@eddygenotype You're welcome! I have been sort of obsessively documenting things in RetroPie lately, and your question was well-timed. :)

@Dyelon hey pal, did you ever get it fixed? Having exact same issue as yourself. Bought USB encoders from amazon same thing.

Mystic Mine is a Python game included in RetroPie. You can find it in the Experimental packages. I strongly recommend you to study how this game is programmed as it runs very well on the Raspberry Pi. The scriptmodule that installs and configures this game in RetroPie is here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/ports/mysticmine.sh

Thanks

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

UPDATE #2: I tried to do prepare the sd card on a win10 machine, just in case, but nothing really has changed. Mostly random freezing, but also any kind of command i try to input, via GUI or command line, is extremely laggy. Is it normal for the rpi zero with retropie to have such lag even when just moving around the main menu? I was connected with an HDMI cable so the system defaults at 1080p, but i also tried a smaller screen but the issues are still happening.

@Danny5249 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

Resolved it by configuring retropie to boot to the command line and then i'll edit .bashrc to house the if logic to launch X or ES depending on TOD and of course if [ "`tty`" = "/dev/tty1" ] Was much easier than I was trying to make it... ##### # Set the hours between which PiClock will Launch #### minHour=6 maxHour=9 #Get Current Hour cHour=$(date +%H) # Get current time and time of boot. # calculate minutes since boot cSec=$(date +%s) sSec=$(date +%s -d "$(uptime -s)") uMin=$(( ($cSec - $sSec)/60 )) # Ensure that we are within 2 minutes of boot. This ensures that user can exit ES to the command line # without this script re-launching ES in an endless loop if [[ $uMin -le 2 ]]; then # Ensure this is tty1 if [[ "`tty`" = "/dev/tty1" ]]; then # If between min and max hour then startx and PiClock else execute autorun if [[ $cHour -ge $minHour && $cHour -lt $maxHour ]]; then startx else bash "/opt/retropie/configs/all/autorun.sh" fi fi fi The issue I see is trying to drop to the command line from ES in which case I believe it will just launch back into ES... i'm ok with this. Maybe some other unintended consequences but I'll find out soon enough. Edit: Added an additional If statement to check for minutes since boot so that one can successfully drop from ES to the CL without

Hi. Tried both MAME emu and Cannonball. Will get the lowdown on all the details for you and let you know..

I recommend to use the artwork for Battle Zone as far as it is running now. There are only two games where i use those, and Battle Zone is one of them, makes this great game look even better (the other one is asteroids btw),

@Cricket628 always a good idea to familiarize yourself with the rules of a new forum. But now you know, and knowing is half the battle. You need help with anything else feel free to ask.

I've saw a method to make a Linux Virtual Machine and try to reduce the filesysystem as shown in this video: I'm going to give it a try today, couldn't get any luck with 7Zip as I'm trying to write it onto a new card.

@xreser Please post more info about your set-up, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. What theme are you using ? Can you post a fragment of your gamelist.xml file with chinese characters ?

user@host$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 https://freeaccountsonline.com/ 2: Apple_CoreStorage Mac HD 499.4 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 (internal, virtual): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_HFS Mac HD +499.0 GB disk1 Logical Volume on disk0s2 3BAC0F9E-19F8-4AAB-8752-6514B573B497 Unencrypted /dev/disk2 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.9 GB disk2 1: Windows_FAT_16 boot 59.8 MB disk2s1 2: Linux 15.9 GB disk2s2 user@host$

@cyperghost The output of my raspi-gpio get 3 was "level=0 fsel=0 func=INPUT", but if I put it in line 322 the Pi always turns off as soon as emulationstation loads, even if completely disconnected from the case. However, I just realised something... the power socket on the MEGAPi case it's not just a cutout, like the HDMI port, but it has its own little board, I didn't notice until now, I just mindlessly plugged the power directly to the Pi, and that was the problem, the multi_switch.sh now works perfectly. Sorry for wasting your time :( (however, the fact that multiswitch086.sh almost worked without using the power board was in itself impressive). As a partial way to make amends I'll correct an error on the installation instructions of the script: Here you have to add a sudo before chmod, otherwise it gives you "permission denied" wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcerror/ES-generic-shutdown/master/multi_switch.sh && chmod +x multi_switch.sh

Okay...Thanks.

@mitu thanks for the input. I will order the 710 from amazon. You have been most helpful, and I appreciate your patience.

@rodney007xx said in Help for new user please, retro pie issues on 3b+: @simpleethat > My friend said that his interface of retro PI looked nicer, perhps its because he is using a pre-made image with a different skin? You can install many so-called "themes" for Retropie. See the Docs about how to install them, and for a list of many (all?) of the themes with screenshots. Welcome to the Retropie community. Have fun. :)