A fix for this issue has been added to RetroPie-Setup, making the splashscreen work on any HDMI connected port on the current/old Buster release.

@BuZz Thanks so much for your help in fixing this.

Also, thanks to everyone else who tried to troubleshoot the issue. I realize I'm not active on here much lately, but the way this problem was handled is an amazing reminder of how this a really excellent community.

@DTEAM Please open a separate topic and post a verbose RetroArch log, along with the details of your system.

@eg500 happens to me sometimes too. I think it has to do with losing your connection to the forum between starting the message and when you send it. Switching to another app, or even just shutting off my phone screen, will cause it to lose connection. When it happens I usually copy my message text to the clipboard & refresh the page, or if that still doesn't work, open a new window & navigate back to where I was. Then I can paste the message in & send it with no interruption.

Are you running RetroPie/EmulationStation from a desktop session ?

Should be fixed now, just update your RetroPie-Setu script and re-install (from source).

I don't think super glue would work because if it heats up anything over "kinda hot" it melts and starts to smell awful. Another bad glue to use is that stuff you use on fake fingernails. Smells bad without any heat or anything. It has toxic fumes. I once tried to attach a fan to a motor shaft with it. I turned the fan on and it started to blow a cloud of basically poison into the air. It was like hitting a wall. I started coughing, my lungs were burning, my eyes were watering, the whole nine yards. So yeah. If you need to fix your Pi with glue, hot glue is the way the go.

@hackedmacbook111 said in Mupen64plus-gliden64 from source is broken:

I used mupen64plus on pi3B+ and it freezes with glide 64 games have more lag than with impending 64 plus
I recently updated 4.5 to 4.6

Start a new topic, this issue has been solved and isn't the same as yours.

@mitu I deleted them all. Thank you so much it finally worked. Too scared now to try and play speccy games incase it happens again!

@vasquez109 said in Help i've broken it!!:

Any advice to make my machine go back to the good old days?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#why-emulationstation-doesnt-start-automatically-after-an-update

Note that this setting might slowdown the emulation for some systems. If this works to fix the core loading issues, then you should add this setting only in the respective systems' retroarch.cfg, i.e.

/opt/retropie/configs/msx/retroarch.cfg /opt/retropie/configs/x68000/retroarch.cfg

while keeping the video_threaded="true" in the main configuration file to be applied to other systems.

Another thing you can try is to use the retroarch.cfg.rp-dist file instead and see if replacing the (long) retroarch.cfg with it would still make the bluemsx and px68k cores to crash.

@mahalingam it was fixed, so if you're getting the issue open a new topic with some info.

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Thankyou for the help, I hope I will be able to return it as the people blatantly lied to me saying they had tried it and it had worked well on retropie.

Finally got it working, I Had a backup of an older image I kept. Retropie 4.4.1
So I will need to check which version of reicast it is, also do you know if I choose to update the retropie script and update the OS and other emulators BESIDES reicast…. it should not effect reicast at all?

Thanks for the link to older version.. will have that as backup plan if need to.

Following up - I did a reinstall of the Xpad driver (removed and then installed) and it fixed my triggers, too.

@mitu Thats where i looked, its gone-vanished of the face of the earth, hope the setup script fixes it

@mediamogul That sorted the Channel F (with a bit of tweaking), cheers.

The Astrocade I'd already fixed, and it works fine for every game I've tried EXCEPT Space Fortress (unfortunately the best game on the system), which used to run fine but now goes at about 1fps. I tried using your .RC file instead, but the exact same thing happened.

The really freaky one is the Arcadia, though. I can get it to run no problem, right up to the point where I start any game, at which point it plays them by itself. No matter how I set the controls, the player ship will just lurch around, moving and shooting (or whatever) all on its own, regardless of whether I touch the controls or not.

But here's the REALLY wacky part.

If I boot up Pleiades on the Arcadia, it plays through the first three stages by itself. It's pretty good - it clears them all. So I wondered if I'd (somehow) recorded and then played back a previous game. But THEN, and only then, it gives me back control for the last stage (the one where you steer onto an airstrip dodging the parked ships). Keyboard and joystick both control the ship perfectly.

Once I've steered to the target and completed the stage, the Pi takes over and plays by itself again.

If anyone can explain any of THAT, I'm all ears.

I think I found another solution--I had the same problem. I converted the videos using Handbrake on its normal preset, and now they run fine with both sound and video. They run best using the OMX Player. I only converted about 70 videos, but they all show the previews correctly now.

Something like this happened before with the videos from Stephen Selph's scraper, so I just thought I would try it and it worked!

@mitu It worked! Sorry for my late response!