@cdoug does anything show on the screen when you are typing?

Just use the default nds emulator from the experimental section and tone the resoulution down to as close to native as you can, native resolution for ds is 256x192. Got advance wars ds working smooth with minimal grafical errors when started with default settings it wouldn't run without lagging.

@pescara33 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

Thank you for the help!

Same thing here. New Wii U Pro controller with updated RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 3.

@TheSwedenGuy When you configure input in emulationstation, it automatically create the retroarch-joypads/YOUR_JOYPAD_NAME.cfg file. Try to configure your joypad input in emulationstation again and look if the "retroarch-joypads" file will be created.

@jamesscott go into vice menu and go into speed setting. The first option is warp mode. If you select it, there will be an asterisk "*" on it. Then exit back to game. When you get to the menu screens you can go back an turn it off. Spacebar, return and escape are common buttons used on title screens.

@Windall where it says it there is a text box (under the edit box) for entering a tag. A tag is like a keyword to describe your post. eg controller for a controller related post (you can use multiple tags).

I have essentially the same kit, but mine was from Canakit. It will do the job. Yes you can set it up from a Mac.

There are a ton of guides online and you would do well to familiarize yourself with the wiki content here. For real. Read it. Understand it.

+1 Super brother point to you for taking on a project for your kid brother.

You could use the video_scale_integer = truein retroarch.cfg for mame2010.
You then would have all games (vertical & horizontal) with maximum integer scale game area and correct aspect.
The downside is that you'll get (limited) horizontal black bars at top and bottom of the screen.

@BuZz thank you ;)

@benlefou87 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

@MacEns Try going into /boot/config.txt and remove the hash symbol at the start of config_hdmi_boost=4. This will increase the HDMI signal. Or swap out the cable. If it is displaying on and off and your TV is giving you that warning I would say that is your issue. This value can also be changed up or down.

@benlefou87 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

Did you ever get this figured out? I'm trying to use buttons hooked up the GPIO for save/load/exit and I have not had good luck. I did try to use the Adafruit RetroGame, but I couldn't get it to work.

@edmaul69 Ok awesome I'll try that!

@BuZz I have searched for ages to find an answer but i cannot , I am as new as it gets to this, i shall now put in the relevant information asked for

Unbelievable! THIS is how it should have been done from the start!

I've moved ALL configs over to the usb drive now and it easily shaves 8 secs off of boot time. The 4 raspberries screen used to sit longer. Now they are gone within 4-5 secs before loading my custom animation movie (which is still on the microsd). But everything else is on the usb drive now

I mounted dev/sda1 to /media/usb0 as I only plan on having a single usb flash drive in the system. I replaced the following directories with symlinks: /opt/retropie/configs to /home/pi/RetroPie/configs /etc/emulationstation to /home/pi/RetroPie/etc/emulationstation /home/pi/RetroPie to /media/usb0

As there are some symlinks within those folders, I simply renamed to the one I use. So for example in the download_images folder, "genesis" was symlinked to "megadrive", So I just removed genesis as all my roms use megadrive folder structures.

Now I can edit config files by simply inserting the usb drive into my windows computer and editing them, then simply pop the usb back in to see the changes. Plus I have all the theme settings, scraped images, etc all on the faster drive (usb much faster than microsd) so things like all the game images load much faster.

This leaves the microsd all but isolated to do just the core system work. I used to load my custom startup movie from USB too, but found that during startup, a lot of times the usb drive isn't ready yet so the video only played 30% of the time. Moving it to the microsd allowed it to be ready to go and plays everytime now.

I would definitely recommend doing this for power users but really I would recommend this for new users too as it is much easier to wrap your head around things when the data is all in one location.

I have not yet tried the readonly script, but I was more concerned about this part working first and it works even better than hoped! Long live the symlink!

@maddyfresh1 what you've asked is basic and covered in the wiki. If you read that first post that was linked, it says to read the wiki first. You agreed to these rules when signing up to the forum.