you are a godsent! it is SELECT + X on the ps3 controller! thanks a bunch!

@SutterKane

At the moment, the keyboard is totally ignored

Did you configure it? Where is it plugged in? Do you have enough power? What is the rating of your power supply?

Is there an additional setup to be done to get the Buffalo SNES controllers
working correctly ?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration#hardcoded-configurations

Playing games via MAME

Which one? Have you set the controls using TAB? Is it a libretro emulator?

Start with this to save time....
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

It works perfect! This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much!

@markyh444 There have been one or two occasions I thought I might be able to save a hard working developer/mod a couple of minutes, but I'm way too nervous to do it!! Believe me, plenty of play and learning to do yet;))

@gothats yeah, I noticed it stopped to work as expected. I'll check what's wrong and let you know if I discover something.

Unbelievable! THIS is how it should have been done from the start!

I've moved ALL configs over to the usb drive now and it easily shaves 8 secs off of boot time. The 4 raspberries screen used to sit longer. Now they are gone within 4-5 secs before loading my custom animation movie (which is still on the microsd). But everything else is on the usb drive now

I mounted dev/sda1 to /media/usb0 as I only plan on having a single usb flash drive in the system. I replaced the following directories with symlinks: /opt/retropie/configs to /home/pi/RetroPie/configs /etc/emulationstation to /home/pi/RetroPie/etc/emulationstation /home/pi/RetroPie to /media/usb0

As there are some symlinks within those folders, I simply renamed to the one I use. So for example in the download_images folder, "genesis" was symlinked to "megadrive", So I just removed genesis as all my roms use megadrive folder structures.

Now I can edit config files by simply inserting the usb drive into my windows computer and editing them, then simply pop the usb back in to see the changes. Plus I have all the theme settings, scraped images, etc all on the faster drive (usb much faster than microsd) so things like all the game images load much faster.

This leaves the microsd all but isolated to do just the core system work. I used to load my custom startup movie from USB too, but found that during startup, a lot of times the usb drive isn't ready yet so the video only played 30% of the time. Moving it to the microsd allowed it to be ready to go and plays everytime now.

I would definitely recommend doing this for power users but really I would recommend this for new users too as it is much easier to wrap your head around things when the data is all in one location.

I have not yet tried the readonly script, but I was more concerned about this part working first and it works even better than hoped! Long live the symlink!

I have had to add the line video_shader_enable = "true" to the emulators I want the shader to work in as well. I may not be doing it right, but I don't use shaders on all emulators, so I just use the line in the individual configs to enable it. I did find out the other day that I need to configure the settings within the in-game retro arch config for scaling and nearest vs linear too or else the default to "don't care" and don't look the way I want them to.

Sincere thanks, guys. I finally got it to work last night by installing a completely different build (Steve Smith's triple-boot at http://www.multibootpi.com/). Still not sure what happened, as this setup just worked smoothly, ROMs transfer just fine, etc. THEN I had to learn about the wonders of HDMI sound being flaky on RPi, and adjusting the config file to activate it. Interestingly, it didn't work plugged directly into my small TV, but it works fine plugged through the receiver connected to my big TV.

It'll work just fine as a keyboard is a keyboard.

@gjtorikian your kernel was old.

@cybermrc you probably figured this out by now, but the cocktail switch only serves to flip player 2 upside-down. It won't induce the initial rotation.

@Septcanmat you can create a remap file and load it on-the-fly through
RGUI > Quick Menu > Controls > Load Remap File

If you post the content of your /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/YOUR_JOYPAD_NAME.cfg maybe we can help you better.

Nobody? :(

Ok, I guess the folder structure must have been altered or something.
I cant even get the right settings when i start from scratch, and saves the configuration. As soon as i start a new game, its back to what I think is retroarch.cfg.
Dosent matter how many override/core specific options I tinker with.

f*ck it, I´m gonna go back to my old 4.1 backup image.

Okay so, apparently I misunderstood the copying process... I thought I could just use the SAMBA Shares, but that didn't work... However, I have since used the USB Flash Drive option and now the games and emulators are showing up on the console.

So, problem solved!

Hi!

What type of iBuffalo controller are you trying to setup? The famicom version (red and gold) or the snes version?

I started a new topic on this and I hope to get some replies to help me out... Are you still having this issue? If not how did you get it to work?

Thank you and have a nice day!

@BuZz said in Retropie menu on EmulationStation:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu

I feel sad and happy at the same time. You solved the problem, that's it! I did it all as 'root'.

I suck with linux, I'm never going to learn this, i don't even know which user i should use to make a lousy update.

Shall i assume that i must use the pi user, for all the operations?

After exiting retropie_packages.sh setup, do i have/must setup any extra permissions on the command prompt?

Thank you for your time.

@aweiand unfortunately a lot of people have problems with using the wiimotes including myself. A couple people have stated they have it working without any real explanation of how. I just use a usb adaptor for the classic controllers

@dips52
EDIT: I'm assuming you're using lr-fbalpha (aka lr-fba-next).

my suggestion: undo the changes you've made on that file and then configure the mappings the way you like using the core input remapping method.

@BuZz said in How to uninstall a configured joystick / Kodi crash:

Looking at the log it looks as though your sony controller is still connected - Kodi does crash with ps3 controllers. Please format logs/code in code blocks when posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

I don't have sony controller a Sony controller or a PS3 controller.
I tried to remove/clear any configuration file that recall sony controller but with no success.

Anyway I solved with a clean installation of retropie. ES recognizes just my two controllers (logitech gamepad and keyboard), Kodi works great.
Thanks anyway