my tweaks right after installing RetroPie 4.6

BuZz

Useful list. Thanks and welcome back!

Clipo

Thank you for the keyboard setup

windg

My tweaks :

Configure input for the keyboard from ES menu.
i am setting a new password ( from raspi-config > Change User Password)
Change resolution from 1920x1080 to 1280x720 (raspi-config > Advanced options > Resolution)
Enable SSH ( raspi-config > Interfacing Options)
Change all Localisation Options to US_UTF-8(raspi-config > Localisation Options)
Configure overscan settings (from terminal, sudo nano /boot/config.txt)
Configure input for the gamepad from ES menu, i am adding and some entries to the gamepad.cfg file (/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig)
Install Scummvm, Drastic emulators. (from Retropie Setup menu)
Update the system (from Retropie Setup menu)
Change/adding some settings in the retroarch.cfg file ( /opt/retropie/configs/all )
Disable splashscreen, change transition type to instant, change volume to 80% .
If everything is ok i take back-up the image and the gamepad.cfg, retroarch.cfg, config.txt files. I am converting the image to NOOBS-compatible image with this guide to use with NOOBS Lite for a setup.

wmarcio

@meleu você é brasileiro?
Somos dois aqui então hein...

Keltron3030

@meleu thanks for the nice little checklist. Having not updated my image in maybe a year or more (was on stretch), it was time for me to update as well. I use the tronkyfran theme so I had to do my obligatory update to the virtualboy console image (the stock one is pretty bad). Maybe someone could update the theme with the one I made. .

The only hurdle I've run into thus far is related to multi_switch.sh which I know you worked on with crcerror.

I downloaded the script, updated autostart.sh, and installed raspi-gpio

At this point I'm not sure why the switch is not triggering a shutdown. Do you happen to be using multi_switch.sh successfully with this latest version?

PS... One other thing that had been bugging me since I updated to 1.8.1+ was that the new menu widgets seem to often cause the screen to get "cut-off" when a leaderboard or login pop-up came on the screen. I'd say it happened more than 30% of the time and would force me to reload the game and cross my fingers. I was hoping that the issue would somehow be resolved in this latest update but that was not the case. Fortunately I was able to determine the cause of the issue so maybe someone will also benefit from reading this. The bug seems to be related to the auto-sizing option in Settings>OnScreen display>OnScreen Notifications>Auto Scale graphics widgets

Disabling this feature seemed to solve the problem.

Update: The issue is still present unfortunately ☹️

meleu

I've edited the OP putting some other tweaks I did.

The items I added:

sudo raspi-config...
- ...
- Interfacing options > SSH
- Change User Password
Configure input...
- (...) disable the exit emulator via Select+Start and reset game via Select+X (it's really frustrating when you press them and accidentally go out of the game ruining your progress). It's possible to accomplish this with this oneliner:
  sed -i 's/^\(input_\(exit_emulator\|reset\)_btn\)/#\1/' /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/*.cfg
It's common my wife/kids accidentally enter the runcommand menu while the game is loading, then I disable that going to EmulationStation > RetroPie Menu > Runcommand Configuration, and use this config:
- Launch menu: disabled
- Launch menu art: enabled (to see the neat launching images)
- Launch menu joystick control: disabled

meleu

@Keltron3030 I'm getting the issue you mentioned too. Very weird indeed. Gonna do some investigation when I have some free time.

Regarding the multi_switch, let's see if @cyperghost has something to say about it.

Keltron3030

@meleu yeah, hoping he has some insight. Btw, I map the combo button to the right control stick (click down) on my 8bitdo. This makes it nearly impossible to reset the game accidentally and avoids having to visit the retroarch menu to exit.

Darksavior

@meleu I use a few tweaks from here. Some are probably not compatible, so I can only approve of the ones I've used.
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I disable Wait for network at boot. Disable Serial. SSH. Set kb layout to US. Change elevator=deadline to elevator=noop (not sure if this does much). Remove avahi daemon. Remove samba (I use ssh-ftp). Disabled triggerhappy. Uninstall USB Rom Service. Boot times should be better.

Retroarch has an aspect ratio bug. Its default is set to "custom". Changing it to "core provided" seems to fix that.

Set-up to run games from usb (the stick is in the cart). Install gamecon driver for my original snes pads. Transfer back scraped art, configs, etc. Install the pegasus frontend. Install my personal buggy crappy custom stock theme but I love it.

And of course, install your joystick selector.

cyperghost

@meleu Hello my friend :) I just reinstalled RetroPie 4.6 just for testing your tweaks and they are working fine. How are you and your beloved ones? Some people have lots of free time now, esspecially the younger oner. Maybe some of these will continue the work that was introduced a long time from the older ones. You know the Raspberry is a tinker-platform.

For Retro-Gaming I'm looking to the BATOCERA system. Meanwhile it's an outstanding distribution with lots of features and improvements made. The only thing, as it's a embedded linux system you can't quickly install a new emulator core for example.

Personally I'm well and healthy all close relatives, friends and parents and wife are too. That is not usual in these days. So have a nice day ... feel well. Cya

@Keltron3030 The multi_switch is working on 4.6. Maybe you did not set the x-bit or used a wrong set of parameters.

Keltron3030

@cyperghost thanks for the confirmation, I guess I'll have to screw around with it some more.