Your most frustrating moment?
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Scraping. Just Scraping. Hardest thing to do for me. I would do a (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ if someone asked to fix their scraping issues. Even Sselph's scraper is an issue.
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@pjft Okay so I reconfigured my controller and saw the hot key option so I pressed select. However it still wont let me exit roms when I press select and start. I went into retroarch and into input configs and saw the option for enable hotkeys, yet no button was shown to be an enabler, any advice on what I should do now?
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any advice on what I should do now?
You're using the Xbox 360 controller with the xpad driver?
If so, look in
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/for your Xbox controller config file. I have a wireless one so mine is namedXbox 360 Wireless Receiver (XBOX).cfgI cleaned my up and put it in a more readable order but look to make sure you have these that you want:
(note: I like to use the Guide button for my hotkey instead of the Select button but you can just switch them if you want)# Hotkey button #input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8" #Select input_enable_hotkey_btn = "10" #Guide # Exit emulator input_exit_emulator_btn = "9" #Start # Saves state input_save_state_btn = "1" #B button # Loads state input_load_state_btn = "2" #X button # Move to next save state slot input_state_slot_increase_btn = "5" #R button # Move back a save state slot input_state_slot_decrease_btn = "4" #L button # Reset ROM input_reset_btn = "0" #A button # Toggle RetroArch menu input_menu_toggle_btn = "3" #Y button # Volume controls: mute, volume up and down input_audio_mute_axis = "+1" #Down on D pad/Left Stick input_volume_up_axis = "-3" #Up on Right Stick input_volume_down_axis = "+3" #Down on Right Stick # Take screenshot input_screenshot = "7" #Right Trigger button -
Well actually I think I'm fine with doing my way now. Its just a minor extra step I have to do. Other than that everything else for me is fine.
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I have two that come to mind. First is when I was trying to play ISO based games such as Sega CD, PSX or PSP. I would get momentary freezes when data was being streamed from the virtual disk while playing a game. This was particularly bad on PSP, where the freezes seemed to last between 7 to 10 seconds. As you can imagine that was pretty disruptive to gameplay. I was able to mostly resolve the issue by getting a super fast SD card and overclocking the SD card reader from 50 MHz to 100 MHz. If memory serves, I purchased a 128 GB SanDisk Extreme series card (not Ultra). Once I started using that card with the overclock the momentary freezing issue became extremely rare, as I was getting reads and writes in the area of 43 MB/s. Still I found it odd that I had to resort to these extremes to resolve the issue, since the machines being emulated used a fraction of even the default transfer speeds on a regular card with no overclock. I chalked it up to something the OS was doing in the background causing momentary interruptions. The better card and increased speed of the reader probably allowed the OS to accomplish whatever the heck it was doing quickly, minimizing interruptions.
The second frustrating thing I've run into is pretty much every time I've tried to do a version update on RetroPie, the end result is an install that is broken in some way. Writing a 128 GB image is very time consuming and I would always have to resort to re-imaging an older backup because the update broke the install. This is the reason I'm still running RetroPie 3.6. It does what I need it to do. An update was more something to do for me, and if I could benefit from certain improvements that was a nice bonus. In the future at some point I will do a new build from scratch, but I will not attempt updates again unless I find out something I was doing wrong was causing my grief and there is a better way to do it.
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Oh and one more situation comes to mind now that I'm thinking about it. Back when I was doing my first Rpi2 build, I was going to take advantage of the increased performance offered to try some 3D game emulation, so I bought a pair of Logitech f710 controllers. The install went without a hitch and the OS booted faster, but when it came time to map the controller buttons I ran into a nasty snag. When programming the analog trigger buttons, pushing and releasing the trigger were recognized as two separate button presses. This made it impossible for me to correctly configure the triggers and presented a serious obstacle to playing certain games. It took me forever to realize that I had to go into the setup script and install the Xbox 360 controller driver. After I did that problem solved. I think it might have been someone on here that helped me with that actually, but that was like two years ago.
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I was able to mostly resolve the issue by getting a super fast SD card and overclocking the SD card reader from 50 MHz to 100 MHz.
The second frustrating thing I've run into is pretty much every time I've tried to do a version update on RetroPie, the end result is an install that is broken in some way.
I think those 2 are related. I had the same issues when I overclocked my SD card reader. You just have to disable overclocking when you do a RetroPie update. I don't overclock my SD card reader anymore but when I did, I had this same problem but I will have to say that it makes playing CD based games much faster! Use at you're own risk lol!
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@backstander Thanks for the suggestion. I had actually tried that but the update would still break the existing install. Actually if I remember correctly, I was running into these update problems even before I discovered the SD card reader could be overclocked.
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@backstander An interesting side-effect I became aware of with overclocking the SD card reader is it seems to disable the built in wifi module. I'm not sure if this is still the case, thinking it's possible it was fixed in a firmware update, but I witnessed it first hand on my build. I have two functional RetroPie builds at the moment, basically identical but in different rooms. One uses Ethernet, so that's the one I kept the overclock on, the other is wireless so I had to disable it. For the most part it works fine without the overclock and I get benchmarks at around 21 MB/s or so. I love that 43 MB/s transfer rate though, lol. I also noticed certain cards didn't take the overclock well and would crash, so I see where you are coming from regarding the updates. The card I got is stable as can be with the overclock though, not a single crash or corrupted file.
I did try offloading games to a low-profile USB thumb drive in my quest for better performance, but that introduced a new set of problems I didn't have the time and patience to sort out. The biggest issue was it seemed to kill Samba somehow, and that's my preferred method of transferring ROMs. I could see the shared folders but could not copy files to them. So oversized SD card it was, lol. Probably some Linux permissions issue, but not sure.
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Had to of been the very first time trying to connect my pie to the wifi. Kept putting in the pw correct but wasn't accepting it. Bought a new keyboard and that wasn't working either. Pulled my hair out for a day and finally tried to see what retropie was seeing my keystrokes as. The special characters are defaultly mapped different then how it shows on my keyboard. Mainly it was the @ character. After I got past that little bump everything has been smooth sailing for the most part.
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@buddyscott Now if only we could have match making servers, then I bet the Retropie community would probably explode.
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