Please give more details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@DetroitKp The type of device is internal to the core - if the core should expect a RetroPad (a logical gamepad) or other type of device - it's not for setting which physical device is connected - see https://docs.libretro.com/guides/input-and-controls/. To designate the gamepad as P2, you just need to set input_player1_joypad_index, or input_player2_joypad_index, etc. For you, to set P1 as keyboard, you need to set P2 to have the index 0 (1st gamepad): input_player2_joypad_index=0 which is what the configuration editor will do.

@mitu Thanks Mitu! Really appreciate all of your help!

AWESOME!!! Just testing it out, when I went into RetroPi configure controller it recognized it as 2 gamepads right away, configured each and was instantly playing some Street Fighter Alpha 3 with my 5 year old. I works great! Thanks for the help, should have notice my mistake, the devil is in the details as they say. I read so much I have developed a tendency to be lays and just speed read without even realizing I'm doing it. I my brain just saw 'add to it's own line' for some reason. Anyways the device should be included by default and hopefully this will be fixed in a new version so folks don't have mess with it manually. Guess my wiring job was spot on, I don't have any issues now. Thanks again.

@t_mitch Mame4All is not a Libretro emulator, so the hotkey combination don't apply (and also the .cfg file has no effect). But you found the solution, so that's good.

I think some things changed in the recent versions w.r.t. overrides saving. Some settings are blacklisted specifically - like the input_libretro_device settings (see here, changed about 10 months ago). For the multi-tap settings, now the settings under Control are handled - as the link above said - by Control Remaps. Use the 'Save Game Remap File' and it should work.

@hfgx1 This is not an error, but just a progress indicator for you to know what's Emulationstation doing during startup. If you find that ES stays a long time ago at this stage, then it means you have a lot of ROMs and it takes ES a long time to scan the ROM folders. How many ROM do you have ?

Now I have it where if I delete .atari800.cfg and then start an Atari 5200 game it works fine. But then Atari 800 games get an error that the computer crashed. If I delete the .atari800.cfg and then launch an atari 800 game it works but I can no longer launch atari 5200 games as I get the blue screen and note pad error. I tried adding the items to my /opt/retropie/configs/atari5200 retroarch.cfg and such but hat has not positive impact. The only differences between the two .atari800.cfg are: MACHINE_TYPE=ATARI 400/800 OR or Atari 5200 RAM_SIZE=48 or 16 When the 5200 works it has these: ENABLE-NEW-POKEY=1 versus 0 when the Atari 800 works STEREO_POKEY=0 versus 1 when the Atari 800 works Note if I delete the .atari800.cfg in ~/ either type work the first time so it builds the proper file. I would like to be able to do this without having to delete the .atari800.cfg everytime I want to switch between 800 and 5200. Any ideas?

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

Tried Combian64?

This is confirmed as a bug and is in the process of being fixed and tested. https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/426

@SpudsMcToole Very true.

@m2306 Lag really doesn't have to be an issue, but it can be with the wrong hdtv. On mine I can't notice any input lag. Maybe I would be able to notice it if I could play the game side by side, crt tv vs hdtv, but it's all good for me the way I've got it set up right now.

I got it working now. Problem is I don't know what I did differently so I can't explain it for the benefit of others. What I did was I reinstalled meleus joystick script and now it works. If I plug in the SUB pads while still in ES I can then use them as P1 and P2. If I unplug them the Controlblock controllers become 1 and 2. This is perfect. Thank you @mitu for your patience and for being so helpful all the time. In addition to this now being solved I also learned to SCP and SSH in the process so I solved a couple of other issues myself that I couldn't have before. Thank you.

@nipeters /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/emu.cfg

@M3th0D said in Retropie using jpac hdmi to vga on an arcade monitor: Is there something similar for retropie? Yes, the video mode selection from Runcommand - that you just tried. The 'global' video mode is the one you set in your config.txt.

Awesome! Thanks @mitu and @BuZz ! - George

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi

Got it. You have to go to the individual emulator retroarch.cfg file. This is what mine looks like now for atari2600 and it works. # Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the includes. input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/atari2600/" input_enable_hotkey = "escape" input_exit_emulator = "escape" #include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg" References: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3665/exit-every-emulator-with-escape-key https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration