@solecize oh yeah I remember those days. The original restoration/conversation of my BerZerk cabinet was done in late 2000, just when Ultimarc and all the I-Pacs were coming out. I remember I was going to do the keyboard hack, but bought one of the first versions of the I-Pac. My first spinner was a trackball and HD bearing hack that worked pretty good. That cabinet saw a few refreshes, one being the upgrading of the control panel, then the computer which was done multiple times. Lol.

I basically love the hobby and I really enjoy seeing guys restore the old cabinets. With all the great graphics available out there we don't have to make our own stencils any more. Lol. It was fun and challenging, but I'm happy to just buy the stuff now and save on the time.

Good luck with the restoration, I'm still finishing Gorf and BerZerk will once again be refreshed. I'm trying to source the original metal control panel, or if I have to, I'll make one myself.

If you need any help, let me know. Having just done it, it's all still fresh on my mind.

@barbudreadmon @Darksavior
So, tested it on all my house hold TVs.

All 4 are Vizio.
My entertainment center TV has issues with the sound cutting out constantly.
The others (Roommate bedroom, my bedroom, and the living room) do not have the same issue.
(I even changed cords, and plugged the system directly into the TV instead of the splitter box)

So I wonder if the TV itself is defective, or is it just incompatible, or what...

I also tested all the ports on my entertainment center TV, same sound issue with each HDMI port.

When I bought the TV in Sep '18, in Oct '18 they had to do a recall on the main board, sending a person out to replace it. Then as of last year, the sound was cutting out again on other channels but eventually stopped, but Vizio sent me a replacement board just incase.. something I didn't/don't know how to install... so it's probably just either the first replacement died as well, or wasn't installed correctly, or the TV is just crap.

@clyde not for clrmame. I was thinking for setting up romsets to mame versions on RetroPie. Its probably done already, I just never checked.

@craggus2000 Thanks for reporting back. Have fun. Please edit your first post and add in the something like [solved], so it is more likely to be picked up by search engines.

Your question made me updating my hint from last year on that topic.

You can use a similar solution to the one in this post, where the requirement was to have the Pause function being triggered without a hotkey.

@sirhenrythe5th. How exactly do you do that?????

@dankcushions
Yeah, I checked the sites myself and had no issue. I don't see how it could be the connection on the Pi, though, since the wifi works for anything I do via the GUI - both the main Retropie interface and the setup interfaces. Scraping, updating, etc, all works until I go into the terminal. I'll probably have to seek help elsewhere as I suspect that's still outside of your ability to assist.

Thanks for the help, though. I at least now know some stuff to look at should other problems arise in the future.

@lolonois Good call. Now I know what the hotkeybtn is used for.

@sirhenrythe5th Thanks for your reply. I will check the dreamcast version.
For the arcade one I'll then use latest mame via Retroarch on my i5 USFF PC.

Hello and welcome to this forum.

Alas, you won't find much support for a third-party RetroPie installation here, because we can't know how much its makers changed the official installation image. On top of that, RetroPie's licence and the licences of many of its components don't allow commercial use, including selling it as part of a commercial product. The people who sold it to you broke those licences.

So, you'll have to either ask the vendor about the problems with their product, or install the official image from https://retropie.org.uk/download/. In the latter case, you should make a backup of your old system and its games as described here – or just use another SD card.

We'll be happy to help you with any problems you may have with the official image. As a side effect, you may learn a bit or two about the inner workings of the wonderful retrogaming box of bricks that RetroPie is. 👍

Be sure to read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to get more useful information to start in this forum.

@holyheadshot said in Cannot map controls to IPAC:

Maybe another silly question but I've read other threads about emulation station configuring as gamepad vs keyboard. Would changing something like that help?

There's no explicit setting in EmulationStation for that, however there is one for the IPAC and it's referenced in the doc page I linked earlier.

@marky161 said in Adding other system roms to Arcade (Dragons Lair/Space Ace):

Everything perfect! Time to configure controller and button mappings!

Great news there. Glad everything worked out.

Video of the overlays
Overlays

@barbudreadmon Looking into this now.

If the switch maps ZR/ZL to axis (instead of buttons), then EmulationStation (where I assume you try to register them) will ignore them as buttons. Have you tried to map them to LT/RT (the should trigger buttons) ?

@dankcushions
I did see that set. It's on my list of things to get.
I see in my future getting a merged set of ROMs to save download time and creating my own non-merged set afterwards.

Do you think my 9 year old PC might be powerful enough to run most games on the latest MAME? I know it is leaps and bounds ahead of the Pi, but I don't know how PC processing power compares to arcade hardware.

EDIT: Forgot the age of my PC