TY , guess its time to get an sd card reader and learn this thing.

@gomisensei That worked perfectly, thanks!

@mitu After trying all day and failing I will tell you what I did

I tried your solution and it didn't work I started from 0 the two translation tutorials of the original post. In both I get this error at the end

/home/pi/EmulationStation/es-core/src/resources/font.cpp:17: font : :fontface : : fontface(resourcedata&&, int) : assertion `!err' failed

then try two possible solutions:
a) update retropie setup (dont work)
b) update emulationstation from source (work but back to english)

the only thing that works so that it is translated but the shutdown / restart menu does not work is to put in autostart.sh LANG=es_ES.UTF8 /home/pi/EmulationStation/emulationstation #auto

thank you for your patience

@Carey said in Switch Buttons only in Emulationstation:

is this the same core-input mapping?

No, that's different.

I prefer the remapping using the command line because i can simple backup the files.

The remaps files are simple text files, with the .rmp extension. They can be easily backed-up/restored.

@MrShanksio the 2 best SBCs in 2020 (well, they already were in 2019, before the pi4 was even out) are those 2 :

Odroid N2 => best all rounder (better cpu & gpu than pi4) Jetson Nano => best gpu, decent cpu (cpu between pi3 & pi4)

NB : idk if retropie can be installed on those SBCs, but that criteria wasn't included in your question, and there are other retrogaming distros with support for those boards.
NB2 : you won't play PS2 on a SBC in 2020, but systems like Dreamcast/Naomi/Atomiswave and Saturn will run fine on the 2 SBCs i mentioned (full speed + upscaling).

@newmanph said in When launching a game, emulationstation switches to desktop, then back to the menu:

Is there any way to make emulationstation work within the desktop? I know it's recommended to just use the raspberry pi to launch emulationstation, but if it's possible I'd like to use the pi for other things as well.

You can still use the desktop, start if from EmulationStation - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#where-did-the-desktop-go - and not the other way around.

I would definitely like to see this option come to EmulationStation, since I have several items I would want to move out of ports into their own separate items on the carousel.

@BuZz thank you!!! really appreciate the help.

That's it, thanks.

For those want to testdrive the navigation (Joy-right/Select) and launch game (Start) also for the image slideshow screen saver -see suggestion 4 above- are invited to do so:

git clone https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation.git cd EmulationStation git fetch origin pull/673/head:slideshow-controls git checkout slideshow-controls cmake -DFREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/freetype2/ -DGL=On -DRPI=On . && make -j 5 all ./emulationstation --debug

OK.. I fixed the issue, but this is a little odd.
Apparently, Controller 1 (Player 1) has to be in USB1 on these 3040's, Controller 2 (Player 2) in USB2, etc, etc.
Is this a unique situation for the 3040 or is this a universally known fact in RetroPie land? If it is, then I apologize for not doing more research.

This may just me being a little more Windows oriented than Linux oriented, but does it really matter which slot the controllers are plugged into? I'd think that the programming of the controllers would follow the unique ID and not care about the USB Slot at all.

Thoughts?

@mitu
Thanks for the advice. I ended up re-installing on both cards. It worked just fine, set up the controllers, then tried to get back into ES, but the errors started again. Re-installed image again and worked fine, so far. So it's up and running, but not perfect.

Thanks for your help!

@nicshoe18

I had to add usbhid.quirks=0xf000:0x0008:0x100000 to /boot/cmdline.txt and then reboot to get jstest detect the missing buttons.

@Ecks Ok, but is there any way to do this on emulationstation?

@Bluebotlabs I know what your original post was asking. If you want mouse support right NOW, you can use the pegasus frontend as an alternative. It uses emulationstation's scraped art/gamelist info except for logos/marquees.

@Hooded-Man said in Can't boot Emulationstation get a error from booting:

Built from: Premade SD Card from Ebay got arcade machine. Link is right here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224001822340

We don't support 3rd party images, especially the ones sold with ROMs and RetroPie. Ask the seller for support, we don't support scammers that sell RetroPie preloaded - it's against the project's license.

@bmoxey

Having issues with GitHub. Says file is too big.

Looking into at the moment.

Rgds

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