I thought those errors and the aplay results would be descriptive enough, but I think I left out some key pieces of info. I had added a couple of sound files based on this forum when my first solutions didn't work. I went back and deleted those files and purged pulseaudio. I also set my audio to Headphones in es_settings.cfg. Everything seems to be working, though my splashscreen video is much louder than emulation station.

Edit: This feels like the dumbest question ever. How do I mark something solved? As far as I can tell I'm supposed to edit the title of the thread, but I'm not seeing that option. My only topic tools are to delete the post...

@Crush I haven't tried that.

I understand, I wrote to retroflag on this matter because it turns out that they released something that does not work and does not fulfill the basic function, as soon as I find out something, I will let you know

The download server is a bit overloaded - try again now.

Hi, thanks. I actually got some help from @muldjord to fix this issue. I'll try to find the thread and link it to here.

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Here it is. I managed to scrape almost all my troublesome roms using the method @mitu and @muldjord show in this thread.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26743/skyscraper-mimic-built-in-scraper-settings-possible/10

I don't use mu .LHA files uncompressed as that is the format WHDLoad uses them in. I only use .CUE when I need CD gamers with the audio.

Have you tried plugging your Pi into different inputs? Some of them don't play well with certain resolutions or signals, so maybe the games display in a different resolution than your menus, which would explain why you only have problems when launching a game.

For instance: I have a Marantz with a front aux port which doesn’t display the SNES Mini Classic. All back inputs do.

A friend has an older Denon AVR that has this problem on all but one of his back inputs... I remember reading the reason behind this functionality, but can't recall exactly what it was.

Tldr: try different inputs

@doughughes If you can find and use "Full non-merged" romsets, then each zip file will contain all of the necessary parts and you won't have to locate a parent version of anything. Plus, it will allow you to delete all the variations of games you don't need, like other regions that aren't your preferred lanuguage. Makes life easier if you aren't overly concerned about disk space.

Please add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

It looks like a package may not be completely unpacked - do you have enough space ? - so you may try with adding the --reinstall flag to apt.

Yes, that's correct.

I have this problem:
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@Yobiwan for Windows I personally like notepad++ for editing text files.

You can add an XML tool that helps if you're editing your gamelist.xml files and accidentally mess up the syntax.

@Endprodukt

Here is a simple solution. Salvage an old usb keyboard, take the little controller board. Follow the traces from the esc key ( there will be only 2 of the 23 or so connections) and solder the button to those points. Basically, now you have a one key, usb keyboard. Just the esc function. It works perfect for me using an old dell keyboard. You can get fancy and make a spacebar or any other charactor the same way and the one board on mine will end up 4 buttons, 1, 2 , space and esc.~~

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@BreadPie said in Any alternatives to symlinks for organizing non-libretro savegames?:

I just get "Failed to create symbolic link" and "Operation not permitted"

That's because the filesystem ( the roms folder ) doesn't understand symlinks.

Thanks for your reply mitu! I want to configure advmame with joypad (I have all controls except analog sticks and this I want) for this reason I cant access to "tab" menu (only if use keyboard plug) but I cant plug to cm3 the usb keyboard for this reason I think the solution is virtual keyboard.....but if I cant do this....I search other options ^^'' Thanks for your reply! (If I only play with GP430 I done but If I want the limit of the GP430 I can only try, mod & fix =) )Thanks again!

@BreadPie thanks! I was hoping there was a more elegant solution, but I’ll try just spreading the saves around the other VMUs for the games that support that.

The Mac version of Redream doesn’t have shared VMUs, so hopefully a future update will sort the Retropie version in this regard.

@XEntombmentX Make sure you understand what that entails - you'll have to maintain the custom configuration manually. Each time a new system is added (you install a new emulator) you'll have to manually copy the new system entries from the system config to the custom one.

I'm not sure the download location has changed, I don't see the doc page reference a precise location for each system. The cheats are downloaded from the Libretro buildbot AFAIK, not directly via git, the archive is generated from https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database. Both have been restored after the hack incident a while ago, so it shouldn't be an issue.