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Hello everyone. I seem to be having a problem with the intellivision emulator. On every ROM I've tried, the pi looks like its attempting to launch the rom, but then returns to the main emulation station menu. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, any help would be greatly appreciated.

skater_j10 wrote: I am having the same trouble with AdvMAME (tries to boot rom, then fails and goes back to the emulationstation menu), tried a large amount of different ROMs but to no avail. I believe Petrockblog might be going back to iMAME4all as I've read on his Github (see: https://github.com/petrockblog/RetroPie ... issues/131) that he wasn't having much luck with AdvMAME. iMAME4all worked for me in the past but for select ROMs.

petrockblog wrote: Regarding AdvMAME: Welshy gave me the hint to use the ROM name without the extension. That did the trick for me and I was able to start MAME roms. I did not play around much more with AdvMAME, though.

 COMMAND=/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/advancemame-0.94.0/installdir/bin/advmame %BASENAME% --config /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg 

--config /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

ulysess wrote:skater_j10, I just posted a RetroPie review on my site. Take a look on it. Maybe is useful for you.

ludespeedny wrote:Ok, I downloaded the image and none of the roms were working. I added some of my own and they ran fine. So there is a possible problem with the roms in the image.

I installed the xboxdrv, and I can not get my xbox controller working. It detects it, but when I run the retroarch-joyconfig it doesn't detect any button presses or anything. And have to hit ctrl-c to quit it.

I am using the instructions from here: https://github.com/petrockblog/RetroPie ... controller

any suggestions?

jacobsson wrote:My next issue is to get "controller -j 2" to be recognized in the front-end.

kalehrl wrote:Emulationstation doesn't work with dispmanx SDL libs.
You need to restore your default SDL libs by reinstalling libsdl1.2:

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall libsdl1.2debian

You can run dgen with dispmanx if you use export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/your/SDL-dispmanx/libs" prior to running dgen.

Aloshi wrote:

jacobsson wrote:My next issue is to get "controller -j 2" to be recognized in the front-end.

If this helps at all: ES only automatically allows for configuring the first joystick. However, once it has been configured, it will attempt to "track" it by name, by opening the first joystick found with the same name as the originally configured joystick (as reported by the driver, which should, in theory, be consistent).

If you can't get it to work, open an issue on GitHub. One solution might be to add a "force joystick at ID" option.

jonez wrote:Can someone with an SNES controller let me know what values retroarch-joyconfig shows for the D-pad? I've tried configuring it multiple times and I'm don't know what I'm doing wrong but it's binding up to up/right, down to down/left. I've tried two controllers and two USB adapters (same brand, this one).

This is the config it's outputting:

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input_player1_joypad_index = "0"
input_player1_a_btn = "1"
input_player1_b_btn = "0"
input_player1_x_btn = "3"
input_player1_y_btn = "2"
input_player1_l_btn = "4"
input_player1_r_btn = "5"
input_player1_start_btn = "7"
input_player1_select_btn = "6"
input_player1_left_axis = "-0"
input_player1_up_axis = "-1"
input_player1_right_axis = "-1"
input_player1_down_axis = "-0"

Thanks!

yankyfan09 wrote:

jonez wrote:Can someone with an SNES controller let me know what values retroarch-joyconfig shows for the D-pad? I've tried configuring it multiple times and I'm don't know what I'm doing wrong but it's binding up to up/right, down to down/left. I've tried two controllers and two USB adapters (same brand, this one).

This is the config it's outputting:

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input_player1_joypad_index = "0"
input_player1_a_btn = "1"
input_player1_b_btn = "0"
input_player1_x_btn = "3"
input_player1_y_btn = "2"
input_player1_l_btn = "4"
input_player1_r_btn = "5"
input_player1_start_btn = "7"
input_player1_select_btn = "6"
input_player1_left_axis = "-0"
input_player1_up_axis = "-1"
input_player1_right_axis = "-1"
input_player1_down_axis = "-0"

Thanks!

try switching the right and down axis to
input_player1_right_axis = +1
input_player1_down_axis = +0
you don't need the quotations around the numbers. I think this will work

jonez wrote:

yankyfan09 wrote:

jonez wrote:Can someone with an SNES controller let me know what values retroarch-joyconfig shows for the D-pad? I've tried configuring it multiple times and I'm don't know what I'm doing wrong but it's binding up to up/right, down to down/left. I've tried two controllers and two USB adapters (same brand, this one).

This is the config it's outputting:

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input_player1_joypad_index = "0"
input_player1_a_btn = "1"
input_player1_b_btn = "0"
input_player1_x_btn = "3"
input_player1_y_btn = "2"
input_player1_l_btn = "4"
input_player1_r_btn = "5"
input_player1_start_btn = "7"
input_player1_select_btn = "6"
input_player1_left_axis = "-0"
input_player1_up_axis = "-1"
input_player1_right_axis = "-1"
input_player1_down_axis = "-0"

Thanks!

try switching the right and down axis to
input_player1_right_axis = +1
input_player1_down_axis = +0
you don't need the quotations around the numbers. I think this will work

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately that didn't work. The Pi doesn't seem to respond to those buttons being pressed no matter what I set them to. Both controllers/adapters work on my Windows desktop, I did a few searches and found a bunch of Mac users and one Linux user with the same problem so it sounds like a driver issue. Anyone have any ideas on if it's possible to fix it? None of the threads I found had any solutions.

Or does anyone have a SNES -> USB adapter that does work, and if so what brand?

/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

skater_j10 wrote:@moblo, Not sure where you're finding the config.txt file but the file you want to adjust is retroarch.cfg

For your RCA monitor these are the settings that work well for me:

video_aspect_ratio_auto = true
video_aspect_ratio = 1.25

Otherwise, have you expanded the root directory to fill the SDcard with raspi-config? Added any Roms to your folders, Cave story should show up right away but it doesn't hurt to have a few more to test.