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    MSX or MSX2 Roms won't load (bluemsx) [RESOLVED]

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    • ShizzmoneyS
      Shizzmoney @edmaul69
      last edited by

      @edmaul69 did that - still no go :(

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @Shizzmoney
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        @shizzmoney I don't know how much faith I'd put in the retropie manager as it really isn't maintained, but the fact that it isn't running is a pretty good indication something is off. Short of finding new bios files I'm not sure what else to suggest

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        • ShizzmoneyS
          Shizzmoney @herb_fargus
          last edited by

          @herb_fargus Yo, I figured this out!

          The hint was here:

          https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9938/segacd-emulator-cannot-find-bios-directory

          He got a similar message that I did in my runcommand.log, where you suspected the bios was wrong....but in fact, bluemsx (either the new update, or my machine) was not being pointed to where the bios were in the first place!

          RetroArch [WARN] :: SYSTEM DIR is empty, assume CONTENT DIR /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx/Road Fighter (J).rom
          RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ SYSTEM_DIRECTORY: "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx/".
          RetroArch [ERROR] :: Failed to load content.

          I essentially had to update my opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file and include this:

          system_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS"

          I did that. saved, restarted ES...and the roms now work!

          Thanks for all your assistance.

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            LeandroCorreia @Shizzmoney
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            @shizzmoney Greetings, I'm having the same problem with lr-BlueMSX (and frankly, lr-fMSX is quite incomplete compared to it).

            Well, I tried copying the bios ROMs to the "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/Machines/Shared Roms/ ", but no success. Then googling around, I found this topic. I edited the retroarch.cfg, but still no success (and silly me, it actually had that line already).

            Where can I find this runcommand.log so I can look for possible error message? Thanks in advance. :)

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @LeandroCorreia
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              @leandrocorreia said in MSX or MSX2 Roms won't load (bluemsx) [RESOLVED]:

              Well, I tried copying the bios ROMs to the "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/Machines/Shared Roms/ ", but no success. Then googling around, I found this topic. I edited the retroarch.cfg, but still no success (and silly me, it actually had that line already).

              Did you try copying it in the bios folder directly or in the same folder as the ROM itself ?
              As for the runcommand - see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/runcommand for how to locate the log or enable verbose logging.

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              • rogeriolR
                rogeriol @Shizzmoney
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                @shizzmoney

                Well this has solved my problem too, so thanks.
                The indicated retroarch.cfg file was changed somehow to system_directory = "default", which breaks this emulator.

                I find it amazing, that such changes are made in the core with no regard whatsoever to impacts to all retroarch ecosystem...

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