@Unknown The first Mario Kart game I played was the first in the series, Super Mario Kart on the SNES 30 years ago (EU). At that time, it was and still is very special to me. A 2 player mode racing mode and even a new Battle Mode was revolutionary to my friends and me, after F-Zero. The controls and tracks was perfect and nothing came close to it years after.

Mario Kart 64 was a burner.. for most people. I am one of those who didn't quite like it that much, even though it had really cool 4 player Battle mode and a lot of cool track designs. But I wasn't a fan of the controls somehow and tracks wasn't perfectly executed to me. Well, that's a long time ago and nowadays I think that I was too harsh on this game. Its really good.

Since then I only played sporadically Mario Kart games. Missed the Gamecube era completely, later Mario Kart 7 on my DS and Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U with friends. Mario Kart 8 is really good, I mean its probably the best ever in the series. My only gripe with the series are the extras. I know MK8 have some settings to enable or disable certain type of items, but most people don't play with my settings. So that doesn't matter then.

So did Super Mario Kart remain my favorite? Not anymore. The series evolved a lot and the recent version is probably my favorite. Shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone I guess. I never played Double Dash BTW and need to try it out.

@victimrlsh I know it's meant to have a rotary with push-down for fire, with a separate single "grenade/enter tank" button in the middle of the panel.... so I did the best I could with my panel and it works fairly well.

I have a split two-player joystick setup... left joystick is set to be the player control, right joystick is the gun/turret position control. Directly below and next to the right joystick, I have two buttons for the old school "two-player" games. The button closest to the joystick I can hit with the base of my hand, or just point the joystick and drop down to fire continuously. So that became the "fire" button. The adjacent button is the "grenade/enter tank" button, which I can slap or hit quick with my other finger, then jump back on the joystick.. etc.

Also.... my Joysticks on this particular cabinet are original Wico leaf-button sticks. I tried using the newer cherry switch style buttons that I have on another cabinet.. but the feel is not the same.

If you need a pic, let me know.

@quicksilver I'll give it a shot, thanks! Only played the red one briefly to see how the game went.

AdvMame works well for it so I'm sticking with it. Thanks for the tip and a happy Saturday!

@sscalley Thank you! This was exactly my issue as well, although I was using a pre-made image from somewhere else that had the same permissions issues.

For me, since my gamelist.xml files were in the roms directory, I needed to do the following:

cd ~\retropie\roms sudo ./ -name 'gamelist.xml' -exec chown pi:pi {} \;

Worked great!

I am very cautious as to go through the Configure pads because I struggled to have both my 360pad and my Arcade Stick working. Is there a place I can poke/text edit the Y as Favorites button?

Thanx!

My favourite is probably an SNES emulator I came across a while back. I think the retropie is the best way to host it, but recently I've been looking at some alternatives to Raspberry Pi: https://www.1and1.com/digitalguide/server/know-how/raspberry-pi-alternatives-single-board-computers-to-check-out/

out of interest and I wonder how well they might handle an SNES or even a PSX emulator. But as far as the retropie goes, it hosts the SNES emulator like a champ; the frame rate is great and everything ran smoothly. I just wish I could remember the name of it. When I do I'll add it below.

Favorites, last played and All games menu added

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@pjft I refer to the output result ;) Really no idea?
If I want to launch CAPCOM/TESTFILE.test then the output is

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/123456/CAPCOM/TESTFILE.test segacd /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-picodrive/picodrive_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/segacd/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/123456/CAPCOM/TESTFILE.test" Line is ROMname+it's path as in Gamelist... Is Emulatorcall is command call via runcommand.sh

And yes you are totally right... how to find correct emulator call :) But with a bit of investigation it is no problem. But you are totally right that are just cases no user will run in this. But I just want to show what is possible and with the knowledge collected in the last few days it seems absolutly possible to give ES the right push.

So hold on:

Consider if you terminate/shorten 123456/ in the string then you may have the full path of the rom ;) and now compare it to es_systems.cfg? We can parse the system out ;) and then ..... voila a launching abilty via folder navigation :)

In fact I won't use 123456/ give to more a stylish name hidden/, toxxic/or just vvaste/ :D I'm joking but it should work...

lfl-create is now on github

Feel free to use https://github.com/crcerror/lfl-create

May the forks be with you

@edmaul69 Shining force CD was good on sega cd, it was a compilation of the first 2 game gear shining forces (shining force gaiden, and shining force 2 the sword of hadjya) both really good games. And i think there was a third scenario on the CD version that completes the story, but i havent gotten that far into it yet.

Konami Arcade Flyers with real Models are awesome by their way in my opinion (Devastators, Jackal, Haunted Castle,...)