Then the exit shortcut would be Tab + Key1.

@mitu I made a mistake in my testing, I beleive python-uinput my work

@nikosfx180 said in Help to run script before emulation station start: @mitu two people here are making machines and sell extra images on sd cards and the images are free on the internet. it's not the first time scammers are using the forum for support. So ihave spend lot of time on my image to crate something good and i dont want to copy this people the image and sell it with cabinets and make money with my image. Selling RetroPie images is against the project's license. You're nothing but a scammer.

@dankcushions Case solved. The log obviously does generate and the roms do work. It was just a bit embarassing mix-up on my end regarding file formats.

It did work :) I was away from the pi so I wanted to ask clarification before doing it. Was not because of lack of thrust; I simply like to know what am I doing and what happens when I do something :) Thanks!

@Maynard it's the same file, retroarch-joypads is a symlink to the autoconfig folder.

@mitu great. thanks for the help!

You can load as much as you want, but u will have a visual glitch in mune if your chossen theme miss this system, so the most completed theme i tasted out there is Supersweet them : https://github.com/RetroHursty69/es-theme-supersweet And uniflyered theme : https://github.com/RetroHursty69/es-theme-uniflyered Also art book , is one of awsome classy theme which i really love and if it miss a system you have it bult to use a really cool font to look like that it's ok , and you can add any missing theme easly . And belive me iam really have a huge collection of systems, so i always become sad when a lovely theme miss a system

Use raspi-config and configure the system to auto-login to the console. If EmulationStation doesn't start automatically after a reboot, then use the setup script to enable the autostart of EmulationStation - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi. Is there any reason you're not using the RetroPie image directly ?

@Clyde said in I Can't Scrap!!! Say there is no Rom?: Why did you put the rom directory inside ~/.emulationstation in the first place? Retropie's standard rom directory is ~/.RetroPie/roms with the individual systems as subdirectories, so it is expectable that the scrapers also expect them to be there. Did you put the roms into ~/RetroPie/roms/[system] now? So, i am using Windows, because of that i need to create a folder roms/system and i can put this wherever I want. Then to make easier to find the roms folder, i put in .emulationstation that in theory I just needed to change the system at the end of ./roms/.

Use another front-end, maybe ?

@mitu @GoldManSex778 I'm sorry for not getting back to you sooner! The information always seems accurate when you're the one typing it! 🤣🤣 The screensaver displays videos just fine - I don't have an issue with black/blank screens. It is the game information it won't display. On my 3B+ I have set "Show Game Info On Screensaver" - ALWAYS and it displays the game name and system. On Windows it does not. I should also mention that I'm using the Showcase theme on both my 3B+ and Win10.

Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your post. The controller configuration should be done in Emulationstation, it's then automatically translated into RetroArch configuration file(s) so you don't have to re-configure your controller in again in RetroArch.

@E3L1 , try this: In terminal type: sudo nano /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf Then Change defaults.pcm.card to 1 To defaults.pcm.card to 0 Save, exit, and reboot.

I figured it... Firstly configure the new machine withing AmiBerry and save the config as whatever you like - in my case to set up a compatible Amiga to run a game which the default configs do not run. Next hop over to RetroPie Configuration Editor from the main menu and choose option 2 - Advanced Configuration. Then option 4 - Manually edit non RetroArch configurations. Scroll down to option 26 - amiga/emulators.cfg and copy any of the standard existing default "rp-xxx" lines and replace with your own new filename from AmiBerry which you just saved. When you next boot press a key to enter runcommand as the info window for runcommand pops up during the booting of the game. Change the option no 2 - Select default emulator for ROM and select the emulator you saved. Press x to launch. That's it. From now on your game will load with the emulator you configured to work with the game and is launch able from ES directly. Hope this helps to make someone elses' life a bit easier. Happy xmas. Cheers. Rob.

I'm starting to think that the issue is with the mame2010 driver in libretro. The inputs in other libretto emulators are not problematic (e.g. street fighter in Super Nintendo works fine with all buttons)... but many of the street fighter II sets in mame2010 have issues with second player buttons. Something for the libretro people to fix I think.

@engrdanny Emulationstation by itself does not read inputs directly, but uses the SDL library to handle the gamepad, which in turn needs the OS to recognize it. Which driver are you using to configure your custom gamepad ? Is the gamepad recognized by jstest ?

ok I went and tried that. same issue. however i decided to start everything over and see if I am missing something. I have had the EasyHack Toolkit script work before so I knew there has to be more to this. well long story short. Looks like this was all due to a bad gamelist.xml file. Sorry to waste your time. (atleast i figured it out). :)

@buzz All good! With the official script I can compile fine what I needed!