Got a Pi for my birthday

Luinard

So I got a Pi for my birthday, I knew nothing about these before now. I decided to put retropie on it and roms.
Everything works fine, I'm able to play roms although I can't figure out how to go from the rom back to the menu. I've looked it up and people mention hold start then push select but that does nothing for me. Any help will be appreciated. I just dont want to keep unplugging the Pi every time I want to play a different rom.

edmaul69

@Luinard you have to press select before start. Not start before select.

Luinard

I just tried that, no dice

backstander

Happy Birthday @Luinard !

Which emulators are you using? Only the RetroArch/LibRetro based emulators allow you to use Select+Start to exit.

Luinard

@backstander sorry if I seem abit slow, new to this like 2 days new. Forgive me for my ignorance, I'm using retropi, I see something on the forum that mentions to change which buttons to press to exit an emulator with a controller. That says input_exit_emulator_btn = "7" although I dont know how to get to this section.

cafarellidigital

@Luinard what kind of controller do you have?

Luinard

@cafarellidigital I bought a SNES USB Controller ( it has no name on it) from a local retro shop

Sano

First thing, don't unplug it, chances are you'll corrupt your sd card, that would be sad.
Worst case, just issue a sudo reboot through ssh.
Have you correctly mapped select and start keys when you configured your controller ?

Luinard

Like this one

Luinard

@Sano Yes I set up the controller correctly in the configure input part, although I'm not sure what your referring to when you mention Sudo rebbot through ssh.

mediamogul

@Luinard

Forgive me for my ignorance, I'm using retropi

RetroPie isn't an emulator itself, but rather a collection of emulators and other software brought together in an easy to manage system for the Raspberry Pi. When @backstander asked which emulator you're using, he was trying to clarify which of these emulators you're unable to exit from. If it happens to be one without "lr-" at the front of it's name, then 'select+start' won't work, requiring some other action.

Luinard

My apologizes, I wasn't trying to confuse you. I have Nintendo, Snes, Gameboy, Gameboy color, Mame, Atari 2600, Sega Mega drive, Sega 32 and dreamcast on the RetroPie.

mediamogul

@Luinard

No need to apologize. However, those systems you listed still aren't emulators. using the link I posted above, make note of the column labeled emulator. The name of the one you're using personally is flashed briefly in a small white window as the game is launching. If in fact you're unable to exit in all the systems you listed, then chances are almost certain that you're at least using one "lr-" (libretro or RetroArch) emulator.

Luinard

@mediamogul Wow that is a fast screen, for just the SNES emulator I'm using lr-snes9x-next

mediamogul

@Luinard

To move forward it'll likely require that you post the contents of a few configuration files. To do that you'll need to familiarize yourself with SSH in order to troubleshoot effectively.

Edit: This information on SFTP will help as well:

Luinard

Looks like fun ( my head hurts looking just at it) lol I will try to research it abit more this evening.

simonster

Hi @Luinard , I just want to check you are using a Retropie image downloaded from the website and written to the SD yourself and not a third party image. There have been a number of threads recently about issues exiting emulators and mostly seem to be people using third party images.

Luinard

@simonster I will check into that, I copied the Sd card from my buddies card. All his stuff works fine, mine works fine beside this issue.

mediamogul

@Luinard

You'll do well to start from scratch using a fresh image from this website. However, the previously noted information will always be helpful.

backstander

@Luinard

I copied the Sd card from my buddies card.

I agree with @mediamogul, you'll do well to start from scratch using a fresh image. You're buddy probably has his/hers configured and setup for the exact controller they use.