@herb_fargus ok so I have to create an empty ssh file in the boot partition, Thanks for your help!

@Sano Thanks, team!

You can use the virtual gamepad:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Virtual-Gamepad

Give Unified Remote a chance
The server package for Rpi ARM6 is available here >> https://www.unifiedremote.com/download/other#linux

Then download the android app und you can control the server

But I'm not sure if this works with RetroPie and ES behind :)

honestly a few hours after posting i reinstalled and it worked, didn't do anything different other than the program i used to format my SD card. anyway thanks everyone who commented

@troyekto It was decided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation for security reasons. The RetroPie team also agree. It's very easy to enable.

If you SSH into the Pi, you can run the following commands to reset permissions on some key folders:

sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi
sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs

That will change the ownership user:group to pi:pi for all files and folders under those paths. The first one is the home directory where ROMs and other files are stored, and the second has configuration information including games list xml files.

@PetroRie raspberrypi.org disabled it in pixel because hackers are using peoples "internet of things" devices that use a common password to take down entire websites. So reluctantly the felt it was something that had to be done. So when you enable it and you drop to commandline you will notice at the top that it tells you to change your password. This is all to protect you and your device.

Truth to be told I am more confident with Sudoku and subway more than Sudo and terminals but at least I can get the point of the deep waters of using Berryboot. Thanks. :)

My best bet is not to launch EmulationStation until you press that button. Now, how you go about it would require some investigation - I suspect if anyone would have done it, you'd have an answer by now.

Best of luck.

@overfl0w Try this! It worked for me
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6198/xbox-one-controller-via-bluetooth/26

@stoney66 said in WinSCP on different network?:

could also setup openvpn...

That was my first thought, too. A vpn would make both networks one, so anything else would work like on the same network.

@chisharpe sometimes it just takes another pair of eyes! The funny thing is you were typing it correctly on the forum. We've all been there.

@columboscoat I can confirm that this app is pretty handy.

Off-topic: just out of curiosity, how did you get that "Banned" next to your username? :-) Are you really banned and still able to post?

Know the thread is old but ran into this issue when i was asked to fix a Raspberry pi with an older version of retropie that was getting the vlc error the OP was getting, fixed it with the following command.

sudo apt-get install libvlc5

also got the following error also with libbrcmEGL.so after the above was fixed so used the following to fix this one also.

sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi0

after these two, retropie and emulationstation functioned as it should.

@ScottF80 That's it - and you solved all by yourself ;)

Ok, so reinstall with 4.1

removed the hash from in front of hdmi_drive2 (now that I can see the config file) and that seemed to do it. That berryboot was the main cause like you said @rbaker , I will say this though: the config file looks way different than a regular raspberry pi one. But Ill see about any other changes in another thread. Moral of the story is skip berry boot if you can.

I got it to work using 'screen'

sudo apt-get install screen

$ screen -d -m emulationstation