@Folly

Cool thanks ill give it a try

@BennyProfane ooh thanks for all the information. I have this book you see called "ZX Spectrum Games Code Club" which gives you a bunch of games you can code for yourself on the ZX Spectrum. Such as Tic Tac Toe and Breakout.

If VS Code can do the same thing and pack it into tap/tzx which I could then port to RetroPie's Spectrum emulator to play, I think that'll be just as much fun to get my teeth in to.

All I know so far is a little bit of C#, html, and Scratch (if you can call that a programming language lol). I'm looking to spread out a little into other languages and since I had the pi and code club book, I figured I'd start with some Basic before moving on to tutorials for Unity.

The apidocs are also available at https://retropie.org.uk/api/.

Thanks.

@mcsteve

Assuming your controller has enough buttons to support all of the N64 buttons, all of those buttons are available by default if you configured all of the buttons on your controller during the initial gamepad detection. If you need to reconfigure it I recommend resetting your controller configuration in the Retropie system menu->Retropie Setup so that it prompts you again.

I have a question,
could you manage to get a GPIO output to toggle from high to low or vice versa when something happens in the game? are there any methods to detect if gameover or highscore happens?
I ask because I have RGB mood lighting on my cabinet, and would love to make it flash and strobe etc if you die or get a highscore etc.

I understand that detecting an emulator starting and detecting what happens inside the emulator are two different things, but you dont get if you dont ask :)

Has there been any progress on this? I'm also interested in having video in the system view.

@LazyLizard This seems to be a great bash guide with cool tips and tricks:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

And if you have a specific question about bash, this is a really good resource to look at (even before searching in google):
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

You may be able to launch your python script from the runcommand-onstart script and reset it with the runcommand-onend script.

See: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#runcommand-onstart-and-runcommand-onend-scripts

@phulshof Well, welcome to the group!

Yeah good point, the FBA emulators also run recent MAME romsets, those are worth a try too.

You can also run the very latest lr-mame on RetroPie.

However, even the latest MAME doesn't have the 2D games right. If you truly want to play these games, fix their emulation in mainline MAME then consider backporting them to earlier stable MAME libretro cores.