any tips plz? :__

@Citro Figured out the issue. Had nothing to do with the emulator; for some reason, the affected roms were 0Kb in size... not sure what happened, but when I re-copied roms to the Pi, they worked perfectly.

Thanks again @columboscoat

@Paholainen said in Neo Geo black screen:

I don´t get the runcommand box on launching a game

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand

A black screen means that you do not have the correct romset for your emulator of choice. If you do not pair the emulator with the romset, the roms will not launch. If you are saying you have the correct romset and the correct emulator but still get the black screen, you do not actually have the correct romset and emulator.

So I suppose it is the default emu whatever that might be

This is the statement that leads me to believe this. You should read the guide I wrote here.

I fail to see how my answer was condescending. And you confirmed what I thought anyway as you said you didn't have time to read the wiki.

At the least fill in the details as to what you're running in the link. It's just a bullet-pointed list. That way we know how you're build is setup and will be in a better position to help you.

@appleJimmies
Try it with a different microSD card. It sounds like the data is getting corrupted on shutdown. This usually happens with cheap generic microSD cards.

You might also try disabling Save Metadata On Exit in EmulationStation.

Check that your power adapter is 5V 2.5A.

Also, I doubt that you're doing this but I thought I would include it, if you're using some overclocking settings like especially overclocking your microSD card reader can cause weirdness like this.

@buzz Thanks so much for this !!!!!! I am not sure what happened with last update a few months ago but I had the exact same problem when I tried to to get the latest update. None of the retropie menu options worked and the command like setup did nothing. Your command has certainly helped a huge amount. Now I am just getting "Temporary failure resolving 'raspbian.raspberrypi.org'" errors and "error cannot lock ref 'refs/tags/4.7': unable to resolve reference. But great progress, thank you

@spacemonkey I assume you worked out I got the path wrong - I meant /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh - glad it's working.

It was the SD card. Apparently nothing was loaded on it....

@Aluvian you should open a new topic - your issue may be due to a completely different cause. Please be more specific as to which image you used also - eg filename etc.

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

If you have done the above steps please create a new topic and add the following relevant information

Hi,
I've installer UAE4ARM and it works great!!!!
Thank you.

@meleu Tried to replicate the issue one more time and now its working fine.

bangs head against desk

I just ran into the same problem along with this problem at the same time:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/214/scrolling-on-exit/10

I think they are related. Has anyone else noticed the autoscroll right after you exit, and the screen goes black? That is what was happening to me. It would make sense that the "scrolling on exit" controller bug is causing the "black screen on exit" bug for the Slide transition.

Here is what I think is happening. ES fades out it's background graphics as it starts retroarch. The player plays retroarch. The player exits retroarch. ES goes to turn the fade value back up, but is interupted by the autoscrolling controller. ES thinks everything is normal (you can still move around and select other games etc.) but it's screen is still faded. The reason why the fade transition fixes this is because when you switch systems this engages that same fade variable and turns it back up to 100%. Fix the controller bug, and you fix the black screen bug, and can have you're slide transition again. That is also why having multiple controllers plugged in would multiply the chances of this happening. :)

Unfortunately to fix the contoller bug you have to recompile the kernel with some patches, solution found here:
http://www.raphnet-tech.com/support/retropie/index.php

I imagine this will be fixed in future builds. It should be a fairly easy fix, especially since the patches are already written.

When you say "shoulder" buttons do you mean "trigger" buttons? Trigger buttons are the back left & right buttons that kinda look like gun triggers. The front left & right buttons like what's on the SNES controller are shoulder buttons (I actually think they are called "bumper" buttons on the 360 controller).

The Xboxdrv doesn't work with the latest kernel so you can downgrade your kernel to get it to work.

The xpad driver has a special trigger patch that fixes those left and right trigger buttons to work with EmulationStation but breaks support for Kodi.

There is reports that the PS4 gamepads, with the latests kernels/bluetooth stacks doesn't work in Kodi. Hopefully it will work in Kodi 17 which will have oficial gamepads support for the Raspberry Pi.
Till then you can disable gamepads support in System -> System -> Input Devices, that way you should not need to disconnect that gamepads.

RetroPie Setup scripts and then install Kodi again.

No problem, I've had several of them derp out in the past as well. Glad you got it sorted :)

I'm having a similar issue. Thought I'd post here rather than start a new topic, hope that's OK.

My problem is the game starts up and runs fine as long as I leave it in demo mode. The demo loop runs the video and sound just fine. But when I start a game I see Dirk run across the bridge and then the screen goes black. I can hear the game running but can't see anything. By pressing random controls sometimes I'll get the death scene or if I'm lucky, a level I can actually play before it all goes dark again. I've deleted the .dat and parsed many times with the same result.

I'm hoping someone can help me sort this out, thanks. Here's my ls output:

pi@retropie:~ $ ls -Rla /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 14:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 63 pi pi 4096 Jan 18 19:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 21:09 lair.daphne
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 19:58 roms

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/lair.daphne:
total 103684
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 21:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 14:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 16316 Jan 19 21:10 lair.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 893769849 Jan 19 14:42 lair.m2v
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 27496826 Jan 19 14:17 lair.ogg
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 19 Jan 19 20:10 lair.txt

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/roms:
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 19:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 Jan 19 14:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 17906 Jan 19 19:49 lair.zip
pi@retropie:~ $