@sugarfree wow, its amazing how you just solved my problem with only two lines of code. Thank you so much, words fail to express the relief you just brought me lol

Yes, you can use it.

@GuilhermePinto15 said in Permission:

In another words an email or file that says that i can use retropie to the project named"PAP - ArcadeDeck"

RetroPie - the setup scripts - is released under the GNU Public License (GPL), as mentioned in https://retropie.org.uk/about/legal/. You'll not get an email or file as you desire, but you can point your teacher to the Legal page and mention the GPL, which is a permissive usage license.

Note that this doesn't cover any games that you may have installed, which have their own license and usage terms.

@joprace said in How do i access this:

Why cant i access retropie setup?

Please tell us more about your system as outlined in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@mitu im using raspberry pi5

@Garrett216 said in RetroPie games not working on some emulators:

wish me luck

Getting a core to work is usually a matter of reading its documentation, not a matter of luck.

@duglor I understand, it's the same game, apparently the base version is the Java one, I have both doom rpg but with lr-freej2me

@mitu I have resolved my issue it boiled down to two things 1) someone told me to make sure that the keyboard on retropie was set to U.S. which it was not and 2) I was trying to share files through ftp and not sftp. thank you for help

@thewillrussell Then the samples you are using are wrong.
As for romsets, make sure the samples you are using are meant for the arcade emulator you are using.

@mitu Yes retropie-extras. Ok i will.

With the lr-snes9x2010 core, mouse (a cheap usb) is working, click and movements, after i change controls to snes mouse from retroarch menu.

If you can, try with this emulator.

@barbudreadmon This is INCREDIBLY helpful. Thank you for sharing that link and giving me a breakdown of how I should be handling my ROMs. I appreciate you taking the time!

The runcommand dialog prompt which you get is actually present since the game start, it's just obscured by the emulator that starts and overlays on-top of it. The dialog being present after the game ends means that the emulator hasn't actually exited/stopped - in order for EmulationStation to pick-up and start - and it's stuck somewhere.

This may be a sdcard issue - emulator tries flush some state to the disk on stopping the game or saving the options file and not being able to will block the emulator. Your log file is strangely formatted (did you copy/pasted from a SSH session or OCR-ed a photo ?), but it doesn't show the emulator actully stopping, which would show something like:

.... ^C[INFO] [Core]: Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 04 seconds. [INFO] [Core]: Unloading game.. [INFO] [PulseAudio]: Pausing. [INFO] [Core]: Unloading core symbols.. [INFO] [Core]: Saved core options file to "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg". [INFO] Threaded video stats: Frames pushed: 244, Frames dropped: 0.

If you have SSH available, you can the emulator through strace and the post the strace log archived somewhere (it's going to be too large to post the contents as is), just to see where it's stuck. Stop EmulationStation and run:

strace -f -o strace.log /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-fbneo/fbneo_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/frogger.zip"

then exit the game. When it gets stuck, then save the strace.log file and upload it somewhere.

EDIT: strace is not installed by default on RetroPie, but you can install it by running sudo apt -y install strace. I also advise to update RetroPie in order to get the latest version of RetroArch and OS packages available.

Please add some info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

When you say 'freeze', does this mean that even if you plug in a keboard and press F4 (to exit EmulationStation) nothing happens ?

Hello! I realised that maybe you guys are assuming that my usb keyboard is a gaming keyboard. It isn't. I think I'll have to buy an actual video game controller eventually. Thanks anyway for your guys' help!

Try to reset the controllers.

While you are in emulationstation press the F4 to jump to the terminal window, and type :

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Then choose :

Manage packages => Manage core packages => emulaionstation => Configurations / Options => clear/Reset emulationstation input configuration

After that, restart the system and it will ask you to configure again your controllers.

@CobraDesign47 said in Trouble Running Games:

Any further advice is appreciated!

Again - please provide the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, including the emulator and ROM/system where you have trouble.

You can also provide a log file after you've activated verbose logging; copy the contents of the log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log) and post it on pastebin.com, providing here the link.

Please post the contents of the .cue file - you can open it as text, since it's just text. Did you also checked the BIOS files that @abj mentioned - are they present in the BIOS folder ?