I got the same crash with another game in another system: Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (USA, Europe).sms. Renamed it to Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (USA).sms and the problem went away.

The only common thing I found is that they both don't have either image or video, in the middle of other games that do. My current theme (Chicuelo) displays both image and video.

@clyde that is indeed a phone induced typo :)

@mrsco I fixed it :)

I added "--aspect-mode fill" to the omxplayer lines and that seems to fix it.

What it looks like now:

if sub: os.system( "omxplayer --aspect-mode fill -b --layer 10010 -o both '" + url + "' " + resolution + " --vol " + str(volume) + " --subtitles subtitle.srt < /tmp/cmd" ) elif url is None: pass else: os.system( "omxplayer --aspect-mode fill -b --layer 10010 -o both '" + url + "' " + resolution + " --vol " + str(volume) + " < /tmp/cmd" )

Thanks for the help

Thanks so much @mitu. It now will remember the save and won't show the ES loading screen even if it gets unplugged. Thanks so much for the reply.

@mitu I'm using Google Chrome at the PC and tried Microsoft Edge as well, but no lucky either.
But after seeing the link you sent, I got it. Such a simple thing that caused me a big headache. But thanks to you, it is fine now. Many thanks, dude.

@mrdowntempo no problem. Just remember one thing, linux is case sensitive so caps and lowercase are important. Even though if you are inside dosbox and you want to run say WOLF.EXE you can type wolf or wolf.exe, when you do it in a .sh file, even though it actually runs the commands inside of dosbox you have to have it say WOLF.EXE.

However, if you do it in a .conf file it doesnt matter.

@dankcushions said in Weird issues regarding retropie-setup and mupen64plus.:

@r4l

get rid of the overclock. any stability/freezing problems = get rid of the overclock

i don't know why you're editing files. mupen64plus should get automatically configured when you configure your controller in ES. if you're using a proper n64 controller you may need to do some manual tweaks after that to get the c-buttons working nicely, but i would take one step at a time.

Do you know how buttons are mapped in mupen64plus? They are automatically configured, often times the WRONG way. You have to turn off hotkeys in autoconf.cfg and make controllers fully manual in mupen64plus.cfg. Then you have to set the right button mappings in InputAutoCfg.ini. Basically I set up the controls in ES, then I fix them in InputAutoCfg.ini because if I don't, they are totally wrong.

As for the overclock, I am using a Mackertop 5.25v 3a PSU. Even at 1.4GHz, the system is totally stable. Everything else works fine, except N64. I guess I could try going to 1.3GHz and seeing what happens, but I don't think that's the problem.

Well I managed to do it - bit of a heath robinson solution...

From this thread (similar question)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9078/omxplayer-default-settings-change-system-wide

I grabbed the Thin Pixel 7 font from here: https://onextrapixel.com/25-free-pixel-perfect-fonts-for-8-bit-designs/

Renamed the font file as FreeSans.ttf and FreeSansOblique.ttf (these are the two fonts that are used for the video subtitles on the screensaver), and then dropped them into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont, overwriting the existing font files.

@pumpkinrat The settings for ES should be in /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_settings.txt, you can modify it with the nano editor from the terminal. You can check the ES start log from /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_log.txt to see if any errors are logged.

Actually, your mileage may vary by doing this when it comes to the emulators because although they all compiled, some of them crashed when executed.

Much better to use the latest 16.04 LTS or later on a PC with a CPU with core2duo or later.

@maegirom said in All scraped data and games in favorite list are gone oO':

What is that append option you are talking about? where is it? I think I haven't noticed it anywhere.

I only used the scraper from the RetroPie-Setup menu, where the Gamelist appears alt text
I didn't use it from the command line and I don't know what's the default.

It's adviced to update drivers or something?

If you like to get bugfixes and new features, yes, but it's not mandatory. Make sure to update from the RetroPie-Setup menu, as explained in the docs.

This isn't about RetroPie directly, but it is about EmulationStation. The most up-to-date version of that seems to be managed by the RetroPie organization, which is why I posted here.

Thanks for the pointers, everyone. I don't have much time to dig much more into this right now, but if I end up finding a good solution I'll post back on the forums in case anyone else is interested in something similar.

@retromikey said in After updating EmulationStation I'm now stuck on command prompt:

If there is some sort of rating system like on eBay let me know and I'll rate you very highly!

*points at the little numbers with up and down arrows at the right of each post* ;)

I ended up re-encoding all of the videos as I none of them were playing with the OMX player enabled, so the Pi was getting rather hot and videos were going choppy - this has had the nice side effect of fixing the squishing problem I had.

I am old SOB so from experience clean install was the only working solution.

Thank you all for your help!

Perhaps it would be a good idea to include a documentation for the Xbox One controller. For me this thread made the difference from giving up on RetroPi and finding the perfect setup!

Ok, so I've created separate emulator.cfg for each version of CSBwin I'm using and that works fine.

But now I have troubles with Der Clou again. After a reboot I can't start it from ES anymore, I get:

Executing: /opt/retropie/ports/theclue/theclue ERROR: Module Dsk: Open :./pictures/bubble.fnt

And it seems to be a path issues, because I get the same error when I try to run the binary from the menu in Raspbian.
I can run it when I go to the directory manually at the command promt. So my guess is that the script not goes into the directory and thats why it can't find the datafiles anymore. Weird thing is, that I can run it from ES after I started it once from the command promt.

Also i just noticed that I can't save because of restrictions. D:

Thanks both.

Have added a 5 second delay, and it works now.

Will look at adding a powered hub.

Ok... I think I know what's happening, and If I'm correct I'm a completly dumbass xD
It seems that key taps are recognized and considered even in loading screen. With gamepad in hand (xbox 360), I usually tap A button repeatedly (an impatient one here...). It happens that the first emu in menu is the amiga one, and the first entry in Amiga's rooms is UAE4ALL, so, that's it. It's my "A" taps in loading screen that launch uae4all when screen becomes operative.
Yep... totally dumbass xD

Anyway, if I'm not a dumbass after all and the issue happens again (without "A" tapping :-P ) I'll let you know.
Thanks and regards!

Hi all,
So just to clarify you are saying its possible to:

Disable the overscan via raspi-config to get rid of the black border Enable the overscan_scale=1 in config.txt

I did these steps but ES still had its own ideas. Could I use the manual settings in config.txt for the left, right, up, down etc values to re-centre it. I also noticed that with overscan disabled my MAME games get cut off at the top a bit as well.

Is there a preferred option I should be setting the display settings to in the rasp-config. I have a 55"4k Display.

Thanks,
Dwarfboysim