[SOLVED] Setup Daphne for Dragon's Lair on rPi3, Black Screen
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That is not what I am after I'm afraid. Please SSH in to the Raspberry Pi, and run the
lsfrom a terminal. It will produce a detailed output.To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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Edit: It took a few min to figure out how to ssh to the rPi3.
Edit: Copy / paste from terminal@BuZz said in Setup Daphne for Dragon's Lair on rPi3, Black Screen:
That is not what I am after I'm afraid. Please SSH in to the Raspberry Pi, and run the
lsfrom a terminal. It will produce a detailed output.pi@retropie:~ $ ls -Rla /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/ /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jun 26 12:39 . drwxr-xr-x 6 pi pi 4096 Jun 26 12:30 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 14:14 lair.daphne drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jun 26 12:38 roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/lair.daphne: total 899700 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 14:14 . drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jun 26 12:39 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91 Jun 26 13:40 lair.commands -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 893769849 Jun 26 13:20 lair.m2v -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27496826 Jun 26 12:43 lair.ogg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 Jun 26 12:44 lair.txt /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/roms: total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jun 26 12:38 . drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jun 26 12:39 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17906 Jun 26 12:38 lair.zip -
The ownership is wrong as mentioned above (use the chmod I gave). The folders need to be writeable for the pi user.
You can usually copy and paste from an ssh client, which would be easier to work with than screenshots btw.
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@BuZz said in Setup Daphne for Dragon's Lair on rPi3, Black Screen:
The ownership is wrong as mentioned above (use the chmod I gave). The folders need to be writeable for the pi user.
You can usually copy and paste from an ssh client, which would be easier to work with than screenshots btw.
Thank you. I don't see a chmod you gave.
I'll take a backup image from right before I attempted this project and try again. I began using the root user in my FTP client since it's the easiest way for me to edit configuration files without permission issues. But now that I know how to SSH, perhaps that is no longer a concern.
Generally, should all ROMs and associated files be uploaded via the pie user? If so, I need to either redo all permissions or start from scratch and retrace my steps while not using the root user in my FTP client.
I'll report back when I've restored my backup image, and tried again.
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@briankross
sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/RetroPie/romswill set all rom folders back to piIf you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@herb_fargus said in Setup Daphne for Dragon's Lair on rPi3, Black Screen:
@briankross
sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/RetroPie/romswill set all rom folders back to piAh... crap. lol Just started re-imaging from a backup. I'm barely functional in terminal :)
Learning moment, noted. Thank you! Ug.
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@briankross the terminal is a good skill to have. There are lots of guides online including a basic on on the wiki:
If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@herb_fargus said in Setup Daphne for Dragon's Lair on rPi3, Black Screen:
@briankross the terminal is a good skill to have. There are lots of guides online including a basic on on the wiki:
Thank you.
Absolutely. My command line days were in the 80's and 90's, and just for fun. I certainly have a clue, but it's clear that I need to dig in.
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@BuZz said in Setup Daphne for Dragon's Lair on rPi3, Black Screen:
The ownership is wrong as mentioned above (use the chmod I gave). The folders need to be writeable for the pi user.
You can usually copy and paste from an ssh client, which would be easier to work with than screenshots btw.
That was it, just like you said, it works!
Thanks everyone for your time and expertise.
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Glad you have it sorted. It is not a good idea to use the root user to edit configuration and to copy files, as you will run into other problems like this. All the RetroPie configurations that are supposed to be user editable should be editable as the Pi user (or whatever user retropie is installed under). Only system configs in
/etc/and/boot/config.txtrequire root to edit - this can be done via the terminal withsudo nano /boot/config.txtTo help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@BuZz said in [SOLVED] Setup Daphne for Dragon's Lair on rPi3, Black Screen:
Glad you have it sorted. It is not a good idea to use the root user to edit configuration and to copy files, as you will run into other problems like this. All the RetroPie configurations that are supposed to be user editable should be editable as the Pi user (or whatever user retropie is installed under). Only system configs in
/etc/and/boot/config.txtrequire root to edit - this can be done via the terminal withsudo nano /boot/config.txtMany thanks, now I understand. I began down this road by logging in to FTP as root so I could edit some configuration files, as it turns out, I ended up reverting all changes. I didn't understand the larger issue with doing everything as root until today.
Now that I can somewhat confidently navigate and edit via SSH as pi user, I think I'm good to go.
Things are up and working, but I'm going to start from scratch and build up again so I know moving forward that everything is done correctly with the correct permissions.
First though, I'm going research how to transfer my progress from Zelda on NES... No sense in doing that all over again! :-)
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I'm having a similar issue. Thought I'd post here rather than start a new topic, hope that's OK.
My problem is the game starts up and runs fine as long as I leave it in demo mode. The demo loop runs the video and sound just fine. But when I start a game I see Dirk run across the bridge and then the screen goes black. I can hear the game running but can't see anything. By pressing random controls sometimes I'll get the death scene or if I'm lucky, a level I can actually play before it all goes dark again. I've deleted the .dat and parsed many times with the same result.
I'm hoping someone can help me sort this out, thanks. Here's my ls output:
pi@retropie:~ $ ls -Rla /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 14:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 63 pi pi 4096 Jan 18 19:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 21:09 lair.daphne
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 19:58 roms/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/lair.daphne:
total 103684
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 21:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 14:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 16316 Jan 19 21:10 lair.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 893769849 Jan 19 14:42 lair.m2v
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 27496826 Jan 19 14:17 lair.ogg
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 19 Jan 19 20:10 lair.txt/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/roms:
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 19:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 14:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 17906 Jan 19 19:49 lair.zip
pi@retropie:~ $
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