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    Open up rom and goes back to rom menu

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    • ?
      A Former User
      last edited by

      So I recently got RetroPie working, some roms work but then other don't; a whole majority of them don't open up. I checked the runcommand.log and it keeps telling me "failed to open /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/gba/Banjo Pilot.GBA: No such file or directory" I know that i clearly have it saved in the SD card. Is there a way to fix this?

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      • mediamogulM
        mediamogul Global Moderator
        last edited by mediamogul

        Are you launching these from Emulation Station? This is the type of error one normally sees from the terminal when launching a file without the proper syntax, like "Banjo\ Pilot.GBA" rather than "Banjo Pilot.GBA". What happens if you try to launch a game without a space or other non-alphanumeric character in it's title, like "tetris.xxx" for example?

        RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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        • ?
          A Former User
          last edited by

          Oh my god, You are my savior. It did work. So now I have to rename my all the files that have space between the rom name and its type. I renamed "Banjo Pilot .GBA" to "Banjo Pilot.GBA" I can't believe a simple space between the name and the type of file made a difference. Thank you so much.

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          • mediamogulM
            mediamogul Global Moderator
            last edited by mediamogul

            Well, you shouldn't have to do any of that at all. It's really just symptomatic of whatever the real problem is. Does this happen when launching from all your systems? You said in your first post that you recently "got" RetroPie running. Were there any extraordinary things you had to do that might have possibly caused this behavior?

            RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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            • ?
              A Former User
              last edited by

              Before transferring over the roms I did a mass rename of the files to remove unwanted characters in the title of the roms...

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              • mediamogulM
                mediamogul Global Moderator
                last edited by

                OIC now... The extra space before the file extension. OK, yeah that was definitely the problem then. Say hi to Banjo for me.

                RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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