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You should just be able to press select to insert coins (on lr-mame4all) but sometimes the hotkey conflicts so you have to change your input_enable_hotkey button to something else if you want select to work in inputting coins.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Can’t-Insert-Coins%3F

If you’re using mame4all you can press tab and change the configurations from that menu.

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I would recommend installing the latest retropie SD image (3.0) as floob said as it integrated hotkeys by default (for retroarch emulators)

You can also see this page on the wiki for manual retroarch configurations:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

The wiki also details how to connect to ssh (basically logging into your pi over your home network) along with many other things. Its a very useful resource.

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Last I checked emulationstation doesn’t have any sound.

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See this page for ROM transfer:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/How-to-get-ROMs-on-the-SD-card

You can re-enable it from the setup script, and make sure you create a folder called retropie on it first. Or better yet start from a fresh 3.0 image as that was just released and is much easier to set up than 2.6.

As far as GBA roms- see this page:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Game-Boy-Advance

You need to place gba_bios.bin in the bios directory.

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If all 4 controllers are the same, you should only have to configure one. else- you can just press start in emulationstation and configure each controller that way after you’ve finished the first configuration on boot.

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It’s a real pity there wasn’t much more support for this. We’ve recently integrated video support for splaashcreens but I still feel like plymouth is a much better boot option- I’ve been wanting to try this out- I’ll test it when I’ve got time and if I’m able to get it to work I’ll post my steps to get it to work and also a simple video of it booting-

You’ve done great work nils- I appreciate it.

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Usually there are cec options on TVs that you can turn off.

Or if you want to disable it on the pi itself you can Add hdmi_ignore_cec=1 to /boot/config.txt

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Update your setup script and it will be called lr-bluemsx.

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This is something that we’ve thought of and that needs to be done- but currently there are some bugs with the pifba emulator and 4 player support and hat controls, so until those are fixed we can’t really incorporate it into the inputstation module yet.

As far as mame is concerned, there isn’t a specific config file with controls so I don’t know how it would be incorporated into the controller module.

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This would also be beneficial for msx/msx2 games with bluemsx as there are separate core options depending on which version of msx games you have.

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If you’re looking at mame4all ROMs this is the .DAT set you’ll want to use:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TMeZ6iEFvHNDNHcl8tcUNIcDA/view?usp=sharing
You can follow this video to create the set with the above .DAT file (make sure you create a merged set)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SuWl2GdEfDA

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/home/pi/.emulationstation

The search function in the forum is a very useful tool.

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You can change the menu option in retroarch.cfg to xmb or something like that- you can also change it in the rgui- don’t know how it would affect processing though…

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Try right clicking on win32disk imager and run it as an administrator.

If that doesn’t work you may have a bad SD card reader

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/3240

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Its option 318… But if you built from the retropie 3.0 image it will automatically configure your retroarch configs along with the emulation station configs on first boot.

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sometimes you have to check the list a few times as the scan sometimes doesn’t work the first time.

If you want to configure it manually:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp

and edit wpa supplicant

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network={
    ssid="NETWORK_NAME"
    psk="NETWORK_PASSWORD"
}

There are known issues with your wireless dongle as well- new ones are pretty cheap (<$20)

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Possible you may already have the latest updated version of retroarch. If you built from 3.0 SD image there haven’t been too many changes since then. (If you have the quick menu in the rgui that’s the latest changes compared to retropie 2.6)

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Well if its telling you the directory doesn’t exist you may have bigger problems if it really doesn’t exist. One workaround that may work is to just create it where you are with sudo nano interfaces then after you’ve saved it type sudo mv interfaces /etc/network/interfaces

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If you built it from an sd image it should exist, and even if it doesn’t exist for some odd reason when you type sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces when you save it (by pressing Ctrl+x) it should just create the file. Are you sure you didn’t miss a step? (also you can update your setup script and use the new WiFi module in option 3 of the setup script- but you’ll need to be connected to the internet to do that)

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This theme looks really good! Once we get the repo set up for themes I think that yours would be a great addition.

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There are some extensive changes in the rgui menu with the newest version. Floob made a good video on saving configs that may be useful to you.

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What version of retropie are you running? If you’re running retropie 3 rc1 it automatically configures your controllers for retroarch along with emulation station on first boot. See this page:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation

As long as the emulators are retroarch emulators it will work. Non-retroarch emulators have individual configurations that need to be done manually. Those are on their respective emulator pages on the wiki as well.

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The easiest way I’ve found is just to build a merged set with clrmamepro pro- it puts all the parents and their respective clones into one folder. Alternatively you can extract all 4 zip files and then zip the files all into one zip named the same zip name as the parent. On the ROM compatibility lists it shows which ROMs are clones/which parents they need.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

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Best way for PSX Multidisc games

Are you using the retropie 3 rc1 image?

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The github commit history shows exactly what we’re working on, you cant any more detailed than that.

I started a Google doc for viable feature requests/ things I’d like to implement in the future (some of them I’m currently working on now- like integrating video splashscreens)
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/936.

Also with each release there is a changelog showing what has been updated which I mirror on the wiki:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Changelogs

(BTW 3.0 stable should be released any day now)

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Use something like winscp or you can type sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and just edit it right there, then press Ctrl+x to save your changes, and then press enter.

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You could try the code sudo shutdown -h now the -h is where the halt thing comes from.

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not a problem, happy to help- some systems need a bios file (think of it as a file that gives the emulator permission to run) the wiki will always note if the system needs a bios and what the file names should be called. The bios files can’t be legally included with the retropie project as they are copyrighted by the original companies, so those are up to the user to supply themselves.

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needs bios files. see this page:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Atari-800-and-5200

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This is a good thread that discusses various options:

How do you turn off your Retro Pie

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for ssh see this page of the wiki:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/How-to-get-ROMs-on-the-SD-card

You can use something like winscp to ftp into the raspberry pi and you can view permissions that way or you can type ls -lah in the terminal to get more details on the files in the directory you’re in.

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I haven’t tried, colem looked promising to me but the developer is restrictive about his code so it would never be incorporated into the retropie project. Wish I knew more about coding so I could integrate the bluemsx controls. Colecovision I think is the last major system retropie needs.

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See this post:

https://github.com/libretro/blueMSX-libretro/issues/8

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lr-Bluemsx runs colecovision (install it from the setup script)- it pulls from my fork of bluemsx, you just have to change the core option to Colecovision, then you add the coleco.rom bios to the colecovision folder in the machines folder (in the bios directory)

… But the only caveat is it hasn’t been coded to accept keyboard or joypad input yet… So it’s currently useless- but I have tested it and the games do run.

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The retropie wiki is a useful resource:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

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