@dcaputi Please more Info, as requested by this sticky.

But (now my 2ct. commentary first) as you are using lr-mame, hey - you just encountered one of the cores/situations where the arguments from NonMAME against retroarch are at least in so far valid, that non expert users aren't aware of the culprits hazzards/pitfalls they may encounter.

for mame (and lr-mame is still mame) the keyboard is the keyboard and the libretro RetroPad concept (overlayed on/utilizing the KBD) is conflicting with it! Not sure what lr-mame you are using, but within the retroarch config for it you may find an option to have it to accept retropad or keyboard only. Not sure how to explain it properly, but if you search this forum for configuring (lr-)mame in conjunction with keyboard encoders like the I-PAC (2/4), you will find your solution.

@youxia said in Admins Wanted for Revolutionary New Emulation Website:

Pay some "revolutionary" cloud people to take care of my saves? Nah, thanks, I'll just spend that minute-and-a-half plugging in and transferring manually.

Oh I missed that part about cloud backup for saves. That is a handy feature! I am a big proponent of backing up saved games to the cloud.

@cyperghost said in RetroFE on RetroPie:

@pjft Haha ... Well my next was intended to have the same saying.

You all know it, success of a software depends strongly on the acceptance of the users. I'm not sure whose development staff got more members ... maybe ES maybe RetroFE. But up to now the system ES is much better accepted by the users. Time will show ... @phulshof please feel encouraged to try a port and if you let users get the option to install and try out your creation via RetroPie-Update-Scripts then I think the chances are good for a growing community. I think if you find a way to convince our theme creators then the chances for acceptance are multiplied :)

I have no intention of "convincing" anyone. :) I too enjoy choice, and I've always been active to make material as widely usable as possible. That's one of the reasons I maintain the MAME meta XML files for HyperSpin, even though RetroFE doesn't use them, and even though I've never used HyperSpin myself.

RetroFE is a front-end for people who enjoy the "pretty" graphics of front-ends like HyperSpin. It caters to people who often use full rom sets, and who like to combine special collections, like e.g. all Gradius games from different systems. That also implies that it's generally heavier on the resources than e.g. EmulationStation; I wouldn't recommend running RetroFE with heavy video usage on something slower than a pi3. I'm sure there are RetroFE themes that will make even the pi3 cry. :) Some themes even require many MBs of art to be loaded for each game, making the use of an SDD very tempting; the external HDD I use on my Linux PC is already quite slow for some themes.

There's something for everyone here; I'm just hoping to provide a bit more choice by porting a front-end already available on Windows, MacOS and Linux to RetroPie. Whether other people will use it is up to them. :)