My ROMS worked before... but now they don’t

mitu

@Thorr69 Thanks for the notice, you can report the post and it will be easier for any moderator to see it.

mitu

@Brandon12345678 Please don't post links to ROM sites - this is one of the rules of the forum to which you agreed when signing-up.

Brandon12345678

@mitu I installed the official RetroPie 4.6 rpi4 image running on 32-bit raspbian lite. Also sorry about the romsite problem. Won’t happen again!

Brandon12345678

@mitu Since you’re a Global moderator, would you have any explanation of what is going on with the problem of roms not booting on RetroPie? Is it a bug or a file error? The only configuration I did today was to add a super game boy system by editing the es_systems.cfg file. I think that installing emulators adds more lines to the es_systems.cfg so maybe it is that?

mitu

@Brandon12345678 said in My ROMS worked before... but now they don’t:

I think that installing emulators adds more lines to the es_systems.cfg so maybe it is that?

That's not the reason for which systems or roms would disappear. Please provide the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to diagnose this problem.

Brandon12345678

@mitu
Pi Model: Pi 4 model B - 4gb ram
Power Supply used: 15W 5.1V/3A USB-C Power Supply
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): RetroPie 4.6
Built From: Fresh 32gb sd card using the rpi imager and an official RetroPie .img file
USB Devices connected: Mouse, keyboard, 5 dragonrise joystick controllers, arcade 1up spinner, arcade 1up trackball
Controller used: Dragonrise USB controller
Error messages received: ROMs will not boot except for parse gamelist ROMs
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant): (==) Log file: "/home/pi/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jun 17 14:31:50 2020
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
modprobe: FATAL: Module g2d_23 not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.118-v7l+
Guide Used: No guide used
File: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms
Emulator: Every emulator
Attachment of config files: (PLEASE USE PASTEBIN.COM FOR LARGE LOGS)
How to replicate the problem: Install lr-gw

BuZz

Retropie is not designed to be run from the desktop on a Raspberry Pi. Either exit the desktop and try again from the terminal or use a premade image from our site, which will probably be easier.

Brandon12345678

@BuZz I am running the official RetroPie image from the RetroPie site. I just want an answer or solution to why my games aren’t loading.

mitu

@Brandon12345678 said in My ROMS worked before... but now they don’t:

I am running the official RetroPie image from the RetroPie site

The official RetroPie image doesn't come with the desktop and - as it was repeatedly said in this topic - we don't support this configuration.

Brandon12345678

@mitu I have the pixel desktop installed.

Brandon12345678

@Brandon12345678 Do you think that uninstalling it will solve the problem?

dankcushions

@Brandon12345678 you can have the pixel desktop installed, but you can't run retropie via it. you need to exit out of it back to the command line to launch retropie. this is mentioned in the docs: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#where-did-the-desktop-go

Brandon12345678

@dankcushions I am not running RetroPie via the pixel desktop. My pi is set to boot right into RetroPie upon startup.

mitu

Start EmulationStation with the --debug switch from the command line and then post the log ($HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt) to pastebin.com.
Disable first the Parge Gamelists Only setting.

Brandon12345678

@mitu I have never done the debug switch before. Would you just type —debug in the command line before entering EmulationStation?

Brandon12345678

@mitu I don’t have the folder EmulationStation in my home directory.

dankcushions

@Brandon12345678 it's not Emulationstation it's .emulationstation. read carefully.

eg:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd .emulationstation/
pi@raspberrypi:~/.emulationstation $

Brandon12345678

@dankcushions Here is the link to the paste of the es_log.txt,

https://pastebin.com/QGhEchna

mitu

@Brandon12345678 There's a single error about the coleco system missing the folder, but that's harmless.

Unless you're having Sdcard issues - and files are disappearing because of it - I don't see what causes this. ROM/games don't disappear because you install an new emulator.

For the issue of launching games though, the errors should be present in /dev/shm/runcommand.log, after launching a game. Can you post also this log file ? Make sure you enable verbose logging when launching the game, from the runcommand launch menu.

Brandon12345678

The runcommand says this,

(==) Log file: "/home/pi/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jun 18 13:07:01 2020
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
modprobe: FATAL: Module g2d_23 not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.118-v7l+

A weird thing was that I tested a couple roms from different systems(For example, Bubsy on genesis) and they load, but there is a black screen and a retroarch error comes up saying that it failed to extract the game's contents. I think when parse gamelists is turned off, the games that run with it turned on do this. Weird.