@obsidianspider I suppose a smooth, injection molded part would not bind up the same, right? I wonder if there is a workaround for smoothing out this area such as a coating of epoxy or bondo that could be sanded nice and smooth without enlarging. Tedious and tiny, I know. Another thought would be to try a set of buttons you don’t care about and remove the orientation tabs. Maybe it’s the angled spots where the tabs are that bind up.

That was exactly what I needed to do! Thanks, I updated it, rebooted and switched over to the NES Mini theme I had installed and there it was.

Thanks a lot, I'm a bit new at this, but now things are humming along quite nicely.

@Hex
I tried with VNC.
ssh to Pi , start VNC
Open VNC from my PC, open LXterminal in VNC, run emulationstation

It didn't work too.

alright, thank you very much. I am now able to change the resolution of my waveshare.
but the aspect ratio doesn't change at all. eve though I specify the aspect ratio in the hdmi_cvt-argument

@auriuman78 I too, am having this exact issue. Controller is fresh out of the box. If I remove the voltage pin, I get inputs appearing on all buttons (ON) through jstest. Did you have any luck with it?

That fixed my issue. I switch to xpad from xboxdrv and it worked perfectly! Thank you @edmaul69 !

Thank you @BuZz. It help installing from source. I does not know why the Libretro i slow, mabye i have change something.
It solved the problem thanks

Hello! I don't have any Raspberry , but I have miniPC with configuration:
CPU Rk3066 Dual Core 1.2-1.6G (Cortex-A9) + Quad core mali400 GPU
RAM FLASH 4GB/RAM DDR3 1GB, support microSD up to 32Gb
It works with Android 4.2 now.
Can I use any Retropie version on my miniPC? Or it impossible?

@Flavor Yeah I was able to install Raspian Lite with NOOBS and it worked fine. I am building this for a friend and would prefer the RetroPie, so it will just boot into it for him.

@pelmen

Resurfacing this thread in case the O.P. had any solution.
I am having this same issue with my RPi0 and cannot find help anywhere. I have gone through the rigmarole you've been through with swapping out hardware. It has a fresh install of Retropie on a brand new memory card and freezes in E.S. when idle. I have done NO configuration and have yet to even add any ROMs. Once it's frozen at this point, I am not able to SSH into it to reboot.

Did you find any kind of fix to this?

@Luca1 you do need to go into retropie menu and go into run command and disable joystick so you would need a keyboard to change video mode and emulator. You MUST do that before this next step. To remove the retropie menu you need to go to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/ and find the folder "retropie" and put something like an exclamation point in it. So it will look something like "!retropie" now they cant get into anything they shouldnt. Just remember once you set it into kids mode you can get it back to normal mode with the konami code by pressing up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right b, a, start.

@herb_fargus Sounds good, thanks for all your help!

I was actually able to get this figured out by establishing an internet connection over USB to my mac. The trick was most things I was reading on how to do that was using pi@raspberry.local when I needed to use pi@retropie.local (it wouldn't use SSH over the ip address for whatever reason). I was then able to install gamecon as it could fetch the latest packages and install those. Hopefully this helps someone else with a similar situation.

Very nice build!