[Floob]

This may help you setup an exit button combination to use from your joypad.

You will want to edit the xbox controller file in:
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs/

[Floob]

Note for 2.6.0 the path is
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/

(or you can manually add your button config directly into )
/opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg

[Floob]

Couple of things, Mario All Stars can be a problem with some emulators.
Try this in Mario Kart instead.

Also, retroarch appears to be detecting 4 controllers, which is how many the wireless hub can pick up.
I’m no expert with xbox controllers, but this may help:

[Floob]

What did you change in the retroarch.cfg?

You can save files using hotkeys on your joypad if that helps?

[Floob]

You have both players setup as J0, set player two to J1.

[Floob]

Did you install from a 2.6.0 image on the site, or build it from the script?

[Floob]

BINGO!!!!!

This is what I did not realise!

Memory
256 MB (model A, A+, B rev1)
512 MB (model B rev2, B+)
1GB (model RPi2 B)

I guess I missed that the B has 2 revisions!
With this I have also experienced a lot of the issues (black backgrounds, emulators not appearing etc..) people have posted that relate to lack of memory – ES *really* doesnt like 256MB.

Thanks very much buzz – all explained!

[Floob]

Yep, same PSU. In fact same everything plugged into it.
I appreciate your feedback, makes me think I’m not going crazy and its just an oddity that I shouldnt normally expect.

Cheers

[Floob]

Maybe, but I thought they would be stored in /boot/config.txt and therefore be the same on both.
Or are you saying there is a potential hardware defect on one (the Pi that has the problems was one from the original release in 2012)?

I’m rebuilding an image for the problem Pi, have overclocked it back to High and it seems fine. Its so odd.

Just hoping I dont get any similar issues in the future.

[Floob]

Well you could but I’d suggest you use the auto detect system.

[Floob]

You can grab the images you need here:
https://github.com/libretro/common-shaders/tree/master/handheld/gameboy/resources

[Floob]

You may find a quick overview on hotkeys helps you set exit combinations:

[Floob]

You could check this file for any oddities.
/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg

[Floob]

The easiest/safest way is to run
“raspi-config”

Then choose advanced and overclock. There is just one current overclock setting for the RPi2.

Or you can edit the config.txt as you mention if you want to custom tweak it.
Some details here:
http://haydenjames.io/raspberry-pi-2-overclock/

[Floob]

I guess some people may want to use a Pi2 image as some of the binaries are optimised for that new CPU.

[Floob]

I guess you could FTP your roms directories to your PC, then FTP them back to the new Pi?

[Floob]

What about the native non-libretro FBA that comes on 2.6.0 – the performance seems ok? Or maybe I dont test enough games :)

[Floob]

Thats quick! Thanks a lot buzz!

[Floob]

@Cael – Maybe I am misunderstanding, but all the retroarch cores use the retroarch.cfg here.
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

You can see this in the es_systems.cfg
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

[Floob]

The 2.6.0 image should come with Mupen64 ready to go:

[Floob]

It shouldn’t be doing that – what retroarch.cfg changes did you make?

[Floob]

I havent checked that out (I think you cant do it), but its very easy to do with gngeo if that helps?
You can even use unibios pretty easily with that.

[Floob]

I’d agree, I like the smaller image without it.

[Floob]

Where you state your “cfg file:” file above, that should be

/opt/retropie/configs/gb/retroarch.cfg
Is that where you have put the entries?

Make sure the user pi has access to the files mentioned above as well.

[Floob]

Quite a few dumping topics on atariage.com – you could try there.

[Floob]

This may also help you

[Floob]

If you are not needing anything from the original OS and are just using the card for RetroPie you would be better off just using the 2.6.0 image I’d say.

https://www.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/download-category/retropie-project/

[Floob]

You could try the Rice video plugin with mupen and see if that helps with some roms.

[Floob]

You can scrape for FBA the same way as MAME here:

[Floob]

This thread may help

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis controlls setup

PicoDrive game specific config

[Floob]

Can you post the file as an attachment here? (renamed to .txt)

Do you have the equivalent file from /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs ?

It should make it easier to map.

[Floob]

Do these files and paths exist for you – as they are referenced in your file above?

shader-files/gb-pass-1.glsl (etc..)
resources/palette.png
resources/background.png

It could be easier for you to drop the paths above and just put the files in the same directory.

[Floob]

Yes, I think that should do the trick.

From memory I think a “lsusb -v” may also output this info for you.

[Floob]

This should help you with those settings, but just ask if you need more help:

If you dont specify a folder it will save in the systems roms folder.

# Save all save states (*.state) to this directory.
# This will be overridden by explicit command line options.
# savestate_directory =

# Automatically saves a savestate at the end of RetroArch's lifetime.
# The path is $SRAM_PATH.auto.
# RetroArch will automatically load any savestate with this path on startup if savestate_auto_load is set.
savestate_auto_save = false
savestate_auto_load = false

[Floob]

Unibios seems to play silly buggers if you set it to arcade mode, when booting set it to Console mode. See about 26:30 on the video above. (You could try adding a # to the player 2 line just to check if the player1 works fine first)
To make it forget what region it is set to, delete the “memcard” file.

http://unibios.free.fr/howitworks.html

Or you could use “system arcade” instead.

If that doesnt work – have you confirmed your joypad buttons with jstest?

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