@mitu it never seemed to kill the instance that I ran it from, but it did give ES a stroke, so I won't do it anymore :)

I guys are following the discussion :)
Whit my bad english it's already difficult to made an example........

Damn... when i made the video whit GB and CATRAP for the other my thread I could show you the example of this too :)

I also had to post the gamelist.xml but it just passed my mind ... really sorry ...

awesome

Thanks both.

This XML element is not mandatory, so it can be left out and it will evaluated to false if a theme checks this value. If it is there it has to be explicitly set 1 (or semantically equivalent) to be effective. This is why I perceive it as redundant and picked the term.

Never mind, let's keep the implementation as-is.

@2play also, please share your es_systems file here, debug logs, and while you're at it find other files with the same name on your system.

The link I shared earlier should help troubleshoot though.

Filed it nevertheless as it is useful if one does not have additional "safe shutdown hardware" or don't want to fiddle with triggerhappy.

@peppe_h

Run this from any platform folder on the RetroPie:

cat gamelist.xml | grep '<name>' | cut -d '>' -f2 | cut -d '<' -f1 > titles.txt

It will export all titles to titles.txt

Is the controller detected when RetroPie starts up ? Are you using the USB cable that came with the controller - does it work on a PC/other system ?

@samco as a fellow Guncon enthusiast I'd love to know your thoughts.

If you have a 4k TV, try setting the video resolution of your Raspberry Pi to 1080p - you can modify the /boot/config.txt file on the sdcard and set

hdmi_group=1 hdmi_mode=16

then reboot your Pi.

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@twalls

Hello....
Your thread is probably one of the closest that I can find online for my issue. Any help would be great...

I've built 20 or so arcade 1ups with raspberry pi 3b+ and ran into this problem on the latest NBA Jam build with 4 players. Probably 50% of the time the arcade boots I get a message directly after the emulators load (right when it says done) that emulation station crashed. Talks about changing the theme and if it's the first time loading retropie, etc. Screenshot_20210917-210224_Photos.jpg

I use the same image for every one of my arcades, 4 player and 2 player and have never ran into this problem. I've changed out everything....usb cables, encoders, raspberry pi, surge protector, tried a different outlet, changed the theme, etc. Nothing helps. Sometimes it boots normal and perfectly, but I'd say half the time I get the crashed message. I've tried doing one encoder/joystick at a time and it works fine...all the way up to 3 encoders/joysticks, but when 4 are connected that's when it randomly does it. I've noticed that after I turn on and one of the encoders flashes (red light) instead of staying on is when this happens. And it's random each time of which encoder flashes. Like I've said though, I changed out all the encoders, cables, pi, surge protector. I'm at a loss here and is driving me crazy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I've "solved" by keeping "pi" as login user and disabling password when doing sudo
thanks

@mitu Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it. I'm sorry ended up with some custom BS image, but at least I'll learn more by starting from scratch.

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@rbezares I had this a couple of days back, somehow es had managed to remove it self, I refreshed the card and it happened again, although got slightly further in the boot as es did appear before crashing. I flashed a new image to a different micros and it has worked fine since so am putting it down to a bad card

try mupen64plus-gliden64. it should be the best performance and compatibility in general, but be warned that it's quite normal for n64 to exhibit poor performance on pi4, but several games can perform pretty well.

I tried uncommenting and changing the hdmi_group and hdmi_mode options in the config.txt, but no audio improvement.....just poor video!

from what to what? i suggest a 1080p60 mode in your config.txt (please provide copies of all configs you edit.). any further lowering of resolution you need to do can be done via the runcommand, although personally i leave everything at 1080p.

please also provide /opt/retropie/configs/n64/mupen64plus.cfg

I think it would be a great idea. If it's not possible to implement it, could it be done using the theme system? 🤔