[Floob]

As the Neo Geo games are arcade games, its most likely a rom compatibility issue.

Please read this Wiki entry
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

It is very important to get the right romset for the right emulator when setting up arcade games.

I have also a (slightly dated) video about using gngeo for Neo Geo here:

[Floob]

Try taking the quotes out here

aspect_ratio_index = “22”
custom_viewport_width = “432”
custom_viewport_height = “389”
custom_viewport_x = “423”
custom_viewport_y = “165”

Or if they are there, make sure they are standard and not copied from here where they get altered slightly.

[Floob]

You can use RGUI to configure each core.

[Floob]

To start at your first post – have you tried using the runcommand to set the screen res on a per emulator basis?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/runcommand

[Floob]

@illuminerdi You can see some of the current RGUI logic on this video

[Floob]

Your controller file is likely in (for retroarch) /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/

In there it will most likely have a setup that will allow Select + X to bring up the menu.

[Floob]

What happens if you put this in your /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

input_device = "Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Controller"
input_driver = "udev"
input_player1_joypad_index = "0"
input_player1_a_btn = "1"
input_player1_b_btn = "0"
input_player1_y_btn = "3"
input_player1_x_btn = "4"
input_player1_start_btn = "6"
input_player1_select_btn = "7"
input_player1_l_btn = "5"
input_player1_r_btn = "2"
input_player1_left_axis = "-0"
input_player1_right_axis = "+0"
input_player1_up_axis = "-1"
input_player1_down_axis = "+1"
input_player2_joypad_index = "1"
input_player2_a_btn = "1"
input_player2_b_btn = "0"
input_player2_y_btn = "3"
input_player2_x_btn = "4"
input_player2_start_btn = "6"
input_player2_select_btn = "7"
input_player2_l_btn = "5"
input_player2_r_btn = "2"
input_player2_left_axis = "-0"
input_player2_right_axis = "+0"
input_player2_up_axis = "-1"
input_player2_down_axis = "+1"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "8"

Without a hotkey enable you wont be able to add other hotkeys though.

Check some of the videos out linked in my sig to see how hotkeys and config files work.

[Floob]

Not quite what I’d expect, but try updating your controller file to read like this.
(Do you have a link – amazon maybe? – to your controller?)

input_device = "DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick "
input_driver = "udev"
input_start_btn = "8"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "8"
input_up_axis = "-1"
input_a_btn = "0"
input_b_btn = "1"
input_reset_btn = "1"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_right_axis = "+0"
input_state_slot_increase_axis = "+0"
input_x_btn = "5"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "5"
input_select_btn = "4"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "4"
input_y_btn = "2"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "-0"

Then to exit a game, hold your select button and tap Start with your P1 controller.

[Floob]

Can you confirm what button number the Select reports as using jstest?

I’m assuming your 2 controllers are the same?

[Floob]

Not too sure I understand.
Put the SD card in your Pi, copy them off via FTP – check link above.
Put your own card in the Pi, and copy over the games/roms you want.

Any files named the same would get overwritten (although you would get prompted I imagine).
So you may get duplicates if the filenames are different.

[Floob]

Were you able to confirm the buttons identified when using the jstest tool shown in the video above?
That should confirm which buttons are mapped to start and select.

[Floob]

Boot the SD in your Pi (assuming you both have Pi1 or both have Pi2) and then follow the link herbfargus gave.

[Floob]

If you are saying that holding:

input_select_btn = “4”
input_enable_hotkey_btn = “4”

and pressing

input_start_btn = “3”
input_exit_emulator_btn = “3”

dont work for you, I would use the retropie setup script to re-create this retroarch controller file. (I’m assuming the odd quote marks are a result of pasting here – also assuming you have just the one config file in that directory)

To re-create the file, just run “sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh”
and choose the option in the setup menu to create a retroarch controller file.

You could backup the existing file before you do this just in case.

You could manually check the correct button codes with jstest

[Floob]

Thats odd, it seems to behave that way when I just tested on mysetup, the one I put in the top left is marked as P1.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/864#issuecomment-111897686

[Floob]

Are you talking about this line in the file you show above?
aspect_ratio_index = 22

[Floob]

These should be in your controller file anyway.
If you take out your lines referring to 6,7 and 8 what isnt working for you?

Your hotkeys should all be in:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/{yourcontroller.cfg}
Do you have 2 controllers the same?

[Floob]

You could plug that into the top left USB slot – and retroarch will treat that as P1?

[Floob]

You can set the path you want to save to using this variable (remove the #)
# savestate_directory =

It can be found in
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

Or if you want to do it on a per system basis, put it in the systems retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/{systemname}/retroarch.cfg

[Floob]

All your controller buttons and the hotkeys should already be in the controller file here:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/{yourcontroller.cfg}

What are you trying to override by adding them here? (I dont think you can get controller #2 to exit the emulator, I think that has to be controller #1).

[Floob]

Maybe youve lost your hotkey enable button.
input_enable_hotkey_btn =

You may want to update your config in this cleaner way:

[Floob]

If you want to apply this to ALL RetroArch emulators, edit the retroarch.cfg with this command:
“sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg”

Then change
# video_shader_enable = false
to
video_shader_enable = true

And change
# video_shader = “/path/to/shader.{cg,cgp,glsl,glslp}”
to
video_shader = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/hq2x2.glslp

You may also want to consider changing this from
video_smooth = true
to
video_smooth = false

depending on how you want the shader to look.

Make sure you save the file when prompted (press Ctrl-X to exit)

Or you could consider overlays

[Floob]

Have you resized your SD card?
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#expand-file-system

[Floob]

Its now holding whatever button 6 is (marked as select above), then tap whatever button 7 is (marked as start above)
Bear in mind you seem to have a range of different ” marks there, as long as they are ok in the file its ok – although it will probably work without any quotes.

[Floob]

Its essentially the -r flag, so you would type something like

retroarch -r (path to write the file to)

actually – go into a emulators.cfg file and just add an -r in that and specify the rom.
Shout if you want help with that.

[Floob]

As herbfargus says, usually best (and easiest!) way is to use a capture card.

This gives a pointer to trying with RetroArch though if you want to try it
http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Recording_Video

So basically starting it from the CLI (not an option in RGUI)
More info here:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/wiki/FFmpeg-recording-and-live-streaming#lossy-and-flexible-coding-config

[Floob]

In your /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file what does the entry have here:

input_enable_hotkey =

If its blank, try adding a key reference like “alt” to it.

[Floob]

@herbfargus – Yep, just added that today, I’m hoping that should help me out when I finally get one and have forgotten all this :)

@steveowl Before you edit your retroarch.cfg it would be worth getting the Xin-Mo identified as 2 devices.

To edit the file you do
“sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt” but check the first section in the wiki to see the exact code to add
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Troubles-with-the-Xin-Mo-Controller

[Floob]

@steveowl When you type
“ls /dev/input/”

how many js values are showing 1 or 2?

[Floob]

@steveowl – That suggests you have a typo – try typing
“nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/X (then press tab to auto complete the name)

@dalehitchy What game/emulator are you testing with – how do you start the P2 player without a start button for it?

It looks like the issue may be resolved by adding this to /boot/cmdline.txt

Autofire on the axis

However, reading that thread as a whole would be helpful as many other people have the same issue – mostly resolved by editing that file – just make sure you do it properly in nano with a space after whats there then adding the new data based on your vendor id.

[Floob]

@steveowl if you type this line, is your output the same as dalehitchy posted above?
“nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/Xin-Moxin-MoDualArcade.cfg

@dalehitchy Thanks – but do you have buttons for Player 1 / Credit style, which would be your start and select buttons? Any others at all? (As I’m thinking maybe something relates to button 8 and 9 – does the jstest output name the buttons?)

Anyway bsaed on your info try replacing the info in your Xin-Moxin-MoDualArcade.cfg with this:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=jThTMiGS

If that doesnt work, try adding this to a system based retroarch.cfg.
For example: /opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=HhHx30Uy

Although if you are only ever going to use that controller, you could just add it to the file /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

[Floob]

I haven’t used a Xin-Mo, so could you check what the codes are when you use jstest?
Can you do that for P1 and P2?

[Floob]

Can you try fn + F4?

Or maybe you could temporarily hook it up so its closer to the router so you can use an ethernet cable.

[Floob]

Maybe it uses a different retroarch controller cfg file when it is wired to when it is wireless.
Please check the link in my sig to provide more info.

[Floob]

You can have per game cfg files, but I’m not sure you can remap on a per game basis.

[Floob]

Try plugging a keyboard into the Pi, F4 to get to the command prompt and type
“ls -lah /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads”

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