Seems to me that even with the HDMI port disconnected, the Pi thinks that a composite display is connected.
Sorry, but I have no idea how you can convince the OS that you're using a DSI display and whether that will work without X11/Wayland on the buster. I noticed in the RPI docs that there's a KMS type overlay for the display which would make it work without X11/Wayland (as required by RetroPie), but I'm not sure whether that would work without installing the lateste RaspiOS (which is based on Debian 12 bookworm).

@gare You can get RetroArch to run in verbose mode by choosing to launch with verbose logging. Seems like an issue with the audio - perhaps PulseAudio/Pipewire gets stuck ? Does it happen also with standalone emulators (i.e. Mupen64plus or PPSSPP) ?

@sleve_mcdichael They are both HDTV's just different sizes.

0.3 seems to be the sweet spot. I did the change on GitHub

@mitu yes finally works! thanks so much for your determination and interest in helping

I wonder if there is a solution to getting PS1 controllers working on the Pi?

@mitu Omg, shame on me. All the time i used the wrong patch for my GPi Case. Instead of GPi Case 2 Patch i used GPi Case 2W Patch.

I installed the correct patch and retropie boot as it should and works immediately. Thank you for the help anyway...

And sorry for double post^^

@cdaters You mean I can use png files also? And the naming, system.png instead of system.svg?

Post some details about your setup, as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Get a verbose log from running an emulator and then post the resulting log file on pastebin.com. Also post your joystick configuration profile here in the topic, surrounded by code tags (``` before and after the contents)

Thanks all. Will keep on trucking.

It's ok, I figured it out, the problem was that the roms where in folders. This thread can be closed. Thanks.

@mitu It doesn't let me verify it

@eje211 said in Dolphin works from the GUI but not from Emulation Station:

There are still a few more things to configure, such as getting RetroPie's shortcuts to work in Dolphin, but at least the games start!

If you are referring to the Hotkeys, you would have to be running lr-dolphin for that to work. The standalone emulator does have the ability to configure hotkeys, but you will need to do it through the dolphin settings menu.

@eje211 https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Add-a-New-System-in-EmulationStation/#step-31-launch-roms-with-the-runcommand-script

You need to edit the launch command in your emulators.cfg at /opt/retropie/configs/gc/emulators.cfg and/or /opt/retropie/configs/wii/emulators.cfg. Replace the command (or add a new one) to use your installed binary instead of /opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu

Can you please add the full details about your setup asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?

Try running EmulationStation manually from the command line (after it crashes) with

emulationstation --debug

and post the last error shown on the screen when it crashes ? I still suspect there's a connection issue with the controller, the crash is usually indicating a bad connection (controller disconnects immediately after being detected).

@TPR Thanks for reporting back in detail. Good to see it working now. As a courtesy to other users pls mark the subject in the original post with "solved".