got in es_systems.cfg

<system> <name>ports</name> <fullname>Ports</fullname> <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports</path> <extension>.sh .SH</extension> <command>bash %ROM%</command> <platform>pc</platform> <theme>ports</theme> </system>

And then put this in/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Kodi.sh

#!/bin/bash "/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "kodi" ""

Try gpsp's non-retroarch version. With this version, you'll probably have less lag on GBA games, since it consumes less resources than the default retroarch version.

I've tested this version on a Raspberry Pi 1 B+, and I remember playing some GBA games without lag. It was on 2015, and back then, if my memory serves, there was no lr-gpsp yet.

I don't know if it'll work on your Pi Zero, but assuming Pi Zero and Pi 1 has approximately the same hardware, there's the chance that it can work.

@dankcushions I didn't think about that, thank you.
I've found something like this:

https://n8henrie.com/2017/09/list-of-default-packages-on-raspbian-stretch-and-stretch-lite/

Is it possible to install everything from this list automatically (I mean not by typing sudo apt get for every different package)?