HELP WITH IMPORTING DOOM

[TheDevastator24]

ok so i did what you said but when i go to launch it it says sh: 1: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom2.sh: not found

[herb_fargus]

@TheDevastator24 see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first for proper code block formatting

[TheDevastator24]

@herb_fargus thanks

[mediamogul]

@TheDevastator24

I think I might know what might have happened, but let's see. Drop back to the command line (f4) and type:

ls /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/

Press enter and look for anything with a similar name to "doom2.sh" and report it here.

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul ok will see

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul ok so i see doom2.sh on the terminal. (it sucks that i can only post every 120 seconds so my replies may be a little late)

[mediamogul]

@TheDevastator24

When you look, are you sure there are no variances to the name "doom2.sh"? No extra characters? Are there any possible differences in upper or lower case?

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul nope no other variances or upper/lowercase letters in doom2.sh

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul I dont know if this helps but i can play the doom shareware that came pre-installed with retropie

[mediamogul]

@TheDevastator24

OK, the fact that launching doom2.sh throws up an error that says it can't find doom2.sh is odd, so let's drop to the command line and type:

nano /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom2.sh

near the very end, right before "lr-prboom", make sure it reads "doom2.wad" and not "doom2.sh".

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul ya it says doom2.wad

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul maybe you can send me over your files for ultimate doom and i can try that

[mediamogul]

@TheDevastator24

I'm going to try breaking my installation in a few different ways to see if I can replicate this. In the mean time, if anyone else sees an error unnoticed so far, feel free to chime in.

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul i can run the games on ports that were pre-installed. idk if that helps

[mediamogul]

@TheDevastator24 said in HELP WITH IMPORTING DOOM:

i can run the games on ports that were pre-installed. idk if that helps

Well, it tells us that we haven't broken any of the furniture that was already there. ;)

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul do you think i should just reinstall retropie and try from a fresh retropie install

[mediamogul]

At worst we'll start you over from this process. There's o need for a full reinstall.

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul ok

[mediamogul]

@TheDevastator24

Well, I could not reproduce that error. Where and when exactly does it appear?

Another couple of things to check are:

• Check to make sure "doom2.wad" is located in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/doom/?
• Check for any upper or lower case mistakes in file names, as well as possible spaces
• Check that every character is exactly as it is written in the example above.

Any discrepancies with these elements will prohibit the game from launching.

[TheDevastator24]

@mediamogul ok so what im going to do is just write the disk image off my sd card and send you the file you just have to write it to a empty sd card. im gonna try doing it from a fresh new boot of retropie. and yes the doom wads are in the correct place