3DO black screen after loading ROM

t.poepken

Hi there,

I have problems with the 3DO Emulator lr-opera. After loading the Rom file a black screen appears and nothing happens. I'm running RetroPie on Ubuntu 18.4.

The Log file:

https://pastebin.com/vJLLq5LA

Hope someone has an idea.

Greetings Thorsten

wmarcio

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t.poepken

@wmarcio

Hi wmarcio,

what does your post mean? What‘s deleted?

Greetings

Thorsten

t.poepken

@t-poepken said in 3DO black screen after loading ROM:

Hi there,

I have problems with the 3DO Emulator lr-opera. After loading the Rom file a black screen appears and nothing happens.

Pi Model or other hardware: Asus Intel Mainboard
Power Supply used: 750W
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): v4.6.1 (x86 running on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS)
Built From: Used this howto -> https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/
USB Devices connected: Keyboard, Mouse, Controller
Controller used:
Error messages received: No error message. Stands with a black screen.
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant): https://pastebin.com/vJLLq5LA
Guide used: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/3do/
File:
Emulator: 3DO emulator lr-opera
Attachment of config files:
How to replicate the problem: any game that´s startet ends in a black screen.

Hope someone has an idea.

Greetings Thorsten

annomatik

Did you put a BIOS file into /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS , e.g. panafz10.bin ?

t.poepken

@annomatik
Hi,
sorry, forgot to say.... Yes, I put the panafz10.bin into that folder.
For me it´s the /home/thorsten/RetroPie/BIOS folder.

annomatik

In retroarch.conf, do you have ~/RetroPie/BIOS ? In retroarch.cfg.rp-dist, did you change /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS to /home/thorsten/RetroPie/BIOS ? Are you running emulation station as thorsten?

t.poepken

I can find a file named retroarch.conf.
retroarch.cfg.rp-dist exists three times:
/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro https://pastebin.com/DPz2FcTs
/opt/retropie/configs/n64 https://pastebin.com/C3cLRJNh
/opt/retropie/configs/all https://pastebin.com/02ZSH7in in this one ther is the entry system_directory = "/home/thorsten/RetroPie/BIOS"
Yes, I installed Ubuntu with user "thorsten" and emulationstation also works with this user name.
I also found this: /opt/retropie/configs/3do/retroarch-core.options.cfg https://pastebin.com/i6JsmzHr
I can't see any errors... :-/

annomatik

Sorry, then I'm out of ideas. My 3DO emulation did the same thing. I added the BIOS --> it worked. Now, I'm looking for a solution for Amiga emulation. Some games there also just have a black screen, the BIOS didn't help there either.

Maybe someone else can help here?

mitu

Can you try loading a .cue/.bin image and see if it works ?

t.poepken

Because of the /retroarch-core.options.cfg tonight I remembered that I had two different panafaz10.bin while installation. This morning I downloaded several panafz.bin from different location and tadaaa one works fine! Thank your for pointing me in that direction!

Greetings Thorsten

t.poepken

@annomatik
Which emulator do you use for Amiga. I´m using fs-uae. It´s working pretty good. And if you add some commandos into the fs-uae.sh the emulator starts in fullscreen and autoload up to four disks.
I´m using kickfile 1.3 and I don´t know any games that wont´t work.

annomatik

Hi! I think, it's UAE4All, but I'm not sure. I'm using exclusively whdload packages -- some work greats, others complain about missing kickstarter roms, others just show a black screen.

duglor

@t-poepken

The Final Answer - 2 parts.......1. Match your bios selction point to your correct approx 1 meg rom...for example panafz10.bin or fz-10.bin or FZ-10.bin or fz10.bin, one of those worked. I can't tell you which one it was. I had the panafz10.bin rom and the FZ-10.bin rom that renamed to both lowercase fz10.bin and fz-10.bin.

THIS IS HUGE- OPTIONS-> TURN OPERA OS SWI-HLE to ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BING! BING! BING! BING!

mitu

@duglor please stop bumping old topics - this one was already solved and with the same 'solution' you found (use the right BIOS).

duglor

@mitu Nono. It was the switch in options that did it finally. I had the bios changed already and nothing happened, but it is of course part of the answer.

I had to switch the Opera OS SWI-HLE option to ON in "Options" to make it really work! THAT was the real answer for me. The bios was only part of it.