emulation station not showing all games

[rgs80074]

Hello,

I was not able to find any specific post on this mabye its not a normal issue or people can figure it out on their own easy i don't know.

in emulation station for example it says for nes there are like 885 or so games. but games i know are on the pi in the folder do not show up and I don't know why they don't show up. and of course some of them are good games too.

maybe i am doing something wrong I don't know but it seems pretty straight forward on getting roms installed.

thanks

ryan

[rbaker]

@rgs80074 Have you changed the es "parse gamelists only" setting?

[rgs80074]

no I have not, not even sure what that is or where its at. i've decided to redo it all together with a bigger sd card as i ran out of space on the current one.

[Aryetis]

First thing that comes to me is that you have to restart for emulationstation to refresh gamelist and maybe some roms are corrupted / invalid format (https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Nintendo-Entertainment-System)

[rgs80074]

well that could be more corrupted some of these games i had played previously on the pi 2 a while ago.

but i have other problems i need to work out.

[muehltime]

are your extensions capitalized? .NES will not work , but .nes will

[mediamogul]

@muehltime

are your extensions capitalized? .NES will not work , but .nes will

Capitalized extensions are set to be acceptable in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and should work fine. Below is an excerpt from the NES system entry.

  <system>
    <name>nes</name>
    <fullname>Nintendo Entertainment System</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes</path>
    <extension>.7z .nes .zip .7Z .NES .ZIP</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ nes %ROM%</command>
    <platform>nes</platform>
    <theme>nes</theme>
  </system>