I haven't had any issues with updating. I have heard of sporadic issues with the dist-upgrade, but they have never affected me. Then again, I'm using the binaries and not really using any of the experimental stuff.

@appleJimmies
Try it with a different microSD card. It sounds like the data is getting corrupted on shutdown. This usually happens with cheap generic microSD cards.

You might also try disabling Save Metadata On Exit in EmulationStation.

Check that your power adapter is 5V 2.5A.

Also, I doubt that you're doing this but I thought I would include it, if you're using some overclocking settings like especially overclocking your microSD card reader can cause weirdness like this.

Update
I'm glad you got it working!

@VladoPortos said in USB Audio dongle have no sound in emulators.:

I personally thinks maybe its something with retroarch, I'm trying now specify correct HW in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg under audio_device = , but so far no luck :(

I agree, it sounds like it's just the RetroArch emulators without sound. I also think it might be a setting in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

RetroPie comes with a backup of their custom all retroarch.cfg with default settings. It is located here:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg.rp-dist

You could test with default settings by backing up your original retroarch.cfg and then copy retroarch.cfg.rp-dist to retroarch.cfg.

I made the observation in the past that using a high-quality USB cable also plays a major role: A thicker cable leads to a lower voltage drop when the Rai needs a lot of power. You might want to try out another cable.

@sixfootewok It'll be seeing the Xbox pad as player 0 (so player 1). Disconnect it and try again, or look into the retroarch controller select script from the wiki so you can define which device is used as the first player.

@Eater_Of_Cheese Do you know the resolution of the TVs you've tested with? I have a 1080p TV that I had to mess with the overscan on and my 720p TV is fine out of the box.

@Jean

I was actually suggesting that you branch out to other locations on the web, but perhaps having it's own post here may help. However, please keep in mind that if you do not get a reply there that "bumping" or "upping" your posts is not looked kindly upon.

@Marinho Great thread, thanks for the info. I've been noticing the same thing here. Playing with shaders causes the system to run really hot. I thought it was just cause I was playing PSX games. But when the thermometer started showing up with SNES games I knew something was up.

@herb_fargus
I've just added a link to that FAQ entry :)

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Manual-Installation#boot-to-emulationstation

Unplug any controllers and plug in a usb keyboard It worked for me. I have an xbox wireless controller and it worked fine. For some reason no matter what i plug my wireless controller into the retropie sees it as #0 and confuses it with the keyboard. so now it only works with the keyboard

Ok, managed to get all my controls on the correct sides, only issue I have now is I cannot have start and select working on both player 1 and 2. This also causes me not to be able to exit a game back to the main menu by pressing start and select. Any ideas ?

Lol, ffs. Yep, that has fixed it.

Thank you very much, @mitu :D

If I'd known from the start that this thing pretended it was an Apple keyboard this would have taken a lot less time.

I guess the Fn key on the i8 works differently than on a real Apple wireless kbd, hence why holding the Fn key and pressing the F1-F10 doesn't generate the correct keycodes, but reversing the Fn switch with the driver parameter does.

I can now F4 out of ES and F12 to bring up Amiberry config, etc. Yay.

(I just now realised that taking a screenshot on an iPhone is the power button and home buttons together, which explains Fn+F5).

@VMax Np 😉

@Solid-One

I did actually. It's not too bad but I didn't want to switch to it at this point because of a couple of reasons:

For some reason it picks up my old save file on my external drive rather than my actual backed up saves on the SD card.

It messes up my controls, the buttons are wrong (though I could change this if I wanted).

Performance was really very nice on 4.0.2 with GlideN64 and I don't see a need to swap unless it is being deprecated by the devs here.

I'm quite happy to stay on 4.0.2 for the time being, but I was happy also to try out 4.1.3 and see the progress being made. :)

Hi :)

Nobody to help me please ? :p

Found the issue... I guess somewhere along the line (before I loaded ROMS), I modified this - "Parse gamelists only" ... all good for now!

@Ranma
@obsidianspider is working on putting a Pi in a Sega Genesis USB Hub:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6003/pi-in-a-sega-genesis-usb-hub-build

Hi everybody :)

I have find little of i want make :p ...

I have past my command line in rc.local

Now, i try to found the file command for controlblock shuting down to put this line :
gpio write 21 0

But can't find them :/

If you have an idea , you are my hero ! :D

Thx in advance.

Wow I feel so dumb, i guess I forgot it was a different image for those.

Thanks!