Compete noob needs help

rbaker

@jimmynoon
You have not provided the required information that has been asked for. It starts by the title of your post. It's not informative. It will not help users who have the same issues as you when searching. You could write "Boot issues". When you read the instructions starting with the "read this first" you would see what info is needed. Did you download the correct image? No idea because you don't name it exactly. You mention roms, which? What emulator? Where have you placed them? Did you try to use the USB service? Is it booting at all? Do you have the correct 2.5A power supply? Are you incorrectly using a phone charger? Are you trying to power it from a tv USB by mistake? I could speculate all day but you are not helping yourself. Have you followed the setup instructions exactly? An image boots directly into Emulationstation. If not check supply, card, image. Good luck.

jimmynoon

It boots, I'm using my computers USB 3.0 to power. I used the image from retropie.org.uk. It doesn't boot to emulator station, it doesn't seem to recognise emulator station.

BuZz

@jimmynoon you can't power the RPI3 from a USB port. You need a proper PSU.

jimmynoon

Ok, but that's not the issue here. It powered on and worked.

Forget it, I've formated card and starting again from scratch

BuZz

@jimmynoon how many raspberries at the top left when booting?

markyh444

@jimmynoon @rbaker Did say you need a dedicated psu in his post, but you seem to have ignored him. Regardless of if it boots like that or not, there won't be enough power pulled through a pc usb port and you'll get odd issues like this.

We're here to assist and won't suggest things like this for no reason.

rbaker

@jimmynoon said in Compete noob needs help:

Ok, but that's not the issue here. It powered on and worked.

Forget it, I've formated card and starting again from scratch

It is the issue. A USB port cannot supply 2.5A. Your issues are not related to retropie. Your issues are related to not reading the instructions for the raspberry pi before not reading the instructions for retropie. Also, you still have not said which image you are using exactly despite being asked over and over.

jimmynoon

@rbaker https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/manual-installation

I'm using these instructions, and the image from retropie website.

jimmynoon

I've got the power supply plugged in, done another full re-install, tried running emulationstation and nothing happens. Shock, nothing to do with the power supply. Updating retropie now, but I'm close to throwing this out the window. I AM FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS to the god damn letter and it aint working.

jimmynoon

@BuZz 4, thanks

BuZz

@jimmynoon try another sdcard. Ranting as above is not going to help. (And will not aid in people wanting to help you).

It could have been power related. We have seen it many times. You can't reliably power a rpi3 from a USB port.

rbaker

@jimmynoon you still have not posted which retropie image you downloaded. How many times do you want me to ask? If you try and boot a pi3 with the image for a pi1/0 it won't work. Are you using the correct one? Is your sd card on the compatible list?

jimmynoon

https://retropie.org.uk/download/ - I used the second image from this website. Extracted with WinRAR and burned to SD card with Win32DiskImager. I did say I used this website.

jimmynoon

And it can't be the SDcard as surely bugger all would happen if the SD card was faulty. I go through the install but then I can't seem to get anything to run post retropie install.

jimmynoon

Sorry if I am ranting but this is highly frustrating when I know deep down it's something I'm missing in terms of my lack of linux knowledge, not hardware issues.

markyh444

@jimmynoon Well no, if there's bad sectors and you write some of the image to some of those, it'll probably boot but not work correctly.

It's like if you've got a dodgy hard drive. Some things may work and others won't, depending on where on the drive the data is written.

rbaker

@jimmynoon if your card is not on the list, it will not work with the raspberry pi. The process is quite simple with regard to retropie but if you ignore how to set up a pi, it will not work. It would help if you posted the full set up. Here is my setup....

Raspberry Pi 3
2.5 amp PSU @ 5.1V with 1.5m micro USB - element 14 version
128gb Sandisk micro sd card - verified
Retropie image downloaded for Pi 3 - 4bf44fa37bb9db72b9d7c6dfab6fe015 from this site
Devices connected - ipac2 and PS3 controller

So have you checked your Power Supply lead? Is it too long? Wrong type? All these details matter in ruling out issues. The fact is that retropie is simply supplied as an image. Follow the guidance from the Pi website followed by the guidance on this one and after 4 mouse clicks, you are in emulation station. By the way, no Linux knowledge needed. I have none.

rbaker

@jimmynoon also, have you watched you tube and compared what you did?

jimmynoon

I've managed to sort it after going through settings and finding that my install was beyond basic and needed to add further modules. No sd card issue, power supply issue. It was software related. I'm having trouble getting psx games to work but nes and megadrive are fine so I'm happy for now.

BuZz

@jimmynoon well, you gave so little information what you gave pointed to those as a possibility. You never detailed what steps you took etc.