Ok, that’s a good idea, just have multiple SD cards for each function…
Thanks!
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Following up on my problem with mapping the mouse buttons, I figured it out.
For some reason Retroarch will only use the default retroarch.cfg, located at: /opt/retropie/configs/all
No matter what you change, or how you save it, retroarch will return to the default config as soon as you exit back to emulation station. I don’t know what is causing this, maybe a setting somewhere that I don’t know about. It’s almost like there’s a problem with read/write permissions.
What you’ll need to do is go into the retroarch config tool on your uconsole, map the controls you want, and save it as a new config. You can try to have retroarch use that config, but it seems like no matter what you do it will always go back to the default.
New configs stored at:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config
I used SSH to copy the new config file out to another computer. I renamed it to retroarch.cfg and then overwrote the original retroarch.cfg with it. Be sure to also delete retroarch.cfg.bak, otherwise that backup will revert it. Do a reboot and you should be good to go with new controls.
Hopefully this helps!
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Hello @Rex you beautiful brained human, was wondering about the coding you put in to rotating screens for the emulators. Have tried getting dosbox and other ports installed into retropie but the all end up sideways, mind letting me know what you did to get it right way round on uconsoles?
i’m pretty sure lr-dosbox-pure is already but for ones that don’t respect fbcon=rotate from the cmdline.txt will need some kind of rotation flag in their run argument.
You can find them in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
or some emulator that aren’t retroarch will have a menu option for rotation.
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Thats where i was going wrong was installing dosbox not knowing dosbox-pure was already installed
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Any recommendations for getting a DE running? This device is primarily used as a gaming device, but I’d like to run a GUI occasionally. The retropie script to re-install pixel seem to really mess things up.
switch sd cards 
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Tried using the latest image (6.12.25) with uConsole CM5
After a few power cycles, RetroPi boots, asks to create a username, and then turns off before I can type it. No way to troubleshoot.
On first boot, the device will boot then restart after resizing the file system. Have you applied the eeprom config change on the CM5?
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Hi Team!
I installed ScummVM, but the screen is in a wrong rotation.
How can I fix this?
Sound volume control is not working via keyboard (cm5), how can I control volumen?
Thank you!
The volume is a known issue with the CM5, I haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet.
You’ll need to figure out how scummvm does screen rotation. Usually you need to add something like --rotate rightto the end of the cores line to execute the core in es_systems.cfg.
Yeah, I tried to figure this out, but I didn’t do it. 
Having fun with this already! Just most looking forward to Atari ST emulation, and running into some small issues.
Did anyone get ST emulation running well already? The standard Hatari core runs fine but is rotated 90 degrees, and lr-hatari does not seem to start up. I get a white screen and then nothing.
Will dive deeper online if necessary, but maybe someone already figured it out
GitHub - d-rez/gbz_overlay: Gameboy Zero status icon overlay display
has anyone tried this yet? I’m about to give this a shot, I assume you can configure wifi via the terminal and install this without having to sneakernet files onto the device.
i just tried it, doesn’t work, whines about breaking system packages when you try to put in adafruit, and even if you force it to install adafruit the script still doesn’t work, dies with a traceback error.
“could not determine default i2c bus for platform”
i believe that means it can’t read the system battery parameters?
That was designed for completely different hardware than what we have in the uConsole. I don’t actually use retropie but I’m sure there’s a script or an overlay to pull the battery info from the OS somewhere.
Btw, i ended up just installing Hatari on a Bookworm image SD card i was already using for the AOI addon board. Worked right out of the box, just the controls needed a bit more config.
Still having fun with the other emus though
Has anyone had success in pairing Bluetooth headphones to the uConsole when using the RetroPie build? I tried a few times and the uConsole finds my headphones, yet the pairing process fails.
Wait, are You saying I can just add the ROMS on the Retropie SD card directly? I have issues with both getting the auto USB method and SAMBA to work, this sounds way faster and easier!
Roms loaded into various rom folders yet cannot get the system to see any ??. Yes restarted emulation station. Tried populating ‘all games’ etc but whatever I do every list shows zero…