Thanks for the replay and your help. I'm actually running MultiMan and EvilNat. Do you think the manual fan issue could also be something on this configuration as well?
I have a similar issue. When I uninstall and reinstall retroarch I can run an NES rom one time. Then if I close the game and try again I get the black screen and sent back to the XMB on subsequent attempts.
If I delete the cfg and salamader.cfg files after the problem starts, that does not...