I just powered on my Pi to double check what you asked me to, Audio is set to HDMI in raspi-config and alsamixer shows a volume level of 100, but during boot up I noticed I had sound again.
The only change was a night of sleep, doubt it was that, and me swapping hdmi cables from my pi to my PS4 and back.
My tv is pretty old, so maybe it is messing up the edid?
I did make changes in config.txt that should force it to recognize the hdmi, but that didn't seem to help before.

@mitu said in Cleaning gamelist.xml software (PC)?:

Have you tried https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11074/a-gamelist-xml-cleaner-tool ? Seems to do the job you're looking for.

Thanks for the tip. Didn´t do exatcly what i wanted...but it seems to clean up my messy gamelist.xml and that is a big plus!

i dont get it, still dosent work, its only a little bit dark on display when i set the overlay..

//EDIT: im an idiot. overlay was in 2560 x 1440 and not 1920x1080..it works now lol

@DaMota What games, who are 'they' ? Please add some context to your problem as directed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Have you mapped your buttons correctly in Emulationstation ? What game/emulator, etc.

@alain said in Keyboard hotkey setting gets overwritten when using keyboard and controller as the same player:

e the dedicated exit button to leave the game.
The hotkey button from the controller player one is expected to be pressed and

there is no need do disable hotkeys at all just use game focus mode

@mitu Thank you so much for your help. I was able to get it to work by updating gcc. It took me a bit but I was able to figure it out. I'm a linux noob but prefer it and retropie over anything windows has to offer. Thanks again for your patience and helping me through this!

@cebix That's not a huge pain. Just saw a guy on

using it on a RetroPie setup and it was working. He just had to set it to "PS3" controller.

@mitu my verison i had was like 4.1 or 4.2 cant really remember but i updated from source

So, this is where we reach the limit of what I might be able to do remotely. The picture looks to be the effect of Horizontal size setting needing adjustment. If there are no other pot adjustment knobs then you may have to look for jumpers to make adjustments.

With that said have you plugged in a more current monitor to see if the effect goes away? Just to make sure it is not some setting in the Pi that is causing it.

below is a clipping from a crt trouble shooting site.

"Horizontal size should be set so that there is about 10-15 percent overscan left and right. This will allow ample margin for power line voltage fluctuations, component aging, and the reduction in raster size that may occur with some VCR special effects (fast play) modes.

Many sets no longer have any horizontal size adjustments and depend on accurate regulation of the voltage to the horizontal output stage to control horizontal size. There may be a B+ adjustment to perform first.

On those that do, the adjustment may either be done by setting the B+ voltage, by a pot, or a width coil in series with the horizontal deflection coils.

Modern sets do not generally have any linearity control but you may find this on older models. You will need to go back and forth between size and linearity as these adjustments are usually not independent.

Some of the newest sets control all these parameters via settings in non-volatile memory and use service menus accessed via the remote control for nearly all setup adjustments."

execute it from terminal. Tutorial -> https://packagecloud.io/kintaro/pcb/install

@jcook84

Alright then that confirms my suspicion about changes in RetroPie with Raspbian Stretch.

Sounds good. I recently looked into the RetroPie Sonic robo blast Srb2 script and i was thinking that maybe sonic robo blast 2 which is based on Doom Legacy could provide some info on compiling Doom Legacy for SDL.

As for Doom Legacy the closest thing i came to get it working was building/compiling for X11 window in Raspbian desktop and i could only get the Doom menu to work.

It makes perfect sense to use Doom Legacy source port than ReMooD since it still is actively developed on.

Found it, thanks!

@silicongraphics

Hi, no I never found a way to do this except using a type of Cron job to pop the machine into sleep at a specified time every night, just in case I forgot to press the power button on the machine to put it into standby or manually shut down ES. The Cron thing I tested about 6 months back but I cannot remember if it fully worked. I will pick it back up at some point in the near future as I've not played with the machine for a while.

If anyone has any idea how I can make ES obey the Ubuntu OS sleep settings while sat on the system select menu that would be awesome.

@akafox we were talking about the x86 build running on a PC, which if left on 24/7 consumes too much power and the system fans will keep running. The screensaver just dims the screen so isn't applicable here. Having ES obey the OS sleep settings would be good if you forgot to press the power button on the machine to sleep, shutdown manually via ES or whatever. I know with a Pi you can just leave it on 24/7 because of low power consumption, and this is fine, but using a PC there is a different requirement.

Cheers

@mitu Same things happens...no folders (all, nes, snes and so on) will be copied. Nothing happens. It´s really odd. And...it´s ONLY the config folder that this happens to...all other folders seems to be copied.

I think i found it , i didn't connect the buttons at the same place on each PCB !

@denisuu Thanks, but I've already installed it!

@NiCKOz When you configure your input, skip the Hotkey assignment. Before exiting, the dialog will ask you if you want to use Select as Hotkey, say yes and press ok. Try with this configuration and see if it solves your problem.

@Andrewpk200 if you use a crossover cable and hook your pi directly to your pc you can have everything transferred in no time.

@dankcushions Sorry. Think I couldn't get something to work right and just went with a Google Drive link. Won't happen again.

@RetroFreak89 i first used several class 4 kingstons i bought at walmart and best buy. I got data corruption all the time on them. Went to samsung after that. Not a single data corruption on the samsung evos.