How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?

sumps

Hey guys, wondering if you could help a relative noob please?
I have an image on an sd card that is retropie/ emulationstation for a Raspberry pi 3b handheld.
I purchased the Pico-8 software licence and looking to install it but having some issues.
I found a guide for dummies on here by @SpudsMcToole which is awesome but unfortunately I’ve got stuck early as it’s asking me to copy the Pico-8 folder to /home/pi so it then reads /home/pi/Pico8 but the highest folder I can get to via the pc is the /retropie folder?
Know I’m probably missing something obvious but can’t work out where to go from here
Any help would be awesome thanks!

mitu

You'll need to enable SSH and use a program like WinSCP or FileZilla to access the filesystem directly on the RetroPie system.

sumps

@mitu said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

You'll need to enable SSH and use a program like WinSCP or FileZilla to access the filesystem directly on the RetroPie system.

Ok thanks I’ll try that and let you know! Really appreciate it thank you

sumps

@mitu awesome thanks mate
Now I have it there in emulationstation but the carts crash as soon as I select one grrrr
Back to the drawing board!? Do you have any experience with PICO-8?

mitu

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

Back to the drawing board!? Do you have any experience with PICO-8?

No, but if you can find a log file (take a look at /dev/shm/runcommand.log) we might be able to find the culprit.

sumps

@mitu sorry for my naivety I’m still learning and really appreciate , but Do I type that in on the pi itself or on my pc via ssh?

sumps

@mitu ok I’ve looked how to do that and I’ll fire up the pi and post the results hopefully can help thanks again

sumps

@mitu said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

Back to the drawing board!? Do you have any experience with PICO-8?

No, but if you can find a log file (take a look at /dev/shm/runcommand.log) we might be able to find the culprit.

Ok so I typed that and have this..

No such file or directory

?

mitu

Did you installed WinSCP on your PC ? It will be useful to download or look/edit the files on the PI.
Start a Pico-8 game, wait for the crash, then look up the file I mentioned and open it up to look at its contents. Post the contents here (if any). If the file does not exist after you launch the game, then it doesn't use the normal RetroPie launch method.

sumps

@mitu said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

Did you installed WinSCP on your PC ? It will be useful to download or look/edit the files on the PI.
Start a Pico-8 game, wait for the crash, then look up the file I mentioned and open it up to look at its contents. Post the contents here (if any). If the file does not exist after you launch the game, then it doesn't use the normal RetroPie launch method.

I have FileZilla ?
When I typed it in before I had the line ‘no such file or directory’ ?
I can’t get any games to start as the screen goes black after I select a game then just goes back to the game selection screen after about 3 seconds

mitu

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

I have FileZilla ?

That works also.

When I typed it in before I had the line ‘no such file or directory’ ?

You don't need to type it, just browse to the /dev/shm/ folder on the Pi and look for that file.

I can’t get any games to start as the screen goes black after I select a game then just goes back to the game selection screen after about 3 seconds

That's usually an emulator/game error and /dev/shm/runcommand.log is where it gets logged. If the file is not there, there's no log.

sumps

@mitu ok I’ll try that and let you know!..
Also, when I downloaded the Linux version of Pico-8 I picked the 32bit ahead of the 64bit version
Was that correct?

mitu

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

Also, when I downloaded the Linux version of Pico-8 I picked the 32bit ahead of the 64bit version
Was that correct?

Yes, but there's a lot of different 'bits' going around. Which version specifically did you download ?

sumps

@mitu I downloaded the 32bit Linux version from the official site and the version is PICO-8 v0.2.0d

mitu

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

@mitu I downloaded the 32bit Linux version from the official site and the version is PICO-8 v0.2.0d

You're sure you downloaded the version for the Raspberry Pi and not the one for Linux 32 bit ?

sumps

@mitu said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

@mitu I downloaded the 32bit Linux version from the official site and the version is PICO-8 v0.2.0d

You're sure you downloaded the version for the Raspberry Pi and not the one for Linux 32 bit ?

Yes defiantly had the pi version!
I just went to the location you said about the run command and this is what is written..

Parameters:
Executing: /home/pi/pico-8/pico8 /home/pi/pico-8/lexaloffle-pico8.png
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1251: /home/pi/pico-8/pico8: Permission denied

mitu

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

/home/pi/pico-8/pico8

Try running the following from the command line

chmod +x /home/pi/pico-8/pico8

and see if the game(s) launch.

sumps

@mitu said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

@sumps said in How can I navigate to the home/pi folder?:

/home/pi/pico-8/pico8

Try running the following from the command line
chmod +x /home/pi/pico-8/pico8
and see if the game(s) launch.

So just open the terminal (f4) type that and enter is that where to enter it? So sorry to be a pain

sumps

@mitu also, do I reboot after that?

mitu

@sumps No, there's no need to reboot, just restart EmulationStation back.