@mitu I need to read a lot of documentation. Thank you !

From what I see, Egg has the 4 control buttons mapped like this:

1 (RetroPad Dpad-Up) 3 (RetroPad B) 2 (RetroPad Dpad-Up) 4 (RetroPad X)

To re-map them to other buttons, you need to have to have something like this in the system's retroarch.cfg

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/gameandwatch/" input_player1_up = "w" input_player1_down = "a" input_player1_b = "s" input_player1_x = "d" #include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

In the example above, I remapped all buttons to WASD on the keyboard and it seems to work fine. I think RetroPad L (left shoulder) and RetroPad R (right shoulder) are used for the Game A/Game B selection, if you wish to remap those.

Since this is a specific game config, you can add the input_... options in a special ROMNAME.cfg file next to the .mgw file and the input configuration will be automatically applied, only for that ROM - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#example-per-rom-override-retroarchcfg.

@mitu thank you.

At least it wasn’t a silly checkbox that I Missed.

Okay, thanks - it could be possible, that I did a setting in RPi setup script by mistake. I played around with that - and maybe did not put it back later. This is a real good advice for my performance issue - thanks

gpu_mem will be fixed, too. Thanks

Edit: Oh holy man! This was the point. I thought it's only a booster for my slow graphics - but it fixed the installation issue! After that modification, I also got the possibility to install RetroArch by binaries (which was not shown before). Now the installation works. Thanks a lot.

You really got me confused with that config... so just a few thoughts:

Here is Ultimarcs Default Setting [under Tab: Installation] for the I-Pac#, and the ones in your config seem to be mixed/messed up with the (I-PAC) shifted defaults (player 1 defaults for the joystick/d-pad are cursor u/d/l/r)...
And my curiosity about your .cfg reminds me: At first I should have reminded myself (and you) that third party images are not supported on this forum. To debug/help you on this, if your builder wasn't a friend who had set it up with an official build and got paid for the hardware alone and added your roms on your behalve, I think that another sd card with a fresh retropie install (keeping formerly as a backup in case you need stuff from there) would be a good start. And by doing so, regardless what your son may do in the future, you will be prepared to set it up again!

Hi Mitu, Thanks for confirming that. I'll move the effected games to use a different Emulator. Cheers Simon

@mitu Again thank you so much! I really appreciate your help.

@meleu said in How RetroPie project changed my life:

Yesterday I was interviewed in a podcast talking about my contributions for the RetroAchievements project and some "behind the scenes" info.
During the interview I also talked a bit about how the RetroPie project was a big and positive influence in my life.
If you guys are interested in hearing it (and probably have some fun with my foreigner accent), you can check it here:

The work you and the other devs do for RetroAchievements really cannot be praised enough. It's something that is invaluable to me, as the achievements make me want to play some of the old games more just so I can get them. Some of them are really clever too, like the Michael Jackson moonwalk achievement for Sonic 3.

That depends. First and foremost, it's a secure behaviour to only give yourself administrator rights (e.g. via sudo) when absolutely necessary. Also, if you happen to change the file's owner or permissions by accident in a way that the normal user can't access them anymore, it can cause further problems.

In short, by training yourself to use sudo only when necessary you avoid future problems and, at worst, security holes.

In your particular case, mere editing an existing file shouldn't make you any trouble, but if the file doesn't exist, you'll create it with the owner root instead of pi. Because a new file will be created with only write permissions for the owner, any application like an emulator that's run by pi wouldn't be able to write to this file afterwards.

Again, that may or may not be a problem depending on the file, but avoiding to use sudo will negate this uncertainty alltogether.

I guess that works too but I went into the actual Core config files, I cant remember the exact path, opt/retropie/configs.

Ok apparently there is a compatibility issue with the display driver, because if I uncomment that the display doesn't work. They have drivers that are compatible with Retropie on the Rpi3 but not the Rpi4 yet. I guess I'll reach out to them and see if they have a solution

@wmarcio the github has both build instructions and
pre-built binaries. if you're running linux mint then you're sorted - just get the linux binary.

@coldspark29 said in How to install the Vulkan driver for Retroarch?:

Can you tell me how I would need to modify the install script?

Which install script ? If you're referring to RetroArch, then try adding --enable-vulkan instead of --disable-vulkan in the build script to see if it works.

@gizmo90 said in Retroarch Integer Scale setting not saving:

Any idea why the cfg file is being ignored?

If you're running a custom image, then we don't know how it was modified or configured from a stock RetroPie image.

@etheling excellent work. Looks really slick on the side-bars there.

@MrShanksio the 2 best SBCs in 2020 (well, they already were in 2019, before the pi4 was even out) are those 2 :

Odroid N2 => best all rounder (better cpu & gpu than pi4) Jetson Nano => best gpu, decent cpu (cpu between pi3 & pi4)

NB : idk if retropie can be installed on those SBCs, but that criteria wasn't included in your question, and there are other retrogaming distros with support for those boards.
NB2 : you won't play PS2 on a SBC in 2020, but systems like Dreamcast/Naomi/Atomiswave and Saturn will run fine on the 2 SBCs i mentioned (full speed + upscaling).

Dredging this topic back up since I haven't messed with this yet...

Can you use only canned loading animations or is it customizable?

EDIT: Let me qualify my question a bit more...

Can you specify your own loading image/animation? Is there an option to display it for a certain period of time? This may seem like a weird ask...but...on faster x86 systems, the loading screen may be displayed for like a second which just seems silly.

John

@mitu After remapping the controller as you stated and reviewing the config file, I tried holding Select then pressing Start, and it took me out of the game. Similarly, holding Select and pressing left bumper loaded state. In short, it seems to be working. It appears my understanding of the hotkey was incorrect. I thought you simply pressed the hotkey only to bring up the GUI.

Thank you for your help and work on this forum.