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    New emulators not showing up despite adding ROMs

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      antnned
      last edited by

      Hi all,

      I added the colecovision & videopac (O2) emulators from the Retropie setup, put a newly formatted USB stick into the Pie and removed it, put it in computer & the new emulator folders were on the ROMs list.
      I transferred ROMs into their respective folder, I tried them zipped (rar) & unzipped. Stuck the USB back into the Pie, waited for it to stop blinking , rebooted the Pie and the new emulators do not show up.
      I tried this several times with new sticks etc and it still doesn't work.

      My Colecovision ROMs are older & have the extension .BIN , does that make a difference?

      I have a Pie 3 w the latest install & Retropie.
      I am very new to the Pie.
      Your help is greatly appreciated.
      Thank you .

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        backstander @antnned
        last edited by

        @antnned
        I don't think RAR compress is supported by the Colecovision emulator (but I could be wrong)

        Accepted File Extensions: .bin .col .rom .zip
        https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Colecovision/#roms

        What do you see in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/coleco/ directory on your Pie? Are there any files there?

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        • TMNTturtlguyT
          TMNTturtlguy
          last edited by

          did you check your es_systems.cfg file to make sure the systems show up in your systems list? If you have modified your es_systems.cfg, it probably didn't add them to the list.

          you can find the file either here: /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg if you have not modified it,
          or potentially here: /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

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            antnned
            last edited by

            Thank you so much for the replies.
            How do I get to the command prompt to check those settings suggested ?

            Again much thanks!

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            • TMNTturtlguyT
              TMNTturtlguy @antnned
              last edited by

              @antnned read up on the docs on this site. You can use the menu to exit emlationststion to the command line. I believe F4 on the keyboard also works.

              I prefer to us Ssh. I use putty. For editing Es_systems.cfg I typically is an ftp client like WinSCP.

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