You can use jscal to modify the deadzone(s) of an analog joystick, then jscal-store to save the values so they can be applied automatically on boot.

@hisoka said in Put all downloaded media info in gamelist.xml To show them correctly:

Sorry I missed that. Anyway, here's my old Setup.

Please add the info for the current setup.

EDIT: and add the installation info - how did you install and what image did you use to install RetroPie.

@mitu Just wanted to say thanks for the help on this, it really means a lot. After losing some heart, I took another look over Christmas and the reset you suggested solved my joystick problem as well, so I've had a blast over the break playing on it.
Next stage is to go back into the retroarch.cfg and configure the second joystick when friends are around, and then it'll be good to go.
Thanks so much! And apols for not getting back sooner for your help :)

@RapidEdwin08 said in Emulationstation video previews on Raspberry Pi 5:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RapidEdwin08/RetroPie-Setup/master/vlc-downgrade.sh -P ~/
chmod 755 ~/vlc-downgrade.sh
~/vlc-downgrade.sh

Hi @RapidEdwin08 ,
I'm trying to go back to the old VLC version but it doesn't' work. It works in the past, but now it stop working. you can see my log here

https://pastebin.com/xmmUjQkr

It stop to work when I tried to install the older version of Dolphin.

Any Idea to fix that?

NEW EDIT: Solve with this - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=373298

RetroPie just packages RetroArch - you may want to report to the upstream project. You should add a way to reproduce the issue without relying on a specific device, so that any developer familiar with RetroArch's input system may be able to analyze and maybe fix your issue.

I ended up fixing the problem on my own.

The issue was that Drastic and Retroarch were trying to render the resolution at 640W x 480H, which would cause squishing issues.

By adding in:

hdmi_cvt 480 640 60

Into the config.txt, I was able to give drastic another resolution to render at, solving the issue. For retroarch, I made the auto fullscreens resolution the 480W x 640H that the display was native to, which also solved the squishing.

@mitu said in Emulationstation Controller Button Mapping Question...:

Try re-installing it.

That fixed it. Thank you.

@mitu thanks for the info I didn't know there was one for windows similar to this will check it out

@AwesomeKingClem It works thank you so much

@sleve_mcdichael I like the idea, for what I'm doing I think I want to kill any previously running processes vs letting them continue. Only the newest process will be the relevant process

I might make the script kill any previous processes
then wait
then either be killed by a newer process or update the marquee

I'll give this a try tonight and see how it works. I just home emulationstation doesn't hang waiting for sleep to finish.

process=$(pgrep -f $(basename $0)) for i in $process do if i!=$$ then sudo kill $i fi done sleep .5 ...do stuff

@Maverick42 and @windg thanks for trying to help me. Unfortunately The 99-retropie.conf file didn't fix my sound issue. Ìll definitely try with a fresh install from the official ISO image.

With what games do you have this issue ? Can you try with lr-scummvm (experimental packages) to see if the games are working here ? I suggest also to update your system if you haven't done it.

Edit: I just remember something from the day that was using RPi3. Can you change the Graphic mode to OpenGL in the ScummVM gui and try again the games that don't run?

Check the docs for runcommand_onstart.sh, runcommand_onlaunch.sh, runcommand_onend.sh

These are for pre/post game activities and the docs tell you which cli options are passed to them.

@Gabbo999 you can install the desktop environment packages from the server install. Eg. Installing the ubuntu-desktop/xubuntu-desktop package (or another of your choice)

@mitu Well, a small issue with that.... When I select Xorg, my screen completely glitches out. I can barely see anything. Like, a few pixels of red and the "Co" from Gameboy Color. And those are like, solid red and solid blue. Like as if it's #FF0000 and #0000FF. I actually had to completely reset my Ubuntu install due to this because I couldn't find the buttons to log out and fix it. This also happens if I choose "Try Ubuntu" on the Ubuntu install USB stick I have. I have genuinely no idea what causes this, I'll try to get some pictures of it.

Thanks mitu - I didn't know about the es_input.cfg file. That's what I was looking for. My inputs don't overlap between the two boards, so I thought I'd be able to edit that file manually and create something that allowed for more than one player to control ES UI, but I couldn't get it to work. Not a big deal - player one controls the ES UI. As far as I can tell, using four players across all the boards works in the retroarch.cfg files for each platform and that's what really matters. Thanks for your help.

@KM_64 Gnome with Wayland seems to suck with Ubuntu 22.04. Any other Wayland environment does not show this problem.

@mitu OK, thanks for your efforts, for the time being I'll use different board for retropie. It wasn't just the inputlag, they have usefull feature, but I think I have found an alternative that don't seem to have problem with Emulationstation.

@barbudreadmon This has got me thinking. My main setup is on a projector (as a second screen), fairly far from my PC. Maybe I should invest in one of those Xbox controller keyboards. I've already assigned my mouse functions to the controller with JoytoKey for this very purpose.

What I really need is an AI that works out which button is needed to select Kempston joystick and automatically presses it for me and then assigns the start game key to the start button. #notreally

@TPR said in Controller Configuration Always Gives Errors on Emulation Station:

Is this a known issue?

No.