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    • jawsisra

      4.8 Emulationstation Problems
      Help and Support • troubleshooting • • jawsisra

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      sirhenrythe5th

      @jawsisra said in 4.8 Emulationstation Problems:

      Power Supply used: Do not know the name of it. It has a switch to turn off the power

      is this the way you shut down retropie / the raspberry pi?

    • ViperAcidZX

      EmulationStation often crashing when using themes other than the default
      Help and Support • troubleshooting themes es themes crashing freeze issues • • ViperAcidZX

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      WeirdH

      @pjft Sorry, lost track of this topic, mostly because my freezing was solved months ago by setting 'only parse gamelists' to on. I only just installed the -dev version yesterday, now with threaded loading set to true. Will report back if I encounter anything of note.

    • asktheaxis

      Having trouble loading any ROMs
      Help and Support • snes9x snes emulator troubleshooting roms dont work • • asktheaxis

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      sirhenrythe5th

      @asktheaxis it should not be too hard to find a correct rom for SNES, it may become much harder when you decide to go for arcade roms ;D
      However: a sidenote, you can keep the SNES roms in zip-format.
      Try to search for zipped roms with the addition "good", "[!]" or "tosec".
      Those will work for sure.

    • When_Suddenly

      PiGRRL Zero troubleshooting adding roms
      Help and Support • pigrrl zero rom transfer rom management usb flashdrive troubleshooting • • When_Suddenly

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      mitu

      @when_suddenly said in PiGRRL Zero troubleshooting adding roms:

      The problem is none of the emulators show up on boot. I looked at another form for this issue and apparently they had their "Parse Gameslists only" option set to on... however I cannot even access that option in the emulation station main menu. The "other settings" tab is completely missing.

      That means you're using a very old EmulationStation (and possibly RetroPie) version. Emulators not showing up on boot means also that they're not installed. Looking at the date of the installation document, it's from 2016, so it looks like they're using an old image.

      Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download and we can provide support, otherwise ask the provider of the image for help.

    • vanmakt

      Sounds issues PPSSPP (PE 3rd Birthday)
      Help and Support • ppsspp audio troubleshooting • • vanmakt

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      Genos98

      @hunksurvivorx Agree it's something to do with the newest update. It was perfect before because I played it briefly back in july. Playing it with the latest build and the sounds is terrible and even screeching at times.

    • FormulaFox

      Pi Zero arcade issues
      Help and Support • pi zero arcade troubleshooting mame finalburn • • FormulaFox

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      FormulaFox

      @dankcushions
      Yeah, I checked the sites myself and had no issue. I don't see how it could be the connection on the Pi, though, since the wifi works for anything I do via the GUI - both the main Retropie interface and the setup interfaces. Scraping, updating, etc, all works until I go into the terminal. I'll probably have to seek help elsewhere as I suspect that's still outside of your ability to assist.

      Thanks for the help, though. I at least now know some stuff to look at should other problems arise in the future.

    • KingCosmuder

      Neo Geo Roms wont start
      Help and Support • neogeo help emulator issue troubleshooting • • KingCosmuder

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      KingCosmuder

      @dankcushions luckily i found the bios needed thanks

    • pedrovay2003

      Retropie won't run PS1 .pbp games bought from the PlayStation Network
      Help and Support • ps1 psx problem troubleshooting • • pedrovay2003

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      lostless

      @pedrovay2003 well the keys were leaked many years ago. Possible that they are in there. Or they have some hackey way of decrypting like the programs that will extract a clean iso from a bought pbp.
      You may be the one of the very few people to attempt to run a DRMed file in an emulator, because for the most part, it should not work.
      Also beetle-psx is practically the same emulator as mendafins.

    • cjtallu

      RPI4 Model B Arcade Joystick Controller 2 Swaps A and B button When Exiting RetroPie Game
      Help and Support • arcade controls debug troubleshooting • • cjtallu

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      cjtallu

      @mitu Before I considered dismantling the buttons from my arcade, I found this other command called jstest, which allowed me to see on the command line what each button was configured to on the USB encoder.

      Once I ran jstest /dev/input/js0 for player 1 controls and jstest /dev/input/js1 for player 2 controls, Player 1 appeared to be configured correctly with buttons A and B. However, Player 2 clearly is the one not configured correctly. Here I finally found my problem where player 2 had buttons A and B setup to the wrong physical pins of the USB encoder.

      Now that I had SW proof of my mistake, I disassembled my controller case and flipped the connections for those two buttons on player 2 onto the USB encoder. Put everything back the way it was, and behold my arcade is now acting correctly with both controls synced up.

      Thank you very much @mitu for your suggestion. I do appreciate it.

    • del1verance

      Wired Controller Turns Off After Few Minutes Idle
      Help and Support • controller help troubleshooting controller arcade controls • • del1verance

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      del1verance

      @mitu Good call! I'm not sure how much power it's pulling, but setting over_voltage to 2 definitely makes it last longer, though not completely staying on all the time. Trying with setting it to 3 right now and that seems to be going strong!

    • jawsisra

      What is wrong with my Rasberry Pi 4 B
      Help and Support • help seting up new to pi troubleshooting • • jawsisra

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      mitu

      Is your PI configured to boot from USB (not only from sdcard) ?
      Check out the Pi 4 Boot Diagnostics page to determine that - look for the 'boot mode' configuration that is shown when you start and see if it includes USB.

    • SpeedySausage

      Snes mini theme troubleshooting
      Help and Support • theme help troubleshooting es themes • • SpeedySausage

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      SpeedySausage

      @mitu used all the resolutions but they had the same issue. I fixed it by making the bars smaller and modifying some code. Here is what i did. Reference if someone comes with same problem.

      First here the two smaller images. https://imgur.com/a/BbOfzr7
      I named them gamelist_outline_smaller.png and gamelist_background_smaller.png

      Uploaded this files to my pi on /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/art
      then modified the setup xml with

      sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/layouts/setup.xml

      replaced both paths with the new images like this example

      <image name="gamelist_background" extra="true"> <path>./../art/gamelist_background_smaller.png</path>

      since my resolution is using 4x3 i went and

      sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/snes-mini/layouts/4x3setup.xml

      i replaced gamelist outline so it alignscorrectly, with this code

      <image name="gamelist_outline" extra="true"> <origin>0.5 0.5</origin> <pos>0.7055555555555556 0.5</pos>

      and done

    • Tango

      Damaged MicroSD FS - want to pull just arcade data off
      Help and Support • troubleshooting restore directorynames • • Tango

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      Tango

      Everything seems okay now. I had a Linux system I needed to set up. (Others were in use and I couldn't easily use them for this.) I got it up, added GPartEd (which, interestingly, did not include GPart as a dependency) and read the card from there. GPartEd could not find anything wrong with the partitions on the card, but after I used it to read and very, the card worked when I put it in the Pi!

      I didn't write anything to this device, in Mac or Linux, so my guess is that GPart or GPartEd did something while just reading. Maybe it had trouble with a few bytes or when it wrote a date, it updated something else. I don't know, but just reading it and having GPart look at it was enough that the card started working when I tested it.

      It's worth noting that when I booted it with my Pi, the system did have issues with partitions and scanned them, but found no errors.

      I'll be taking it down and testing it in the arcade setup this evening.

    • mckenna0312

      HDMI Output
      Help and Support • hdmi raspberry pi 4 output troubleshooting • • mckenna0312

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      mckenna0312

      I just updated to the Beta version for Raspberry Pi 4 and it seems to be working. Thanks!

    • IanDaemon

      [SOLVED] Troubleshooting Arcade No Audio
      Help and Support • audio arcade mame retropie troubleshooting • • IanDaemon

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      Veridor

      FWIW, I ran into this issue as well after updating. Going into Raspi-Config and changing the audio from Auto to HDMI fixed the issue for me.

    • laissezfarrell

      Troubleshooting 'no config found for system gargoyle-free'
      Help and Support • emulator cfg troubleshooting newbie new emulator • • laissezfarrell

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    • IsabelleXL

      Controller is only detected if plugged into official pi keyboard and not with micro USB adapter
      Help and Support • troubleshooting usb controller retropie pi0 • • IsabelleXL

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      edmaul69

      @greengrounds but yeah put the power supply into that hub. Then the power supply is giving power to the controller and the pi.

    • FakedPotato

      My sanwa joysticks don't work, and mess up Retropie when trying to configure them
      Help and Support • support troubleshooting • • FakedPotato

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      rbaker

      @FakedPotato with no information given, it's hard to help. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
      Maybe post the config files that you have created? What controller? Power Supply? Wiring diagrams? Photographs?

    • SmackAttack86

      USB Rom Service does not show up when i enter the retropie setup and enter configuration / tools
      Help and Support • retropie troubleshooting usbromservice usb rom • • SmackAttack86

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      mitu

      @SmackAttack86 Please add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

      EDIT: make sure the usbromservice is installed, on a PC is no longer installed automatically, you need to install it first from the optional packages section.

    • sirliam99

      retropie doesn't boot after installing over NOOBS Rasputin
      Help and Support • retropiesetup rasputin troubleshooting • • sirliam99

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      herb_fargus

      @mitu it should be called Rasputin.