@zaphod42 For PSX games you have to have them extracted because the emulator reads .pbp, .iso, and .bin/.cue so if you want to play your games you have to extract the files.

Well, here's what I'll do.

I'm going to try and fuss with the existing build for a bit, and if I can't fix it, I will get a larger SD card (not enough room on 8gb anyway) and use that for a fresh install of retropie from your supported builds. I assume that Retropie doesn't care how many gigs of storage I give it, does it? There's not like a 32 bit / 64 bit -style limitation on how big the SD card can be, is there?

At which point, i will probably be back asking a million and a half questions about how to set that up!

Thanks.

EDIT: I dunno if this helps anyone, but I've discovered that this problem is isolated to only Retroarch itself and it's Liberato-based emulators. Non-liberatro based emulators work fine, but the retroarch config or any lr- emulators crash on startup with no error message.

Thanks for the help and suggestions. I figured there was a decent chance I'd need to reinstall... I shut Retropie down through the emulationstation menu, but I'll have to make sure I'm waiting long enough before unplugging. I have had to hard shut it off several times when games have hung, but that was rare.

[Not sure this is what you're looking for but....]

This is what I've done (ignore the attract mode bit) -

Runs it all from the HDD (SD card is still needed), has been working fine for me.

@ivarwa I have done that multiple times, with different operating systems, NOOBS gave me error writing system partition, but at least it booted then. Now the light doesn't even turn on.

@swandog You are wellcome

@AgentGentner

Not a problem. Glad it's up and running.

@afoldedpage

Were you able to get the 8bitdo controller working?