@mitu yes, thank you. I finally found a good romset.

Some details about your setup would be helpful - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
What's the exact error message you get when trying to install Kodi ?

@mitu Thank you for your response and help.

Setting the Retroarch system settings for video aspect ratio within the EmulationStation Retropie configuration menu, worked perfectly and saves the settings for all cores.

Now when I open a game, in any core, I am able to "Save Core Preset" as well as "Save Game Preset" for an individual game within a core that already has a shader saved for that core. Brilliant!

Everything seems to be working now.

Just to better explain what I am doing with the system. I have a cocktail table that is used for 2-player alternating and simultaneous games.

I use the Arcade folder and lr-mame2003 core for Cocktail specific MAME ROMs that have the Cocktail option in the ROM “Dip Switches” for 2-player alternating games. Primary player has a turn and then the screen flips and the secondary player has a turn.

I then use the FBA folder and lr-fbneo for other MAME ROMs for 2-player simultaneous game play using a “Split Screen” Shader. The split screen shader allows both players to have their own screen (within the single monitor) for simultaneous play. I have three different “Split Screen” Shader files that I have to use because not all ROMs setup the same. I save one “Split Screen” Shader to the core that’s takes care of the bulk of the games and then I have to use one of the other two shaders to save for individual games that seem to setup differently than the bulk of them.

I save a custom shader to the core as well as individual games within the same core…

Cheers

Searching the internet I found that these errors are quite common and harmless. Since its giving me 0 issues ill just ignore it for now.

@mitu that's just the point in the n64 folder there is nothing) I played only nes, sega, snes

@thecwestions
It looks like your version is based on Raspbian 8 (Jesse).
You are two OS versions behind current.
As @sleve_mcdichael mentioned you should download and install the latest pre-built image.

@sleve_mcdichael aahh ok, so it's cause it's not on a Raspberry, ok that makes sense then. Thank you

Please add some info about your setup and issue, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Are you using the RetroPie Pi3 image from retropie.org.uk/download ?

@remocscott there isn't image

@bberlin1 said in Help! Won't boot Emulationstation!:

I'm still curious however-- if you have any insight into how to a) edit files from an ssh gui or b) access putty with my pi login, I would be very interested. I can only seem to do these things via the root login and would like to not have to run into these kinds of issues again.

If you use Putty, you can edit the files via nano. Most of the configuration files are also available via file shares (under \\retropie\configs), so you can use a decent text editor from your PC (Notepad++/TextEdit) to edit the files. None of them require the usage of the root account for editing.

@mitu I likely did when I first got the pi (last week) and forgot that was in there. Still confused on how it worked all this time until today, but at least it's fixed now. And yeah, all the connections are now symlinks to the defaults.

I removed cfg file from arcade folder and I'm back on RGUI. Still having some problems as keys set in ES does correspond to those in RetroArch but I guess I have to do some further steps removing "broken" retroarch.cfg files from few places and then reinstall RA from setup script and hope it will fix it.
Thanks a lot for your help!!!!!!!

@Brandon12345678 Ok I got it working. Using only one font helped. Thanks for the help.

@njsilvestri21 what is the make and model of your tv you are using? Some 4k TV's only support 60hz on one particular HDMI port and some off brands don't support 4k60 at all. But just an fyi, RetroPie performs much better at 1080p.

@mitu i don’t think the pi3 is capable of doing 4k (as in, the driver won’t permit it). even with the mesa driver i’ve not had to set anything to get it to work on my 4k display - it ran 1080p by default

@daiana_75 please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@rmills55 Post your /boot/config.txt file to check for any overclock settings.

and it can see i have about 60gb available.

I was referring to the RAM allocated to the system, not the space on the card.

@mitu That's what I have been using. The only reason I wanted a libretro core was because my pi would often crash when launching other games/emulators after using Drastic. If there is a way to completely unload Drastic after closing it that would be great but thanks for your help 👍

Change your Emulation Station theme to Carbon, and/or cut way back on your collections.

Had the same issue, took me a day to figure out

Turns out I am wrong. Issue still persists.

I tried using a separate micro SD card with the same v4.4 retropie build and got the same results.

I tried disabling WiFi and bluetooth. This dropped the temps from 75+ C down to an acceptable 50-60C.

Regardless the unhandled exception, freezing, and segmentation faults still continued.

I surmise the pi zero w I bought new is defective.

@Chameleon said in Retropie Freezing / Errors:

I know this is an old thread but I want to keep related information in the same location.

I encountered the above unhandled alignment bus error.

I then found this post:

"Bus error on Raspberry Pi 2 armv7 command line app #22384"

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/22384

I then went to rasp-config via emulation station UI and changed the localisation setting to my locale.

Example: AMERICA > pick a city

So far I do not see this alignment exception pop up. It would pop up fairly fast prior simple idling on the emulation station menu.

Hope that helps.