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    Stella crashes on start

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      TheWalrusNipple
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      Stell seems to be crashing on startup for me. When selecting a rom, it returns back to the menu. The error log says:
      "filestream_read_file: Failed to open /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/rom name .a26: No such file or directory."
      But I've confirmed that the file is in that directory. Any ideas on what the issue may be?

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        herb_fargus administrators @TheWalrusNipple
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        @TheWalrusNipple remove the spaces and see what happens

        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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          TheWalrusNipple @herb_fargus
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          @herb_fargus That did it! Thank you! Is there any way to make them work with spaces? Some of the roms look weird without them (ie. DONKEYKONG or CHAMPIONSHIPSOCCER)

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            TheWalrusNipple @TheWalrusNipple
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            @TheWalrusNipple Plus, it's going to be kind of a pain to go through hundreds of roms and rename them. It didn't have this problem with any of the other systems.

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              pimpmaul69 @TheWalrusNipple
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              @TheWalrusNipple i had this happen to me on an emulator once two. Both systems that used advmess was a problem. I put underscores in between the words for spaces. I no longer have that issue though. What you should try is finding the gamelist.xml for the atari system and change the name but dont delete. I put a hashtag in the name when i need to disable them. Restart emulationstation. If that doesnt fix it then rename it back and try giving 0777 permissions to the gamelist .xml and reboot emulationstation. This may or may not help you.

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                herb_fargus administrators @TheWalrusNipple
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                @TheWalrusNipple find and replace spaces with underscores or equivalent Then use sselphs scraper and it will rename the names in emulationstation

                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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                  TheWalrusNipple @pimpmaul69
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                  @pimpmaul69 Yep, simply changing the name fixed it. Thanks man

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