Please use the "Help and Support" category for help.

Please read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first as agreed when signing up on the forum.

See https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#installing-additional-emulators--ports in regards to installing emulators

See https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Atari-800-and-5200 for information about the Atari 800 emulator.

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@kez colecovision is only compiled for the pi also you'll get more answers if you start your own threads with your own questions rather than hoping you'll get one by piggybacking off of a solved thread

I noticed the same thing this morning during my play for the MAME ROW. I just updated to RetroPie 4.1.1 (2ceeb8a) to try to fix it. This definitely seems like a regression. I used to be able to press Select+X to get out of RGUI and get back into the game. I know it's not RetroPie's doing. It's also been reported over on GitHub thanks to dankcushions.

@laephis apologies for the delay, it was overnight in my time zone :)

I believe that folder holds the templates, so you can use that. I was under the impression that your own config files would be in

~/.emulationstation

But if you find that your settings have been kept, them maybe the folder you mentioned also works :)

Glad to hear you're sorted out.

Nevermind, I figured it out. I don't know HOW.. but I think I managed to get the .sh file as a remnant from a previous install, and never actually INSTALLED the package. :)

I've been building my system in stages, testing out what works, etc. I have the ROMs/BIOS saved on a USB Hard Drive that will sit inside my box. That way I could remove it to make transferring everything easier. At one point, I had moved EVERYTHING to a spare "Temporary" folder on my computer. Then I slowly added stuff back one by one. The Ports were the last section. I moved over the script to launch it, but never actually installed it.

For reference, it doesn't install the data to the game in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports... it installs them to /opt/retropie/ports/smw

@Fourthlaw said in Quick question about installed emulators (I hope):

I'm installing all optional cores from source. If that doesn't work, I might just start over from a fresh image.

I shouldn't think you want to do that.

Please provide more information - see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (I don't know what version of RetroPie you are running, or even which hardware you are running it on etc).

Because they are not automatically configured like the libretro cores, and need manual configuration (Some may not even support joystick, others may need configuration). If you use the lr-prboom version of doom your joystick should work out of the box.

PS. When asking for help please provide more information as detailed here - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

What if this exact same issue arises after making zero changes to a retropie that had been working for several months?

I was playing snes roms for an hour or so, plugged in my keyboard to test out Kodi, and all of the sudden an error began popping up "illegal instruction" when attempting to boot/reboot the Pi.

I've run the retropie update scripts, hoping that could solve the issue but it hasn't. Now the "illegal instruction" does not appear, however the Emulation Station splash screen flashes for half a second, and then its back to the initial boot up command line screen.

My filesystem is far from full, so I know that's not an issue.

I've also attempted to remove one console worth of ROMS to see if ES is overloaded in anyway, to no avail. Any help would be tremendously appreciated.

Thank you both.

I'll fix that up - something must have changed the logic in bash as it's fine on my ubuntu desktop and on raspbian. Maybe a specific version of bash has some different behaviour, but the variable should be initialised so I will do that.

It's not available for the rpi3. X86/X86_64 only.

ok, after 2 days, I finally solved the problem..by default steam stores, the file /lib/udev/rules.d/99-steam-controller-perms.rules

for some reason the retropie script also installs /ect/udev/rules.d/99-steam-controller-perms.rules

the file in /ect contained the instructions for xbox and keyboard which was overridding the /lib rules.
I removed the ect file which should not be there and everything is now working. (I actually removed both files and reinstalled steam-devices)

I had the same problem,where the hell is Doom then I realized that it not installed,its to make the image smaller so it don't take long to download.

If its working fine in 3.4 and not working in newer versions of RetroPie then its a bug. Report it as a bug and see if anyone can fix it.