I have a dead snes console and the replica usb controllers.
I'm doing this now.
Moving the /home directory to a usb stick for roms/art/configs and making the SD card OS read only so when my kids just kill the power they won't nuke the card.

it doesn't boot super fast but if you can't wait a few minutes to play a game.......

@TPR I change my settings inside the retroarch gui in-game. Should be under Quick Menu\ Options

I'm still not sure what's going on. It seems like any new NES rom I load onto the retropie experiences the same issue. When I say new I mean any rom that wasn't already previously loaded on the retropie before I started to experience the issue.

I downloaded a fresh set of no-intro roms and verified they were correct using clrmamepro. I compared one of the currently working roms [Addams Family, The (USA).nes] to one of the ones in the new set I downloaded i.e.

Addams Family, The (USA).nes

CRC32: 94A230A9 MD5: 56DF8432043A2D724BAB64FEB39912D5 SHA-1: 7E236610BDFDE5A439A19E18C873982E2C607643

Everything matched so I know I'm using the correct set of roms.

I then tried to add a new rom from the same set [10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes], however this rom won't load, it experiences the same problem as the other roms I described in my earlier post i.e. the screen turns black for a couple of seconds then comes back to the rom list.

10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes

CRC32: B312DF62 MD5: 0E2E5DD0C3D8A48C28588DA93EAFA82B SHA-1: ED2E5D9B4BEC0A87BAD56930A2482F752C0E06EC

Any ideas on how to fix this?

@PetroRie i used the wrong type of rom (.iso was supposed to be used)

Yeah, I will add a barrel jack later on my new Famicom case. This one is not the best looking work.
I still got 3 Famicoms around to bleach and mod. I broke not needed pieces out with a pench tool which doesn't look nice I should buy a Dremel or similar for better results.

Regarding the fan, I haven't encountered any issues thus far. My RPi is nice and cool inside the Famicom.

Ok, after some investigation, here are some afterthoughts. If I go in and remap the controller in Emulation Station, and switch my Start and Select buttons, it seems to be fine (other then not being mapped to the button I want them to be on the cabinet). With this set up, if I go into, say the NES emulator, the Start and Select work fine in the game and pressing both together allows me to exit the emulator. Now if I switch them back, Start works fine, Select immediately exits the emulator. If I map them to 2 other random buttons in my 6 button layout, everything works fine in the emulator, but pushing them together will not exit the emulator.

One thing that I did notice, is looking at the layout instructions that came with the Xin-Mo, it shows for player 1 that the Start button should be #9, and the Select should be #10. When I map the controller in ES, the Start button shows up as 9, but the Select shows up as 8. So, it's possible I have the Select button wired to the wrong input on the Xin-Mo board. This maybe a stupid question, but would it make that much of a difference? I mean, I'm telling it to map a control to a certain button.

I'm going to pull the control apart tonight and double check my wiring.

This is the last update (I felt I could get the icons even closer to the style of ruckage's originals, and believe that I have). Here are ALL of the assets I've adjusted for the ruckage/es-theme-snesn-mini theme for RetroPie. This includes backgrounds, labels and icons for the auto-random list that goes with all the different configurations of this theme that are available by editing config.xml that comes with the theme. They are as follows:

Icons
es-theme-snes-mini/art/icons and es-theme-snes-mini/art/icons_usa
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/art/nes_icons and es-theme-snes-mini/art/nes_icons_usa
auto-random.png

Logos
es-theme-snes-mini/art/logos and es-theme-snes-mini/art/logos_usa
auto-random.png

Backgrounds
es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_blur/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_blur_usa/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_usa/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/blurred_shots/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/nes_mini/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

'bests' games list?
Devil's Crush or Alien Crush for the TurboGrafx 16, Sonic Spin all for the Genesis, or now with Drastic Metroid Prime Pinball for the Nintendo DS.

Perfect, worked great. Thanks!

Computer monitor, for the sold reason that TV's only come in 16:9 ratio anymore, and old games are 4:3 and look best on that shape of monitor (so you don't get weird stretching or black bars). You can get really nice 4:3 and 5:4 ratio monitors on PCliquidations.com for pretty cheap.

thank you

@geneworld that is only for the nunchuck. Even if it were to work on the nes classic controller only two of the four buttons would work. But im pretty sure none of them will work

@BuZz said in Switching default NES emulator - Opinions wanted.:

Some people have requested the default nes emulator is also switched to lr-nestopia from lr-fceumm (eg on rpi2/rpi3) so interested in hearing arguments for or against that too.

I defeated Snake Man without taking damage in Mega Man 3 playing with Nestopia and the achievement didn't work (damn't!).
And then I tryied to get some cheevos for Castlevania and it didn't work. Changed to FCEUmm and everything is fine (but couldn't defeat Snake Man without taking damage again...) :(

Not sure if it's enough to make you decide, but it's worth to mention.

@edmaul69 i got it

i removed the garbage lol
good tip

@Jiryn said in Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES):

@MWGemini said in Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES):

You can also put things in subfolders. So I might have all my Mario games in NES\Super Mario Brothers and SNES\Super Mario World, for example. That way I can see all the variants within a particular game, but at the root level, I'm just looking at the "base" game name. It makes scraping a little bit more difficult, but that's a different issue.

Thank you!
No I went back and grabbed a NO INTRO set, since there would be less/no redundant files this way.

One thing you can do to further reduce your no intro set of its redundancy, is produce a "1g1r" set from it (1 game, 1 region). If you download the appropriate P/clone xml DAT (from here http://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=download&fun=xml ) and load it into Romcenter 3.7.1, you can point it to your rom directory and have it keep only a single version of each game based on your ordered preference of regions.

Very clever with using the faded images for before and after in the list. Nice job.

@cassini12 do you have the rpi near a router of other wireless equipment ?

What PSU do you use ?

please post the output of dmesg typed into a terminal via ssh (please use pastebin site)

@AndersHP said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:

you need a set newer than 0.78 to reliably generate a 0.78 set from it.

My knowledge stops with the tutorial video. The commentary from @herb_fargus was helpful in suggesting this.

@kmssd ok. I got it. I should have remembered that.