Black screen when launching games

[dmaker]

Just installed Launchbox on my nvidia shield. It's been a very long time since I have tried to get LB running on Android. It's installed, but games launch to a black window. It's not LB, as I tried with Reset Collection and the same thing happened.

 

I did some reading and saw some suggestion that Retroarch needs to be installed on local storage. I have no idea how to do that. I have adopted storage with an external SSD drive. I don't really get an option on where to install something. It could be someting else, I think I only saw one person make that comment. 

 

Any ideas? 

 

 

[dmaker]

Nevermind. It's working now. 

I had to launch Retroarch separately at least once to grant it some necessary permissions. 

[dmaker]

Uhm how do I exit a game?

 

[dmaker]

Wow, trying to map buttons in Retroarch is stunningly unintuitive.

 

[dmaker]

I can kind of get there with the default controls, I just don't like how it wants to map the buttons differently than how they are on gamepads. For example, why does Retroarch want A to be B, and X to be Y, etc? Makes no sense at all, and if I change them, for some reason in game I have no navigation controls or anything. In fact only the Select key works. 

I did figure out how to setup an exit combo though...yay