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    NES Emulator Doesn't Run

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    • Starcade2084S
      Starcade2084
      last edited by

      Good evening, all.

      I've more than enough ROMs installed and both the SNES and Mega Drive emulators are working just fine but I can't get any NES games to run. I select a title, load it via the controller, then the emulator exits back onto the RetroPie screen (it doesn't crash or reboot, just exits the emulator.) I've tried selecting both lr-fceumm and lr-nestopia before the ROM loads and both give the same result. I feel I'm missing something simple since the overall feel of RetroPie is plug-and-play but what that fix is has me stymied. I'm hoping someone can guide me (I attempted a few forum searches for this problem but didn't see one like this.)

      I'm running a RPi 3/B with 32GB microsd, RetroPie from SD Image

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @Starcade2084
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        @Starcade2084 https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Nintendo-Entertainment-System#roms

        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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        • Starcade2084S
          Starcade2084
          last edited by

          I've read that link prior to posting here. The only thing that gave me pause this time is the mention of a "ROM header". I think what's wrong is that the NES zip files contain a number of ROMs per zip. I'll have to unpack a handful and see if that's where I went wrong.

          Thanks for the quick reply. Hopefully it's set me in the right direction.

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