New emulators not showing up despite adding ROMs

antnned

Hi all,

I added the colecovision & videopac (O2) emulators from the Retropie setup, put a newly formatted USB stick into the Pie and removed it, put it in computer & the new emulator folders were on the ROMs list.
I transferred ROMs into their respective folder, I tried them zipped (rar) & unzipped. Stuck the USB back into the Pie, waited for it to stop blinking , rebooted the Pie and the new emulators do not show up.
I tried this several times with new sticks etc and it still doesn't work.

My Colecovision ROMs are older & have the extension .BIN , does that make a difference?

I have a Pie 3 w the latest install & Retropie.
I am very new to the Pie.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you .

backstander

@antnned
I don't think RAR compress is supported by the Colecovision emulator (but I could be wrong)

Accepted File Extensions: .bin .col .rom .zip
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Colecovision/#roms

What do you see in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/coleco/ directory on your Pie? Are there any files there?

TMNTturtlguy

did you check your es_systems.cfg file to make sure the systems show up in your systems list? If you have modified your es_systems.cfg, it probably didn't add them to the list.

you can find the file either here: /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg if you have not modified it,
or potentially here: /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

antnned

Thank you so much for the replies.
How do I get to the command prompt to check those settings suggested ?

Again much thanks!

TMNTturtlguy

@antnned read up on the docs on this site. You can use the menu to exit emlationststion to the command line. I believe F4 on the keyboard also works.

I prefer to us Ssh. I use putty. For editing Es_systems.cfg I typically is an ftp client like WinSCP.