New installed emulator not showing in ES

dmmarti

I know you mentioned not having an additional es_systems.cfg in your original post ... but can you check this location (you mentioned not in home so I just wanted to make sure you've checked the proper secondary location)?

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

If you've added the emulators, the entry is in the /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg, and you've added roms with the appropriate extension, that's the only other thing I can think of after the other suggestions above.

lostless

@boomspar make sure you’re not using a custom essystems.cfg file. If you did a custom one to reorder systems, it will not update when adding new systems, you have to manually add them in.

boomspar

@dmmarti that did the job!

I had an older version of es_system.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation.

So I copied the /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg to this loaction then restarted the system and THERE THEY ARE.

But for my understanding.. are there more files to be copied to here for proper operation?

mitu

@boomspar said in New installed emulator not showing in ES:

I had an older version of es_system.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation.

And you said that you don't have a custom config file in your home...

But for my understanding.. are there more files to be copied to here for proper operation?

You should not copy anything, the system es_systems.cfg file is kept up to date by the RetroPie setup script - when you add a new emulator, the corresponding folder is created under ~/RetroPie/roms and the necessary entries are added in the ES config file also. If you copied the ES config file in your home and customized it - as described in the docs - then you can have a 2nd config file, which is NOT updated by the RetroPie setup script and that you can manually maintain.

boomspar

I didn't saw any file in /home. But instead so in /opt.

I think I am a little confused.
So what can I do to make it proper working.

I will restore the file in /opt and then what's the best way to do?

ps. I didn't manualy edit files. I following steps out of the es-gui -->

Retropie - configuration
retropie setup
P Manage packages
opt Manage optional packages
211 lr-bluemsx
S Install from source

mitu

Jus remove the file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation and the system (/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg) will take over.

When you said 'you don't have a file in your home', I meant to understand you don't have a custom es_systems.cfg file $HOME/.emulationstation. The folder $HOME/.emulationstation is the same as /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation, so you must have added that file yourself - as per the docs page I mentioned - at some point, but your forgot about it.

Clyde

@mitu Maybe @boomspar didn't notice $HOME/.emulationstation because it is a hidden directory? (i.e. beginning with a ".", just mentioned for others here)

boomspar

Yes I didn't notice at first and discovered this morning indead that it was the same when I did a global search.

Maybe the PINN installation did make it.

I deleted it rebooted and MSX is showing, so thanx. But then... the roms wil not load. Returning to ES again.

runcommand.log:

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-bluemsx/bluemsx_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/msx/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx/FROGGER.ROM" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1006:   978 Segmentation fault      /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-bluemsx/bluemsx_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/msx/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx/FROGGER.ROM" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

So I tried removing all the roms and put in one rom I know normally worked in ES. Reboot and again not showing up the game.

mitu

Looks like a bad ROM or missing BIOS files - see the MSX Emulators doc page.

boomspar

Isn't it weird ; I followed the normal steps below and install does require manual steps...

Retropie - configuration
retropie setup
P Manage packages
opt Manage optional packages
211 lr-bluemsx
S Install from source

or is that right?

boomspar

Anyway, moved roms to the specified 'shared' folder and it worked.

But still as in my previous post I thought by following the normal gui steps installation must be working but apparently not.

mitu

@boomspar Generally BIOS and ROMs are not provided by RetroPie unless there's free/open source. That's why the BIOS requirements are always mentioned on the emulator's page. Just like for ROMs, you're responsible for copying the necessary BIOS files in place - they don't come with the package installed from the RetroPie-Setup.