DOSBox Emulator Not Showing Up

DreadfulDreamZz

So I'm pretty new to RetroPie in general but I recently saw that you could run older pc games on it as well. So I of course looked up how to do it. Was pretty straight forward but when I go back to the main RetroPie homescreen it doesnt have DOSBox there. I made sure I had all of the games in the folder correctly and everything but nothing I try doing is fixing it. I've googled numerous solutions and nothing has worked so far. I went into my Desktop on the RetroPie port and I loaded the .sh file for DOSBox and it works fine there but it isn't even in fullscreen. I'm making a RetroPie setup for my boss as well so I want to be able to just keep things more simplified when it comes to running the PC games.

mitu

Please add more info about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
How did you install dosbox ? After you add dosbox, a new system called pc should be added to your RetroPie list of systems.

DreadfulDreamZz

@mitu
Pi Model or other hardware: Using both Pi 2 and Pi3B+ with 2 different SD cards on both but both are having the same issue.
Power Supply used: 2000MA AC adapter
RetroPie Version Used: 4.4.11
Built From: Base Retropie image from website
USB Devices connected: Just an Xbox One controller
Controller used: Xbox One
Emulator: DOSBox
Is there any other info needed about the system?

I installed dosbox through the normal package installer within retropie under optional packages. But after installing it nothing shows up in my list of systems on the homepage of Emulationstation. I'm able to see the pc folder within my files to put games into it and even after putting games into the folder nothing shows up.

mitu

How does a game that you copied in the pc ROMs folder look like ? Do you have an .exe/ .bat/ .sh file to start the game(s) or you just copied a .zip file containing the game folder ?

Emulationstation will add the game to the list if it encounters one of the game extensions listed in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PC/.

DreadfulDreamZz

The games have a .exe file

mitu

@DreadfulDreamZz Did you restart Emulationstation after copying the games ?

DreadfulDreamZz

Yes I did.

mitu

Did you enable the Parse Gamelists only option in Emulationstation's settings ?

DreadfulDreamZz

I had it off and I just turned it on but it did not do anything

mitu

@DreadfulDreamZz It should be set to Off. On means it won't read from the ROM folder, but only from the existing gamelist (so adding new files wouldn't make the appear in Emulationstation).

Can you show a screenshot of the pc folder with your games ?

DreadfulDreamZz

dosbox help 2.png dosbox help 1.png

I added a screenshot of the civ folder to show the .exe

mitu

The ROM folder and the game looks fine, if I replicate the structure and add a fake civ.exe into a civ folder, I can see the game and I can launch it.

Can you try to get the ES's log file from /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_log.txt and post it on pastebin.com ?

Did you do any other configurations on the stock image ?

DreadfulDreamZz

https://pastebin.com/egXR4TFC

I've done configurations for hiding the beginning boot sequence so it only shows the Retropie boot picture. All the other configurations I've done were to get steam-link and other wallpapers onto the system.

mitu

@DreadfulDreamZz Which image did you used to install RetroPie ? I don't see the pc system configured in the ES log, that's why it doesn't appear in the interface.

dmmarti

@DreadfulDreamZz ... you didn't happen to make a copy of the es_systems.cfg file and make changes to it did you?

Copy it from /etc/emulationstation to the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation folder to make edits in it?

DreadfulDreamZz

@mitu I downloaded the image off of the official Retropie downloads.

@dmmarti and no I didn't change anything with the es_systems.cfg file. I don't like to mess with anything I'm not sure about within config files and such.

mitu

@DreadfulDreamZz said in DOSBox Emulator Not Showing Up:

@mitu I downloaded the image off of the official Retropie downloads.

That's not what the log file shows. The official image from the retropie.org.uk/download does not come with a customized es_systems.cfg - as @dmmarti pointed out.

DreadfulDreamZz

Interesting. Is there a way I might have inadvertently messed up the es_systems.cfg file? Is there a way I can revert it without reimaging and starting all over?

One thing I forgot to mention was that I cloned the image I'm currently using from my original image that I have on my Pi 2. But I have the same issue on the Pi 2 anyways.

mitu

We don't support 3rd party images, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download and you'll not have these problems.

DreadfulDreamZz

Well I know for a fact that I downloaded the image off of the official site and that's what I'm using. I still have the image file that I used on my computer. I don't even know whereabouts I could get a 3rd party image.