After any restart it's as if the controller was never paired. I turn the controller on and it flashes white a few times, holds on white for a couple seconds, then turns off. I have to plug in the keyboard and add it again. Until it reboots it's fine, but for some reason it just won't remember it.

This is using the Pi's built in bluetooth, wifi networking is disabled.

Anyone else having this trouble?

Edit: Disconnected the controller via holding the PS button and tried to reconnect, same thing. Flashes, holds, then quits and turns off.

@zing That was indeed it. I was afraid there might have been an order to things and there kind of is. But it's best to put that first I guess.

@zing Couldn't post yesterday for some reason, I kept getting an error. But that idea did do the trick. Popped the second USB drive into the Pi and plugged it in, let Recalbox it do it's thing and build the folder structure then shut it down. Renamed the Recalbox folder on the SSD to something like recalbox_old, cut and pasted the new folders from the USB stick onto the SSD along side the old one. Cut and pasted everything important (bios files, roms, and saves) into the new folders and deleted the old ones with any old config files. Booted it up and everything was kosher again. I totally wasn't prepared to have to move everything off the SSD, just don't have the room anymore. Glad I didn't have to.

I have a metal case on my Pi5, so the onboard BT only works on a very limited plane. If I angle the controller down it locks up on the last input until it gets back into range. So I bought a BT dongle. I keep searching for how to disable the onboard BT, but all I find are vague posts and "the onboard should work fine", so I'm kind of at a loss. Is there any step by step guide on how to disable the onboard bluetooth and enable the dongle?

It's so close to being playable on Mupen64Plus Glide64MK2, Parallel, and Mupen64Plus_Next. Has anyone gotten it to stop hitching entirely while the camera moves around? After walking around for a while it seems to get a lot better on M64P_N, but something causes it to slow down and become unplayable again until it gets past whatever the issue is. No amount of messing with settings seems to help it, but honestly I have no idea what I'm doing so it's just trail and error.

I know it emulates notoriously badly, but the smoothness I managed to get here and there gives me hope.

@alvin
...and now it's working as it should? I have no idea what happened, I hadn't done a thing besides nuke the folder and try different files. Oh well.

@alvin Ah, that sucks I'm on Linux and not all that great at using Wine, so ARRM probably won't help me either. Thanks for the help though, gonna keep working at it.

@alvin
I've been trying to do that, but for me the only things under /.emulationstation are the "themes" folder, es_input.cfg, and es_settings.cfg I can't see anything else.

I've tried finding es_systems.cfg, SSH to find it, etc. For some reason I can't get in through SSH with the default password, "recalboxroot" wasn't working and I couldn't find any newer posts saying the password had changed. Is there any other quick way to hid .bin files without having to go through each and every one?

@zing Couldn't post yesterday for some reason, I kept getting an error. But that idea did do the trick. Popped the second USB drive into the Pi and plugged it in, let Recalbox it do it's thing and build the folder structure then shut it down. Renamed the Recalbox folder on the SSD to something like recalbox_old, cut and pasted the new folders from the USB stick onto the SSD along side the old one. Cut and pasted everything important (bios files, roms, and saves) into the new folders and deleted the old ones with any old config files. Booted it up and everything was kosher again. I totally wasn't prepared to have to move everything off the SSD, just don't have the room anymore. Glad I didn't have to.

@zing It's been the same external storage I've been using for the past few versions. Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to just reformat the drive, I don't have the space for the games elsewhere, mostly the disc images. Would it be possible to format a much smaller drive and just copy everything over but leave the roms, saves, and bios files? Wasn't sure if there was anything hidden I'd have to worry about.

@zing That was indeed it. I was afraid there might have been an order to things and there kind of is. But it's best to put that first I guess.

Yep, I downloaded the image and installed it fresh, same problem. Are there any possible conflicts with previous folders or files that Recalbox might've made on the SSD?