@lonestar I advise you to keep the default username and not change it, if you're using the RetroPie image.

@sleve_mcdichael

I have now added the following to the autostart.sh: (i use autostart-custom.sh)

## Get Amount of Games fgrep -c '</game>' /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/*/gamelist.xml > /home/pi/RetroPie/systeminfo/totalgamestemp.txt grep -oP '(?<=:)[0-9]+' /home/pi/RetroPie/systeminfo/totalgamestemp.txt > /home/pi/RetroPie/systeminfo/totalgames.txt

This will get the amount of </game> tags in all .xmls under gamelists and save it in a temptxt
Then i grep only the numbers from each line and save those as totalgames.txt
Lastly i sum all these numbers with the .bashrc

Total Games changes in .bashrc

6) out+="${fgred}Games Available....: ${fgylw}$(awk '{sum=sum+$1} END {print sum}' /home/pi/RetroPie/systeminfo/totalgames.txt)"

Also made disk space checker faster by adding "/" after -Ph .

4) out+="${fgred}Disk Space.........: ${fgylw}$(df -Ph / | awk '$NF == "/" { print $4 }')${fgred}/${fgylw}$(df -Ph / | awk '$NF == "/" { print $2 }')"

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@BuZz thank you!!! really appreciate the help.

It may be a power issue - are you using a proper power source ? Can you try and test your controller via jstest to see if the buttons/d-pad/joysticks are registering ?

But... if you're trying to just prevent the message from appearing when you don't have a controller available, the easiest solution is to configure a keyboard as input in EmulationStation. When started, even if there's no controller connected, EmulationStation will skip the welcome message and go right into the system list.