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Don’t forget you can set a hotkey for the menu if you don’t always want to have a keyboard plugged in

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i should note that the other OC settings work fine, no issues at all and i’ve seen improvements in several emulators. i ordered the modmypi GPIO cooling fan and i’ll grab a heatsink online as well. i feel with those i can go for the turbo setting in raspi-config.

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so i just bought my pi a little less than a month ago and its a model b but i can’t get the memory split to be 384. ES just HANGS if i even try it. free -h reports only 256 of total ram but the numbers on the chip itself say that this is a 512 chip. not sure what the deal is. any ideas?

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no luck with n64 since 2.1. they barely worked on 1.9 so i’m giving up. i was floored with how well castlevania: sotn runs considering how choppy some snes games can run. must just be the emulators.

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There was just one which was this one. Thomas posted his similar issue almost a day after. But thank you for the workaround.

Its just odd that in previous versions of retropie we were able to edit .cfg files without the need for permissions. Since we run ES as pi, not as root, then shouldn’t the files be somewhere that pi can do something to them? Or is it possible to set the necessary permissions in a future update?

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1-if I use the retroarch menu to edit settings within a rom and I go to “save new retroarch” or whatever it says, I get the error “cannot save to retropie/configs/a…” but it cuts off so I never see the end.

2-The cooy and pasting wasn’t working so well for me. I’m a major noob in linux so I’m still getting my bearings. I’ll try nano next time since I’ve used it before.

3- I bought the most recent model b from adafruit so I hope it has the full 512mb. Is there a way to check?

4-Do you know how I would go about making the seperate snes emulators appear different in ES? I’m assuming it involves the es_systems.cfg again or maybe a different setting?

5-one last thing since you’ve been so helpful, do you know anyway to set up controls for mame so that they stick? Its the last piece of the puzzle for me and I really wanted to fix that

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great work! a couple of points/questions

1) i added
input_reset_btn = “3” to reset the rom
and
input_menu_toggle_btn = “0” to bring up the retroarch menu but i can’t save the configs

2)how are you getting the memory split to be 384? my pi freezes the minute the emulationstation starts to appear

3)also how does one “copy and paste” inside the ssh window? i’ using puTTY on windows to ssh into the pi. was this more of a linux-based guide?

4)it looks like that chown command worked for cyberduck and winSCP, i can now log in as pi and edit the retroarch.cfg, which is super handy

5)you can apparently have both snes emulators in the emulationstation menu by adding the commands into es_systems.cfg, i haven’t quite figured out how to make them LOOK different, i just know that the first one to the left is the retroarch snes and the one o the left of THAT is pisnes. so people don’t have to choose, although the save states and save games don’t follow even though its the same rom path… weird

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In ES Hit f4 to exit to command prompt. Use the command
sudo passwd
and choose a password. Then when you go to connect via winscp, enter root as the username and your new password as the password

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hey, zSprawl. i like to use cyberduck to make changes to .cfg files and the like. so would using the sudo -s command allow me to make changes via programs like that? or if i used sudo-s and then used startx to get to the lxde could i then use the file explorer to make changes?

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how can a noob like me launch piSnes? and is there a way to make it the default emulator in emulationstation over pocketsnes? i don’t have any darkness issues, but there does seem to be some stuttering in a good portion of roms (kirby’s dreamland 3 and super metroid). if pisnes offers improvement i’d like to try it. could someone please help?

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I tried those OC settings but the pi crashes as it loads emulationstation 2. Had to learn how to remotely access config.txt via ssh, edit the OC values back to medium and then remote reboot. It was a neat learning experience but those settings won’t work for me without some cooling. I thought even setting the gpu split to 384 would work but I had the same issue where it froze at the main screen.

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Thanks! This got me out of a pickle since I was tweaking the overclock settings but screwed something up so using that method I was able to edit the config.txt and then remotely reboot to apply the settings.

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the hotkeys do not work for mame, as mame still uses its own config it seems, so if i have my keyboard plugged in i just do the whole “tab” thing and go from there. But i don’t want to use a keyboard every time i want to configure a game for mame, also it doesn’t save any changes i make. how can i get mame to use the same settings as everything else?

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i have the same issue as octubrq. i liked using either cyberduck or the lxde interface to easily cut and paste edits into the config files etc. but now with the new file system, i do not have the permissions to do this. how can i change permissions so that i can edit any file from anywhere and not just the command prompt?

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