@yserra it's 3 b plus I also think but the retro pi I have doesn't have information with it unfortunately not the name of the company,it was gifted to me

@beoney1 said in Game gear emulation pi 3b+:

I feel like such a fool as I downloaded them as .exe files and not the ROM files. It works now!

There are no ROMs that are .exe files (unless we are talking about old dos games) make sure to delete those .exe files they are very likely to be viruses/spyware 😬

@mitu Thanks, now I use lr-mgba launch the gba rom. It works fine.

@mikeahays could be your power supply. I had this happen with a junk power supply. Maybe it's a different problem in your case.

So for some reason after installing and updating everything the parsegameslist was enabled. Disabled it and everything worked. Thanks for the help I hope its all easy from here on out.

i figured as much
as far as i understand he installed retropie 4.1 and attract 2.0 the only thing it has is some themes and art files added for attract mode and a few sections pre set up in attract mode ...no roms or bios files included ...i guess it was worth a shot of seeing if it mattered or not ...

i would still like to know with just a normal install of retropie 4.1 and attract mode 2.0 when you add the emulator in attract mode, which is working and playing roms in emulation station,
could it be that a .cfg file in attract mode just is not listing the start command properly ?

from what i understand attract is just an overlay and alternative that still references retroarch to run the emulators ?...or is this just a problem with supported emulators in attract mode thing?

thanks for the answer though as i may try just that with full clean installs