Setup my retropie using guides on this site. I’ve done it in the past without any issues. After I get the initial setup done, I always take an image of the SD card using HDD Raw Copy, so I can reimage incase of any issues.

Recently I’ve been having an issue where after I move ROMs over to the retropie, and restart the system (using the onscreen menu), the system reboots and I get this error message:

“an automatic file system check (fsck) of the root filesystem failed.”

Doing a manual filesystem check doesn’t help. The filesystem seems irreparably damaged. I use HDD Raw Copy to reimage the disk and start over.

I tried being super careful moving the files over. I first tried Samba, then SSH, then a physical USB drive copy. All of them cause the same issue.

Anyone know what I might be doing? This is a Raspberry Pi B+, so I, unfortunately, don’t have any spare MicroSDs to test.

I’m new to Retropie and Raspberry Pi in general having just bought and set up my first project. So far with the help of this forum and its search feature everything has gone really well; I’m up and running 2.3, overclocked, PS3 controller working over wired USB, reassigned hotkeys to allow me to run without the keyboard and even got the TurboGrafx CD up and running, but I’ve come up against one problem I’ve not seen anyone mention here or anywhere else.

As the title says; when my Retropie powers down and the connection between the pi and the PS3 controller is severed my PS3 turns itself on! This also happens if I unplug the wire from the PS3 controller while the pi is running. Obviously the controller is sending out some sort of signal when it’s disconnecting and that signal turns on the PS3.

Surely someone else has had this problem. Is there any solution other than unplugging my PS3 when using my RetroPie?

While I’m at it a big thanks to everyone who contributes to this forum, I’ve found the information here to be really helpful.

Thought I would share a recent project I started working on. I had a broken game gear lying around and realized it would be perfect for a handheld raspberry pi. So far I have started gutting the console and filling in the holes with plastic filler. I have a 4.3″ car LCD that will be going in it. Last night I was able configure it to run off of 5v (instead of the 12v that it comes set up for). There will also be several buttons added from cheap USB controller and push pin buttons, these will be hooked up to the GPIO pins and then coded to simulate keyboard key presses. Originally I was going to put a model A board in there but after the Raspberry model 2 was released I ordered on and will end up using that once it arrives.

Things left to do:
-Finish cutting out holes for / adding all of the buttons
-Finish filling and sanding, then paint
-Wire up the buttons and LCD to 26 pin header I made from some pins and proto board
-Wire in Audio amp (with volume control) and some speakers. Along with headphone jack.
-Add rechargable battery to power the Pi and screen. Using this: [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/380777493751?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT[/url]
-Wire up power switch, going to use a STDP switch, On & Off/Charge.
-Add external USB port
-Add charge port
-Install Raspberry Pi and software

Anyways here are some pictures of the work so far. Note that the screen images are from it hooked up to my n64, not actually using a raspberry pi yet.

I have 2.4.2 installed and am using the SNES Buffalo Controllers. To install these I watched Floob’s USB controller video and it worked perfectly.

When I launch PSX, NES, SNES and Megadrive games I have no issuses with controls however, in two Megadrive games (Both Street Fighter Series) 3 of my buttons are punches and none of the other 3 buttons (kicks) work. This is not the case in my PSX/SNES Street Fighter games.

I could just delete these games and get over it but it is a flaw in an otherwise perfect set up. Can someone please give me advice on a fix?

Just setup with a logic tech usb controller the menus work fine after setting the buttons but once the game runs the game only plays with my USB keyboard

New on here, anyone got this controller to work?

Please could someone who has a working wireless 360 controller working with emulationstation and retroarch please post me a copy of their retroarch.cfg. I got my retro pi working great with some crappy usb joypads. However I decided that I really liked it but I needed a system with a bit more power and functionality than my pi could deliver. So now I have an Asus Vivo Mini UN42-M016M. I have installed ubuntu 14.1 and emulation station and the current stable retroarch. I have configured emulation station to talk to retroarch properly (I think?) I have my wireless xbox 360 controllers operating emulationstation and launching roms then nothing. retroarch will only accept keyboard input from inside the game. Weirdly my install of retroarch seems to be missing retroarch-joyconfig. Only reference to it on my computer is the man pages for it. (I could be being stupid here as well but I read on some forum that it did indeed seem to be missing from the most recent build? When you launch retroarch the basic GUI has a bit very similar to retroarch-joyconfig but the results don’t seem to get saved. So in conclusion please could someone post me their xbox 360 wireless controller using retroarch.cfg.
Please.
thanks

hi

can help and guide me on how to setup my wifi dongle in retropie 2.4 or show me a video pls thanks in advance

I’ve been using a Dualshock 4 plugged in via USB as my controller. This has worked fantastic for me, but plugging in a second controller, it recognises both, but one of them will have scrambled controls. (Shoulder and Trigger buttons are dpad, touchpad click is A, nothing else works, it’s same every time) I’ve tried putting in a second Retroarch cfg, with -j 1 and the same button layout, but it has had no effect. I really don’t know how Retroarch manages this stuff, anyone have an idea as to how this is happening?

Hi everyone !

I’m just starting with my raspberry pi and I find it awesome ! However, I’ve got some issues with my X-arcade 2 players : to connect the stick to the retropie, I have to use an USB adapter. But this adpater is originally for PS3… And that’s the problem ! The moment I connect my X-arcade to it, retropie thinks that I’m using a PS3 controller. Where’s the problem ? With this configuration, the only way to input keys is doing it while pressing “1P + 1 Coin” buttons. Of course, it makes any games unplayable.

I tried the “setup script” and the “modify keyboard inputs in retroarch.cfg” ways but as long as my X-arcade is recognized as PS3 controller, they won’t work.

Any ideas ? Thank you all.

I have a Arcade style joystick that i’m connecting to the raspberry pi through usb. When i go to set the controller up in retroarch all the other buttons work but when i try to map the joystick It acts like i’m pressing that direction a billion times in turbo mode and maps the other options with the one direction. it’s hurting my brain so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi guys. I am going crazy here.

I posted this on the emulation station forum but i am also having uses controlling the retropie emulators so i wanted to provide the most information possible.

The issue I am having is that the IPAC2 (that emulates a keyboard) is not working on the emulators. I can startup NES and use a keyboard with no issues but when using the IPAC and pushing the same buttons it does not work. I also attempted to use retroarch-joyconfig and it detects the IPAC as a ultimarc and starts the configuration process but when it asks for me to input the first key (down) it doesnt set it. It seems to act just like the keyboard. Where i press a key, the character from the keyboard displays, but doesnt proceed to the next button setting.

I hope i provided enough information and someone is able to help.

this is what i posted on emulationstations forum:
“I have installed the latest EmulationStation for my raspberry pie but i can not get my ipac2 to work. The IPAC is suppose to emulate a keyboard but it seems that the emulationstation thinks its game controller.

The IPAC2 Works correctly on the terminal and even in vi. (I can see the corrected mapped buttons)

I have a keyboard and the IPAC attached directly to the pies usb ports. I can use the keyboard with no issues but the IPAC does nothing.

I have even attempted to plug in 2 keyboards to the pie to see what how the ES would handle it. There where no issues at all. I can use either keyboard with no issues and when going into the setup controls in ES it states that no gamepad is attached.
This makes me think that ES thinks the IPAC is a gamepad and not a keyboard. Is there anywhere i can make the ES recognize the IPAC as a keyboard rather then a gamepad? Or maybe in linux.

There has to be others that have setup their ES with an IPAC?

Thank for the help

I have noticed that when attempting to configure the controller in emulationstation it states that there is one gamecontroller detected.”

I’m having a wide range of issues configuring my controller. My first goal is to allow hotkeys to make Select+Start close the emulator. So here is what I have added to the bottom of my Retroarch.cfg file in order use my new USB controller:

input_driver = “linuxraw”
input_player1_joypad_index = “0”
input_player1_b_btn = “1”
input_player1_y_btn = “3”
input_player1_select_btn = “6”
input_player1_start_btn = “7”
input_player1_up_axis = “-1”
input_player1_down_axis = “+1”
input_player1_left_axis = “-0”
input_player1_right_axis = “+0”
input_player1_a_btn = “0”
input_player1_x_btn = “2”
input_player1_l_btn = “4”
input_player1_r_btn = “5”
input_enable_hotkey_btn = “6”
input_exit_emulator_btn = “7”

Somehow, in the process of doing this, I’ve started getting a fatal error related containing this message: “init_video_input()” which must have something to do with no keyboard or input being detected, even when there IS a keyboard.

Any suggestions or words of wisdom would be appreciated.