@Stuffu

Guess that worked, sorry for all the posts, eager and stupid is a bad combo :)

~~Just when I thought my issues were fixed....!!

Trying to set up version 2 of this Raspberry Pi - everything is the same as the one discussed above, image from v1 copied and then written to a second SD card and inserted into a second Pi 3B+

As I start it up I'm getting the usual "no gamepad detected" which is fine, I'll live with it, but on v2 only, when I try to map a pad (in this case a second Mega Drive replica, and a brand new out of the box second Mega Drive replica) I cannot map any buttons other than Up, Down, Left, Right, Start and Select.

When I get to button A, I have no response whatever. I thought it might be a faulty controller, but as I've said, also tried it with a one I know works on the original system and get the same issue.

Try rewriting the SD card? Anyway to skip button mapping completely? Something else to try?~~

Ignore. Got it working by changing the input mode of the pad from X input to D input

@WilsonB Hey that is an emulator problem, and you can maybe configure it the dev menu of the emulator right when you are starting any game in MAME you would get a text that says "press any button to go to dev mode'' so I would recommend you try and switch the controller scheme using that menu. I had the same problem with the PSX emulator, and I saw a video by eta prime explaining how to switch the PSX emulator controller scheme to have analog functions.

@cyperghost i will have to check again which game it was, but there was one which was slowing down to 25fps. If i remember correctly it was Road Rash 3D. not sure tho.

but i will setup my xu4 with the guide of the docs, and check if i still encounter these issues.
Honestly, the xu4 was ignored by the recalbox guys now for over a year. the task to rewrite the drivers has been pushed since 1 year from one backlog to the next one.

but i remember seeing an hardkernel dev sharing the mali driver on github for the xu4 for using them. sadly nothing happened.

@BuZz I think it is more like a third seller that uses the the canakit set + RetroPie Image for full setup.

Selling RetroPie install is lame, but what I really dislike with passion are the 16/32/64/128GB full ROMs (or BASIC/SILVER/GOLD/PLATIN images shipped with RetroPie/Recallbox/Lacca ..... whatever you call them)

That's really a shame and the full installs move the RetroPie project into a bad light.

I think they're pretty reasonable for a PI3.

We don't offer support for 3rd party images, especially the ones loaded with ROMs. If you want support here in the forum, start with the RetroPie provided image from retropie.org.uk/download. Otherwise, contact the author of the image and ask for support.

I take it nobody uses the GPIO for anything?!?

I have now reinstalled the official image on the Pi3B+; did an upgrade (no rpi-update), rebooted. The buttons then didn't work anymore. I then updated Retropie to 4.4.4., rebooted and all is working again. Thanks for your help.

@Otter22 The Wifi is not setup from Emulationstation, but via the RetroPie-Setup. You should have a WiFi menu entry in the RetroPie system in Emulationstation - just like it's described in the Docs.

@theretroprince I solved the problem of Hotkeys not saving. All I had to do was cp the retroarch.cfg from configs/all to configs/snes. It looks like there was a problem individual core configs.

@barbudreadmon @mitu Interesting. I don't think it mentioned anything about that on the wiki page.

@Freakadude yes, the scriptmodule compiles MT-32 support into the lr-scummvm core, but is not enabled by default because the RPI is not very powerful for it in some games.

If you want to try it, go to the BIOS directory ($HOME/RetroPie/BIOS) and in there you will find the configuration file scummvm.ini.

Once in there, set these options in the [scummvm] section (if not there, add them):

mt32_device=mt32 music_driver=mt32

To return to the default (disabled), delete the options from the config file.

Edit: forgot to add an option to the list :)

Thanks all.

@mitu copy that. Thank you

@thelostsoul Ach guck mal, ein Landsmann 😊
Ich komme aus Münster/NRW by the way.

50x gescrapt? 😱
Ich scrape gar nicht sondern mache mir echt die Mühe für jedes Spiel ein eigenes tolles Artwork zu suchen.
Hat zwar lange gedauert aber dafür ist mein Setup natürlich ziemlich schön anzuschauen und ziemlich einzigartig.
Könntest du nicht einfach die gamelist.xml backupen, wenn alles so ist wie du es haben willst?
Das zu kopieren geht doch mit Sicherheit schneller.

@topic: Im ersten Schritt habe ich ein paar FBA-ROMS in den NeoGeo Ordner gehauen und getestet.
Laeuft soweit, wenn auch Cyvern zu anspruchsvoll ist (ruckelt zu stark) und BeeStorm den Dienst versagt, probiere ich nachher noch mit dem Japan Set.
Aber alles in allem super, ich mache an der Stelle erst einmal weiter und schaue was geht 😊

Kommt man bei FBA eigentlich auch irgendwie an die Dip-Switches der jeweiligen Spiele?

Gruß und einen entspannten Samstag