@stephendm said in Move game collections on retropie, to individual folders? Can it be done??:

I wanted to separate them as the image is not mine and I wanted to use them in my own image?

Then why not just copy them into the same directories on your image?

@redrumpanda Some things you can't dumb down much further, and the Wiki is already written (mostly) to be understood by laymen. But you'll need to be willing to learn and that always requires some time and effort.

Let's start by collecting more information:

Which operating system is on your Laptop? Are your Pi and Laptop connected via network?

@nevisx Think about using favorites on ES. There you can collect your files so maybe a list with NES translations and NES Homebrew will help you. Real folders are not intendent to work .......

There is a bug in ES that makes folder navigation possible.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11308

But it needs modified scripts to define right emulator calls - from the edge view it is possible with lots of manual editing gameslist files.

@watford98 said in Switching between arcade and gamecube controls:

Q1 - Can i plug some of the mayflash type adapters into one of the ports and have this work in tandem for certain games.

Yes, sure.

Q2 - How would i set it up so that the control type could be switched for different games.

You can use the joystick selection tool created by @meleu [1] or look in the RetroArch configuration editor and switch the player mapping (i.e. P1 would be the GC controller for a certain system).

[1] - https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

@ramez said in RetroPie and MagicMirror:

EDIT: @cyperghost I can see that your MSS script requires a hardware GPIO button, am I right?

No it can be tight to a button but it can also just be called by script itself. Read more about on its help screen.
The option --es-closeemu brings you back to ES as long as you used to start Pixel officially installed by RetroPie
The option --es-poweroff performs a safe shutdown with metadata saved. So you can tie several parameters to joypad described in your how to.

But it is fundamental that any program must he launched through EmulationStation by runcommand call. The script uses runcommand as starting entry to determine all PIDs that will be closed by script call

Update: I found the culprit! Turns out that the file libretro.h had this struct definition twice:

struct retro_midi_interface { retro_midi_input_enabled_t input_enabled; retro_midi_output_enabled_t output_enabled; retro_midi_read_t read; retro_midi_write_t write; retro_midi_flush_t flush; };

This confused make since you can't redefine a struct once you declare it, causing errors and an eventual crash. Removing one of the struct definitions appears to have fixed this issue.

I found this Howto about mounting a smartphone via mtp and jmtpfs in the directory tree of a Debian-based Linux system (such as Retropie).

https://www.khalidalnajjar.com/connect-android-nougat-to-linux-using-usb/

It looks quite comprehensive and step-by-step to me. I can't say more about it, however, since I don't have a smartphone. :)

@amishgamer Have you tried the suggestion in the docs for the config hierarchy ? Create a romname.cfg file alonside your ROM file and put there the setting you'd like.

Well, I gave up on this and sent the controller back to Amazon. I then took my wife to Gamestop to buy a second Wii U Pro Controller, which is, by far, the best and most reliable controller for Retropie (that I've experienced, anyway).

I only have pics scraped. I used the default scraper, so I will backup my roms folder and the mentioned paths, I hope they are accesible in windows over the network . :)

@clyde okay right but a full grown standalone USB2 transfers up to 40 MB/s that is 4 times faster as your LAN.

How fast is a Raspberry with his shared USB Controller? 10MB/s? 15? Didn't test but a NAS is dedicated for file moving and if the Pie 4 got some interface upgrades it is maybe as fast as your 2011 Synology (cool device BTW with the best UI I have ever seen)

I did notice the SNES one as well. Awesome!

Cheers

@niiniikoo We don't support 3rd party images, see the https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first page.

Once again,I suggest using PINN. It is basically just a bootloader that lets you download various operating system directly and offers an bootmenu.
There are two minor problems though.

You can't define the partition sizes from the GUI, there is a webpage here where you can do that beforehand. The image for RetroPie is not official, so asking for future support might be difficult. But I had no issues while using the image so far.

I've been running the 1500mhz profile from the video all night, temp on both CPU and GPU went from 35c to 39c, with a small but noticeable performance increase. I'll call that good for now.

@mitu
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@nightshadowpt Thanks in return for sharing your solution.

@blackshadow Interesting. From everything I read on pbp files it only costs a bit of load time because of the format. I didn't consider that the compression would affect it as well, considering the fact that I'm always playing SNES and GBA games still zipped and have never had an issue.

That said, I do plan on sticking with pbp files for multi-disc games since the 30% compression I get from it will help save space on my SD card for more games in the future