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Any time I boot any settings and select games my RetroPie turns black

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    abg038 @mitu
    last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:06

    @mitu and now my other rom (new Super Mario bros) isn’t working either

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      mitu Global Moderator
      last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:12

      but would that affect all of the settings menus too

      I don't understand what you mean by that.

      it didn’t work

      What did not work ?

      and now my other rom (new Super Mario bros) isn’t working either

      Then there might be an issue with your install, I guess this is the DS game you're referring to ?

      Are you running the Pixel desktop when launching the ROMs ?

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        abg038 @mitu
        last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:12

        @mitu not trying to be stupid but what’s the pixel desktop

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          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:14

          It's the desktop environment shipped with Raspbian

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            abg038 @mitu
            last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:17

            @mitu Oh sorry. WhenI turn on my raspberry pi it goes straight to Emulationstation and I just gave up on figuring out how to get back to the desktop. And for the previous question the ”it didn’t work” black screen didn’t fix and for the “would that affect the settings menu“ I meant would having a game that doesn’t work with the emulator make the settings not work too

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              mitu Global Moderator
              last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:19

              Ok, is there any game working at the moment, after the update ?
              What's the RetroPie version that's reported in the RetroPie-Setup script ?

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                abg038 @mitu
                last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:19

                @mitu I forgot is there a way to check

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                  abg038 @abg038
                  last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:26

                  @abg038 hey my ds game fixed but my menu still isn’t working

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                    abg038 @mitu
                    last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:35

                    @mitu wait is there a way that i could accidentally download the ds emulator software into all the games because my game super Mario 64 lets me use the mouse in the edges and I’m pretty sure it didn’t do that before

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                      mitu Global Moderator
                      last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:42

                      @abg038 said in Any time I boot any settings and select games my RetroPie turns black:

                      my ds game fixed but my menu still isn’t working

                      What menu are you referring to ?

                      that i could accidentally download the ds emulator software into all the games because my game super Mario 64 lets me use the mouse in the edges and I’m pretty sure it didn’t do that before

                      I don't think so. Do you have a mouse attached ?

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                        abg038 @mitu
                        last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:44

                        @mitu yes I do have a mouse attached and the RetroPie “system” in the middle of all of your other systems

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                          abg038 @abg038
                          last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 20:47

                          @abg038 sorry maybe I should call it the configuration menu I guess

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                            abg038 @abg038
                            last edited by 3 Apr 2020, 21:33

                            @abg038 and to be clear all of the options in the configuration menu don’t work

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                              mitu Global Moderator
                              last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 04:05

                              Exit EmulationStation and check if you still have enough disk space - this should be printed immediately after exiting, in the welcome message shown.

                              From the command line, after you exited EmulationStation, run

                              cd RetroPie-Setup
                              git log -n 1

                              and post the output.

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                                abg038 @mitu
                                last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 13:24

                                @mitu It won’t let me quit Emulationstation

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                                  mitu Global Moderator @abg038
                                  last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 14:10

                                  @abg038 How come ? You can choose 'Exit EmulationStation' from the EmulationStation menu (accessible with Start) or just using F4 on a keyboard directly.

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                                    abg038 @mitu
                                    last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 14:38

                                    @mitu when I click quit Emulationstation it brings me to the black screen

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                                      mitu Global Moderator
                                      last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 14:39

                                      The 'black screen' is probably the command terminal, where you should run those commands. Can you show a picture of it ?

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                                        abg038 @mitu
                                        last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 14:40

                                        @mitu but I doesn’t show the welcome thing and only shows my mouse I’ve tested and I can’t type anything

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                                          abg038 @abg038
                                          last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 14:44

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