Found it !

On the Xsession prompt do CTRL+ALT+F1 to access terminal, then "sudo apt-get remove lightdm" and everything is back as normal

@sandyjmacdonald said in Rip-off merchants:

Pah. Rubbish. :-(

Hey they give us a fair discount.
From 261$ to 250$ for a Pi3+ with NESPi+ and 2 SFC 8bitdo Controllers and a 16GB SD ;)

Indeed - RuBBish ;)

Just installed and seems a funny game, thx a lot !!

But is it possible to skip the need to enter players name at the end?
Have always to move: left-left-left-left-left-left-down-down-key

Maybe a "Hotkey" to jump direct to "End" or cancel the whole hightscore process?

@noobsaibot It depends, you still haven't provided any info about your system.

@TrisM no problem, pls let me know if I can help you with anything.

Tried another cable anyways, no luck. This is a first for me.

@mattrixk I am running the latest retropie so that's all good but I did find what was causing the issue.

@mitu thank you very much for your help you were right it was the file path. Not an error on my part as all the paths were set correctly with / and not \ but it turns out that when making a theme in ES portable on the pc the file paths to all the images and such were slightly off.

Instead of an _Inc folder I'm weird and have my images and such in a folder called art. There is 1 art folder in the main theme folder for the main theme images and such then there is 1 art folder in each of the system folders for each consoles images.

In retropie the file path required for the theme to be able to find the images correctly is just ./art/image.png as it only needs to look directly into the art folder within that system folder.

It seems that with ES portable that the file path for some reason is ./.. /art/image.png which I presume is effectively telling ES portable to go back a folder to look for the images?

All I needed to do in the end was change it from ./../art/image.png to ./art/image.png and its all working great now.

I've been playing with the themes for the past few days and I think im almost finishedwith my theme now and I'm working on a much better one too. Might have to make a custom img to upload I've recently acquired just under 20k games across 48 platforms, going to take a while to scrape! Lol.

So I figured it out I believe. You were right on with my joystick. It was mounted opposite of the other one. I also realized that the reason the start button just stopped working is because the master controller which as you say there is only one for now. Is the other controller so it works in menu but not in game. Which makes sense now knowing the retroarch and all hotkeys only apply to the master. Thanks for the insight

@AleksandarT We don't support 3rd party images - it's clearly outlined in the rules and the page I indicated.

@JustTooChewy said in Need help getting multiple controllers to work on specific emulators p1/p2:

could you send me some more info on the n64 configurations

If's in the documentation - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Nintendo-64/.

@bswin821 In addition to @mitu's suggestion, you could test your button numbers with jstest like it is described in the Docs.

@mitu Thanks for your reply. I finally figured it out the problem was PEBKAC!!! I had the joystick plugged into the wrong 5 pin port. I thought there was only the one and I was wrong. Totally my bad but thanks for the help. I'm going to leave this up since I could not find any solutions to this problem anywhere and it might help someone.

@Eyeball_36 iirc there's a specific sensor of sorts that would enable the potential to have an onscreen battery type of thing but it wasn't part of the raspiboy hardware. It was one of the grievances I had with the hardware, until it just fried completely. Sorry I'm not much more help

If I were to do the handheld thing again I'd do the mintypi V3

It looks like this is fixed for me. I didn't do anything special. Just waited some time and then updated the lr-reicast package via the RetroPie Setup script, and lr-reicast is working again. Thanks to the developer(s)!

For the benefit of anyone else stumbling upon this via Google (I understand the last post is a year old), and trying to get Retroarch to work with Parasite Eve 2 with PSX Beetle HW.

PE2 really hates having certain settings changed from defaults. The 2 main ones are;

-CPU Dynarec (disabled)
-CD Loading Speed (2x)

Here's a quick screenshot of settings that should guarantee to work (with Retroarch on Windows anyway).

https://i.imgur.com/jUyS0to.png

I ran that and the tvs preferred res is group 1 mode 4 changed it in config.txt to that setting still nothing

@udubnate If you want good quality components out of the box then I'd recommend the Hori real arcade pro 4.