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    Can't run games

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    retroarchemulationstatiolinuxubuntu
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      camjrp
      last edited by

      I just compilled EmulationStation from source to run it with retroarch, no retropie, in my linux laptop machine (xubuntu)
      Whenever i try to run a game i'm getting this error in the terminal
      "camilo@camilo-S400CA:~$ emulationstation
      lvl0: CECInput::mAdapter->DetectAdapters failed"

      ¿What can i do?

      Here is a copy/paste of my ES config fyle

      <!-- This is the EmulationStation Systems configuration file.
      All systems must be contained within the <systemList> tag.-->

      <systemList>
      <!-- Here's an example system to get you started. -->
      <system>

      	<!-- A short name, used internally. Traditionally lower-case. -->
      	<name>nes</name>
      
      	<!-- A "pretty" name, displayed in menus and such. -->
      	<fullname>Nintendo Entertainment System</fullname>
      
      	<!-- The path to start searching for ROMs in. '~' will be expanded to $HOME on Linux or %HOMEPATH% on Windows. -->
      	<path>/home/camilo/Emulation/Roms/Nes/</path>
      
      	<!-- A list of extensions to search for, delimited by any of the whitespace characters (", \r\n\t").
      	You MUST include the period at the start of the extension! It's also case sensitive. -->
      	<extension>.nes .NES</extension>
      
      	<!-- The shell command executed when a game is selected. A few special tags are replaced if found in a command:
      	%ROM% is replaced by a bash-special-character-escaped absolute path to the ROM.
      	%BASENAME% is replaced by the "base" name of the ROM.  For example, "/foo/bar.rom" would have a basename of "bar". Useful for MAME.
      	%ROM_RAW% is the raw, unescaped path to the ROM. -->
      	<command>retroarch -f -L /home/camilo/.config/retroarch/cores/nestopia.libretro.so %ROM%</command>
      
      	<!-- The platform to use when scraping. You can see the full list of accepted platforms in src/PlatformIds.cpp.
      	It's case sensitive, but everything is lowercase. This tag is optional.
      	You can use multiple platforms too, delimited with any of the whitespace characters (", \r\n\t"), eg: "genesis, megadrive" -->
      	<platform>nes</platform>
      
      	<!-- The theme to load from the current theme set.  See THEMES.md for more information.
      	This tag is optional. If not set, it will default to the value of <name>. -->
      	<theme>nes</theme>
      </system>
      

      </systemList>

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        mitu Global Moderator @camjrp
        last edited by

        @camjrp Are you sure you're core name is nestopia.libretro.so and not nestopia_libtretro.so ? Try running the emulator start-up command from the command line and see if you get any errors, then adjust it in the .cfg file.

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          camjrp
          last edited by

          Thanks, i was incorrectly naming the core, now the game runs
          However i kept getting this error message in the terminal
          camilo@camilo-S400CA:~$ emulationstation
          lvl0: CECInput::mAdapter->DetectAdapters failed
          Protocol error: bad 3 (Window); Sequence Number 11
          Opcode (20, 0) = GetProperty
          Bad resource 0 (0x0)
          at -e line 16.
          lvl0: CECInput::mAdapter->DetectAdapters failed

          Don't know what it means

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @camjrp
            last edited by

            @camjrp Those errors seem related to your Xorg installation or desktop environment.

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