Editing Default.cfg file in rom Mame 2003 folder

mitu · 20 Apr 2019, 06:54

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 06:58

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 07:00

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 07:04

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 07:05

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 07:07

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 07:10

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 07:13

@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 · 20 Apr 2019, 07:23

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

mitu · 20 Apr 2019, 09:02

@leitmotiv I think you sd card may be damaged.

leitmotiv · 23 Apr 2019, 07:53

@mitu Pretty sure I figured the issue out. It's the Drastic emulator for NDS which is when all of this started happening. Drastic causes things to hang up. Going to uninstall it and it should be back to normal.

Perhaps I will make a new thread to discuss my original question, if it is still there after the removal of Drastic. So disappointed that Drastic is causing this much of a problem.

mitu · 23 Apr 2019, 09:25

@leitmotiv This is a known problem with Drastic - but there's an updated version that can fix that. See this topic.

leitmotiv · 24 Apr 2019, 18:21

@mitu Thanks for the link. I checked it out, but it doesn't appear to fix the main problem of disrupting retropie. It only fixes games with mic issues, if I understand it correctly.

This was the issue I was having: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10110/drastic-nds-emulator-breaks-run-command-emulator-configuration-prompt-in-retropie4-2/30

Though in my case, it seems to have disabled the retropie setup menu as well... even after I uninstalled it. I switched to my backup SD card and so far no problems with the retropie setup menu, although, I still can't get other systems to boot after I've launched a NDS game.