Thanks for the response. I looked at the controller config and my hotkey button wasn't set to select. Once I did that everything worked as expected.

Hi there, So I left my Raspberry Pi alone for a month and when I came back to it I started fresh. I think the problem was with my HDD. So I think my HDD was previously formatted to exFAT file system. The only options I had were NTFS and exFAT. I found this person on youtube called Eta Prime and his videos were a big help, especially this one: It explains how to format your drive to FAT32 I flashed the image to the SD again and formatted my HDD to FAT32 and added the "retropie-mount" folder as shown in the video. Then I searched some more videos on his channel of which bios were needed for the different emulators and how to add the games. I found out how to "unECM" the ECM files from my PlayStation games and I'd say at the moment about 90% of the games work and I can save using the save state feature + via the in-game save mechanics. The emulators I have used up to this point are: GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, N64, Megadrive and PS1. So yes, I'd say the problems are now solved. Maybe one more thing I'd like to try is activating my RetroAchievements account so I can earn achievements on some of the games. I got it to work previously, but I don't know how anymore because it's been over a month ago. Big shout out to Eta Prime. Check his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_0CVCfC_3iuHqmyClu59Uw

Thanks for the replies and the suggestions. As it seems, this capability is not difficult coding-wise, it just hasn't been implemented (yet). Until then, the easiest way still seems to load disks from the menu, it just takes a few seconds anyway :-)

@furtin As long as you use Emulators beginning with „lr“ (for libretro), you can use the hotkeys from RetroArch for loading, saving, and choosing the save slot. See https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#hotkeys

@shmonroe If you're playing European(Pal) on easy and not for zero retries, zero kills, zero time caught. Save file is right after sniper wolf. You can use Memcardrex to check if there is anything in the srm, that is in the link too, but there probably isn't anything there. Emulator closing would sometimes happen when I didn't have enough gpu memory, but I can't say for certain if it would help, the Gpu memory split option is entered from raspi-config advanced settings.

Will setting mupen64plus_audio=0 in /opt/retropie/configs/all/autoconf.cfg have any negative impact on emulator performance? I noticed that after changing this setting, the overall volume for N64 games decreased as well (bringing it back in line with the other RetroPie emulators). Just wanted to make sure there wasn't a performance trade off for enable save states. Thanks for the help!

@mtume only v64 is a n64 ROM the rest are savegames. The ! Means a good ripped ROM file

I had the same problem with Megadrive too. I think what screwed everything is the saving on exit... I could not fix it no matter what I tried, so I started doing a fresh install. It is so frustrating....

Although I like to "earn my spurs" sometimes, I think that anyone should play their games like they want. For the vast majority of people, games are for having fun, after all. So, if someone wants to play all unlockable content from the start, I'll gladly let them. RetroArch officially supports cheats, after all. Another situation in which unlocked saves and cheats are very handy are gaming parties where people just want to have fun. Even hardcore gamers do that from time to time.

@kikinaak https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#runcommand-launch-menu - press any buttons during the ROM start and choose to run with verbose logging, repeat the steps to reproduce the problem, then look in the log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log).

@psychol324 Hello Choose all ... this uses config /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg - you did that already. The parameter for the save pathes can made dynamical if you use $1 So /home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/$1 for a GameBoy game will be /home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/gb /home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/$1 for a NES games will be /home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/nes.... In my humple opinion /home/pi/RetroPie/scripts/SavePath.sh "all" "/home/pi/savegames/$1" is the best setup It saves STATEs and SRM files into one location in depence of the system (gb, nes, snes) and used the config file for all base settings. Instruction point 5 can be understand following. Usually the setting for savefile_directoryand savestate_directory are commented out with a #. So you have to set them "active" by uncommenting them. So if you already have setted them up like savefile_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/savefile" you are fine. So the script will always overwrite this: like savefile_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/gb" Hope I was clear now ;)

@mitu Thanks so much! Everything is working now!

@sjlurker2018 No you type commands into the terminal or command line interface (CLI) You can enter a terminal Exit EmulationStation via Main Menu > Quit > Quit EmulationStation 1.1 You see now the command prompt 1.2 Enter commands via keyboard via SSH and a second PC 2.1 you enter also a terminal but this is remote 2.2 you need a second PC/Tablet.... for this Follow the instructions I've posted you. Then we can help you further.

as soon as i get home im going to fill out everything that can be helpfull

I would say that with today's technology yes, though it would be near impossible to do so without connecting the game cartridge to the computer :). So unless you have some sort of GBA-2-USB adapter, I would say no.