@analoghero Not at all, please. :) that has indeed been requested quite a few times, and now that the image screensaver does exactly that - albeit with images - it could be a potential change to how it works.

Maybe it gets picked it up some day.

Glad you're sorted!

Thanks for the continued help...you guys are really awesome!

I mamaged to create an Ssh and used winSCP to visually check the directories but I couldn't find default.cfg file at those locations? Managed to find all my recent Rom cfg files and removed those. Ran a search for the whole sd card for default.cfg and found it relating to lr-mame2003 but with a different pathway(file had unreadable symbols) Removed that and rebooted.
I feel really successful in what I have learned the last few days but my S,Q,W keys are still bound!? I'm using a conventional usb keyboard tonight at home so the issue doesn't seem to be related to my iPac.

My next plan is to change the key definitions in winipac for the iPac board. My player 1&2 pin numbers sw7 & 8's are not used so I will try swapping these keys designations over.
S-L
Q-K
W-C
This will hopefully change the conflicting s q w keys to unassigned pins. L K C don't seem to have any adverse effects in mame. So this might be the solution. On the plus side I've learned heaps the last few days-never thought I'd be able to this stuff

@dudleydes

Cheers. This seemed to have solved it.

I could kick myself.

@beastnick541 OK. I'm pasting here for you:

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

You didn't give enough info about your setup and looks like didn't search the official docs.

I would suggest you to enable emulationstation in autostart, but I think you should give more info about your setup.