@paullypenguin

Please, add more info as requested: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@mitu Sorry I wasn't clear, that's what I meant by complicated really, not that it was more technically complicated.

Thank you for the reply. Perfect!

[...] The background music fails to play in both enabled and disabled modes - and this message is displayed in the top corner of my screen:

Nov 23 10:21:35 lv10: VolumeControl::init() - Failed to attach to default card!

Out of the box, RetroPie doesn't have any background music functionality, is this a 3rd party script that's running ?

.. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be hugely grateful.

Are you using a 3rd party image or the RetroPie image from https://retropie.org.uk/download ? The official RetroPIe image doesn't have this issue and we don't support 3rd party images here in the forums.

Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to be able diagnose this further.

Amazing, now I have to figure out how to set up wifi and then configure for PiTFT possibly. I'll watch some videos. Thanks for all your help. :)

@Oxopi said in Controller with retropie:

The left analog up, down, left and right says already taken if i hold against the setting it then says not defined
The same goes for the right analog

That indicates the analog sticks might emit the same input data as the D-Pad. I notice there's an Analog button on the controller - what is the function of it ?

You can exit EmulationStation (via the menu or just pressing F4) and test the gamepad's buttons with the jstest command by running

jstest /dev/input/js0

and pushing the buttons and operating the analog sticks - see if the analog sticks are overlapping with other buttons/D-Pad. Exit the test by pressing Ctrl+C.

Also what should the hotkey be set to

You can leave it as default - don't set one and you'll be asked to use Select - or try to use the raspberry button at the top.

@simpleethat if you install raspbian(pixel) on pi4 in retropie setup, then configure on desktop then when your done just play in retropie, I play from desktop for now cos my kids use some cheats.
Use keyboard to exit since or add your menu and press twice, but be careful not to enter a menu and get stuck, it happen to me and I reset my settings, hehe.

Good luck

Yes

From less than 1 kilobyte to over 1 Gigabytes

I started with a 32GB which is plenty for Arcade Games ... as soon as you add consoles, well, i got a 64GB card which lasted a month before i got a RPI4 and was able to add even More Consoles .. picked up a 128GB card. Will see how long that lasts ;) ... prob end up using a hard drive for game next and just use a smaller SD Card for the Retropie OS

TLDR: SD Card Size will Depend on what systems/consoles you intend on playing.

Oh, and if you compress you roms/images (ie. i have compressed all my PS1 games to PBP format and Dreamcast/3DO/Sega Saturn games to CHD format ... saves a TON of space !)

Yeah, should be fine .. all my cards a Sandisk

@mitu

@mitu said in First-time user issues:

When using the Libretro (RetroArch) input configuration, then yes, you can't have different auto-configs for each player. You can, however, using either a core input remap to change the mapping or use the MAME input configuration, which can be accessed by pressing Tab (you'll need a keyboard for this).

Thanks! I'll have a look.

I want to add one thing to @BuZz' post: Please edit your post and give it a more explanatory topic. Imagine a forum filled with posts named "Newbie … Help!" and the like. Nobody wants to read every topic just to see what they are about.

Just a friendly advice. Welcome to Retropie and to this forum. :)

@Erdrick said in Unable to Configure Controller:

My hunch is since I configured it for a keyboard and nothing else, he needs a keyboard to select input configuration and it should work from there.

If you configured a keyboard as controller in ES, I think the initial controller configuration screen would not show

If that's the case - and he gets the normal ES system carousel - then he'll not be able to configure the controller on 1st boot. He would, indeed, need a keyboard.

@rafioso24 There's no asking/sharing copyrighted material in the forums - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

@mitu sure bro, again thank you very much

I have a similar issue:
Having 2 PS 3 controllers, yesterday I performed sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
After that, the controllers still paired, however auto-logon failed.
Then I chose to update all packages from the Retropie setup.
After that I rebooted, and then the controllers didn't pair anymore.

I will roll back to my last image, anyway I think some mess was being built into the latest update components. Obviously I'm not the only one having logon and controller pairing issues after the recent updates...

Can you add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ? What type of controller are you using ? You might want to switch to Emulationstation as frontend and configure it, since this will also generate a gamepad auto-configuration for RetroArch.

@mitu Perfect! that's how it works with my PC setup, just wasn't sure if having a key mapped to "esc" would work.

Oh, sorry, no Im not.

Didnt realise, sorry