@BuZz

Thankyou!

@Forlife said in Optimal way to shut down RetroPie? (also other questions..):

...or actually go to menu, quit, shut down?

Disco!

Does it make a difference?

You risk corrupting your SD card otherwise.

Also, is it necessary to have a usb keyboard?

It's not absolutely necessary, but I would highly recommend keeping one handy for maintenance.

@Slugz
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I was wondering the same but until I get the time to really fix this issue I do the following:

Create whatever file you need on your Pi in Windows (or any other OS) Copy the file(s) to your Pi in one of the shared folders in \Retropie SSH into the Pi Copy the files to the right location on the Pi

Not the most user friendly way, but this way I got my Pi to boot showing the PsOne boot sequence.

I've never really looked into the PiZero past it's initial announcement. With it's extreme low cost, compatibility with Pi1 projects and it's small size, the benefits do actually seem to outweigh the negatives. However, I remember very well that I never could push the Pi1 as much as I would have liked and I can't imagine being satisfied running a RetroPie installation on it. All that said, it's hard to deny just how awesome the plug and play RetroPie SNES controller mods are.

@MisterMeeseeks said in Random directional inputs from iBuffalo controllers:

I was able to determine that the effect is SIGNIFICANTLY (though not quite completely, more like 99%) reduced when connecting the controller through a usb hub.

I'm glad to hear you found a something that works. Now, if you could just find a way to take two strokes off my golf swing. ;)

Finally got it... in the file advmame-0.94.0.rc there was a line near the end that was input_map[ui_configure] I deleted it and it works again. I first tried to add auto to the end of the line but then mame would not boot.

@FlyingTomahawk I took the ultra, having a backup computer with 8Go ram seemed like a good idea.

@paradadf Thanks for the heads up that worked great and was very easy to use.

@edmaul69 I'll check it out tonight when I get home from work and thanks for all the help I've played with linux before but this is my first pi.

And launching it manually

Parameters: 0 _SYS_ snes /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/SuperMarioWorld.sfc Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x2010/snes9x2010_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/SuperMarioWorld.sfc" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg PPU.RenderSub = 0 PPU.FullClipping = 1 Settings.Transparency = 1 Settings.SpeedhackGameID = 7 PPU.SFXSpeedupHack = 0 coldata_update_screen = 0

It is now possible to use all the pi-top hardware including the pi-topSPEAKER and the pi-topPULSE with Retropie, for instructions see Retropie-pi-top. Feedback is appreciated.

@Radioaktive In the strictest sense, distributing a ROM is illegal, so the RetroPie community cannot distribute an image with the ROMs preloaded. In practice, most ROMs are effectively abandonware and are easy to find online. Many sites have full collections of every ROM for a given system.

However, it is important to not cultivate any perception that RetroPie is used for anything illegal because we don't want this project being shut down (even though emulators and ROMs have been around for ages without being shut down).

You won't find anyone here who will link to ROMs themselves, or a SD image with the ROMs preloaded. However, I wouldn't be shocked if a preloaded image existed somewhere out there. And frankly it isn't that hard to copy the ROMs over.

For whatever city you live in, there is probably a LUG (Linux User Group) where someone locally is probably willing to help set up the Pi for your son for Christmas. For example, here is my local LUG.

http://www.olug.org/

@herb_fargus Thanks for that info mate, much appreciated! Works a treat, will just have to replicate it a fair few times for all the games but thats fine! All in good time!

Cheers!

@jnbui79 Any update? I am having this identical issue on my Samsung set. RetroPie works perfectly on every other TV I try it on.....

Please let me know. Thanks!

-Craig

@Shakz That did not work sadly, I used to have to do that for NES in particular, but ever since joystick selection tool, that has been fixed. Now I just wish there was a way to install that when ROMs are run from a network share - it errors out during install. But I just manually edited the SNES retroarch.cfg file.

@mediamogul I even owned the original Gameboy and Gameboy color and I totally forgot about the colourisation on original GB games on the GBC . Amazing that the emulation takes that into account.