Hey everyone!

New here, but have been around emulation since the mid 90s, so I would like to think I am a bit ahead of the curve. Have spent the past 2-3 weeks getting my Pi set up, and have done one build of PiPlay, and 2 builds of RetroPie just trying to get my feet wet again with Linux and all that and it has been great. RetroPie also seems to be a bit further along and have a bigger support base. I have a B+ with copper heatsinks, 5A AC adapter, a WiFi dongle that works fine, and a WIRED XBOX controller for control. I am using HDMI for the audio out to my TV. I have everything up and running, but am having some trouble, specifically with sound. I’ll try to give as much detail as possible:

1. Sound on the NES and SNES emulators seems to work fine, and is in sync with no skips. I am having controller issues on the SNES, but i just need to keep figuring out how RETROARCH.CFG works, and I’ll get around to that. NES controls work perfect for some reason. I am just using the DEFAULT emulators right now. FBA also seems to work fine – i just tested it with the D&D game – tower of doom i think.

2. Sound on MAME seems to be the biggest issue so far that I can recognize, though I can’t say that I have tried all of the emulators. For example, if I play Galaga or 1942 (both of which are obviously old games that should require little horsepower), when i press the fire button, there is probably a half second lag until the sound is played, and it is a little choppy as well. I am using the ROMS from the .37b5 set as recommended. I have read all of the blog posts, set changed the rate from 48000 to 44100 and even 22050, tried ALSA and SDL for sound (all of this in the RETROARCH.CFG under the /all folder). I have also tried overclocking all the way to turbo, and it didn’t make a difference.

Any clues what I am missing? Thanks in advance for the help! Also, any general tips/tricks that haven’t been extensively covered by existing posts (i’ve read them all) would be appreciated.

cheers!
dave