@mitu my apologies, im not sure of the rules here, one topic was different(relating to multiple controllers). Im just frustrated as there is clearly meant to be an option for this and i cannot seem to find any answers anywhere.

@mitu got it, thanks! I think for changing emulation station this is a little too intimidating for me to try on the bartop since I have it fully working now without issues - a bit worried something will go wrong and my controls will get all jacked up between all the switches since as you note re-doing the emulation station input config with my ideal setup would regenerate the retropads and even though in theory re-doing it the second time would “reset” the controls I am worried something would glitch. Part of it is I count myself lucky I got all the XinMo stuff working on all emulators pretty easily what with all the posts I read in advance about people’s arcade controls not working for this or that.

But maybe I will at least remap the exit emulator hotkey since it seems I will be able to do that relatively easy across retroarch, reicast and mupen64plus and maybe get save/load working that way as well for retroarch and mupen . Seems a “low tech” solution for my start button to start a game dilemma would be just to create a label on the control panel for the button I have mapped to “a” that says “choose game.”

In time I may use my console-based retropie to try out the emulation station remapping but maybe I will also bide my time and someone will create an easy GUI for custom mapping emulation station menu functions only. Seems from some videos attract mode might have something like that so maybe someday! You guys are always improving this thing!

Thanks again for your time.

Ok so I think I may have solved my issue which maybe a silly error on my behalf or something has still changed in later versions of retropie because I don't think I've ever had to change controller types.
But even though I've solved one problem it appears to have created an new problem.
Firstly I'll start with saying with default settings I usually have just turned on game specific options, started game, enabled multitap 1 in retroarch and all has worked. But it hasn't this time that's why I've had problems.
But what I have just done is changed player 1-4 controller type from default to standard and micro machines v3 has just worked with all 4 controllers.
I've then launched hogs of war and that has worked making sure controller type is analog.

So firstly i would like to know why player 1 and 2 controller would work with them all being on default but controllers 3 and 4 wouldn't.

Now onto my new problem.
When setting multitap and controller type in options and saving game specific options, a yellow notification pops up saying core options saved.
And it appears to be saving it across all games as a core option rather the game specific option.
I have double checked and game specific options are set to true.

Thank you all for your help I'm almost there :)

Autofire switch was broken. Now it's ok!

Can you add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ? What type of controller are you using ? You might want to switch to Emulationstation as frontend and configure it, since this will also generate a gamepad auto-configuration for RetroArch.

im not sure what your issue is here the tate mode does rotate right this is what arcades do

@sarahoveryou Re-map you controller (1 would be enough, 2nd one would get the same configuration since it's similar) and skip the Hotkey selection (long press A to skip it). You'll be asked if you want to use Select as Hotkey and here choose Yes. Re-try to see if you can now use Select + Start to exit games.
What game are you trying and it's not starting with the Start button ?

@moltke44 You can try any command you see fit, but the package will not work under Jessie - even if you get it installed.
As for the update to Stretch, the recommended method is to use a new image from scratch and transfer your configs/roms/etc. to the new image. It's possible - technically - to upgrade in place, but as you already found, it's not always optimal and you can end up re-imaging anyway.
Remember to backup your image before attempting the upgrade - with any method you choose.

@kalel715 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
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Nintendo-64
That's the page I used to map my controls.

@Waylander121 we all have to start somewhere. Glad it worked for you!

Please provide us with the information that is asked for in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and with the exact wording of the crash screen (preferably in form of a screenshot).

@Xenos I'm using an USB SSD for my roms. It makes it very easy to just unplug it and plug it into my desktop pc to manage roms or images/videos, especially if moving many or big files around, which tends to be very slow over my WLAN connection to the Pi in my DIY upright arcade cabinet.

@ucald4amarine said in Scraper not getting all.:

@Clyde But a simple scrape from an alternate source wouldn't take more than a hour or so of my time.

Then it remains an option for those games which aren't included in any of the online databases. Glad that you like it. :)

Oh I guess this may have something to do with it... on their sales page and not their support page:

nofwupdate2.png

And yet they still offer the firmware and utility on the support side of the website.
Oh well, only cost me 3 frustrating hours of my life.

@MajorDangerNine I've not checked but I suspect you renamed important page(s), breaking any links to them from other pages and the navigation on our docs (and generation of). Would be wise to check before making changes like this.

Renaming pages is a bad idea in general since it breaks links to them.

I have used dispmanx_vncserver in the past with my retropie and really enjoyed it (great for the getting started stages when you are trying to get the controller setup right and the kids are complaining they want to watch TV ;))

Anywho, I rebuilt my retropie yesterday and found that in the new versions (4.x, based on stretch) the make command for dispmanx_vncserver failed. Did a little digging and came up with this.

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/77619/where-is-legl-lglesv2

I had to modify the make file in order for it to work properly, based on that link.

Hope this might help someone else :)