great - thank you!!

@retropieuser555 said in Top ways to pimp your RetroPie?: People even make their own bootup videos and hide the boot text so you get a nice clean video before the menus load. About that: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-hide-the-boot-text

For me, RetroPie is a way to have a better screen to play the games that I already have - I did have my SNES connected to my LED television but it looked so damn ugly, that I eventually early 2018 I bought a Pi 3 so I could use shaders (and a Switch Pro controller). I enjoyed this so much that last week I bought a Pi 0 and a GPi Case, so I'd have a better way to play my Game Boy (Color) games - as a kid, my little brother recklessly handled the Game Boy, breaking the battery cover and then pealing off the screen protector, and I never got around to buying a new Game Boy since by then I moved away from handheld gaming. Because of my reasons for getting each Pie, I tend to stick to the games I already bought physically, with a few titles added that never released in my region. And even then, I don't really play that much beyond the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, the Super Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park and Astérix & Obélix.

yes: https://github.com/RetroPie/common-shaders/blob/rpi/zfast_crt_standard.glslp#L3

@BuZz said in Retropie On Debian: @NY152 you will need to run retropie under the desktop on your system. Please post logs for any error you got installing as @mitu mentioned. Thanks. Astonishing ... NO error during installation. The problem with Debian is that you can not run EmulationStation in console mode (it does not detect a display) Under ArchLinux, no worries without any desktop environment. EmulationStation starts and runs the emulators itself without any problem. So saying that an office environment is mandatory is a totally false. I will look for myself since without thinking more than that, the office environment is for you indispensable, you consider this as normal, not me thanks anyway

@saiki20 said in Using RetroPie For My Own Software: Do I have to do anything special when programing it to account for these new USB signals? Can you be more specific ? How are you using the USB ports - just using a regular controller/gamepad or you have a another device type of device that connects via USB and you'd like to act as a controller ?

@mitu Thanks will do!

this actually has been solved, follow the steps exactly here, and you'll fix that SDL2 error. i had the same thing and this fixed it. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/23984/solved-rpi4-sdl2-problem-during-installation-meanwhile-its-available-via-apt-get

@MikeM68 said in Plug and play systems. Recommendations?: Found several retailers online and my favorite so far is a bar top by https://gameroomsolutions.com/ Like so many others, they're violating Retropie's many noncommercial licenses by selling Retropie as part of their GUTS pack ("pre-flashed with attract mode/retropie"). Like @quicksilver said, you'll get only support for the original RPie image here. So, I'd recommend shunning pre-built images and building your own system. In my experience, it's much more satisfying and you'll learn much in the process. edit: For the sake of completeness, this thread lists many legal sources for roms. Be sure to check the later posts as well as the opening post, since the latter hasn't been updated since Dec 2017.

@wstanek Not every vertical game is 4-way, though. Many arcade SHMUPs are vertical and 8-way. But with either the xboxdrv (item 2D) or switchable Joysticks like the Ultimarc Mag-Stik Plus (I have two of them built into my upright cabinet, see my review here), that wouldn't be an issue.

I'd like to get some of the Merit Pitboss and Supertouch games working, they had some great puzzle games on those bartops as well, but can't seem to get any of them going.

When you change the Options in RA, the values apply to all games - it's always been like that. Use the 'Create Game Options' menu item after you change the options for the game, then switch the option back so it doesn't affect all games.

@dwmreg you need to change the keyboard region. This setting is found under the raspi-config menu.

@ddallman said in Player 1 START button not working IN GAME - CPS1: What could be the deal? If the start button works everywhere except the cps1 games, i would expect the issue to be in mame2003's cps1 emulation ? However i don't think you'll get support for this emulator, using mame2003-plus or FBNeo is highly recommended nowaday. Also, FBNeo is supposed to provide the best experience with cps1/cps2 in terms of accuracy and input lag.

@BuZz You were not far from the truth, for some reason I had it in mind that fbalpha was also distributed as a standalone emulator, but it's just pifba (and the older lr-fbalpha-2012).

@avih7531 The Wii emulator (dolphin) is only available for the PC builds, it can't run on a Raspberry Pi.