Could running on a lower resolution help?

@mitu Thank you for this correction

This issue has corrected itself after connecting to the network by ethernet.

I believe this was happening because I had all systems roms showing a video rather than just a screenshot and the system was having to pull all of those depending upon which system menu I entered.

Thank you again for assisting me with all of the issues I am running into. Many keep falling back to the network access sadly. Maybe not from here forward!!

@skykid You might try asking on the Batocera subreddit. (I'm not personally a Reddit fan, but that subreddit is the preferred method of support for the Batocera developers.)

This is a RetroPie forum. RetroPie and Batocera are completely different programs.

@aweeks007
Because every game needs a different amount to play the fmv, there's no real sweet spot to set it at. At the time I had it at 250, which gave it a good amount of rewind but clearly was too much for the games I mentioned. Some of them could only take about 50 which is not enough rewind.
The only solution I recommend is to turn it off when an fmv plays then turn it back on when it's over

@jameelperkins31 Then please open a separate topic and describe your issue, adding the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, instead of replying to random topics in the forum.

All fixed.

It was a permissions issue. Needed to run:

sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi
sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs

@lostless understood, I'm on my own with this thing now unfortunately but it will be a learning experience.

We don't support preloaded/3rd party images. Install RetroPie from the image provided at https://retropie.org.uk/download and see if you still have this issue.

I see! I'll play around with it, then.

@mitu
Ah thank you!
Sorry about all the confusion

The answer was simple, and found in your documents.
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PC-Engine/

*PC Engine CD

It is important that the image file (usually .bin) and the CUE file (.cue) match.

CUE files are just text files containing a description of the CD. If you have files named like:

Akumajou Dracula X.bin
Akumajou Dracula X.cue

then ensure the first line of the CUE file contains:

FILE "Akumajou Dracula X.bin" BINARY

Any of the following are wrong and will not work:

extension has incorrect case

FILE "Akumajou Dracula X.BIN" BINARY

file name has incorrect case

FILE "AKUMAJOU DRACULA X.bin" BINARY

does not match the actual file name

FILE "Akumajou_Dracula_X_-Chi_no_Rinne(NTSC-J)_[KMCD3005].bin" BINARY*

@Guto-Du it's a possibility it's defective. Try over volting the pi (without over clocking) to see if it's more stable. If it is then your pi isn't stable at factory settings and should be sent back for replacement. I have seen multiple reports of pi zero's not stable at factory clock speeds. I think the quality control on the pi zero might be slightly less than other models. Probably because it's a $5 computer.

@helmar
I don't know. First of all, I've never used mame4all. I use advmame and lr-mame2010, using the roms/arcade/ directory to select any of the arcade emulators to use with runcommand.

There probably is a configuration to edit for mame4all, but I don't know anything about the ESC menu or why it would freeze.

If the navigation key binds get misappropriated, then a solution would probably be finding then editing or deleting the bindings manually, using the terminal. There may be other ways to reset default binds dependent on the emulator and configs.

@Jiryn It could be that those cards are not compatible with the pi3, or they could be bad. Stick them back in your pc and run a check disk on them.

Here is a list of compatible sd cards https://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards

Your cards do not show up there but a 256 Samsung EVO PLUS is listed as compatible.

If you want more space you will likely need to consider using a usb mounted hdd or thumb drive.

Here is another relevant discussion https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/783/largest-size-micro-sd-card

@quicksilver
Not really, I’ve already rewired from the power input to the switch board, and modified the base a bit.

@garradam not safely shutting down can potentially cause corruption of your sd card. If your pi freezes you should remotely access your pi through ssh and safely shutdown that way. Often times it's only emulation station that isnt responding. There are a number of easy to use ssh apps for smartphones that are very convenient to use.

@Dustin_3487 said in Game freezing issue.:

All I see is raspberry pi being sold at multiple websites, a lot of them with games pre installed so I figured they were allowed to do it.

That doesn't mean it's legal. You should just ask for a refund.

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.

@park757 try the official PSU as recommended. One without an in-line switch.