I've been installing multiple emulators on here the last few days and I installed the PSP emulator just to play "Williams Hall of Fame" Pinball games.

When opening a rom it does not seem to recognize the keyboard controls on my usb x arcade controller. It recognizes the mouse (trackball) but nothing else. I'd usually hold down those 1-2 player start buttons to open the RetroArch config menu but couldn't. Any ideas?
here's a video of the issue

Is there any way to save my game/save files? I cant ssh into the pi and when I click any settings in the retropie app it hits me with an error and cycles back to the menu. I know I should just start a new image, just curious to know if there is any way to save the games

Hi, i actually have a raspberry Pi 3 B+ and I'm thinking about buying a raspberry Pi 5 for retro gaming. I found an interesting kit and i would like to know if it's a good one. I'm not really an expert about these kinds of things. Also, i want to know if dust will gather in it with how the fan hole is.

https://www.canakit.com/canakit-raspberry-pi-5-starter-max-kit-turbine-white.html?defpid=4896

Also i found this for my rasberry pi 3 B+

https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-switch.html

About the switch, do i just plug it to make it work or do i need to add some code.

Also, from the official website, the 2 official seller in my area are pishop and canakit

Thanks for your answer.

Quick question, I'm on a REALLY old version of retropie and retroarch (around 4 years I old I believe) and I'm thinking of updating but I feel it could cause alot of problems from what I've read especially since this image is so old.. I need to update because some games don't respond to my inputs anymore and I'd like to have achievements for ps1 games.

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Is it possible to JUST update retroarch within retropie or can this cause problems?

It's currently on sale for $69 on Amazon, decided this would be a better deal than a laptop Pi shell that costs over $200

I must be doing something wrong or missing something. I got the Amiga emulation working pretty good, but that part is still eluding me. I saved a few states, and it looks like they're there at first, but they eventually get erased every time I restart Amiberry. Is there a fix to this? Do I need to configure a specific file?

I'm looking for an adapter for the original digital PS1 controllers. The ones i have previously bought do not work, the believe the only button being pressed when mapping is the 'analogue' button which doesn't exist on the controller. Any advice would be much appreciated!

So dug through the website and tried finding any source but was wondering if there was a Java/flash emulator for retropie? An if anyone knew how to add games to it?

On my Pi 3B+ I am trying to run the optional package dosbox-staging and clicking on the game that I am trying to run just brings me back to the Emulation Station screen.

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On the terminal I tried running dosbox manually and I saw this error output "Could not initialize video: Could not create GLES window surface"

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All I've done is download the package from the binary and tried to run a game, I am not sure if I am missing some dependency or something for this emulator?

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Oddly, when I try to run this emulator my keyboard also stops working. I need to restart the Pi in order to get keyboard functionality back.

That’s it. What am I missing I feel dumb.

Not too sure what happened but, redream kept crashing giving an error with something relating to a GLSL problem. What I did was ran a full scale update of all packages via "RetroPie-Setup". What I'm assuming was the issue was compatibility errors. So for future reference: run a full scale update just to make sure nothing is incompatible.

I have lr-pcsx-rearmed, lr-duckstation, and lr-swanstation all installed for PlayStation (I think the latter two are from RetroPie-Extra, if I'm not mistaken). They've all been recently updated to their most recent versions. I'm running on a Pi 4.

lr-pcsx-rearmed is generally my preferred PSX emulator because of how well it can enhance 3D graphics, but I've noticed it has a real problem with 2D. As an example, when playing WCW/nWo Thunder, the character shadows are brown squares, and the video screens near the stage don't show anything. Other 2D-centric games (Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Mega Man 8/X series) will often display weird vertical lines around some 2D characters as well, or 2D menu elements will fail to load. lr-duckstation and lr-swanstation handle 2D much better, but I can't find any options there for enhanced graphics.

Is there anything I can tweak between any of those three to get a good combination of sharp 3D graphics without 2D issues?

I want to play some old arcade games, but my pi isn't reading them in the MAME folder. What so I need to do?

I've made some progress and I can now open .lha files, so -> (very) happy. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to open and use .hdf format files. Do I need to mount workbench on hard drive #1 and the .hdf file containing the game I want to play on HD#2, to boot into workbench and get into (and execute the contents of) the second hard drive from there? I'm confused and I can't find a lot of information about this... If that's how you do it, I guess it's a lot less practical than .lha files... I'm probably missing something... any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Hi, I am trying to set up an Amiga emulator in Retropie/Amiberry, and I'm encountering some difficulties. I have lots of questions, but my first one is this: my set of KS files seems to match the list at the github tutorial link, however I see some subtle differences between the files names of the two: for instance, sometimes the tutorial list has "rev xx" in a file name, but mine has an "rx" instead, or some have a [!] at the end which does not appear in the other. Do the ks files names have to match the github list exactly for this to work? Thanks.

I'm new to having a Raspberry Pi (ive got a Pi5 8GB), I got it mainly for being a dedicated emulator.

I've been playing around with it a lot so I've got a good understanding for the basic things. I would like to know what OS/Frontend/emulator (I don't know the right term) people use for emulation on there Pi? there isn't any emulators on the Pi imager and from what ive seen online nothing is Comfigured for the Pi 5 yet. Recallbox was on imager but when I looked last night it had been removed.

I am at my wits' end. Every time I try to run the Sinden test utility, I get the following:

      Found Camera SindenCamA on /dev/video0  
      Error please connect Sinden Lightgun. E4 

I have found multiple posts from people on the Internet having this exact issue, but never a single solution.

I have tried the Barebones image, same issue.

I have tried a premade image that says it's for Sinden, and I got the furthest on that as it does seem to detect the gun and I can use buttons in games and the trigger shoots, but stil no dice on the camera actually working to aim.

My guns are physically just fine, I can plug them into a Windows PC and they work (haven't tried games because I just don't really use my PC for that but I can calibrate them and the camera seems to be working as intended). It's only on my Pi 4 (three different ones at this point throughout my testing) that they don't work.

Has anyone ever solved this, or do some Sindens just straight up not work with Pis?

So I have a samba share setup with the following config, but no matter what I do when I try to access the share from my windows machine, it says I don't have permission. I've tried this config, and I've tried changing the path to just "/", which I can access, but I can't access the admin folder from there. Any help would be much appreciated.

[restropie]

path = /home/admin/RetroPie/roms

writeable = yes

guest ok = yes

create mask = 0644

directory mask = 0777

force user = pi

I'm getting really frustrated in trying to display my games in full screen on my crt TV (pal).

What I did:

• Flash retropie
• Install CRTpi RCA
• Connect to TV
• Set overscan to match the crt geometry
• Set a framebuffer of 640x480 to let me read the console

And this was fine. My games where displayed decently but not properly stretched vertically and horizontally. So I tried to touch some configurations. Now, I've found the perfect way of displaying things in the retroarch options from the config menu in emulation station: It's scale integer : off --> aspect ratio : full
Exiting all is reset to normal and I have the same resolution as before.
So I've tried to manually touch the config files, only to discover that there are tons of them and all interacting with each other.

For example I have a :
config/all/retroarch.cfg
and a:
config/all/retroarch/retroarch.cfg

Which one is the global one? Why there are two of them? Is there a way to force that aspect ratio to all my emulators and roms? How can I do that? It's been two days, sorry if I'm confused.

Hey,

I’m wondering if there’s an easy method in the config or in the command line to turn all USB ports from emitting power once the board is turned off? This would be beneficial for my retropie arcade buttons because the LEDS stay on even if it’s powered off.

I can't get my raspberry pi to read my games off of my flash drive. All of the guides I've seen say to plug the flash drive into the pi and let the pi create the necessary folders, but that doesn't work for me either. I'm stuck. Can anyone help?

I bought the latest circuit from kite through the sudomob forum a few years ago and whatever i tried, i never managed to get it to work. Would really appreciate any help! 🙏🙏

TL;DR; Looking for basic and forgiving games for my son with health issues. What are some good ones? (Excite bike on the NES was too difficult)

My son was born with a genetic issue, and part of that is he is slow with developing fine motorskills and coordination. We've got an OT & physio helping and do that, but at often it can just feel like a chore. Or other times it's best done outside, e.g. throwing & catching a ball, which doesn't work too well when it's raining or he's sick, such as today

So I thought I'd get him into some simple fun games for some bonding time, that just happens to help with his therapy

I tried my old mini-NES with Excite Bike and Mario, and he struggled with doing direction and an action that he gave up. I'd like to find something simpler and more forgiving to help build his confidence.

Happy to buy anything required.

I installed Supermodel in the Retropie-Extra version, but there is no way to make it see the controller configuration of the Supermodel.ini file, has anyone managed to configure the controller?

Just want to pick some pi4b users on how they maximized retropie performance, outside of overclocking. Dropping the resolution down to 720 help a lot. Then i started experimenting by dropping the hz from 60 to 30 and that helped clean up some stutters. What are some other ways thats will help improve playability?

Hello! I am using Pie, Emulation Station and I've been downloading some video snaps from EmuVideo. However, some of them are awful and other games don't have videos. I want to make some of my own.

The problem is, I can't find any documentation on what format to record in, what codec, container, etc? Does anyone here happen to know what works with ES/Pie and what doesn't?

Hello I'm a new to the raspberry pi and I'm currently stuck so i hope my problem can be fixed here!

i am using Raspberry Pi 3b+ for the first time it's for my technology project for school (yes I'm in high school). I downloaded retopie and had fun with setting it up but one main problem I'm having problems with adding ROMS to my Raspberry pi, I have tried a couple ways to add ROMS but nothing is working. i have already flashed the SD card and connected to the internet, and i have enabled SSH.

Originally i wanted to try a USB stick and put the game files on it and transfer that way but after researching it didn't work like that so i followed the instructions from the transferring ROMS from the retro pie site but it didn't work, then i read the first bit to see if i have done anything wrong but when it said the USB should be flashing but it wasn't it so i asked my teacher (who is on leave right now and the sub is too old to understand what I'm doing) and he didn't know what to do so i looked at videos to see any alternatives and all of them had flashing USB sticks. but i wasn't sure if the USB stick was the problem so i swapped with a couple and none worked.

So i tried a different method using WinSCP which wasn't connecting to the pi so i tried using a ethernet cable (recommended from a another tech teacher to see if it will connect better that way) and didn't work. Then i watched a couple of videos to see if i read anything wrong and i did everything correct. I'm honestly just starting to give up but if you have any recommendations, I'm all ears.