Your most frustrating moment?

RedBatman

@meleu Oh then do you know how I can enable it, cause it has had me stumped for months.

meleu

@RedBatman When you configure input in emulationstation you have a chance to choose which button will be used to enable hotkey. If you really really really want to exit emulator with select+start, define the the select as "enable hotkey". Otherwise you can use the button you defined plus start to exit emulators.

pjft

"Months" wouldn't sound right - the explicit "hotkey" definition option was only added recently.

Furthermore, if you can access the RetroArch menu, you need to have some sort of hotkey defined, as it's supposed to be accessed via hotkey + X.

Have you tried pressing the XBox home button together with start?

cyperghost

Well I agree I cheated RetroPie with RecalBox for my little project the Pi zero in a Car monitor. It took my ages to give RecalBox CRT output. Then I setted the WIFI key (at this time RetroPie got the WIFI key via text file - easy nuff) and then all settings were gone because I did not remount the partion to write only and the RecalBox wouldn't boot again in graphics mode.

So I was fed up with this system... It is said it is SO easy to configure RecalBox but it's pure hell if you go to the innards of this system. I don't like the NOOBs loader maybe I'm such a NOOB that I NOOB the NOOBs loader.

After 6h of configurating I was back to a first boot level with RecalBox! So I went back to RetroPie!

As we see ES makes big steps ;) I think there is no need in changing to annother emulation system. RetroPie is all in all good setup without NOOBs

RedBatman

@pjft No I haven't I'll give that a try. I don't know why the xbox home button was made to open retroarch, buy honestly I kinds of prefer it. If I wanted to change the hotkey where should I go. I did configure my buttons in emulation station awhile back when first setting up my 360 controller.

RedBatman

@cyperghost Well when I first installed Retropie it was through command line on the Pixel/Raspian OS. My SD card came preinstalled with NOOBS. Didn't think NOOBS could cause people hassle.

backstander

When I first got RetroPie, I had a hard time getting my head around setting up MAME and understanding why different Arcade emulators needed different Romset. I had read the Wiki but I was still confused lol. The Wiki is great and has a lot of useful information but I guess I'd never had to deal with Romsets before.

Also I remember initially having trouble setting up Reicast/Dreamcast and getting it to work with my Xbox 360 controller. After searching many forums and trial n error I finally got it working so I updated the Wiki with my findings!
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Dreamcast

Now if something frustrates me, I'll just update the Wiki and hopefully that helps someone else in the future.

hooperre

Not immediately jumping to a USB for roms. Waiting forever for them to transfer to an SD (dreamcast, PSX, etc.) over WiFi. Losing my gameslist.xml files/custom rom pictures wayyyyyyy too frequently anytime I had to jump back to a previous backup. So many advantages to using a USB for roms.

Attempting to properly configure audio on Win 3.1x on DosBox and get it to recognize the 'audio' portion of the Civilization 2 CD.

Ongoing? Attempting to get my DS4 to have the correct deadzones with Reicast and some DosBox games. Attempting to get Playchoice-10 games to work in MAME or get rid of the top portion in AdvMAME so I can play Wild Gunman!

cyperghost

@RedBatman said in Your most frustrating moment?:

@cyperghost Well when I first installed Retropie it was through command line on the Pixel/Raspian OS. My SD card came preinstalled with NOOBS. Didn't think NOOBS could cause people hassle.

I think it makes people hassle if you want to change the /boot partition itself and you are working on a windows mashine without access to other partitions ;)

RedBatman

@hooperre If your using play choice 10 just use the nes emulators, it's what I did for castlevania.

lilbud

My biggest frustration was setting up retropie 2.6. Everything had to be done manually. Wifi setup? all done manually through an obscure file, etc/network/interfaces, and setup through there. Controller setup, command line. My point is that almost everything you wanted to do had to be done from the command line.

hooperre

@RedBatman AFAIK there's not a mouse setting for any of the LibRetro cores of the NES emulators so you can't use a Zapper. Has to be through MAME or AdvMAME for the time being. Sounds like there is an update coming soon that will change that, though.

A Former User

Scraping. Just Scraping. Hardest thing to do for me. I would do a (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ if someone asked to fix their scraping issues. Even Sselph's scraper is an issue.

RedBatman

@pjft Okay so I reconfigured my controller and saw the hot key option so I pressed select. However it still wont let me exit roms when I press select and start. I went into retroarch and into input configs and saw the option for enable hotkeys, yet no button was shown to be an enabler, any advice on what I should do now?

backstander

@RedBatman

any advice on what I should do now?

You're using the Xbox 360 controller with the xpad driver?

If so, look in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/ for your Xbox controller config file. I have a wireless one so mine is named Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver (XBOX).cfg

I cleaned my up and put it in a more readable order but look to make sure you have these that you want:
(note: I like to use the Guide button for my hotkey instead of the Select button but you can just switch them if you want)

# Hotkey button
#input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8" #Select
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "10" #Guide
# Exit emulator
input_exit_emulator_btn = "9" #Start
# Saves state
input_save_state_btn = "1" #B button
# Loads state
input_load_state_btn = "2" #X button
# Move to next save state slot
input_state_slot_increase_btn = "5" #R button
# Move back a save state slot
input_state_slot_decrease_btn = "4" #L button
# Reset ROM
input_reset_btn = "0" #A button
# Toggle RetroArch menu
input_menu_toggle_btn = "3" #Y button
# Volume controls: mute, volume up and down
input_audio_mute_axis = "+1" #Down on D pad/Left Stick
input_volume_up_axis = "-3" #Up on Right Stick
input_volume_down_axis = "+3" #Down on Right Stick
# Take screenshot
input_screenshot = "7" #Right Trigger button

RedBatman

Well actually I think I'm fine with doing my way now. Its just a minor extra step I have to do. Other than that everything else for me is fine.

drake999

I have two that come to mind. First is when I was trying to play ISO based games such as Sega CD, PSX or PSP. I would get momentary freezes when data was being streamed from the virtual disk while playing a game. This was particularly bad on PSP, where the freezes seemed to last between 7 to 10 seconds. As you can imagine that was pretty disruptive to gameplay. I was able to mostly resolve the issue by getting a super fast SD card and overclocking the SD card reader from 50 MHz to 100 MHz. If memory serves, I purchased a 128 GB SanDisk Extreme series card (not Ultra). Once I started using that card with the overclock the momentary freezing issue became extremely rare, as I was getting reads and writes in the area of 43 MB/s. Still I found it odd that I had to resort to these extremes to resolve the issue, since the machines being emulated used a fraction of even the default transfer speeds on a regular card with no overclock. I chalked it up to something the OS was doing in the background causing momentary interruptions. The better card and increased speed of the reader probably allowed the OS to accomplish whatever the heck it was doing quickly, minimizing interruptions.

The second frustrating thing I've run into is pretty much every time I've tried to do a version update on RetroPie, the end result is an install that is broken in some way. Writing a 128 GB image is very time consuming and I would always have to resort to re-imaging an older backup because the update broke the install. This is the reason I'm still running RetroPie 3.6. It does what I need it to do. An update was more something to do for me, and if I could benefit from certain improvements that was a nice bonus. In the future at some point I will do a new build from scratch, but I will not attempt updates again unless I find out something I was doing wrong was causing my grief and there is a better way to do it.

drake999

Oh and one more situation comes to mind now that I'm thinking about it. Back when I was doing my first Rpi2 build, I was going to take advantage of the increased performance offered to try some 3D game emulation, so I bought a pair of Logitech f710 controllers. The install went without a hitch and the OS booted faster, but when it came time to map the controller buttons I ran into a nasty snag. When programming the analog trigger buttons, pushing and releasing the trigger were recognized as two separate button presses. This made it impossible for me to correctly configure the triggers and presented a serious obstacle to playing certain games. It took me forever to realize that I had to go into the setup script and install the Xbox 360 controller driver. After I did that problem solved. I think it might have been someone on here that helped me with that actually, but that was like two years ago.

backstander

@drake999

I was able to mostly resolve the issue by getting a super fast SD card and overclocking the SD card reader from 50 MHz to 100 MHz.

The second frustrating thing I've run into is pretty much every time I've tried to do a version update on RetroPie, the end result is an install that is broken in some way.

I think those 2 are related. I had the same issues when I overclocked my SD card reader. You just have to disable overclocking when you do a RetroPie update. I don't overclock my SD card reader anymore but when I did, I had this same problem but I will have to say that it makes playing CD based games much faster! Use at you're own risk lol!

drake999

@backstander Thanks for the suggestion. I had actually tried that but the update would still break the existing install. Actually if I remember correctly, I was running into these update problems even before I discovered the SD card reader could be overclocked.