Daphne not showing up on ES [Solved, but reporting]

[Jeck11]

@pjft you copied it to that location if you followed the wiki guide for the kids version. I had the same question.

[pjft]

@Jeck11 You may actually be right! I had not connected the dots then. Thanks for the clarification!

[DJ Wheels]

I used ETA primes instructional video and I can't get Daphne to show up in emulationstation. Daphne works for me on my PC, so I can't be that dumb, can I ?
-Why don't I have either one of these files on my sd card? /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
or /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

[mitu]

@dj-wheels Please give more details about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

[estefan3112]

Same problem here on a RPI 3 with latest version of the Retropie Setup Script, the Emulation Station binary and compiled from source: Daphne is installed and runs fine in Attract Mode with two games installed. However, Daphne does not show up in Emulation Station. I also built Daphne from Source to be on the safe side. No log file entries visible. I tried to manually copy (not move) the es_systems.cfg (containing the Daphne entry), but no change.

[mitu]

@estefan3112 The resolution is the same - make sure you don't have a custom es_systems.cfg in your home folder (/home/pi/.emulationstation). When you install from binary/source (doesn't matter in this case), the emulator/system is added in the system es_systems.cfg, but not to you custom one - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Add-a-New-System-in-EmulationStation/#troubleshooting

[estefan3112]

Thanks! I found this in the logfile of ES:

lvl1: Unknown platform for system "daphne" (platform "daphne" from list "daphne")
lvl1: Warning from theme "/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/daphne/theme.xml"
(from included file "/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/daphne/../carbon.xml")
could not find file ""
lvl1: System "daphne" has no games! Ignoring it.

However the system entry seems correct (I did not touch this - and only copied it to the home directory when Daphne was not showing up in ES):
<system>
<name>daphne</name>
<fullname>Daphne</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne</path>
<extension>.daphne .DAPHNE</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS daphne %ROM%</command>
<platform>daphne</platform>
<theme>daphne</theme>
</system>

Cheers!

[mitu]

@estefan3112 said in Daphne not showing up on ES [Solved, but reporting]:

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne

So what's in your ROM folder (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne) ?

[estefan3112]

I hope that there is no very stupid mistake here. As said, Attract Mode just works with both games.

[mitu]

@estefan3112 The list of files looks fine, permissions also look ok, but there's something amiss here.