Raspberry pi3 picodrive is not starting

spiderheiney

I have reinstalled retropie multiple times now but everytime i try to start a sega genesis/megadrive rom it's not loading.
When i switch to dgen the game runs but de controls are messed up.
I would like to use picodrive because it uses the control mapping of retroarch.
Does anybody else have this problem and does anybody know of a solution.

BuZz

Please read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first which you agreed to when signing up on the forum.

Lyle_JP

Just my opinion, but I find genesis-plus-gx to be superior to both of those emulators. It uses retroarch core remappings and is more accurate in emulation than both of those. It just doesn't run 32x.

spiderheiney

the only problem is that only dgen is working.

spiderheiney

for some extra information.

i am using the pi 3 with the latest retropie v 4.0.2.

i used both the preinstalled emulators ( picodrive and genesis-plus-gx ) with both of them when i run the rom the screen goes black and returns to retropie.

The only emulator working is dgen.

BuZz

What is the rom filename ? Please trigger the "runcommand" menu when launching (https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand) and choose option L Launch with verbose logging. Then post via pastebin.com the contents of /dev/shm/runcommand.log

You can access that location using sftp.

spiderheiney

I finally figured it out the problem was that all the filenames had an # in it.
Somehow dgen had no problem with the filename but picodrive and genesis-plus-gx both had trouble with the extra symbol.
Glad i got it to work that part was giving me trouble for the past week.

BuZz

Old Retroarch bug. No fix currently apart from renaming.

RetroResolution

@Lyle_JP I'll have you give that a try - I've been using Picodrive since RetroPie 2...