@YFZdude said in System xxx is missing name, path, extension or command:

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I've been watching several of these threads from the same user and I find it interesting to see how hard a person might work to make all these tweaks, changes and manual repairs trying so hard to save a broken installation but still be so resistant to the idea of just imaging the sd card fresh and starting over.

There are other things on the SD card like just Retropie, e.g. browsers or other tools, all of which have long been set up. Of course I have a backup of that. However, reinstalling the image is not a solution for me, if you can get the problem under control yourself with appropriate help, especially since it has meanwhile turned out that a software bug is obviously responsible for the last-mentioned problem. I may be a newbie when it comes to Linux and therefore don't have the prior knowledge like many others here, but I try to solve such problems myself as far as possible, especially since you can now read (almost) everything on the net - but only almost everything. I set up Retropie exactly as recommended by the website and did the configuration within the respective emulators - just as I have been used to for decades with the PC and the standalone emulators. I could neither guess nor understand that problems like this would arise right away. Nevertheless, I am of course grateful for everyone who helps me in such a situation. And yes, at times I was pretty boisterous, excited and venting my anger because I wasn't used to such problems. But it was never meant personally. Giving up is just not my thing. Better sleep on it for a night or two and just try again in a new attempt.

With this in mind: Thanks to everyone who helped me, even if it was just with links and references to other topics.

Those are two good ideas. The .sh is just for the script that starts dos box, but yeah, using .conf would provide for more configurability for each game... I'll have to do that when I have time to do that for 230+ games, lol.

@Tackskull .ecm files are not supported by the emulator, you need to convert them to .bin - https://visihow.com/Decompress_PlayStation_1_Games_from_ECM_to_BIN_Using_UnECM

This is just my two cents, but I've not had good luck with 3.0 cables. Sometimes the controller wouldn't be recognized. I ended up stuffing them in a drawer and getting some 2.0 cables. They were the cheapest 3.0 cables on Amazon, so higher quality cables might work fine.

I eventually got some 8bitdo wireless controllers. They can sometimes be a headache, dealing with bluetooth issues. But the tangled up extension cables were a bigger constant headache.