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You can manually configure joypads using this method

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These show you how the auto files wok, compared to using the main retroarch.cfg file.

You can disable the auto files if you want, or just re-configure using the built in retroarch joyconfig tool.

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Which romset (zip file) are you trying to run with FBA?

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Are you using RetroPie 2.3 or 2.4?

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This reviewer has said RetroPie images dont work with Raspberry Pi 2.

This is the biggest change in the Raspberry Pi we’ve seen so far and a new processor means some operating systems won’t work with the Raspberry Pi 2 out of the box. RetroPie, the operating system that turns your Pi into a game station wouldn’t load for me at all. Similarly, I didn’t have any luck manually compiling PS1 or Nintendo 64 emulators, so I wasn’t able to put the Raspberry Pi 2 through its paces for one of the most popular projects out there. Likewise, Raspbmc, the XBMC media center wouldn’t load either, but OSMC does. I didn’t have time to test other distros, but I imagine it’s the same.

http://lifehacker.com/the-raspberry-pi-2-is-faster-more-powerful-and-availa-1682814956

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Thats good news. But I would still take out your multiple enable hotkey lines. It only needs to be there once. Even if you have multiple hotkeys.

Plus, ideally you should only put settings that are specific to the snes emulator in your file in that directory – if you want to use the same controller for all emulators you could put these details in you auto controller file instead.

If you get bored, check out my videos that cover hotkeys and controllers.
Link in signature.

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Perhaps the RetroPie image will need a new Raspian build, so new images?

"Remember you’ll need an updated NOOBS or Raspbian image including an ARMv7 kernel and modules from our downloads page"

http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

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You have an entry state_state there? I think that’s a typo – you mean save?
And you only need to have the hotkey enable line once. You could set shader to true whilst you’re there.
You could try using the F2 key when you press select as well.

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Have you resized the card? Just checking there was enough space to save the srm bigger than 0 bytes?

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Thats odd, if the permissions are the correct (i.e. user pi is owner and group), and the .srm is named the same as the rom, I cant see why that wouldnt get loaded with it.

Are you using the default pocketnes in libretro?

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Towards the end of this one (5 mins in):

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Depends how youve scraped, but this is one folder that will be checked, other than the current rom folder itself

/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/{systemname}/

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Thanks very much for that, all a lot clearer now.

I’m currently running with gngeo as my neo emulator along with 0.138 mame romset and it seems pretty happy with that and running better than FBA seemed to.

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Yes, if ADVMAME isnt on 2.3, and it may well be I just cant remember, you can update the script and go into the binaries section to just install advmame.

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They are all already installed if you use the 2.4.x image.

Yes, to use it put the roms in:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-advmame

I think ADVMAME uses romset 0.106

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Rather than lock user pi, you are better off just changing the password.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-set-change-password-how-to/

Yes, this is safe apt-get distupgrade, but you are probably better off with
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

You stop ES by pressing Start on the joypad and using the menu.
But yes, I guess you would need to use a remote session to restart it.

To remove the emulators you mention, go into their rom directory and delete the start.txt file that is in there.

To be honest, to scrape only takes a few moments if you use this method:

To remove all scraped data, just delete the existing gamelist.xml files.

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You should get a message when saving, otherwise its probably not saving. The first video above shows this.

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You could quit emulation station then restart it, that should refresh the list without restarting the Pi.

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can you post your
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg here?

Maybe I can spot an issue.

You would need to rename it to .txt to post it though.
Or you can just post it up here: http://pastebin.com/

I’ve just noticed the joypad buttons for your Logitech are in the 2.4.2 image, I have posted them here:

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fAfuDvXe

You could put that in your retroarch.cfg (although I’m more a fan of using the auto files)

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GBA must have the bios file copied to /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS

Useful info here:
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/The-gpSP-Emulator

You dont need to install the GBA emulator (ie. by updating binaries or source) as its already there (as are just about all of the emulators) on the image you wrote.

Do you have any joy configuring your logitech using the setup script for retroarch controllers?

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It would be best to try a different game (many users have reported issues with mario all stars) maybe try super mario world.

You could try “jstest /dev/input/js0” to make sure all buttons are detected.

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Did you configure multiple controllers like this?

The mame rom folder is expecting zip files to be put here:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame/

is that where they currently are?

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hmm, I’ll see if I get hold of one to test.
Maybe these help:

Logitech F710 works in EmulatorStation but not in emulators

Logitech F710 not working for mame

http://dfarq.homeip.net/2014/07/the-logitech-f310-on-retropie/

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Sorry, you’re better off checking out the second video in that playlist.

Basically, if you go here
“cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup”
then
“sudo ./retropie_setup.sh”

that will get you into the setup.

I’d use that auto setup rather than hardcode values in the retroarch.cfg file.

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Thats odd, the beta is working pretty well for most at the moment.
2.4.2 is pretty solid, and the USB controller vid part 2 should work well on that.

Saying that, I’ve never tried a Logitech F710, your link says that is 2.4GHz, and I’ve only setup USB, Bluetooth and Xbox version of 2.4GHz wireless controller before.

If you are sticking with 2.3, you may find that this is causing the issue with the controller setup:

Error with RetroPie Setup scripts

Or are you able to get a USB controller working fine anyway?

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These should help:

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If it helps there are some controller tips here (including PS3 and Xbox):

Also, it may help to check this out to show how to write the image:

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Can you update the line in this file
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

to read
video_font_size = 16

make sure it doesnt have a # in front of it. It will help to confirm the full filename that is being attempted to load.

Can you also screenshot the text that comes up when you save a game?

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Does this help?

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Ok, plenty of space there. Can you screenshot the error you get and confirm what you do to get the error? Do you press F4 to load a game? I presume you have saved a game first?

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Are there specific games you want to try that arent supported? You could try them and see how they go.

I’m not sure how many more games mame4all could support that will run at a decent speed. Try advmame out and see how you go, it’ll probably vary from game to game.

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I guess you could scrape them all, then edit the gamelist.xml and take out the games you dont want to appear in Emulation Station.

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The full 0.37b5 romset has 2,271 sets (zip files) is that what you have?
I’ve attached the full list.

If you want to support more I would be tempted to try ADVMAME which is based on a newer romset, but you may well find the games dont run as well.

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There is a chance you may have had that error if you tried scraping from a command line whilst EmulationStation was running.

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Gngeo-Pi is compliant with roms set of mame 0.138
https://github.com/ymartel06/GnGeo-Pi/wiki/Roms

Mame4all-pi uses MAME roms 0.37b5
https://code.google.com/p/mame4all-pi/

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