I’m desperately seeking some help here:

What is the command to shutdown emulationstation? I know it gets shutdown from the menu, and I know the raspberry’s shut down command is “sudo poweroff” (or something similar), but whats the command that runs when you use the menu and press “Shutdown Emulationstation”?

The reason I’m asking is because the “Play Count” only saves when you shutdown emulationstation. If you shut down the raspberry from within emulationstation is doesnt save the play counts.

What I’m trying to do is add an extra line to my mausberry circuits shut down command so that it will shutdown emulationstation first (saving the play count) then shutdown the raspberry.

If anyone knows what the command is, or where I can possibly find it (I’ve searched and cant seem to find where the code for the emulationstation menu is saved), it would be wildly helpful because I’m at a loss

Hi guys

I have now been trying for two days, but just can’t seem to get my Xin-Mio usb controller configured with retropie. Not even player 1 works in games.

The joystick works ok, can go op and down, but the six buttones does not work :-(

There are seven buttons:
The first row three have numbers 1, 0, 9
The second row three have numbers 2,3,4
And then there is the One Player button on the side, that has the number 8

My retroarch files input is this:
input_player1_joypad_index = “0”
input_player1_b_btn = “1”
input_player1_y_btn = “0”
input_player1_select_btn = “9”
input_player1_start_btn = “4”
input_player1_a_btn = “8”
input_player1_x_btn = “7”
input_player1_l_btn = “3”
input_player1_r_btn = “2”
input_player1_up_axis = “-1”
input_player1_down_axis = “+1”
input_player1_left_axis = “-0”
input_player1_right_axis = “+0”

input_player2_joypad_index = “0”
input_player2_b_btn = “11”
input_player2_y_btn = “14”
input_player2_select_btn = “7”
input_player2_start_btn = “16”
input_player2_a_btn = “10”
input_player2_x_btn = “13”
input_player2_l_btn = “12”
input_player2_r_btn = “15”
input_player2_up_axis = “-3”

input_player2_down_axis = “+3”
input_player2_left_axis = “-2”
input_player2_right_axis = “+2”

input_enable_hotkey_btn = “6”
input_exit_emulator_btn = “7”
input_save_state_btn = “#”
input_load_state_btn = “#”

I also have a file in the folder /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs called Xin-MoXin-MoDualArcade.cfg with the following input:

input_device = “Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Dual Arcade”
input_driver = “udev”

What am I doing wrong?? Is there a step by step guide somewhere for all this? I have read lots of blogs and other articles but just can’t seem to find out what to do.

PS. When I for example try to play sonic game then i can use the joystick and button 0 which pauses the game. Anything else is not possible, all the other buttons have no effect when used

I feel like this may simplify or at least make more sense of the controller configuration process with Retroarch emulators.

There is a LOT of controller config files bundled with RetroPie, some with similar, but oddly spaced names. It makes finding the config file your controller uses rather difficult.

Most instructions tell the user to run the “Configure input devices for RetroArch” script, which is great, since it builds a custom cfg file on-the-fly, and drops it in the /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/config directory. But it seems almost redundant and borderline more difficult to locate the config file your controller decides to use in the future. I’ve even have the issue where the script-built controller config doesn’t get priority over one of the pre-populated config files! That was a PITA.

I feel like the instructions should be more consistent. I like the script idea, since it won’t involve requiring users to manually edit config files to adjust controller mappings. What I have done myself, was moved all my unused controller cfg files into a subfolder called “unused”. but it could be named anything of course.

Maybe the instructions could declare two different setup options. One that involves locating your controller device ID (lsusb or hcitool name) and manually copy a config file that looks for the same ID, and another set that allows you to create one on-the-fly using the script.

I have a CSR 4.0 bluetooth to USB adapter, on a cold boot, it comes on and blinks on about the third or forth boot, could it be defective or is emulation station not seeing it sometimes?

I am about to order another brand of bluetooth adapter, what is a good one?

thanks for your help!

Hi, I have installed RetroPie 2.6 (for RasPi 1) on a 16gb micro-sd card.

My problem starts when I connect the USB stick (with NES, SNES, GBA and GBC ROMS placed in the correct folders) and the Emulator don’t appear in the main menu.

Don’t know what to do next or if I need to install emulators manually. My only steps were: Install RetroPie on sd, expand filesystem, configure controller and place roms in the USB.

Any ideas? Please, I’m a real dummie in Raspberry Pi :p

Alrighty lads, I think I might’ve screwed to ole pooch here big time. Here’s the info:

Pi Model: 2 B
RetroPie Version Used: 3.0.0 Beta 2
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected: Logitech Keyboard
Controller used: RETROLINK Classic Controller SNES style
Guide used: the ones on the wiki first install page

ISSUE: I got everything up and running fine, loaded my ROM library, games showed up, everything was going swimmingly. I could navigate emulationstation easily and fully. Went to SNES emulator and launched Super Mario AllStars without a hitch. Up to this point I could operate in retroarch, it seemed, perfectly. Hit 1 Player start, game started. Here’s where my first issue showed up. I couldn’t run. More blatantly, my X and Y buttons weren’t working, but everything else was. Okay, no biggie. Went and watched Floob’s guide. Here’s where the proverbial sh!t went sour. I got into the USBgamepad.cfg and it was blank, which was odd because the controller had just been working, at least halfway. Alright, whatever, I’ll just input it all manually. But I couldn’t find the # key on my keyboard, instead shift+3 made the monetary pound sign. Hit every key I could, still couldn’t find it, so I typed it up without the # in there. Saved to the file. Now my controller doesn’t respond at all in retroarch. EmulationStation is still on point, but I get nada in game. Every time I jump back into the config files i get more confused and feels like I’m just spiraling further down the rabbit hole. To make matters worse, i went back to USBgamepad.cfg, and a whole lot of stuff came up, now I’m completely lost and could really use some help. I’d rather not do a clean install, because I feel like i’d end up in the same place I’m in now without a little more clarification. Any help is appreciated. Thanks ~ALob