You can remap gamepads for each core, it is easy, when in a game enter retroarch and you should see RA's quick menu (if you are in RA main menu go to history, select you current rom and select quick menu). In this menu you can remap buttons for this core or even for an specific game. Also you can adjust other "per core" settings from here.

@Dalton63841 if you lost all your cores make sure you unchecked "Use RetroPlayer installed cores only (Clean cores directory)" in addon settings, this will delete all your cores in every launch in order to use only the ones downloaded using RetroPlayer (upcoming LE9).

Also, if you lost your cores and your DS4 is not working, maybe the problem is that you lost your retroarch.cfg file where both autoconfig & cores folders path is defined.

Make sure after RA installation that you first run it directly before using other frontends, because in RA firts launch some config files and folders are copied to the correct location.

You can take a look to /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.retroarch and you should see something like this:

Gamestarter/repository.gamestarter/game.retroarch/retroarch at master · bite-your-idols/Gamestarter · GitHub

in retroarch you can assign a hotkey (e.g. SELECT) and then assing hotkeys bindings (e.g. START to QUIT) so you can exit retroarch just pressing a button combo (e.g. SELECT+START). If you have launched a rom from AEL you will return to AEL launcher list, if you launched a rom from within retroarch you will return to kodi and if you have launched a rom with ES you will return to ES.

I recommend you to take a read to retroarch getting started documentation, tutorials and wiki.

dojrude I use zip files for all my systems (nes, snes, gb, gbc, sms, md...) and all work just fine. Searching the web with your logs last line I think maybe you are having any performance issue related with not enough memory, power supply or whatever.

I remember another user had same issue a long time ago but I can not remember if he/she solved it...

Perfecty explained Mario77

dojrude logs can help us to help you?

Quote from davidsilva

Is there anyway to get this is pause kodi.bin instead of killing it? Ive just discovered that it turns off services including openvpn manager. Ive just loader retroarch and discovered that my vpn got switched off. $The other versions of retroarch on here for x64 used to pause the kodi.bin and im sure openvpn manager stiill ran.

This addon works for both generic and pi, so pausing kodi instead of killing it will affect to Pis performance, that's the reason why this addon kills it. Some processes, like hyperion or vnc, are still running in background but maybe, as you say, other don't.

Quote from reynard80

I will try to delete the autoconfig folder. As for the mouse, only the cursor works. I can't click any menu option and there are no mouseover events or anything. It almost seems as if there is a transparent 'window/overlay', which has the focus over the retroarch program.

Could the error in line 51 have anything to do with it (the other errors only seem audio related)?

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[ERROR] Failed to create rendering backend: freetype.
Failed to open ^M: No such file or directory

No clue.

Did you try connecting just one item at a time? When in kodi both keyboard and gamepad work ok?

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See below.

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[INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.
[INFO] Redirecting save file to "/storage/emulators/saves/.srm".
[INFO] Redirecting savestate to "/storage/emulators/saves/.state".
[INFO] Version of libretro API: 1
[INFO] Compiled against API: 1
[INFO] [Audio]: Set audio input rate to: 29970.03 Hz.
[ERROR] [SoftFilter]: Did not find config:
[ERROR] [Video]: Failed to load filter.
[INFO] [Video]: Video @ 960x720
[INFO] [DBus]: Failed to get DBus connection. Screensaver will not be suspended via DBus.
[INFO] [GLX]: GLX_OML_sync_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control supported, using better swap control method...
[INFO] [GL]: Found GL context: x
[INFO] [GL]: Detecting screen resolution 1920x1080.
[INFO] [GLX]: X = 0, Y = 0, W = 960, H = 720.
[INFO] [GLX]: Found swap function: glXSwapIntervalMESA.
[INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapInterval(1)
[INFO] [GL]: Vendor: X.Org, Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM (DRM 2.48.0 / 4.9.29, LLVM 3.9.0).
[INFO] [GL]: Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6.
[INFO] [GL]: Using resolution 1920x1080
[INFO] [GL]: Default shader backend found: glsl.
[INFO] [Shader driver]: Using GLSL shader backend.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Checking GLSL shader support ...
[WARN] [GL]: Stock GLSL shaders will be used.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GL]: Using 4 textures.
[INFO] [GL]: Loaded 1 program(s).
[INFO] [GL]: Using GL_RGB565 for texture uploads.
[INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/event2 as type ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD.
[INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/event4 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
[INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/mouse1 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
[INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/event3 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
[INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/mouse0 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
[INFO] [Joypad]: Found joypad driver: "udev".
[ERROR] Failed to create rendering backend: freetype.
Failed to open ^M: No such file or directory
[ERROR] Failed to create rendering backend: stb.
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: bitmap.
[INFO] [X11]: Suspending screensaver (X11, xdg-screensaver).
sh: xdg-screensaver: not found
[WARN] Could not suspend screen saver.
ALSA lib /home/chewitt/LibreELEC.80-images/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0.2/alsa-lib-1.1.2/src/pcm/pcm.c:2450:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
[ERROR] [ALSA]: Failed to initialize...
[ERROR] Failed to initialize audio driver. Will continue without audio.
[ERROR] [DSP]: Failed to initialize DSP filter "^M".
[INFO] [Menu]: Found menu display driver: "menu_display_gl".
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] SRAM will not be saved.
[INFO] Loading history file: [/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.retroarch/content_history.lpl].
[INFO] Loading history file: [^M/content_favorites.lpl].
[INFO] Loading history file: [/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.retroarch/content_music_history.lpl].
[INFO] Loading history file: [/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.retroarch/content_video_history.lpl].
[INFO] Loading history file: [/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.retroarch/content_image_history.lpl].
[INFO] [GL]: VSync => on
[INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapInterval(1)
[ERROR] failed_to_start_audio_driver
[INFO] [GL]: VSync => on
[INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapInterval(1)

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I can not see anything strange, keyboard, mouse and gamepad are recognized:

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1. [INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/event2 as type ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD.
2. [INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/event4 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
3. [INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/mouse1 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
4. [INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/event3 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
5. [INFO] [udev] Adding device /dev/input/mouse0 as type ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
6. [INFO] [Joypad]: Found joypad driver: "udev".

You can try deleting autoconfig folder in userdata addon folder. Also you can try using mouse to get into settings>input>player 1 bind> remap all buttons...

Quote from reynard80

Hi all,

I’ve installed RetroArch via this repo, on an Intel NUC LibreElec installation. However, I’m running into a very curious problem in the XMB menu; when I start RetroArch, it seems to work, but no input devices seem to work. Nothing happens when I press keyboard buttons, nor when I press buttons on various controllers I tried. The controllers are correctly recognized in a yellow overlay text. The only thing that’s working is the mouse cursor, which is moving, but the mouse buttons are not working.

Any idea what’s wrong?

Logs?

Quote from Mario77

One more question..Is there a way that I can output sound both on HDMI and headphone jack on RPi..At this moment I m using the audio_device = "hw:0,0" for hdmi and audio_device = "hw:0,1" to output from jack...but have to edit this each time to change audio....is there a way to output both at the same time like what Kodi does?

did you try by leaving empty that parameter? I never use pi's minijack so I rally don't know... by the way, you should be able to change between audio devices using retroarch settings menu.

Quote from Mario77

Is anyone using 8bitdo zero with rpi2 LE 8.1.2 and Gamestarter/RO/ES/AEL?does it work normally?

it should work, if it doesn't you can enter retroarch settings menu and go to "input" player 1 bindings and reassign all buttons as you press your pad buttons.

Quote from Mario77

Hi..need some help...I m trying AEL and managed to launch few games but not sure how to scrape artwork from gamesdb...can do it 1 game at a time from menu but is there a way to scrape all games in a launcher?thanks

I recommend you to take a look to AEL official support thread:

Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi

Wintermute0110 explains that subject better than me

Quote from internaut

Hey, sry i wasn't home for a while.

I am using the x360 wireless controllers. working without any issues so far.

Finally I get my dualshocks working with the help of Escalade, but still in LE8 since hyperion works really bad in LE9...

No idea about the sound thing.

...

Advanced Emulator Launcher updated to v0.9.7-beta1 in repo, also I updated instructions about it in github.

More info about the release: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi

Quote from Shadowmeph

Not sure if I should ask her or make a new post about installing and using gamestarter.

I downloaded dragged and dropped Game starter3 to my \\LIBREELEC and installed it now not sure how to get going. I am thinking since I have no roms or bioses just drag and dropping the some of the "Gamestarter/packages/" into the folders on my libreelc raspi box . the thing is I am not sure exactly where is it the \\LIBREELEC\Emulators area.

originally I did the install of gamestarter3 installed it could not get it working looked for tuts on it found one on utube "gamestarter run emulators in kodi Raspi Openelec or Libreelec" but I failed to understand how to load the cores, roms and such.

if anyone can point me in the right direction on where to get the Roms and instructions on how to properly install and get up and running

Follow instructions in github, what in summary is: download repo file and install the zip in kodi, then go to addons and install what you want from repo.

Once you have retroarch addon installed you need to copy your roms to /storage/emulators/roms and bios to /storage/emulators/bios. These folders are automatically created when launching retroarch for the firts time, or you can create them.

Quote from Mario77

Edit :nevermind...found out a way...just renaming addondata folder worked like a charm

please, explain it to me.

Quote from escalade

bite_your_idols

I think you can save your mappings once you set them then you can create your own .cfg file.

yes, that is what I did. 👍

many thanks as always.

Quote from escalade

I'm using my own fork which is based on 8.2 but have updated most of the core components like kernel, mesa, glibc, drivers etc.

I see.

Do you know how should I edit my cfg for DS3 in order to make it works as you did with DS4? unfortunately I can not pair my DS4 using bluetooth and when I use USB retroarch still not wotking with you cfg file...

EDIT: Peace of cake. Connected a keyboard and the DS, then I use keyboard to go in retroarch to input>player 1 binds> bind all and then go pressing DS buttons. Both of them work ok in retroarch but.... just via USB... something is going wrong with bluetooth pairing... I will continue testing another day.

Quote from escalade

LE 8.1.2 is still on old 4.9 kernel, that's why. LE 9 is using 4.12 I believe, which has the updated driver.

It works for me (TM)

So, you are using LE9? in your build or millhouse's?

You are right, it is not an issue, but they ignored that it is related with kernel update, so I just have tell them because garbear is trying to make a Player Manager in order to assing controllers for different player number, so this info can help him.

But one thing, for me both DS3 and DS4 are working ok in LE8.1.2, using them in kodi, emulationstation and retroarch and everything is fine. The problem appeared in LE9 testbuild from 0714 with update to kernel 4.12. And, as they say in reddit link, the problem is because both DS3 and DS4 are recognized as 2 controllers, one for motion sensors (controller0) and another for standard joystick (controller1). In kodi (after configuring them from scratch) and ES you can use them but in retroarch (and retroplayer) they don't work.

So, if I use your posted "Sony-PlayStation4-DualShock4-Controller-Bluez-4.10.cfg" should it work?