Can you post your controller file on pastebin, it should be in
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-configs/

Please also include this info here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@nemo93 because it is not "active" until buttons are pressed I guess. Not much we can do about that really.

@Drakaen391 you can use markdown to format your posts (code blocks etc)

@Sinkyboy2000 i found a fix. make sure your bios is all caps

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3483/i-found-a-cause-and-a-fix-bandaid-for-psx-no-bios-no-controller-issue

I updated to 4.0.1 today and i too get bios not found and controller not configured. The controller problem is because it keeps overwriting the /opt/retropie/config/psx/retroarch.cfg file. I put the old lr-pcsx-rearmed on and it still does all the same problems. :(

@Jeromy

Guide you should have used: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Game-Boy-Advance

@Necrobot20XX said in Not very user friendly.:

I am an above average computer user and have been using emulators for years.

This is hard to believe as I know there isn't a single emulator that would work for all systems RetroPie has or even half of it...

Also Above average Computer user would know the difference between a console and computer board...

Something very odd went on, not sure what (tried different power up modes, different boot modes, just wouldnt take the input from SFC30).
Just wrote RetroPie 4 final to a card. Chose basic install.

Added controller with hack off, added udev rule, left the boot mode where it was, didnt choose "boot" or "background".
Turned controller off after it registered and connected.
Rebooted.
Waited until fully in ES, turned SFC30 on, connected automatically.
ES happily saw its inputs - wrote the correct values. All power ons were with Start+R here.

All good! :)

Now just trying to work out how I managed to get ES to not see inputs from a SFC30 but see the FC30 Pro....

thanks nicapi, I had already updated my packages so I just went into option 1, '1 select default emulator for dreamcast (reicast)' and the option for oss-audio was there.

@BuZz
Thanks. Once I get home I will try this.

@sselph thanks for the extra command it speed things up for sure and it does seem to be working now :)

/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -img_format=png -add_not_found=true -download_images=false -image_suffix= -use_gdb=false

worked wonders for me maybe it was just a cold boot on a cold morning that got the other stuff working to :)

@sselph
I used it for the task I explained here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3353/take-and-scrape-your-own-screenshots/47
And it's working fine.

It's a scheme to let the user take screenshots of a game and set the most recent screenshot as the emulationstation image for this game.

Here is the complete code:
https://github.com/meleu/src/blob/master/screep.sh

OBS.: It's intended to be the runcommand-onend.sh script.

Cheers!

With RetroPie 4 there is no need to manually remove stuff - you can remove it from RetroPie-Setup and it will remove the entry from Emulation Station - although you will need to remove any roms folder yourself. If you have a System Manager entry the roms folder is not removed.

@herb_fargus Hi, yes well I have a load of ROMs in the arcade folder already, but wanted the NeoGeo ROMs in a separate folder to get to them easier basically.

Thanks for all the help!