@DarkkMatter the retropie system is created from the $HOME/RetroPie/retropiemenu folder - make sure you copied it to the USB along with the roms, splashscreen, BIOS folders. If in doubt, you can re-install the retropiemenu package from the RetroPie-Setup script and it will be re-created in the correct location.

All fixed. I used selph scraper instead and the issue seems to be corrected.

@quicksilver
the mixer prebuffer setting in milliseconds if increased to a significant amount will leave a noticeable delay in audio but will sometimes allow for higher cycle rates without losing audio quality(without the audio skipping). It is an interesting tradeoff and it wont rightly work for all games. Most of which I would prefer the 25ms default which is quite minimal.

@ballplaer14 said in All Roms and Emulators Running Slow:

@mitu it works! Wooohoo! You’re the best. Thank you so much.

Actually that GPU can handle that. I think the issue is the frequency. My desktop defaults to 30hz initially on my 4k TV which makes everything look like its running like garbage when internally it is not.
You might get a clearer picture by putting it back into 3840x2160 then setting the refresh rate to 60hz where it should be normal. Should be...

Alright i know the issue is the refresh rate:
[INFO] [Video]: Average monitor Hz: 30.000300 Hz. (0.834 % frame time deviation, based on 2048 last samples).

@Retro_PiGamer
yes you can have both installed and some wads running on one and some on the other.
i have doom 1 and 2 playing with ir-prdoom sinice i have mp3s for the music. and i have hexen and Heretic running on zdoom.

i have not gotten to running anyother mods yet. still playing with getting the controls down pat first

also look here for more help with running wads with other files.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12929/any-doom-mods-recommendations/15

i remembered playing with it before i had to wipe my system

I remember having an issue before with Amiberry and trying to reset the autoboots of my games. If I remember correctly I fixed it by going to:

/opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/game-data

And deleting the whdload_db.xml file from there (or you could manually go through the entire list and remove the entries you wish to show the bootloader for again).

Obviously I would strongly suggest backing up the file first before deleting or editing it! I hope this helps!

@helmar
I don't know. First of all, I've never used mame4all. I use advmame and lr-mame2010, using the roms/arcade/ directory to select any of the arcade emulators to use with runcommand.

There probably is a configuration to edit for mame4all, but I don't know anything about the ESC menu or why it would freeze.

If the navigation key binds get misappropriated, then a solution would probably be finding then editing or deleting the bindings manually, using the terminal. There may be other ways to reset default binds dependent on the emulator and configs.

@naughtjosh How did you connect the controller to the GPIOs ? Did you install any of the additional drivers needed for such setup - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/GPIO-Modules - ? Simply connecting a few wires to the GPIO pins is not enough.

Ideas that don't require any downloads?

Set-up your PI on a location where you have internet, just in case you'll need a driver to be downloaded or use your phone as a WiFi access point.

@Efriim Then the problem is the Samba share and not the Pi. Restart Samba after you the USB is mounted and then re-try to copy the file to the share.

@tr00p3r well the fun part with the officials image is that you can mess with it as many times you like. And through messing with it, you learn how the system functions. Basically learning the basics of retropie. I’ve messed up configs so many times in the beginning, lol. But hen when it comes to 3rd party images made for, let’s say my free play zero gba, it gives me direction to look for issues, instead of just being blind to the complexities that makes retro pie.
The raspberry pie was designed to teach people how to code and configure computers. In my case, I’ve learned quite a bit here configuring my pi’s to my liking. Playing games is just a very fun side effect. Good luck 👍

@GoldManSex778
I did try that and still ran into issues so said hell with it...erased everything off of USB drive and started from scratch at instructions for manually mounting. Since I had copied everything over using a previous copy method and that might have been causing issues.
Right now I'm copying the correct directory structure over, so hopefully everything will work properly now once I do the rest of the steps lol. If anything I've learned some things about Linux from the experience.

Final Update: Success! Thank you all for helping!

For anyone ever going through this, one of two things I think was the issue: NOT following the instructions to the letter manually mounting, or my UUID was wrong. I had the last char wrong, but could have sworn it was something different before(either new copy changed UUID, or was my error). Resolution on a laptop helps reading the characters much more clearly than on the TV screen where its almost a guessing game.
I used WinSCP to confirm that its working, and booting up was much faster!

@mitu Thank you for that reminder as well!

@mitu Right, so you're saying it's unable to catch a signal while it's "paused". Makes more sense now. I had assumed it would have forked the emulator and thus be ready for interrupt signals to act on in the background.

Anyway, this is way more than I really have any business knowing. Graphics and GUIs have never been my thing and I know enough about inter-process communication to get me into trouble, but that's about it. Thanks for the help. Really useful.

@vol-2 Oi, Phantasy Star is one game where the FM sound definitely was not better (IMHO). The author of the FM version didn't properly truncate notes and the bass line is nearly inaudible. FM sound is decent many other games, but not Phantasy Star.

@ExarKunIv Well i guess it depends on whether if you want to recompile ZDoom again for it to work with a modified gamepad or install the Xboxdrv driver package and create a runcommand file to be used. The Xboxdrv has the most advantage as it can be used for any port or any system and it works with any gamepad, while the other is only used for ZDoom.

I think Xboxdrv is the most versatile but if you only want to build a Doom inspired system, then RetroS3xual modified gamepad for ZDoom is probably the way to go and should work fine.

@mitu Thanks Mitu! I always appreciate your quick and spot-on assistance!