@stoney66 Many thanks. I was getting desperate with dkong and proper sound settings.

I had the same problem. I checked the contents of the pi and the overlays were downloaded OK and were in the right place. And the individual game config files were also correct. But the MAME bezels were not displaying automatically (I use the MAME 2003 core). When playing a game I would have to go to the overlay option in the settings menu and switch overlays to ON. The correct overlay would then be displayed. It was a real pain manually switching on the overlays in every game.

So I created a core level config file called MAME 2003 (0.78).cfg containing the line

overlays = 1

I placed this in the directory /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config/MAME 2003 (0.78)/

This made all the arcade bezels appear

However after all this, the bezels were no use to me! The bezel config files do not have any settings for the game video screen size. So in horizontal games the game screen is smaller than the bezel expects. And in vertical games the game screen is bigger than expected, so the bezel truncates what you can see making the game impossible to play. Other arcade bezel packs have config files that specify the game screen size and these ensure that the game perfectly fits inside the bezel for a really good effect. But these bezel packs have to be manually downloaded and manually installed on your pi.

Does your wireless keyboard have an Esc key ? Try pressing F1 and see if you get the RetroArch menu, from which you can choose to exit.
Btw, your link is cut and it's not working, so there's no way to gauge what kind of keyboard model you're using.

@davidgrohl As far as I know, the current version should be compatible with 1.7.6, it's not a breakning change. However, as @dankcushions said, if your installation is too old and it's based on a previous Raspbian release, your best option is to install a new version. As always, backup your installation before making major changes/upgrades.

UPDATE:

Got it working, this YouTube video helped a lot (for anyone else needing info).

How about if your start an xterm, make it fullscreen, then run

LC_NUMERIC=C emulationstation

@mitu said in Suddenly my save states dosent work.:

Save states are not always portable between emulators, so a save state from lr-gambatte might not worth with lr-mgba . Is the emulator version the same as the one you used for the save states ? Sometimes an upgrade of the emulator makes it incompatible with previous versions' save states.

Hmm maybe it's because of an emulator upgrade. I played the game for a couple of month before I did the backup. And after I think I did an update. Thanks, I did not know it might cause a problem. At least the "normal" save file works.

@cyperghost said in Suddenly my save states dosent work.:

@lesk ... and it's more likely that a battery savestate gamename.srm will work more reliable and may be portable to other emulators ;)

Thanks, yeah the normal game save seems to work just fine ^^

@mud2005 Glad you like it too! The newer model is slightly squarer than the older ones and the resolution is a bit different, you might have an even better one.

Input Overlays as I understand them are not ideal for this. I can see in the examples that static images are manipulated across the display, but they are still static images. Say I wanted to implement a timer that hangs out in the corner during gameplay - I would have to configure logic to swap out images for each digit of the timer every time increment. That's a bit much! I'm just looking for some way to add my own system text, similar to how the frame counter, fps, or memory utilization can be optionally displayed on the OSD.

As for the latter point, it seems like reaching out to the memory domains is something you can do in libretro according to the API, but I'm not sure how to set up a script that would assess memory state as it is executed - is there any kind of next_frame event or otherwise that could be used to fire off a script to check? There are numerous layers in the system, each with their own sets of capabilities, scripts, and events, so I'm not sure which layer I want to be targeting to get this kind of functionality.

@AlphaBetaPie Post the theme so we can test and see if memory is an issue or maybe there's something else.

I also did. I am actually playing Pokemon Ruby right now XD

@mitu said in How Can I Copy/Paste Scripts in my Retropie?:

Enable SSH and use Putty to run commands from your PC - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/SSH/.

Using putty worked beautifully. Such a time saver, once you can figure out the technical part of getting everything set up (but I already had SSH going for my FTP client, so I was good there). Thanks!

@mitu Ah, OK. I thought perhaps I was just missing some kind of extension or plugin or something related to the setup that I could download/add that would allow it to find whatever it was missing.

@Armhunter said in RetroPie using dual monitors:

.. the software for the Pi is far better than any for the PC for mame.

The same software used for the PI is available for the PC - and more. You're probably thinking it's the RetroPie configuration that makes it easier to use.

Yes, looks like it. They bundle a RetroPie image (no ROMs looks like).

@mitu Yes, that's how I have always connected my ps3 pad. I'm using ps3controller instead of sixaxis at the moment and having no issues.

Thanks.

@super-retropie any chance you could make a pixel and power image for these as well?