Have you tried setting audio_sync to on in RetroArch? I'm not sure it solves the same thing you're experiencing, but I had audio distortion when frame rates skipped and this helped a bit. It was a long time ago so I might be misremembering things though.

@binarybond007

I have the same problem (same ALSA error initializing Vice) with Hifiberry DAC+ Standard, but it seems that I only have one sound module. I was hoping somebody could hint a solution because everything works except Vice (and it is my favourite computer)

If I type

cat /proc/asound/modules

I get

0 snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus

The rest of my configs:

etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
type hw card 0
}
ctl.!default {
type hw card 0
}

pi@retropie:~ $ cat /boot/config.txt

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=9

(comment) Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
(comment) dtparam=audio=on
dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
overscan_scale=1

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus], device 0: HiFiBerry DAC+ HiFi pcm512x-hifi-0 []
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Edit: bad formatting

Thanks guys this has fixed my problem that night i asked. Got home from work and changed what you said and now everythings golden. thanks again.

@gotwood3001 If you exit emulationstation with F4, you will be taken to the command prompt. From there you can edit files with the nano text editor. There is a much easier way though to edit /boot/config.txt and that is to use winscp or putty to access it via the network. Read more. Video tweaks here.

@mikedyj If you look in the Wiki there is a section about sound issues https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Sound-Issues

Read through this and try the suggested fixes. Also try another HDMI lead if that fails.

Old topic I know, but I created it so live with the bump! lol

So my 16-year old cousin brought his Pi Zero I built for him over to his buddies house and the sound wouldn't work. Regular consumer-style like 50" flatscreen (he didn't remember the brand/model), with the same cable he uses at home. After my other cousin had an issue with sound on an older ~32" Sony I've used hdmi_drive=2 on all of these. Any suggestions on what to try?

The elinux wiki says to also try adding:

hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_force_edid_audio=1

but I honestly have no clue what those do and haven't seen them referenced anywhere else...

Hi All,

I had a similar problem when I wanted to save the settings for using Joysticks in vice. And after that all games runs very very fast and no sound was enabled.

I tried already deinstallig and rebooting and new installation. But I had the same problem. UNTI: I removied the files from

/opt/retropie/configs/c64/

After taht and restarting the emu I worked again - god sake!!!