DosBox Not Appearing in ES

skepticalgeel

Hello, new guy here. I have got a number of systems up and running correctly, but am having issues with Dosbox. I have created a folder called 'pc' under /home/pi/Retropie/roms. I have placed a number of games there, each in its own subfolder, which the Wiki page said was OK to do. I have installed and configured Dosbox from the RP setup script. I even manually edited the es_systems.cfg file to add an entry for PC, which is how I got Intellivision and Colecovision to work. Nothing doing, no entry for MSDOS or PC Games appear in Emulation Station. I have read the article about creating separate launch script files for each game, but there are a lot of games in there, and I dont wan't to create hundreds of these things. Is there some step I am missing?

BuZz

@skepticalgeel you didn't read the advice as agreed when registering - Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Sounds like you didn't install the dosbox emulator. You don't need to create the PC Roms folder. See the first installation instructions in the documentation.

skepticalgeel

Sorry. I am running Retropie 4.1 on a Pi 3 B, with a CanaKit 2.5A power supply. I did install the dosbox emulator, but I did it after I created the pc roms folder, and copied the files into it. Does that make a difference? I did the same thing with Intellivivion and Coleco, and did not get either of those systems to appear until I manually edited es_systems.cfg. Also, does having each game in a separate directory cause any issues. The official doc says no, but maybe is wrong/incomplete?

BuZz

@skepticalgeel manually edited which es_systems.cfg ? please provide full paths to what you edited - RetroPie manages /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

subfolders should be fine.

skepticalgeel

I edited /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg. Here is the block I added

<system>
    <fullname>PC (x86)</fullname>
    <name>pc</name>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/pc</path>
    <extension>.sh .bat .com .exe</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 "%ROM%" "dosbox"</command>
    <platform>pc</platform>
    <theme>pc</theme>
  </system>

BuZz

@skepticalgeel is there a reason you are maintaining your own config ? You may do better to just use the system one and remove that.

Do you have parse gamelists only switched off in emulation station?

skepticalgeel

I did not know about the es_systems.cfg file in the /etc directory. I only knew about the one in /opt. Once I removed that one, the games showed up fine in ES. Thank you.

BuZz

@skepticalgeel there is no es_systems.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation unless it has been copied manually (also to ~/.emulationstation which links to the same folder). That is useful for managing your own config, but it also means it has to be kept manually up to date.