@mitu I see, so that is pointing at a ES theme section. Thanks for the clarification!

@mitu I was running a normal XOrg session before (which is the default on PopOS), but running emulationstation in a Wayland session worked! Unfortunately, Wayland is pretty unstable in PopOS, but maybe it will work just for running retropie.

In case anyone runs into the same issue, you have to enable Wayland as described here and it will work.

@Lino79 up

So EmulationStation runs Runcommand.sh internally? It doesn't have to be called by an sh file? What about just dosbox? I have no problems executing the sh files with that in emulationstation or cli. Only reason I use lr-dosbox is because I can't seem to control the volume of my monitor's speakers directly.

@Ninjinka please open a new topic providing details of your setup. See the link in my signature.

Ok, So I got this figured out.
The thing is, when boost library was removed two years ago, it removed the ability to navigate on UNC folders too.

I thought that this was really strange since EmulationStation can still loads the gamelist.xml on my Server but couldn't load anything else, but, I found a pre 2.7.4 build (that still has boost library) and now everything works :)

Right now I'm running a really old 2.6.4 build. If anyone here has a 2.7.3 build saved, please share with me, I would really appreciate.

Thanks again

The display order is they're entered in es_systems.cfg file. If you want to re-order them, move the <system>..</system> entries in the configuration file.

Yeah, it's looking for OpenGL and can't find it. Case closed.
Finds my gamepad though and then bails out:

May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.9.1rp, built Apr 30 2020 - 14:30:33 May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml"... May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamebioses.xml"... May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamedevices.xml"... May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: Creating window... May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: Created window successfully. May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: GL vendor: May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: GL renderer: May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: GL version: May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: Checking available OpenGL extensions... May 01 07:50:47 lvl2: ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING May 01 07:50:47 lvl1: Tried to enable vsync, but failed! (No OpenGL context has been made current) May 01 07:50:48 lvl2: Added known joystick BUFFALO INC. BUFFALO BGC-FC801 USB Gamepad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0) emulationstation: /home/retro/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/resources/Font.cpp:398: void Font::renderTextCache(TextCache*): Assertion `*it->textureIdPtr != 0' failed. Aborted (core dumped)

perfect - got it all set up now. thanks for all the help!

@mitu Seems to be random whenever I write a new image. It has worked the second time I wrote the image. The microsd card is a few months old, though.

@Tuaterra said in Problem with Visuals on Gameboy Emulators on Retropie:

When I then try and press some buttons it interacts with the game as if it's running normally as I can tell by the audio giving the sounds of me pressing start on the menu screen, etc, it's just that the visuals do not load at all.

So the video output is sent somewhere else - maybe the system has multiple displays configured, but you haven't provided any details about it.

@fadangalini Did you end up getting this working? If so, could you provide me with some enlightenment. Thank you, I will begin this process this coming weekend.

@mitu Yes this is a quick hack for people running ROMs from NAS. Specifically, for accessing via SMB shares. stat() has no speed problem with local ROM collection at all. If we look at it further, may be there's a better solution.

The retropie way of doing it is more fail safe you know what set when you do it youself. I have no how i done that I know i did go to reset the config must have pressed the wrong one. Now i just have to check how retropie deals with sub systems want to install fbneo for a friends kid he will only be using a gamepad so mame and fbneo should keep him busy with a few systems covered

@SpudsMcToole - I believe it should be there even on older versions. I don't mind giving you hand if it helps. As of late I have a little extra time due heterogeneous world events.

On your ES carousel there should be a stylized RetroPie logo as one of the selectable systems. Basically the same as selecting an emulator/core.

Then select RetroPie Setup -> Update RetroPie-Setup script. This should update your script to the current version.

Then select Manage packages -> Manage Core Packages.

Under Manage Core Packages select Emulationstation (Installed). From there you have the options to Udpate From Binary or Update From Source.

The wording might be slightly different and I left out the number options as they do seem to change occasionally but it should be generally the correct steps to get ES updated.

@mitu ok good to know, i'll blow everything away and start from scratch. i must have glazed over the part about it not being supported on a DE. Also i was never planning on using vnc for it and figutred it would never work, was just using it for troubleshooting and setting up other things unrelated to retropie, im just to lazy to switch the input on my monitor :P

thanks for the info to you both, much appreciated.

Thank you!

@sushisan I do agree with that. The code that fails was added later and I guess wasn't tested on older cmake. We can bump the cmake version but I don't mind if someone wants to make it work on older cmake too so long as it's easily maintainable. Eg Not having to adjusting the JSON cmake files if we upgrade that component to keep compatibility. Easier just to require a newer cmake.