@churchill7 in mame2003-plus and mame2003 this core option will be hidden unless you're playing a game that uses the feature. I recommend running pacman then going into the core options.

https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/blob/7ea22d44c0d899cf7670d458cd6dac0942839d2d/src/mame2003/mame2003.c#L187

The default is probably decent though like you observed in Tron.

@mitu

That seems to have sorted it! Thank you!

When I stared out I first visited the retropie docs
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PC/#install-gravis-ultrasound-gus

Which redirected me to this guide from 2015, that suggest using .sh scripts.
Now that everything is working I'll start converting everything over to just using conf-files, and optimizing the games :)

Video smoothing often makes the picture way too mushy for my taste, especially if the original resolution is very low. I prefer good crt shaders like the zfast shaders from @ghogan42.

As for other video settings, I prefer the "core provided" aspect ratio, because I don't like, say, a 4:3 picture stretched to today's common 16:9, or the 3:4 ratio of many classic vertical games stretched to the native 4:3 on my DIY cabinet, making all game characters appear a little overweight to outright obese.

@solidhyunkel Hello and welcome to this forum.

See Running ROMs from a USB drive for detailed instructions about that.

@melbmatt50 i did - both links are instructions for “headless” (no screen) set ups. you just need to plug your sd card into the pc you used to the write the image and create files in the /boot/ partition.

If you use a Euro (PAL) rom on a US (NTSC) machine, the game will run fast.
If you use a US (NTSC) rom on a Euro (PAL) machine, it will run slow.

So, if you are in the US running RetroPie on a US TV, you should not use a European rom. You can switch the Pi into PAL mode (if you have a TV that can tolerate it) and it will run at normal speed, but I wouldn't recommend it if you can just get the US version instead.

As outlined in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, we don't support 3rd party images.
Selling systems with the RetroPie image bundled is against the project's license, and the games/roms included are also probably not licensed. We don't support scammers.

What version of RetroPie do you have currently installed ? If you used an image version older than 4.6, then you'll need to install from a new 4.6 image on the new system.

To transfer your existing files, backup your ROM/BIOS/Config files from the 3A+ installation, then restore them on the new installation.

@bpcervantes We don't support 3rd party images. Use the image from https://retropie.org.uk/downoad and then add your own games as described in the docs.

Thanks for the help guys! Much appreciated.

Looks like a permissions problem or a funky named controller that's not saved or possibly other problems (disk full ?) that prevent Emulationstation to save the controller configuration.
My advice is to start with a clean image and work from there - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/.

there is an option to select analog or digital in mame2003+ as it supports analog 2003 doesnt just go to your options and change you controller setting to digital.

it sin options->control mapping change it to digital and it will work for snes pads and arcade sticks ect with having to set all the inputs. The majority of people want real analog controls when available so thats the default.

@George-Spiggott thank you

the xml entry is the same for me

i don't know what is the problem

@Aplam Unless you're using a Pi Zero or PI 1, there's no reason to use PiFBA. Use lr-fbalpha and you'll get the RetroArch configuration menus (and auto-configuration from Emulationstation if you configured there the controller(s)). Make sure you use the proper ROM set for the lr-fbalpha version.
To answer to your question - no, there is not an easier way to configure PiFBA, mostly because it's an old and unmaintained FBA version and has very little use given that lr-fbalpha is also available.

EDIT: but you already knew that, didn't you ?

TO THE RETROCAVE!!!

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On my system
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

install kernel 4.9.35-v7+. DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick works without any problem (just redo controller configuration from EmulationStation).

You should never use rpi-update ;-)

@markyh444 yes it is