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    RETROPIE 4.0 IS NOT FINDING MY ROMS

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      renanclaro
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      Hello everyone,

      Today I installed the Pre made SD Image of retropie 4.0 using a 16GB sd card and my raspberry pi 2 (following the installation instructions in the retropie website)
      But even I put some snes roms (via Samba-Share) inside it the only option that appear is the retropie settings.

      Do anyone know how to fix it?

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      • BuZzB
        BuZz administrators
        last edited by BuZz

        Did you restart emulationstation ?

        check the installation instructions - https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#play

        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          renanclaro @BuZz
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          @BuZz I've restarted emulationstation many time.... And I've installed retropie following these instructions that you said.

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators
            last edited by

            Did you change any settings in Emulation Station ? eg "Parse gamelists only" ?

            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              renanclaro @BuZz
              last edited by

              @BuZz No, I didn't change any setting. I just setup wifi to transfer the roms.

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              • BuZzB
                BuZz administrators
                last edited by BuZz

                please ssh (https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh) in to the pi and post the output of the following commands (use a site like pastebin.com to host the info)

                ls -la ~/RetroPie/roms/snes/ | tail
                cat ~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt
                cat ~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg
                

                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                • herb_fargusH
                  herb_fargus administrators @renanclaro
                  last edited by

                  @renanclaro try unzipping your roms just for kicks and giggles

                  If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                  Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                    renanclaro @BuZz
                    last edited by

                    @BuZz http://pastebin.com/gvF0r7yu

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                    • BuZzB
                      BuZz administrators
                      last edited by

                      Please can you also post the output of

                      cat /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
                      

                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                        renanclaro @BuZz
                        last edited by

                        @BuZz http://pastebin.com/6z1uEWHH

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                          renanclaro @herb_fargus
                          last edited by

                          @herb_fargus Same result: nothing! =[

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                          • BuZzB
                            BuZz administrators
                            last edited by

                            Can't see anything wrong - what is the output of

                            cat /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes/gamelist.xml
                            

                            and does it help if you rm /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes/gamelist.xml and reboot ?

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                              renanclaro @BuZz
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                              @BuZz the result was:

                              <?xml version="1.0"?>
                              <gameList />

                              I realized that when I open the roms folder on Windows accessing "\retropie" the files are listed, but when I open by the retropie file manager it wasn't
                              Is it normal?
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                              • BuZzB
                                BuZz administrators
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                                no - but what is strange is the files were showing in the output of the ls command - not sure what is going on here

                                please can you post me the output of dmesg to pastebin.com

                                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  renanclaro @BuZz
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                                  @BuZz http://pastebin.com/rs1FP0Wb

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