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I didn't have a bloody clue what I was doing with the building or the software when I started but somehow managed to cobble something together. There's a lot of things that can go wrong and because everyone uses different parts for their builds there's not a one stop shop for solutions. I had a nightmare getting my joysticks and usb audio working properly . I thought the all in one packs would solve those issues? Look at a guy called floob on YouTube he's got loads of videos on retropie and breaks things down really well.
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tbh i haven't looked into the software side at all yet, the picade only comes with instructions to assemble the cabinet and then basically says "um yeah install retropie or something. THE END".
they even forgot to add instructions to edit the boot config to uncomment a line that prevents the thing from running the display on screen when booted. every single customer of the new picade has to now figure that out for themselves. and there's no guidance on how to setup the controls in retropie even though that is specific to how they designed it.
Feels a bit like one of those haunted houses where you are guided through really fast then suddenly you go through a door and you're back on the street in the daylight and there's no one around and it takes a few seconds before you're like "oh so I'm back on my own now, wtf do i do now?".