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      smoothmalik
      last edited by

      im running just regular FBA

      here you go
      pi@retropie:~ $ ls -lah /opt/retropie/configs/fba
      total 176K
      drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4.0K Jun 15 23:11 .
      drwxr-xr-x 52 pi pi 4.0K May 27 16:16 ..
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 195 May 27 16:13 capex.cfg
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 0 Jun 12 18:18 content_history.lpl
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 414 Jun 7 01:49 emulators.cfg
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1.1K May 27 16:13 fba2x.cfg
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 49K Jun 15 23:12 fb_alpha_libretro-1.cfg
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 49K Jun 14 03:42 fb_alpha_libretro.cfg
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 46K Jun 16 00:33 retroarch.cfg
      -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 221 May 27 16:14 retroarch.cfg.rp-dist

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        Floob @smoothmalik
        last edited by

        @smoothmalik
        Whats the "default=" value show when you run nano /opt/retropie/configs/fba/emulators.cfg

        These 2 files are produced when you save in RGUI

        -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 49K Jun 15 23:12 fb_alpha_libretro-1.cfg
        -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 49K Jun 14 03:42 fb_alpha_libretro.cfg
        

        And by the looks of the file size of retroarch.cfg you have either renamed one of those files to be retroarch.cfg or you have added a lot of lines in there.

        The video above explains why RGUI produces the large 46k files and why RetroArch wont read them. It also shows how to rip the relevant line(s) out to add to the original (very small) retroarch.cfg file.

        Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
        RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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          smoothmalik
          last edited by

          default="lr-fba"

          I havent renamed anything. I got desperate yesterday and today and tried to save the config file in rgui after I made some changes but of course they didnt stay. The only change ive made in retroarch.cfg was done in the config editor and that was enabling bilinear filtering (true) and save on exit (true).

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          • FloobF
            Floob @smoothmalik
            last edited by

            @smoothmalik I'm assuming you have upgraded an older version of RetroPie.
            I would reset your RetroArch config with

            rm /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg
            cp /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg.rp-dist /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg
            

            Then go back in the config editor, just enable bilinear filtering, then pastebin your /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

            Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
            RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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              smoothmalik
              last edited by

              i didnt get far

              pi@retropie:~ $ rm /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg
              rm: cannot remove ‘/opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg’: No such file or directory

              I also tried removing though ftp also wouldnt let me

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              • FloobF
                Floob
                last edited by

                Thats odd?

                This should show its there
                ls /opt/retropie/configs/fba/r*

                This should remove the old one
                rm /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

                unless you ran it twice, so its not there now?

                Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
                RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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                  smoothmalik
                  last edited by smoothmalik

                  here the paste bin. Bilinear filtering reamained enabled and so did save on exit. The retroarch.cfg file is 46.1 kb now

                  http://pastebin.com/uYnT3SXy

                  I got the left joystick working in config editor.

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                  • FloobF
                    Floob
                    last edited by

                    If its now working for you, then great. But your retroarch.cfg really shouldnt be looking like that.

                    Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
                    RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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                      smoothmalik
                      last edited by

                      I'll do a clean install maybe tomorrow. Thanks you've been extremely helpful.

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                      • FloobF
                        Floob
                        last edited by

                        No problem. If you do make a clean install, check out the video to explain how to make RGUI changes stick.

                        Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
                        RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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