@mitu Cool! Thanks a million for that I appericiate it. Yeah the wonder of Chineseum arcade controller sets from Amazon... every time the keyboard encoders are ever so slightly different with some showing as something like Micronek (Microtek) and some as Dragon something. Thanks again

@backstander I tried that didnt work as well. I have a feeling my SD card just isnt upto scratch. I got myself a Pi 4b now with a 64GB micro sd card, the "dtparam=sd_overclock=100" and it works fine. Consider this case closed, cheers for all the input though guys :)

I don't think the SD card capacity has any role in this, more likely the emulator versions are different on the systems you're testing. Reicast seems to have issues in the latest versions with controller inputs - configurations that worked before are not working at all right now.

@BennyProfane I saw some people on internet saying that 64Gb SD Cards need some special treatment, in order to be compatible with Raspberry Pi, I don't Know, but if you say it works, I'm not worry :P Thank you for your help! :)

@Lloltic Every card is a little different. That being said, if you have a card formatted in one format it will show a different amount of disk space in another. It sounds like you have downloaded/backed up a pre-built image and are trying to burn it to a new card. The best thing you can do is burn it to the SD card and see if it will fit. Let the application tell you it won't, not your eyes. The other suggestion is to use PiShrink to shrink it down. Keep in mind if it is a 3rdparty image you'll be hard-pressed to find support for it here if you do get it going.

@KN4THX Exactly. I wouldn't buy a ssd drive just for a Pi, but when I upgrade the ssd on my main pc, then I could use the older one.

@Lugzyboy82 said in Problems getting pi 3+ to load front end: Please keep in mind that it onlu successfully scraped 50 out of 800 snes titles. In this case please open a topic with details if you want to find out why. Include the information asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and give a few example ROMs that are not successfully scraped.

@mitu OK, strange, but I tried on a different laptop and it works fine. Made the backup. The other sd card backed up just fine on the laptop that this sd card would not. I'm not sure what the issue is, but it is done ... both sd cards backed up. Thanks again!

@GoldManSex778 I did try that and still ran into issues so said hell with it...erased everything off of USB drive and started from scratch at instructions for manually mounting. Since I had copied everything over using a previous copy method and that might have been causing issues. Right now I'm copying the correct directory structure over, so hopefully everything will work properly now once I do the rest of the steps lol. If anything I've learned some things about Linux from the experience. Final Update: Success! Thank you all for helping! For anyone ever going through this, one of two things I think was the issue: NOT following the instructions to the letter manually mounting, or my UUID was wrong. I had the last char wrong, but could have sworn it was something different before(either new copy changed UUID, or was my error). Resolution on a laptop helps reading the characters much more clearly than on the TV screen where its almost a guessing game. I used WinSCP to confirm that its working, and booting up was much faster!

@mitu Thank you for the advice, I'll do that. I consider this problem solved. This is the first time I ask for help on this forum and I'm not desapointed :)

@taiJones00 So does the wireless work on the game girl? It would be cool to write a script to easily disable and enable it to save power. Is the hdmi port still accessible? and then you might be able to sync a wireless controller and play on a tv. The RPI3b+ can get hotter than any of the other models, I wonder if installing a fan would be possible. Of course that would use more power, depending on the emulations you want to use, it would be easy to down_clock the cpu and benefit as well.

Or maybe I overlooked, or jumped the gun on what was the problem. If you see the pretty rainbow screen then you wrote the image correctly. It may be very likely as I was reminded in the forums that there are different versions of the retropie image that will work for the different raspberry pi models. The pi 1/zero are bundled up into one image and the pi 2/3 are bundled into a different image, with older images not supporting the pi3b+. I don't know about the 1b+

@Jiryn It could be that those cards are not compatible with the pi3, or they could be bad. Stick them back in your pc and run a check disk on them. Here is a list of compatible sd cards https://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards Your cards do not show up there but a 256 Samsung EVO PLUS is listed as compatible. If you want more space you will likely need to consider using a usb mounted hdd or thumb drive. Here is another relevant discussion https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/783/largest-size-micro-sd-card

@mitu thanks! I figured maybe I needed to remove certain pieces and start from with new image. Before I do that let me see if I can see if I can generate the pishrink error again or find some Notes I may have taken months ago. I do recall the error ultimately having to do with the external hard drive not having a certain access. I will try this tomorrow hopefully it will take me hours to run this again until point of fail. Part of me says to add more internal storage and try pishrink internally and not on External drive. I will also lookup what version Retropie I am running. Thanks!!

very nice, saving for further reference. Thanks

@garradam not safely shutting down can potentially cause corruption of your sd card. If your pi freezes you should remotely access your pi through ssh and safely shutdown that way. Often times it's only emulation station that isnt responding. There are a number of easy to use ssh apps for smartphones that are very convenient to use.