I have read through this entire thread and for the most part I keep up with it. With that said at approaching 100 pages it is unreasonable to expect most people to have the time to cruise the whole thing. Is this pic in the first post? If not it should be.

Hi there, did everything according to the instructions. Testing works while i run retro game. However after i restart the buttons don't work anymore unless i start retro game. there seems to be a problem with automatically running retro game on system boot ? I put this line /home/pi/Adafruit-Retrog...

It would be great if amazon.com was a distributor. I guess that is to much to ask though. I am happy to see what the raspberry pi foundation has done for the single board computer movement but I would love to see a new brand take the #1 spot, preferably with open source hardware.

Is anyone else having issues with emulation station crashing? If I do not load a rom within about 5 minutes ES crashes every time for me. Once I am in a rom I fine for the most part. If I try to scrape in ES then it crashes after about 1-2 minutes. I have reburned several different SD cards. Is anyo...

I have a simple fix for the usb issue, I wired the usb signal wires to a switch. Now I just move the switch to give usb control to the aio or the usb port. I can switch back and forth with power on, it goes from one to the other seamlessly. With the usb port active my Wi-Fi, keyboard, memory stick ...

You could just pull the sd card and put it in your pc and copy the roms onto it.

Are you using s shielded cable? If not I would start there.

Alright I have one on order but it probably will not be here for a month. Are you reprogramming the board as a keyboard?

Is it typical for only the Dpad to work when I am not in the UI? If I try to mess with any of the retropie configs I cannot commit any changes because only the dpad works. I have found a solution to this problem. Will be included with the battery monitoring hex and scripts I'm working on for Helder...

I actually can't see a difference between the 2. Maybe I did not read closely.