7/25/17-7/26/17
I did most of what's been done in the past couple of days Sunday night, but I was messing with it until 4:30am and didn't feel like sitting here and typing afterwards. I got Retropie set up and roms loaded. It was a pain to get Retropie running, though. Only because the monitor didn't like the resolution the Pi wanted to run at and would not give me any video. It took probably an hour to figure out how to fix that, but once I did, the rest of the setup went fine. So I've got a working machine now. Loaded with MAME roms, NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Genesis, Game Gear, Atari Linx, and maybe a couple others so far.
I have a couple of problems I'm having the darnedest time figuring out, and Google is not being much help. First off, most of the MAME roms will not work. I think it's because they are not compatible with the emulator I inadvertently set as default when asked. Now I have no idea how to change the default MAME emulator. I have tried getting the runcommand menu to open at game selection, but it's not cooperating at all. So I'd say, at this point only 10% of the MAME games will play. I have the same symptoms when trying to play Super Nintendo games. I select a game, it goes to the SNES loading screen, but then just kicks it back out to the games list. So I have no idea what to do about that now.
The second problem is, in Attract Mode, all of these systems show up even though I have no games for them, which as I understand, is not supposed to happen. I've even moved the roms folders for the systems I don't use, but they still show up. Doesn't happen in Emulation Station - only Attract Mode. I think I might be able to get rid of them the by editing the attract.cfg file, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Overall though... I'm happy that it's at least up and running.