For what it's worth, I got a 5.2v 2.5a power supply. I had no reason to believe it would make a difference; but I've seen much stupider things fix dumb things. Of course, the cursor still pops.

I didn't suppose to waste your time. ok, thanks anyway

@mitu Nope, I'm using the dev build on my Pi as well. And the other two setups on my PC, which worked, used the same build. I assume it has something to do with my es_systems.cfg and/or the way I've set up the dummy files. Maybe I see if I can rework the setup but like I said, I currently don't care.

@joemommasfat I just implemented a feature recently that will now preserve the extra data from the gamelist.xml data (not released yet, but can be tested on the 'master' branch if people are curious). I will add the <sortname>to the nodes that should be preserved (EDIT: Done, it will be in 2.8.0). That way it won't be erased for games that already exist when rewriting the gamelist.xml. The only caveat to this is that it preserves the nodes by comparing the <path> filename to the rom filenames and if they match it will be preserved for that game. But if you either change the <path>or filename of a rom manually, they won't match and the extra information will not be moved over when regenerating the xml. So users should be aware of that.

@mitu I found the splash screen setup option and it was enabled there, so no more splash screen. Splash screen options are found in what, 3 locations? Uninstalling and reinstalling the xbox controller driver worked as well, mostly. I had trouble in the Sega Master System emulator, but I'm not going to go any further into any issues. I figure a fresh install will be necessary to clean up all the mess I've made. I'm not willing to put the time in at this point. There's some odd "failed" messages while booting up the pi. Some look like they pertain to mounting my external drive, but it mounts anyway? Odd. I'm just going to leave things as they are for now and eventually start over. Thanks for all your help. I guess we can consider things resolved.

@sexbeer So, looking at the code, it is a simple think to fix, but yet it requires a non-trivial change to make. I'd like @jdrassa 's opinion on how to best make that happen as I may be missing something very simple and wouldn't want to propose an architectural change to parts of the code I'm not as familiar with. It is not as much a bug as it is a side effect of the current code architecture (meaning, it's not a mistake in the code, it's just that the way it's structured it makes it hard to make it happen and as such it probably wasn't really looked into when it was created).

Amazing! You are very kind to share this. Thank you so much!

@mitu oh i tried the parse gamelist only and now i understand what you understood from my old post, i didnt meant that ES was eraising the rom, actually the two of them show in the GBA section when i have parse games only turned off, what i meant is that ES erase the information (the one i got from scraping it) of the second game each time i scrap the other one. like i open ES and i have BofF 1 scraped with images and all info and BofF 2 without any info, i scrap, i succesfully scrap BofF 2, so, i enter the GBA and have the two games with all the metadata , i quit ES, and when i re open it only BofF 2 has the metadata and BofF 1 has nothing. and each time it does for the other one. sorry for maybe not expressing myself correctly

@sexbeer Awesome, I'm glad it worked out.

@Clyde said in EmulationStation - Noise in menu music.: audio_pwm_mode=2 Yes, problem only exists in EmulationStation and not in games. It's only the menu music that is affected while moving around in the menus. I tried playing around with the VRAM-setting but didn't notice any difference. I am using the 3.5mm jack and tried adding audio_pwm_mode=2 to config.txt and rebooted but no difference at all :( Thanks for advicing though.

@xwons The reason for that is that the Retropie image runs on Linux whose file system is case sensitive. Thanks for sharing your solution for others.

@hapanpappa said in NES roms not loading - worked just fine yesterday: If your only job in life atm is ignoring that fact and being accusatory towards me as a result, more power to you. You keep on making some assertions that simply aren't true. I don't get it - why? No offense, but did you notice that you make exactly such assertions one sentence before? This has been an interesting dialogue and told me much about your community. Whatever the sample size of four can tell about a whole community.

Thank you @meleu and @cyperghost I may end up ordering another Nespi+ case to attempt the button modification. If I do, I'll certainly come back and provide an update!

@dankcushions These "mini" themes work perfect! I never thought of using 4:3 themes or were aware of them; it fixes the distortion problem and now everything's proportional, thank you :)

@pierouge in which Mode did you connect your 8biDo? Switch, Android, Mac or Win? I just learned that this is an important point and after a change (Android. Start+B) my Pads work perfect.

I'm not at the pi at the moment (left the house after making this post) but I can definitely confirm that it erases what I added without appending another. The game/console I have been using as an example is Game Boy. With the entry for Super Mario Land, the scraped (using default ES scraper) data does not generate a <players> tag in the metadata entry within the gamelist.xml. When I launched the game and played it after adding one, the data saved added a last played date and times played entry, and erased/overwrote the <players>1</players> tag that I added (and saved) prior to launching and playing. I confirmed by comparing to other titles that my line of xml was formatted exactly as others were that scraped with a <players> tag, but notably those that obtained that data from thegamesdb.net via the built in scraper and remained undisturbed are always greater than 1, which makes me suspect that ES reads a not present/defined value of players as 1? Not sure why it would erase or overwrite it though.

@mitu Thanks for all mitu. I'm going to test that just after a complete SD backup ;o) ! See you.