Category: Support

December 22, 2019

How to Enable “Favorites” and “Last Played” on Retropie

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If you got one of our microSD cards pre-loaded with Retropie, you probably got it with the “Favorites” and “Last Played” disabled or just hidden. Only the “All Games” comes selected on most of our images. We do that to unclutter the interface and let the customer go straight to the games, but many customers ask about these options, and it’s easy to just enable them back on.

First boot into your Retropie microSD card. You should boot right into the “Retropie” or “Options” option in the menu highlighted.

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December 20, 2019

Resetting Controllers on Retropie the Right Way

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Sometimes your controllers will become unresponsive, or you just want to reset your controllers to something you think will be more appropriate for the system or type of game you are playing, it means that it’s time for you reset your controllers on RetroPie.

There are actually two ways of doing this, depending on what’s your situation. When your controller setup is not working properly, there will be cases when the controller allows you to navigate fine and enter games, but once you’ve entered a game, the controller does not work anymore, and you can’t even exit the game by pressing SELECT+START. In other instances nothing is working and you are thinking that the best way is to shut down the RetroPie and start over.

Before you make any decisions you might regret later, let’s see what to do in both scenarios mentioned above:

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