Yeah, I'd say the vendor probably "locked" their version of EmulationStation and it can't be altered without their action. The free official image as mitu directed is the best option if you want control over your system.

@thesterninator a usb flash drive should not cause power issues. And seriously start fresh. It will teach you how the whole RetroPie system works.

@Unknown It will not disable them, the emulator can read both zip and 7z compressed files. If you have scraped the games already you could run into a problem with emulationstation looking for whatever-your-game-is-named.ngp instead of whatever-your-game-is-named.zip (or .7z) which can be solved by rescraping or editing the gamelist.xml for neo geo pocket.

[edit: realized I worded the first sentence very poorly...]

I counldn't figure out how to use drastic, so I used Ir-dusume 2015 instead, which works great and is 10x easier to use.

@mitu

Hey thanks for your help, I actually have solved the problem via first installing raspbian then retropie following the video below after installing with NOObs and now I everything works as intended.

Still have no idea why the boot didn't work for me but at this point I am more interested in relaxing and playing some lovely 8bit games on my Picade. May be I can bump this later on when my curiosity kicks back in.

Have a great day.

@retroven As recommended have a look at the docs, but here is a couple of quick answers

Most popular emulators are already installed and will show up automatically when you add roms. Optional emulators can be installed from retropie-setup if needed but for that you will need the docs Adding artwork is easiest using a scraper such as skyscraper https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/#lars-muldjords-skyscraper Not sure but probably. I haven't updated on my pi as it is all set up and working great

I just remembered that Retropie is doesn't support Buster yet so it would'nt work on Retropie just yet.

The auto-USB copy function has historically only copied NEW files from USB to Pi. It would go through the files on the USB stick and copy over anything that wasn't already on the Pi. You don't lose anything on the pi.

Even the Bezel issue has been solved, it shows the MD stuff as uninstalled while are properly installed...

@AJ2425 said in Some buttons not responding during PS controller configuration:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this points to it being a controller issue.

Well, if the controller works with your PS2, then it's an adapter issue - you might want to get that checked - or try it also on a PC.

@mitu said in Questions about controller buttons, logins, and Steven Scraper:

but when we're talking about custom tags,

Thanks for the quick response. I'll try the autostart and login.

I don't have any custom tags...I just want to make sure that the redone videos aren't overwritten by the original videos. I'm not too worried about the favorite/playcount/etc stuff right now. I just want to get this all up and running. I ordered a replacement SANWA JLF-TP-8YT-SK joystick to swap into my controller. The stock stick is not very accurate, but I got it super-cheap and couldn't pass it up.

My most favorite is Final Fantasy. I used to really like Minecraft (that I downloaded free from apknite), but my bias has turned to FF for a while

@mitu its reinstalling now thanks so much for your help i love the rasperry pi and am having a blast learning this

Forgot to ask about the best memory distribution? Since I remembered that you can change it via startx pretty easily.

Also thanks for the help so far!

Using Kodi 18 Beta 4 as well now and I like it alot.

Final Update:

Turns out it was my charger all along . Here is what I ended up doing.

From my Pi3 I run a DC Barrel Jack to Micro-USB B Male Connector (http://a.co/d/4yVdU3c) . Then from the barrel jack I have a normal power supply (http://a.co/d/7j0vMr3) . No voltage issues at all and everything seems fine.

@mcsteve

Assuming your controller has enough buttons to support all of the N64 buttons, all of those buttons are available by default if you configured all of the buttons on your controller during the initial gamepad detection. If you need to reconfigure it I recommend resetting your controller configuration in the Retropie system menu->Retropie Setup so that it prompts you again.

@trendkiller

I just wanted a retro machine to play some games and now it's backfiring on me and I'm out of a lot of money

We see problems like this come up a lot with pre-made RetroPie setups found on places like EBay and Amazon. Unfortunately, the machines shipped out are usually just hanging by a thread of functionality due to the seller's lack of care/knowledge. As a result, we are unable to support these particular setups. RetroPie is actually free and runs on very inexpensive hardware. It's really important that you set the system up yourself so that you'll be more intimately acquainted with the components and better understand what may have gone wrong as problems arise. The good news is that, despite being initially scammed by an unscrupulous seller, you now own all the components necessary to begin fresh with a clean install of your own making. Should choose to do so, all the information you'll need is laid out here.

Also, the config file is located in the folder supplementary within the driver folder ControlBlockService2.

@quicksilver perfect thanks.

@pickles I strongly suspect a faulty SD card. It's known that they get into a read-only state when they're approaching their end.