DOSBox Emulator Not Showing Up

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.

edmaul69

@mitu i use a custom es_system.cfg in the config folder now. The first time it appeared in the config folder it created it on its own after an update. Others have had that happen too.

Efriim

here is a copy of my es_systems.cfg,
it is missing only a few systems
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xOLlgKd_mQ_WgPeE8d1VQW5wo8PYrexM

You can copy it to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
or you can delete this file and it will use the default es_systems.cfg that is configured automatically.

You can also find this file in samba share
\\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\es_systems.cfg

mitu

@edmaul69 said in DOSBox Emulator Not Showing Up:

i use a custom es_system.cfg in the config folder now

That's not the point. It's perfectly fine to customize the configuration file, as long as you're aware of the implications. But there's no way an update would create the file by itself - it's always created manually.

Efriim

@mitu I've had systems not show up out of the box. But anyways, it doesn't look like a very configured es_systems and its absolutely right that there is no Dos/PC system.

I guess it is possible that I edited the es_systems.cfg, it was really early on, if the main config has been edited, will it not be updated anymore when installing a new system?

edmaul69

@mitu i had that happen with an update. This was a few years after i was using the pi. So i was familiar enough with it. And others who said the same thing had the same issue. Also an update once changed all the rom folders locations in es_systems.cfg from /home/pi/ to /root/

mitu

@edmaul69 said in DOSBox Emulator Not Showing Up:

Also an update once changed all the rom folders locations in es_systems.cfg from /home/pi/ to /root/

I also had that happen to me - because instead of using sudo, I was logged on as the root user. I bet it still happens if you're doing sudo su and run the update.

mitu

@Efriim said in DOSBox Emulator Not Showing Up:

I guess it is possible that I edited the es_systems.cfg, it was really early on, if the main config has been edited, will it not be updated anymore when installing a new system?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#es_systemscfg-edits