No main retropie menu.

ricbritain

I am a total noob.

I have a 3B+ and managed to install raspberian. Then on a separate SD card I installed retropie. This all worked well. I then looked to connect via the wifi to add some ROMs. Watching many youtube videos I realised that the retropie menu is missing altogether. I have no options at all. It gets to the Emulation station where there is a menu, but I can not get the retropie menu no matter what.

Using: cd RetroPie-setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

I set up the wi-fi and then tried to update the core packages. This took a while but nothing changed.

I am at a loss, already. I've searched online but can find no mention of the same problem.

I considered formatting the SD card and trying again, but having lost memory cards in Linux before I hesitate to try this.

Any advice appreciated.

simpleethat

Could we get a little more info about your system as outlined https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Also for clarification do you mean the retropie menu that shows up in Emulation Station?

herb_fargus

@ricbritain if you are talking about the retropie menu in emulationstation then you need to install it from the setup script I think it might be under configuration/tools but I forget.

Or you can just the retropie image which is already built on raspbian (sans desktop environment)

KN4THX

@ricbritain What Retropie menu are you referring to?

If you mean Emulationstation loads but you do not see any emulators, only the Retropie Setup menu (Audio, Bluetooth, Wifi, etc) , then you have installed Retropie and need to add roms to the proper folders as described here:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/

Emulators will not show up until you add roms to the proper folders.

As someone asked previously, more info would really help if this is not the case.

ricbritain

Thanks for the replies.
I found it at about just after midnight. it was there all along. I now have everything working and have even downloaded about 20 working games! Mainly Super Nintendo, but its a start. Thanks.

Clyde

@ricbritain Just of curiosity, how did you miss it, and how did you finally find it?