As @TheDataCereal said, open the RA menu (Select + X) while in a game and change your Input settings, you probably want Player 1 to be the NES gamepad instead of the arcade Joystick. I don't think this is caused by the auto-save-on-exit settings.
As an alternative, use @meleu's joystick configuration and you can configure - per system - which controller is which player.

I go the other way. Connect my 8bitdo controller then install the ps3 drivers. The 8bitdo still works and my ps3 controllers connect fine and vibrate etc like they should

Never tried the other way.

dear
thanks for the response and the info
I will have it.

thanks and regards.

@christiang

Here you go.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/#making-a-backup-option-1

@ss3000

Try setting the overscan in /boot/config.txt using:

overscan_left= overscan_right=

Edit: Of course if that works, you may have to reconfigure your RetroArch display settings to accomodate.

@epicrean said in Bezels and sizing basic question:

I went through Retroarch and changed the X and Y position

Every overlay is made for a specific screen resolution (not for specific TV); e.g. 1080p, if both TVs are set to 1080p the overlays must display correctly on both.
On top of that each overlay has a viewport (actual game area) that is sized for specific game area scale (e.g. integer scale, 3x, etc). If your retroarch settings for a specific core are different than the settings the overlay was intended for then it will not display correctly.

I've read about Wayland fixing things, and it seems like it fixed the issue in my case. Installed KDE, enabled Wayland and it seems to work great now :)

@koogelpotato Not without overwriting your existing OS. If you already have Raspbian installed, you don't need to flash the image, you can install RetroPie manually - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/.

@koogelpotato said in RetroPie low voltage and no usable temporary directory found:

power supply apples 5.2volts and 2.4 amps

By the look of the warning messages you get and the 2.4 amps, I'd say your power supply is not very good. If you have 3B+ and/or you power up the LCD screen from your PI, then you'll definitely need a better source.

Modify the atari800 package script and replace the URL to download with your own URL to the new version. Make sure that it's not a 'redirect' or 'wait x seconds to download` and it's a direct link. After you replace the URL, use RetroPie-Setup to install from source the emulator.

@porgrammer_ea Please use proper formating of textes... codeblocks and text passages. and check your es_systems.cfg ;)

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I would LOVE to have a dynamic marquee that changes when cycling through games. I’ve seen some posts about it but to be frank I don’t quite understand if and how they have really made it work.

If you get this to work I would be eternally gratefull for details on how to do it. A little guide would be awesome. I would then do/buy/programme type exactly the same :-D

Thanks!

Thanks guys I'll install a psp emulator 😎

@epicrean It's not the scraper that shows the images, but Emulationstation. Try adding them in /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/<system>, with the name of the image having an -image suffix to the ROM name, i.e. for Ecco - The Tides Of Time in segacd, the image is in /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/segacd/Ecco - The Tides Of Time-image.jpg.

@mitu It's an actual Sony PS4 controller. I've had my unit for a couple of years, so it's at least that old, but it is a real controller. Glad to hear there aren't any issues with the 8bitdo controllers since I'm planning on those being my long term solution.

@edmaul69 said in PCE CD stuck at "Just a moment...":

Yes, openining up the .cue file you will see the bin name. Make sure all caps and lowercase match the real .bin file including on the .bin .BIN part. Linux is case sensitive.

@lostless said in PCE CD stuck at "Just a moment...":

@jiryn check your cue file and see if the case of the file name matches the bin file.

Yep, right after I posed my question/problem, I started up my Pi and decided to double check the naming/pathing. I removed all the gibberish people put in parathenesis in the game title, but forgot to remove it from the cue file. Now it works perfectly!

You guys were exactly right, thank you so much for answering my problem.

The 001, 002 etc extensions means that they are sequential parts of the same compressed file. Try opening the 001 file with 7Zip, or something else that reads 7Z files.

You can install the atool package which includes arepack. Then use this to convert the 7z files to zip.

$ arepack -e --format=zip *.7z

We don't support third party images. Start from scratch with the images hosted on this site and then people here will be able to assist.

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

@tictac_93 This works in most cases ... yes

But look. You take PID of runcommand and use pkill -P switch to kill child PID. That works in most cases but some emulators also just call annother process and this won't be catched by your method. You need at least annother pkill -P call.

You should just use your python script and you can use the multi_switch and it's command line options. Therefore use a python call like output = int(subprocess.check_output(['./multi_switch.sh', '--es-pid'])) and you can check if ES is running. If the ouput is 0 then python interprets this as false if a PID is detected the value is grater than 0 - this interprets python as true.
So the sniplet in python itself would be look like this.

if output: os.system("./multi_switch.sh --es-poweroff") else: os.system("sudo shutdown -h now")