Wow, I posted this question 3 years ago, and never responded to anybody's suggestions... my bad! The solution to my problem was embarrassingly stupid and simple. Retropie had copied all the roms over from my usb drive, and this filled up my micro sd card to a point where there just wasn't any room left to save game data. THAT is why I kept seeing "task failed: saving state".

Hopefully this is helpful to someone.

Since some recent kernel / drivers updates, some joysticks causes Kodi to crash, and others look like they get a button stuck. Others still work fine. If you are affected by this, you can disable the gamepad support in System -> System -> Input Devices until Kodi 17 comes out. It will have official joystick support, and hopefully all of this will be fixed.

Thank you for your answers. I've tried to use another emulator (mupen64plus-gles2n64) and it works fine ! It does not works with retroarch, so i will have to configure the controller, but i guess this is not really a problem. I'm sorry, i posted this too soon.

@JasoThePaso You can't remove posts after a certain period - but if you have resolved the issue or know the cause, you can just reply with the solution for others to see etc.

Tried adjusting the overscan settings. Didn't work. Any help?

@Eater_Of_Cheese Do you know the resolution of the TVs you've tested with? I have a 1080p TV that I had to mess with the overscan on and my 720p TV is fine out of the box.

@trixta never even heard of it. But as above. No source. No port. The dev has ported it to ouya you could request he port it the raspberry pi.

I have a controller name as "SHENGHIC 2009/0708ZXW-V1Inc. PLAYSTATION(R)3Conteroller " too.
Have tried it with the retropie 4.5.18 with sixaxis driver (third-party), ps3controller driver(both gasia and shanwan ) or even xboxdrv, neither of them works.

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou!

I will have a read through it.. absolute legend! Thanks

Very neat. I like it.

Iirc it runs with music on fbalpha, not sure about speed if your rpi3 is not overclocked though.

@Trinity2069 said in Two Players, One Keyboard:

How would I hard code that?

I forgot to provide the link: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration#hardcoded-configurations

Unplug any controllers and plug in a usb keyboard It worked for me. I have an xbox wireless controller and it worked fine. For some reason no matter what i plug my wireless controller into the retropie sees it as #0 and confuses it with the keyboard. so now it only works with the keyboard

@Darksavior said in USB Arcade Stick + USB Gamepad:

Not exactly what you were asking, but you can assign a game pad to a player # to a specific emulator or globally in configuration editor . The screenshots arent updated but they're there. https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

Also, if you're using a libretro emulator, can't you change controllers in the retroarch in-game menu?

This sounds great. So I can assign the game pads (currently Player 3 & 4) to Player 1 & 2 in a specific emulator, say the lr-SNES core. I'll look into this as this would be perfect. Thanks.

@Rumblebelly5

This one looks even better.

@herb_fargus said in Xbox Original Emulator.:

@mrbwa1 part of the lack of interest is there are relatively few exclusive Xbox games so most games can be played on a ps2 emulator

True. Most XBOX exclusives can be played on the Xbox 360 anyhow.

Also, I forgot to add that the original XBOX live is long dead, so anything playable is only for single player campaign or local multiplayer.

If you want the dolphin emulator, install steam on your pc. Steam link on your pi. Add the dolphin emulator to steam. You can stream dolphin emulator from your pc via steam link to a raspberry pi. Steam link is in the expirimental section.

@missmeow13 So when you turn the Raspberry on it shows the "Retropie and says 13" games?

Every time I power on the arcade cabinet it plays a random track from about eight (while in EmulationStation).