Posts made by smokinph03nix

@zing many thanks for such a detailed response. For now I have put the IPAC in to dual controller mode and everything seems to be working fine. I will work my way through those links to find a more permanent solution.

Thank you.

I have just booted my laptop with an external hard drive flashed with Recalbox, why wont it let me map the keyboard of my laptop ??

Hey Guys

Im hoping someone can help as ive pulled all my hair out already

I have Recalbox running on a PC inside a newly built cabinet. When I plug in my PS5 controller it all works fine. When I go in to configure a new controller and it tells you to press and hold a button/key nothing happens. I thought it might be an IPAC issue but if I boot another front end all works fine.

So I thought I would plug in a USB keyboard and map keys that way, not even the keyboard will let me configure it.

I can scroll up and down with my arcade stick, I can even launch a game but only using button 1 and 2 of player 2. Its very odd.

I have flashed a clean Recalbox but get the same results.

Any advice would be really appreciated. Is there a config file anywhere I can map the keys manually ??

@nexusone13 That is exactly what I need, thank you for taking the time to help a newbie

@alvin thanks for putting me on to Arrm, the more I use it the more im learning. Quick question as I cannot seem to find it, if I have my roms, boxart, snaps etc but no gamelist.xml can Arrm create it without me manually having to do 1 game at a time as scraping is limited and im starting from scratch ?

Thanks in advance.

@alvin No bud but the youtube vids I found were all in French LOL apart from 1 that gave me the basics

@alvin I was using the screenscraper.fr but the more I play with ARRM the more im understanding it. I now have it looking at the images I have, comparing them to the ROM and then telling me which game has no artwork.

Thanks once again for taking the time to respond and putting me on to ARRM, there is very little info and tutorial on it but the more you play the bigger the WOW lol

Okay so after a few days of messing around I am now a little wiser, baring in mind im a completed newbie so this post may seem a little obvious although nobody (other than Alvin) replied to this post LOL.

So in your ROM folder you have all of your emulated systems, each system has a gamelist file, all the info is in there DOH!! so all I need to do is copy the gamelist file and the folder with the images in ... VOILA ... is it that easy .... NOPE

SO now im having issues with scraping for the images, if I use the scraper in recalbox it either hangs halfway through scraping one system or the screen turns black forcing me to reboot.

I am trying to use ARRM but you are restricted to how much you can use it, so much that after scraping half of the Amiga folder (1500 games) it stops telling me that I have hit my daily limit, even with an account I get the same response, so with these statistics its going to take a while to compile my collection.

So theres my update, someone may find it useful ... Hopefully

PS - Loving Recalbox, its a great system, currently using it on an external hard drive however just ordered a Pi4 and building an arcade cabinet to house it

@alvin said in Rom Images From Scraper:

After you copy the folder, did you refresh your Gamelist ?

Yes just tried that and it made no difference

Hey Community

As this is my first post I would like to start by saying hi to the community.

I am trying to build myself a system for an old PC I have, ive been messing around for a few days now and i`m getting on okay however im having some scraper issues where it freezes forcing me to turn the computer off and back on, after doing that when I run the scraper again all I get is a black screen. After leaving the system on overnight thinking it may be doing something in the background alas not and the remaining systems have not been scraped.

Anyway ....

My thought was if I scrape 1 system at a time and then copy the media folder from within the relevant rom folder I could then just copy that folder back from where it came after a clean flash of Recalbox.

However ....

When I do that the images do not appear, ive had a quick look to see if I can see some kind of config file but im missing something.

Any advice would be highly appreciated at this time