I have had emulation station working great on my pi2 for a few weeks now. I am using a PlayStation 2 controller with a converter to USB, and a Logitech f310 gamepad. Historically when the start and select button when pushed on either controller it would allow me to Exit a emulator. However since upgrading to the pi 3 I can no longer exit emulation using the start and select button combination. There also seems to be some difficulty setting up each controller input using the configuration menu. It will frequently skip buttons without anything being pressed and I end up having to go back to reconfigure individual buttons. The system was upgraded using apt-get update and apt-get upgrade before being used in the pi 3. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to fix the start select button combination to exit the emulator? I have already tried editing the config file to reflect a hotkey and exit button , but the key numbering is different for each controller. Also I found the after editing the config file the start select method worked from Sega Genesis but did not work from Nintendo 64 for one controller and not at all for the other.

Running MAME4All on Pi3, ROMs load perfectly but on all games it’s as though the left and up keys are being constantly pressed. Am controlling everything using a USB keyboard, have tried various keymappings. Behaviour continues even when keyboard unplugged from USB port.

Other emulators in Retropie work fine, any ideas on how to resolve or further digging I could do to solve the problem?

when I play with UAE4ALL I have no problem with the default supernintendo joypad usb clone but when I try to play using the other emulator UAE4ARM the joypad doesn’t work.

In which mode can I solve the problem ?

Hi all,
I’m new about the retropie world and I have a very little knowledge, so please help me with these simple questions:

I’m looking for a kit of button and joystick on the web:
– What’s the best brand
– Do you thing a kit (2 joysticks, 8 buttons plus 1P & 2P, wires and other stuff) is the best choice or it’s better to buy them in details?
– Which buttons are necessary and which are customizables?
– These kits provide USB connector, does this connector works with the raspberry?
– Do you have experience with Controlblock? Is it the best way to simplify things?

Can you give me some general advice in order to buy the right things?

Thanks :)

I am using the latest RetroPie 3.6 on a new Raspberry Pi 3, and HDMI output. I have tried writing a fresh RetroPie image to a Class 10 16GB card, and loading ONLY Super Mario Bros. 3 onto it. There is a noticeable lag between button presses and response on-screen. I have tried my USB controller on my PC running Nestopia and the same ROM, and the response is snappy, just as if playing on an actual NES console. I have tried plugging my Pi into 2 of my TVs, setting those to “Game” mode, and even tried the Pi on my PC monitor. The laggy response feels exactly the same on all displays and modes.

Is there some setting I can use to improve this? Should I be setting the memory split (I do not bother, as none of the documentation seems to indicate that being necessary), or making other adjustments in order to better sync the display? Thank you!

Hey folks, brand spanking new to RPi. I just picked up the Pi3 and I’m having trouble getting it to see my SSID when configuring the built-in Wi-Fi. I choose the wi-fi configuration option from the main screen and it brings me to an old-style blue-screen environment (looks like the old MS-DOS text editor). I have two options, one is configuring an SSID, the other is hidden SSID.

The only one that shows up is my neighbor’s (there are a ton more of my neighbor’s SSID’s that get discovered on my windows box, but only one in Retropie). I tried doing the hidden SSID option, but it won’t connect. I also tried misspelling my SSID to see if it was finding it, and it gives me an error message when I do so. Spelling it correctly gives me a different message about not being able to connect.

Is there something I have to do to get my Wi-Fi router to show up? Why is only my neighbor’s endpoint showing up?

Pi Model: Version 3, model B
RetroPie Version Used: Latest for Pi3, 3.6 I think
Built From: SD image download from petrockblog
USB Devices connected: SNES controller via retrolink adapter
Error messages received: “cannot connect to network”

If this is something where you need to see my config files, I can tether this thing and try to SSH into it, though I’m more of a windows guy, so my command-line-fu probably ends with simple sudo commands. I’ll need some help with that. I’m not sure if that matters though, as I haven’t changed any of the configs.

Am I missing something, or is the Pi3 too new to work with the built-in Wi-Fi right now?

Hi,

Sorry if this is a newbie question but I did try and have a scroll through the posts before asking.

I’m running the latest version of Retro Pie (donwloaded today) on a Rasberry Pi 2. I have used the SD card image and provided and outside of that have only copied roms across into the relevant directories.

My problem is that my playstation 4 controller (connected to the pi via USB cable) will work in the Retro Pi Menus but as soon as I load a game (it does not matter which emulator) the controller will not work and I have to reboot the Pi. I have setup the controller via Emulation Station and it seems to work fine in the Retro Pi Menu just not in any games…

Any ideas?

Hi,

I just got the Controlblock installed and running well for my SNES Controller.

However, for PSX and Ports I still want to use my plugged USB Controller.

Could anybody please pinpoint me how to config a specific controller per emulator?

Thanks a lot!

Tek

Hello everyone,

First of all thanks for all the help on the forums!

I am having a problem installing the Power Block. During installation it says it is “Unable to locate package g++-4.9”.

I have it connected properly and powered up. I am attempting to the follow the instructions on the PowerBlock webpage.

I enter the following commands:
1. sudo apt-get update
-a long list of commands comes up, and everything seems to work just fine.

2. sudo apt-get upgrade -y
– it says Reading package lists… Done
Reading state information… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

3. sudo apt-get install -y git cmake g++-4.9
-when I enter the last line it says:
Reading package lists… done
Building depedency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package g++-4.9
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘g++-4.9’

I went ahead and continued on with the PowerBlock setup.
git clone git://github.com/petrockblog/PowerBlock.git
cd PowerBlock
make
sudo make install
sudo make installservice

But, I just get an error at the end saying it cannot locate g++-4.9. There seems to be a problem with installing g++-4.9.

I would appreciate if anyone could help me with this.

Thanks!

For what it’s worth, here’s my system information:
Pi Model: 2 B
RetroPie Version Used: 3.6
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected: Wifi dongle, iPac and keyboard
Controller used: ipac
Error messages received: see above
Guide used: PowerBlock installation page
File: n/a
Attachment of config files: will submit if needed

All of that wonderful info the sticky wanted me to include

Pi Model: 3 B
RetroPie Version Used: 3.6
Built From: Binary
USB Devices connected: Sega Saturn controller via converter
Controller used: ”
Error messages received: nun
Guide used: (Mention if you followed a guide)
File: (File with issue (with FULL path))
Attachment of config files: (or use pastebin.com)
How to replicate the problem:

Basically I’m not getting static or choppy audio, but random sounds are not playing. Game is Symphony of the Night, I can’t hear Alucard swing his sword and some mobs play their sound effects and some don’t. On some screens the music plays, sometimes it doesn’t. I’m kind of confused by these symptoms since the game itself is running really well with no slowdowns, so it’s hard for me to think it’s a bottleneck issue..

I’ve used lr-pcsx-rearmed and pcsx-rearmed, I’m not sure the difference here – I don’t know Retroarch that well, but I work with Linux a lot. I don’t have sound issues on other games (This is the only PSX title), although this is probably the most demanding thing I try to run.. I don’t hear stuttering or anything in audio, just some things don’t play. Was hoping anybody had some suggestions here. I’m going to try some other ISO’s shortly, but I know this ISO is good.

Thanks for any input

Hello ! I have a problem whit my PS3 controller (usb connected). When i turn on my raspberry pi 3 everything is ok on a scren i see welcome and 1 gamepad detected i hold a button and i get in configuring. Now i have to press D-PAD UP i press the button and nothing happens i try every button on controller and nothing is working. Please help i m trying to fix this problem for 2 days now and i m starting to rage. Thanks !!!

I have an Edimax EW-7811Um USB wifi dongle, and I regularly follow the instructions here:
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Wifi#method-1-easiest

The problem that I encounter is that when performing the initial setup, it regularly fails after I enter my wifi password. My solution is to just keep trying until finally the script recognizes that it connected successfully. It can typically take anywhere from 3 to 7 attempts before it’s successful. From that point on, the system has zero trouble connecting immediately.

This makes me wonder if there isn’t perhaps a timeout problem or something in the script when it tries to determine if the initial connection was successful or not.