Editing Default.cfg file in rom Mame 2003 folder

mitu

Looks like either a permission problem or a disk reading issue - external flash drive may have errors if you cannot load any of the ROMs you have there.

leitmotiv

@mitu huh... I got Nintendo DS roms to run... but several other systems aren't.

mitu

Can you run with verbose logging enabled one of the failing ROMs and then put the contents of the /var/run/runcommand.log file on pastebin.com ?

leitmotiv

@mitu man, my blood pressure is rising and I may have to time myself out. haha....

Um... no? because that run command launch menu isn't popping up. Usually when I wanted to switch MAME emulators I with hit a button, so I JUST tried doing that to see if I could interact with an invisible launch menu and now it locked up again. I also see that there is a present mouse cursor on the screen that I'm not liking. I recently plugged in my mouse to interact as a stylus for the Nintendo DS rom I was fixing up. And strangely it is ONLY Nintendo DS roms I can boot. None of the other 24 systems are booting their roms. ayieee!!

leitmotiv

@mitu I just took my flash drive to my computer and it said it was "fixing some problems" and stuck the problem files in a Found folder, which is now holding FILE0000.CHK

I will eject the flash drive and reinsert it into the retropie. See if the problem resolves

leitmotiv

@mitu well... problem still persists. I ran a game with verbose logging enabled, but as a noob, I can't find the log file. It's not on my flash drive is it? I can't find it using WinSCP.

mitu

@leitmotiv The file is /dev/shm/runcommand.log, somehow I've posted the path wrong the first time.

leitmotiv

@mitu

https://pastebin.com/5GB611x4

mitu

@leitmotiv You didn't enable verbose logging. From the looks of it, the ROM file might be corrupted or incomplete. Enable verbose logging from the Runcommand launch menu and you'll get a more detailed log file.

leitmotiv

@mitu I'm confused. That link you sent for enabling verbose logging shows the option to enable it. I selected to Launch the rom with Verbose Logging. Is that not how it's done?

mitu

@leitmotiv Yes, that's the method and it looks like the verbose flag was added. The problem is that your RetroArch program is corrupted:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1009: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch: Permission denied

Try to re-install it from the RetroPie setup script, from the main packages section.

leitmotiv

@mitu all right, cautiously will... anything I can do to save controller remaps files and my setup? I've been pumping tons of hours into this thing trying to get it all set up and was getting close to being done. I would hate to spend another 40 hours+ redoing all the work I've done.

Or am I safe?

mitu

@leitmotiv Backup the cfg files you edited through MAME's input menu - but it seems you already did that. Re-installing RetroArch should not overwrite those settings though.

leitmotiv

@mitu okay, well I actually only backed up MAME2003. So I should save the cfg files for FBA and all the different MAMEs, mostly 2003 and 2010 controls. After that I will uninstall retroarch and reinstall it. Update is a no go, yeah?

mitu

@leitmotiv said in Editing Default.cfg file in rom Mame 2003 folder:

. Update is a no go, yeah?

Why ? You can just as well run the update and it will re-install the packages with the latest versions available.

leitmotiv

@mitu Ok, if there is an update available I presume. Is there a file that saves which emulator core I am using for each of these FBA/MAME roms? Or will that be fine?

mitu

@leitmotiv said in Editing Default.cfg file in rom Mame 2003 folder:

Is there a file that saves which emulator core I am using for each of these FBA/MAME roms? Or will that be fine?

There is one, but that's a configuration file that's not going to be overwritten. How did you install the RetroPie image in the first place ?

leitmotiv

@mitu oh man, I didn't think I would be talking about this issue from the one I started. Thank you for your patience.

I believe I dumped the install files on the SD card and on first boot it went through the process of setting everything up, something like that anyway. I followed what the website said to do.

leitmotiv

@mitu well, I presume the uninstall retroarch is in the Retropie/Retroarch menu and when I select that, it doesn't load...

mitu

@leitmotiv I think you sd card may be damaged.