Arcade roms won't show up in Emulation Station.
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So, I just got out my old PC and transferred my MAME roms over to my Pi. I restarted Emulation Station and they didn't show up. I put them in /roms/arcade then moved them to /roms/mame-libretro (because I'm using lr-mame2003). Still didn't show up in Emulation Station.
Details:
Pi Model B v.1.2
KANO Computer Kit power supply (1.25v, 2.5a)
RetroPie Version 4.4
Used the pre-made RetroPie image
USB Devices connected:
HP Keyboard Model No. SK-2026
Logitech Wireless Mouse M305
Power-A Xbox One wired controller Model 1247470-01
Controller: ^^that^^ -
Don't worry, I put folders in, not .zips.
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@dugo3number2 arcade ROMs need to be in .zip format to be recognized.
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You might want to try launching MAME directly from the command line and see if you can get it working there first.
I believe the launch command will be something like this (taken from the MAME entry to es_systems.cfg made by RetroPie):
retroarch -L `find /home/pi/RetroPie/emulatorcores/imame4all-libretro/ -name "*libretro*.so"` path/to/rom(Some background information on this command: RetroArch is a multi-emulator "front-end" that uses other emulators as specially compiled, dynamically linked, libraries. the "-L libretro.so" is specifying the library to use.)
Good luck!
If you want to find more information about Pi, you can check out my favorite site: Techgara. -
@tezter Most of that information is useless now since I figured it out yesterday, but thanks for recommending Techgara.
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