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    Cannot change back emulator choice per Rom (solved)

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      benjiman @mitu
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      @mitu thank you 😎

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        ahmad8mk
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        I did exactly what mentioned here but still can`t change anything any ideas. @mitu

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          ahmad8mk
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          I did exactly what mentioned here but still can`t change anything any ideas @Aryetis

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            jackyracer
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            Hi! I know this entry is pretty old, but since I got the same problem very frequently I thought I‘d share what I did to resolve it, so people who might still find this thread during their search (as I did recently) have something else to try ;) On my system it really seemed to be the configs/all/emulators.cfg file which somehow got corrupted, and weird stuff got written to the file. If I opened it with notepad I simply had to remove that weird stuff/characters and then was able to write to the file again (e.g. changing an emulator for a specific rom, remove it again and so on). So I didn’t have to delete the file and lose all settings/changes made to it (which can be quite a lot). Maybe this helps someone...

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              Knuckles78 @jackyracer
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              @jackyracer Complete new here having the exact same problem. Could you possibly help guide me to that config file?

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                mitu Global Moderator @Knuckles78
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                @Knuckles78 The emulators.cfg file is in \\retropie\configs\all - if you're using File Shares to access your RetroPie installation.

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                  Knuckles78 @mitu
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                  @mitu I’m accessing it directly through terminal. I attempted the “sudo chown pi:pi etc.” you posted previously with no results. Like I said I’m pretty new and I think it’s because I’m still in Raspberry pi rather than RetroPie inside terminal.

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                    mitu Global Moderator @Knuckles78
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                    @Knuckles78 said in Cannot change back emulator choice per Rom (solved):

                    I’m accessing it directly through terminal

                    The command I posted works from the terminal. How are you checking that it's working/not-working ? You can list the rights on the file(s) by running:

                    ls -l /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulators.cfg
                    ls -l /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/emulators.cfg
                    
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                      IanDaemon @mitu
                      last edited by IanDaemon

                      @mitu I love the ls -l look. Aside from requiring the extra characters that more than double the command's length it's great. XD

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                        Clyde @IanDaemon
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                        @IanDaemon -l stands for "long listing format" with good reason. :)

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                          mitu Global Moderator
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                          You can always create 'aliases' for long commands. ll is a oft used alias of ls -l, just add

                          alias ll='ls -l'
                          

                          to your $HOME/.profile and that's all.
                          Favorite command today apt-get moo.

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                            Knuckles78 @mitu
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                            @mitu Thank you for your help, I’m taking the time to understand more about the terminal. I watched a few videos, and now what you’re saying to me makes more sense.

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                              IanDaemon @mitu
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                              @mitu /home/pi/.profile doesn't exist. Is that a file with no extension that I create?
                              Nevermind. I just found the file. I couldn't see it in the terminal, but PIXEL could see itl

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                                Clyde @IanDaemon
                                last edited by Clyde

                                @IanDaemon Files and directories with a leading . in their names are hidden in Linux. To list them with ls, use the -a ("all") option. You can combine multiple options after one -, so -l -a becomes -la (or -al, as the order doesn't matter for options without further parameters).

                                ls -la
                                

                                edit: You could create another alias to list hidden files, e.g. lla:

                                alias lla='ls -la'
                                
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                                  IanDaemon
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                                  Cool! Thanks. In PIXEL/LXDE I have "show hidden files/folders" enabled as my default.

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                                    pxs @jackyracer
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                                    @jackyracer You are a lifesaver, just had this issue and found this, Thankyou

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                                      declure
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                                      Solution worked (remove the corrupted file) but since I have way too many mame games with different emulators set, this isn't really a file I wanted to "start over" on. Similar to what @jackyracer already said, just wanted to remind and confirm that in my case I copied the bad file to my computer, still opened (thank goodness), copied and pasted the cfg text from the old file to a newly made emulators.cfg file, and moved the new file back over in the same place. All fixed, but most importantly, no damage done.

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