Also a couple of other things - I just took a look at ETA prime’s video on an arcade1up conversion; I don’t see him using a third party image, he is just using the official image it seems with the “showcase” theme which you can download from the Retropie official version. There are a lot of cool themes people have created for the official version. The other thing is that just because ETA prime does something doesn’t mean people here necessarily support it. The guy seems like a good guy and I have certainly watched his videos for help but ultimately he is a profit-making enterprise for YouTube views, ads, affiliate links, etc, and (I think at least) he is not an official part of the RetroPie Project in any way. Finally keep in mind as you go forward on working on your project that videos of any kind are necessarily snapshots in time - they can be helpful but they can also become quickly outdated as soon as retropie is updated.

@Dcgrandon said in No input on certain PSX games:

I've dug all I can in the archives but this one has me stumped.

It's actually part of the PS1 emulator page - look here. You may have set the controller to analog for one game and this setting is automatically saved, applying to all games (as it's about the emulator/core options).

@mitu

Man I can't thank you enough, it's finally working! If you PM me your details, you have a few beers from me :)

For anyone interested, after registering at screenscraper.fr and going through all SS flags arguments, I think I finally got it right:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -scrape_all=true -download_images=true -download_marquees=true -download_videos=true -console_src="ss,gdb,ovgdb" -mame_src="adb,mamedb,gdb" -use_nointro_name=true -ss_user="user_name" -ss_password="password"

No more errors:

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@ray3d
None idea, but also https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and update with more information.

@mitu
thanks a lot
will give it a try

Turns out it was underlying OS issue. For whatever reason, the update broke the gamecon driver for SNES controller input. After uninstalling the db9 and gamecon drivers, rebooting, reinstalling then rebooting, my pad now works as one would expect!

What cued me into it was while reviewing logs after an update failure I found a gamecon update failed message. Researched it and found this info at the link below.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3875/solved-gamecon-installation-fails/10

@Efriim, really appreciate all your help and insight onto this issue. You helped direct me to look more into the software side and that's where it was.

@aatheronb I don't understand your last update - are you able to start raspi-config or not ?

@mitu I got it working after thinkig about it i thought the easiest solution would be to delete the software and put a new copy of retropie on it.

Just managed to figure out!! I SSH'ed into the box running retropi and ran emulationstation from that console . When i did that, emulationstation appeared on TV (great). When i ran game, i saw a menu that says to press a button to configure, and there I've seen to run with verbose logging. When game exited, i opened up /dev/shm/runcommand.log file and saw that umk3-u2.bin file was missing. So I've kept on looking for 0.78 romset mk3 files until i found that there is umk3-u2.bin file in one of them ! When i found it, I've copied that one to arcade dir and ran it without issues!!!

I love mk3 ! Now all i have to do is find my notebook with special moves written on it for every character which i collected during old days ! Ahhhh, that takes me back!

Thank you, all of you for assisting ! Would not have done it without you!

Thanks for helping out mate, appreciated!
Will have a go with this in a few days and let you know.
Cheers.

The disk I plan on leaving attached. I'll look into options for mount; is option "nofail" supposed to mean that it will give up trying to mount if it is non-available?

systemd-analyze blame
the top four are nmbd.service 10.8s and hciuart.service 6.4s
then raspi-config.service 1.3s and smbd.service 1s

one is the net bios name server i was pretty sure I dont use that so i disabled it with
sudo systemctl stop nmbd
sudo systemctl disable nmbd

I do use bluetooth, It seems like it is unusually slow. Reading dmesg:
uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: no DMA platform data
brcmfmac: power management disabled
and brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds; look like firmware warnings

raspi-config is probably nominal, though I don't know what it is calling or doing at startup.

I use samba smbd.service.

@mitu Sorry i thought that Thread was still active cause there were posts 5 days ago and i stumbled upon it by search and not over the Forum. My bad. You already helped me by asking what Version i use. I updated everything over night and now everything works fine. Thanks :)

Thanks for that tip finh! I was trying to troubleshoot cpu usage on x86 emulationstation and happened on your post, works perfectly to address cpu usage!

@DetroitKp The type of device is internal to the core - if the core should expect a RetroPad (a logical gamepad) or other type of device - it's not for setting which physical device is connected - see https://docs.libretro.com/guides/input-and-controls/.

To designate the gamepad as P2, you just need to set input_player1_joypad_index, or input_player2_joypad_index, etc. For you, to set P1 as keyboard, you need to set P2 to have the index 0 (1st gamepad):

input_player2_joypad_index=0

which is what the configuration editor will do.

as always, you solved the problem. Thank you @mitu

@leitmotiv You can use the same topic, it's up to you if you want to use another forum or not - you might try the AdvanceMAME forums.

Never mind. It's the controllers. Same problem started happening in lots of games now. Time to send them back.

@saikyo78 My pleasure.