@bollwerk analog sharing is how the lr-mame2003 core work works out of the box. I have a trackball working just fine in millipede and others. It shares control with spinners. The only core options I added was mame2003-dialsharexy = "enabled" which doesn’t apply to trackball games I used to use AdvMAME for analog games but now only vector and titles that don’t launch in 2003. I never had to set an option for mouse. Maybe I left it default? I certainly didn’t add an option for it.

I fixed this. I just deleted the retroarch.cfg file located in the arcade folder. Upon reboot and starting up an arcade game it created a new file and was good to go. No clue what caused the issue to begin with, as it had been working fine for months.

@cool_iron Then it will work - but there is no ETA.

@jonnykesh
thanks for the extract. Since I can't copy - i went thru it line by line and could not find any differences. I thought maybe I added a character somewhere and this is what i needed to validate.

I really appreciate your help. if you (or anyone) has any other ideas, I am willing to try!

good to know. Once again thanks a bunch.

@andrewlee32 Listen, MAME has made better men than you weep for their mothers! Your best bet for a good grounding is getting ROMs from the MAME 0.78 reference set, maybe you could google that... Put them in the Arcade folder and choose lr-mame2003 as the default. That is my VERY quick start guide to MAME.

btw: just noticed that RGUI is still the old "text one"; I remember seeing the new RGUI previously (graphical, same as windows retroarch) but cannot remember what core. Lr-mame2003 and 2010 now show the "old" one.
Is RGUI version (new vs old) depending on the specific core ?

@jazzsunn Or failing that, not even your theme. Check your ROM names for non ASCII characters. Remove anything odd or unusual from the file names.

Good find on here. This fixed it. Really annoying that this is the default config, I have to imagine many people have been thrown off by this. Anyway, I opened an issue on it w/ the master repo called by this software:

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Retrogame/issues/47

Hopefully they will roll it up - although, some of the repos there are quite old w/o maintenance on existing issues.

Thanks for posting!

@vykyan retropie does have a patched version of sdl, but not sure how much is specific to the pi. I believe it's also used on x86 builds

Also this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@rockinrado spaces in the SSID will kill you. glad you got it sorted.

Here is a guide to setup Kore, if that's the one you are talking about:
http://androidpcreview.com/how-to-setup-kore-the-official-kodi-remote/2973/

It is in Android but in iOS should be the same.
If it still cannot find your Raspberry Pis Kodi, just go for manual configuration, enter the Pi IP address, port, username and password that you configured.

I have that controller and found one that has a similar issue. I found that the potetiomimter is bad and reads the opposite direction for the slightest push but corrects itself as you move past the “dead zone”. But it did it only in the up direction. Unforutally es reads that dead zone and registers the wrong direction when your trying to Configure. I say bad controller

@rsn8887 it was a non fatal error in this case. I prefer that over a force pull.

Thanks @pjft , I think you're right and its a combination of me misremembering and also the larger fontsize on my nes/snes theme amplifying the problem to an extent.

I just checked my Megadrive build which uses a much older version of ES with a Raspberry pi 2 and a slower SD card with my Newgen theme (my new sd wont be running at full speed without overclocking anyway ).
The previews for that build are big in pixel dimensions but I managed to compress them quite well using pngoo so the filesize of each image ranges 100-200kb (originally they were 400-900KB) and even then enabling show FPS I can see the frame rate drop in the same way. I think because the fontsize for the list on that theme is smaller the occasional skipping just isn't as noticeable but is still there.

So basically I'm just noticing something that has been there from the beginning. And for anyone else who has the problem it's easily remedied by making sure you keep the preview image filesize as low as possible.

I did notice one other strange thing regarding framerate but I need to test more. The carousel on my new theme seems to run around 60fps on a rpi3 but occasionally when exiting out from a system the framerate drops to around 45ps and stays at that frame rate until going into another system and backing out again. Obviously doesn't affect things too much but just seemed odd.

@boneclaw Try another website for your roms (Google "roms" and use the first result). And NEVER open that exe. Most likely some form of malware.

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Late to the party apparently... ;)