A real improvement to RetroPie EmulationStation 2.x is the ability to easily set up and use multiple different types of controllers in the emulators on the fly. This will also allow you to use two …| ➟ Weekend Engineer
Now that EmulationStation is configured for inputs and the controllers are mapped to a file we can set up the controllers to work with the emulators. There are a few ways to do this but for now I a…| ➟ Weekend Engineer
Previously I set up all my controllers to work on the front end of EmulationStation (found here). To have them also work on the emulators I am going to need to edit the main emulator configuration …| ➟ Weekend Engineer
When you start up EmulationStation for the first time it prompts you to setup your input devices such as gamepads and keyboards. Currently I have two types of SNES controllers (I only set up one fo…| ➟ Weekend Engineer
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Often times people seem to have issues getting the GameBoy Adavnce emulator GPSP to work on RetroPie. These are the following steps that I did to get it to work for me. If you didn’t see my p…| ➟ Weekend Engineer
In the previous post I created some power logging programs so that I can view the power cycles of my RaspberryPi (Check out that post here). I finished by setting up one of the programs to run at b…| ➟ Weekend Engineer
One thing that I like to do is have a few log files where I can refer back to just in case I run into errors. One of the important one’s is the power log. What this will do is log every time …| ➟ Weekend Engineer
Another emulator that I see people having issues setting up on their Raspberry Pi is PlayStation. For the most part it is very straight forward but there is one step that is often left out on other…| ➟ Weekend Engineer
If you have both RetroPie and XBMC/Kodi on your RaspberryPi it would be helpful if you can switch between the two easily. The best thing to do is to add a new tab in EmulationStation so that when y…| ➟ Weekend Engineer
Adding games to RetroPie are simple and there are a few ways to do it. I won’t go into how in this post but you can transfer them via FTP or having them on a USB drive and using the cp functi…| ➟ Weekend Engineer
In this post I will show how to add a new tab in EmulationStation. In a previous post I showed how to add one for XBMC (found here) but this one will be more specific for programs that you may wan…| ➟ Weekend Engineer