thanks again.
i'm using the same ROMs i used for version 6.0. They loaded fine with default emulator.
i had to do a rebuild to upgrade to version 7.1.1 and now when i load the ROMs in default emeulator there are major video and sound issues.
files are .n64 and .z64 and are from no-intro romset.
also tried different ROMs to make sure - same result.
ROMs work fine in libretro mupen - but i don't know how to remap the controller in RA.