Well I answered my own damn question with the easiest of solutions!! LOL

I'll leave this dumb post up for anyone else yanking their hair out in the same situation.

I had all 3 controllers plugged into my Pi. NES, SNES & Genesis....Unplug all but Genesis. That's it. Genesis controller seems to need to be alone on port #0. Once I did that, in-game it worked smooth as anything.

Now to figure out why my Sonic rom has a little dude in a robot ship instead of Sonic on the screen! WTF lolol

Haha, yes me too. Although, I couldn't be bothered doing that for Atari 2600... so all of them it is!

Best is subjective... I would go with PS3 just because I like them more. And I believe you need the wireless reliever plugged into your RPi for 360 controllers. PS3 can use the Bluetooth built in to the RPi.

PS3 controller was setup on like day 1 of owning my RPi and I have yet to have any issues. I can't speak for 360 controller.

thank you very much.

Great Question, I was using the Mame4All Emulator, I swapped it out for the Mame-lr and the 2nd player appears to be working just as it does in the FBA emulator. The only issue is now Mame-lr uses the D-Pad instead of the Analog Stick, so will need to look into manually changing that configuration.

@mikebowyer said in Kickstart Rom not found on UAE4ALL?? Help.....:

if i manage to download it anywhere does anyone have any idea where/how i put it in retropie?

The specifics on how to properly utilize the kickstart rom in RetroPie are documented here.

Edit: In direct answer to your question, after you make sure it is named properly as detailed in the link, the kickstart rom is placed in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/. If it is still not read at that point, you can point the emulator directly to the file using the kickstart rom location option in the gui.

@DxFx

I believe this relates to the following issue:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#does-super-mario-all-stars-work

I've managed to get it sorted by using a different formatting tool.

@mrwookie Not often you can answer your own plea for help but in this instance I can as figured out the solution. :)

None the wiser as to why it changes upon a reboot but what I found to fix it is that if I exit emulation station (F4) and then edit /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg and revert the mappings that are there for the A and B buttons that it then fixes the issue and this sticks even after the Pi is rebooted.

Hopefully this may help someone out in the future if they have similar issues.

Buzz, thanks for the input. I've just updated to 4beta2 again and the issue has not happened again. weird, but all is good now.

Andysorry for coming across badly in my original post, didn't mean to be rude!

Have you added your kickstart rom? Make sure you read this all the way through if you haven't already.

@billythekid81 said in Emulationstation Themes shows games list, but not the graphical elements:

My bad for thinking that software such as this would automate some of the more basic tasks

In all fairness, this software does an excellent job of automating some of the more complicated tasks.

@backstander I would love to try, but I am sadly lacking in knowledge of the raspberry pi to utilize it in such a manner.