GBA roms not starting on Ras Pi Zero W

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 19:08

Hello Everyone,

I recently made a home made gameboy with a pi Zero W. I succeded to run som roms, but doesn't with other (like pokemon Red Fire or Golden Sun)

I puted the gba_bios.bin file into BIOS directory. I tried to run with GPSP and MGBA, but the game is not stating.

I went to retropie_setup.sh but I don't find any line for lr-vba-next or something else.

I think that I am not the first one to have this problem, but I am a neebie with Retropie and I can not find any real solution for my problem.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Hellasius.

mitu · 10 Apr 2018, 19:20

@hellasius Make sure your BIOS is correct - verify the checksum on https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Game-Boy-Advance/ is the same as your bios file.
Second - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - what image and RetroPie release are you using ?
You should find the emulator log file in /dev/shm/runcommand.log, so find the file after you've tried to run the ROM and post its contents on pastebin.com, then post the link here.

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 20:00

@mitu Thank you for your help

my md5sum is a860e8c0b6d573d191e4ec7db1b1e4f6 => OK
I am runing retropie-4.3-rpi1_zero image from https://retropie.org.uk/download/
I have nothing in /dev/shm/ the folder in empty...

mitu · 10 Apr 2018, 20:10

@hellasius said in GBA roms not starting on Ras Pi Zero W:

I have nothing in /dev/shm/ the folder in empty

Check the folder immediately after running the failing ROM, the log file does not exist before and it's also cleared when you restart your system.

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 20:18

@mitu https://pastebin.com/t73imqSf

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 20:21

@mitu You will certainly ask, so here is my config.txt
https://pastebin.com/wtfbHigD
I change it to be woring with my piTft 2.2 from adafruit, but I might have delete a importante line.

mitu · 10 Apr 2018, 20:31

@hellasius Does it work if you remove the overclock ? The log file has some errors regarding audio, I'm not sure they're the cause of the crash.

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 20:41

@mitu I tried to remove the firt part of the config.txt
did no change anything. https://pastebin.com/n9QY7FfZ

mitu · 10 Apr 2018, 20:42

@hellasius Can you try a different ROM ? Are you sure the ROM(s) that fails is ok ?

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 20:46

@mitu I tried different ROMs,
pokemon red fire frensh or english, golden sun, sims 2 are not working.
but Mario and zelda minish cap are working fine.

I am not 100% sure but ROMs are from dfferent website.
I don't think is come from the ROM. But I will try other one to be sure.

mitu · 10 Apr 2018, 20:47

@hellasius Try to enable the verbose logging in the Runcommand menu, maybe the log would be more detailed. Does your sound work ?

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 21:03

I tried with another ROM for pokemon ruby and I have the same issue.
I run the ROM with verbose command, same. Where can I find the error file? that I can share it with you.
I do not have a daptater for mi Pi zero to try the sound., I don't know if it's working.

mitu · 10 Apr 2018, 21:04

@hellasius said in GBA roms not starting on Ras Pi Zero W:

Where can I find the error file?

Same file as before - /dev/shm/runcommand.log.

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 21:06

@mitu haha sorry I feel so noob ^^'
https://pastebin.com/B5pVNvGN

Thank you for your time by the way !!!

cyperghost · 10 Apr 2018, 21:13

@hellasius Do you see text like 1679/ -/ Pokemon/ Rouge/ Feu/ (F)(Rising Sun).gba in the grey box if you start your ROM?

Look at the slashes /

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 21:21

@cyperghost No there is no /

cyperghost · 10 Apr 2018, 21:23

@hellasius Okay thank you! That was my problem for round about one year or so :)

mitu · 10 Apr 2018, 21:26

@hellasius The log file doesn't seem to report any errors, but have you tried to see if the ROM is ok ? Load it in another emulator - on a PC maybe ? - to see if it works.

Hellasius · 10 Apr 2018, 21:51

@mitu I quicklly tried to run my ROMs on PC emulator, but none are working (not pokemon and not zelda, that was supposed to work)...
I am lost...

Hellasius · 4 Nov 2018, 21:21

Roms are all working on my PC.
I realize it was just a issue during the transfert of the rom to my raspberry, now it should work.... but actually my raspberry pi seems not to respond to my SD card.
I tried to reboot on the new retropie IMG, and nothing. Green led blink twice, then nothing.... when I try the same SD card on another pi It's working.

If you have any advice for this issue, that would be great.
You already helped me a lot. Thank you.