@retro777 thank you for that.
So to me it looks more like a issue with the image you are using.

That is the unfortunate issue we have right now. Since depending on how the maker did things. My stuff might not compile correctly. Since I didn't use the same image

But I will show you it working on my end Monday since that's when I will be at my pi5 next

Can you post a screenshot of your screen after you exit EmulationStation (with F4 or just by exiting from the menu) ?

I don´t have a Capture Card here rn but in the picture you won´t see anything.

you can configure WiFi and enable SSH just by editing a couple of files on the SDcard, without starting any menu - see the docs here and here.

Do you mean configuring WiFi and enabling SSH in Raspberry Pi Imager when pressing controll + shift + x? If yes, I wanted to try this but my PC can´t read the SD card anymore. I think it´s because of my SD card reader, because the Pi still detects it. I guess I´ll have to try again using another SD card reader but I can´t do that next week.

Nontheless thank you very much @mitu!!!

EDIT: I tried booting RetroPie using an USB stick, still the same issue.

@Lolonois thanks, not sure how to ensure it delivers a constant voltage while writing... however I'm not planning to waste any more time on this matter.
The cards in question is a sandisk 512gb ordered from amazon that i had for years and worked fine in my switch. I got the write error in my arcade and i thought the card was done, so i ordered a new one form Amazon. That card didn't work either... Amazon was good enough to send a second card for free and that one also failed.
Who knows, maybe a voltage issue makes sense, but there's no indication of undervoltage on the machine itself.

@WonderNomad said in The screen displays the game menu, the game doesn't progress.:

RetroPie Version: 4.10

There's no such version - which image did you use to install the system ?

Problem: When I try to launch "Super Mario Bros." on NES, the emulator starts but the game freezes immediately.

Does this happen for every NES game ? Which emulator are you using (it's printed in the Runcommand menu before the game starts) ? Which buttons are you using and what kind of controller do you have ?

@rasp_renegade said in Stuck on Spalshscreen after updating pi v4:

It was just the splashscreen thank goodness

Not really sure what it means - does it work if you disable the splashscreen ? What's the output from the command I posted - that may help understand why the splashscreen is stuck.

@gmarler said in Black Screen When Starting ColecoVision Game Under lr-bluesmx:

Not sure how things got into this state, as the core_options_path simply disappeared from the /opt/retropie/configs/coleco/retroarch.cfg file when I updated to the latest RetroPie through retropie-setup as of 2025-04-07.

In a default RetroPie installation, that config file shouldn't contain much and core_options_path is only set by RetroPie in the global /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg. Any core option overrides (per-folder/game) will be saved elsewhere.

@mitu Thanks for confirming that.

In the meantime, I was able to determine that my HDMI monitor also has a 3.5 mm jack that I never noticed before, so I can plug my headphones into that instead.

I guess this could help

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/16647

However, these options are included in retroarch 1.20 onward AFAICT.

RetroPie uses v1.19.0 of RetroArch currently.

Very special case. But you can save the import part. However, some manual steps are required:

Copy the pq1-amiga.svm to the ~/RetroPie/roms/amiga/ folder.

Find the Amiga video (I guess you already did that).

e.g, https://www.screenscraper.fr/gameinfos.php?gameid=34415&action=onglet&zone=gameinfosmedias

Navigate to the ROM/ISOs latch and pick a checksum and use it in the query parameter.

Run Skyscraper -p amiga -d /tmp --flags videos -s screenscraper --query="md5=2c4827513db0e45eed77d20d290fa17d" ~/RetroPie/roms/amiga/pq1-amiga.svm.

Find the video for "Police Quest" from screenscraper in the scummvm Skyscraper DB file, usually ~/.skyscraper/cache/scummvm/db.xml (type="video" source="screenscraper" with the matching resource id for Policy Quest). Note the resource id.

Copy the amiga video into the scummvm cache, e.g.:

cp /tmp/videos/screenscraper/494148112002ee474500cc10cbd212b1dedc5bd0.mp4 ~/.skyscraper/cache/scummvm/videos/<just-noted-resource-id>.mp4

It could be that the resource id is identical between Amiga and ScummVM, as the Skyscraper resource id is calculated from the filename and not from the file content for *.svm files. I did not verify this, but I assume it will be the case.

@JimmyFromTheBay said in Catastrophic lr-VICE failure:

Ah, found it:

sudo chown pi:pi /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-vice

Did that for the main and subfolder and managed to replace the crappy broken new files with the working old ones. All fixed. Thanks for the reply :)

I see how you have done it otherwise you would not be able to replace the files.
If you don't mind you can leave it that way.
However, notice that these folders normally have root user rights.
In principle you should turn them back to root.

@Chuckgofer Thanks for the confirmation.