@tr00p3r well the fun part with the officials image is that you can mess with it as many times you like. And through messing with it, you learn how the system functions. Basically learning the basics of retropie. I’ve messed up configs so many times in the beginning, lol. But hen when it comes to 3rd party images made for, let’s say my free play zero gba, it gives me direction to look for issues, instead of just being blind to the complexities that makes retro pie.
The raspberry pie was designed to teach people how to code and configure computers. In my case, I’ve learned quite a bit here configuring my pi’s to my liking. Playing games is just a very fun side effect. Good luck 👍

@GoldManSex778
I did try that and still ran into issues so said hell with it...erased everything off of USB drive and started from scratch at instructions for manually mounting. Since I had copied everything over using a previous copy method and that might have been causing issues.
Right now I'm copying the correct directory structure over, so hopefully everything will work properly now once I do the rest of the steps lol. If anything I've learned some things about Linux from the experience.

Final Update: Success! Thank you all for helping!

For anyone ever going through this, one of two things I think was the issue: NOT following the instructions to the letter manually mounting, or my UUID was wrong. I had the last char wrong, but could have sworn it was something different before(either new copy changed UUID, or was my error). Resolution on a laptop helps reading the characters much more clearly than on the TV screen where its almost a guessing game.
I used WinSCP to confirm that its working, and booting up was much faster!

@mitu Thank you for that reminder as well!

@mitu Right, so you're saying it's unable to catch a signal while it's "paused". Makes more sense now. I had assumed it would have forked the emulator and thus be ready for interrupt signals to act on in the background.

Anyway, this is way more than I really have any business knowing. Graphics and GUIs have never been my thing and I know enough about inter-process communication to get me into trouble, but that's about it. Thanks for the help. Really useful.

@vol-2 Oi, Phantasy Star is one game where the FM sound definitely was not better (IMHO). The author of the FM version didn't properly truncate notes and the bass line is nearly inaudible. FM sound is decent many other games, but not Phantasy Star.

@ExarKunIv Well i guess it depends on whether if you want to recompile ZDoom again for it to work with a modified gamepad or install the Xboxdrv driver package and create a runcommand file to be used. The Xboxdrv has the most advantage as it can be used for any port or any system and it works with any gamepad, while the other is only used for ZDoom.

I think Xboxdrv is the most versatile but if you only want to build a Doom inspired system, then RetroS3xual modified gamepad for ZDoom is probably the way to go and should work fine.

@mitu Thanks Mitu! I always appreciate your quick and spot-on assistance!

@mitu
Thanks.
Though I find it hard to believe I'm the only one wanting to use a x86 machine but with the same user experience as RetroPie on a Rpi.
So no desktop just plain retro gaming, seamingless. I can't find any good tutorial on this. Makes me wanna go back to my Rpi...
Problem with the Rpi is that it isn't powerful enough to Run Dreamcast and GameCube games.

It's fixed!

I've removed all .ini files in /opt/retropie/configs/gc/Config
After that I opened Dolphin and I can use the keyboard now to navigate the menu.

One hour ago I removed and then reinstalled from source and the same :(

Yes. This is simply about waiting for the server to not be overloaded if not registered user. I've seen the 'V' now as well as messaging about not being a registered user. Evenings are working best in my particular time zone.

Please give more details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@Wisker no worries, I'd go through the link I posted and gather some information about your setup so people can help and do some research on how the system works (where roms go etc). Basically when you launch a game there should be a box that pops up where you can enter a menu and select what type of emulator you want to use for the rom, this is where you can use mame 2003, 2010, advmame, fbalpha etc for specific roms or all roms in that group (Arcade as example).

@Texacate link updated in my post above.

@mitu Indeed - nothing seemed to happen. However I did already have a bunch of funky characters in the command line prompt, so perhaps those prevented the "reset" command from working.

This is the second time it's happened to me in the last two days, so I will try to type in "reset" on a clean command line prompt the next time it occurs (although it didn't seem to work for the previous poster and his issue is a carbon copy of mine).

@mitu will try although change 24000 mp4 is really hard to do. Thanks!

@BJRetro thanks for your answer but really need this for other options.

Thanks