Emulators Not Displaying

DeadAggressor

Pi Model: 3B
RetroPie Version Used: 3.8.1
Built From: Source
USB Devices connected: Logitech K400r Keyboard & Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver
Controller used: Microsoft 360 Wireless
Error messages received: None that I know of.
Guide used: N/A
File: N/A
Emulator: GameGear, Gameboy {Original, Color, & Advance}, Genesis, Mastersystem, N64, NeoGeo Pocket, PSP, & SNES
Attachment of config files: N/A
How to replicate the problem: N/A

I am unable to get any of the aformentioned emulators to display in Emulationstation. I currently only have Reicast working. All roms are in their correct folder following the correct file type. I've searched the forums and any topics refering to missings emulators has not help rectify my issue at the moment. Any help correcting this would be greatly appreciated.

pimpmaul69

Are they zip files? If so the the es_systems.cfg file would have to be looking for .zip files. Otherwise you need to unzip the files.

DeadAggressor

All the files are the correct file type that the .cfg is looking for.

Floob

If you are using 3.8.1 its very unlikely the emulators themselves are missing. They should just need to have the roms present.
So when you are in Emulation Station you dont see the GameBoy banner at all?

Can you type this at the command line to confirm they (roms) are there?
ls -lah /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/gameboy/

DeadAggressor

Sorry for the late reply I've been underway for the past couple of days. The directory gameboy doesn't exist. I have gb, gba, and gbc. All have roms in them with the correct extension. I also searched the other directories with roms that I installed and they all show up being there.

DeadAggressor

The fact that I have it installed on top of Raspbian wouldn't be causing this issue would it?

Floob

Sorry, yes I meant gb, not gameboy.

It shouldnt be an issue the way you installed it.
When you run the retropie setup script, which gb emulators are shown as installed?
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie

DeadAggressor

There aren't any specific Gameboy emulators, but I have lr-gambatte, lr-gpsp, lr-mgba, lr-vba-next, gpsp, and lr-tgbdual installed currently.

Floob

What does this show you?
ls -lah /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/gb

DeadAggressor

When I type that command it displays all the roms I currently have in that directory. I also typed that command for all of the emulators I currently have roms for and they all show up as well.

Floob

Do you have a couple of example filenames?

Have you tried using the RetroPie image instead of building from source?

DeadAggressor

Final Fantasy Adventure (USA).gb and Final Fantasy Adventure (USA).zip. I haven't tried from the image yet. Where I'm currently at for the next couple of months I need a web browser to connect to the internet so I need Raspbian for as far as I know unless there is a browers for RetroPie or EmulationStation.

Floob

The image includes Raspbian, thats the OS. Then the RetroPie scripts are on top of that.
But yes, there isnt an X window system pre-installed on the image.

I'm not sure why they arent showing up for you, unless its a permission related issue.
Are they all accessible by user pi?

Did you follow these steps exactly?
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

DeadAggressor

Yes, I followed those instructions exactly.

BuZz

please post (via a pastebin site or formatted in a code block on the forum) the contents of /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and any .cfg / .log files in /home/pi/.emulationstation (change the pi user if you installed under another)

DeadAggressor

http://pastebin.com/tF3bjWiT /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
http://pastebin.com/WssAzQg8 /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg
http://pastebin.com/Xh0McFMG /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg
http://pastebin.com/k3hQvr8a /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
http://pastebin.com/uVwyan3P /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_temporaryinput.cfg

As you requested BuZz.

BuZz

I see the problem.

The problem is you have enabled ParseGamelistOnly - which will mean it doesn't scan for roms and only shows items from scraped gamelists. Hence your roms are not showing up.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/FAQ

Parse Gamelists Only: If on, it will only read the roms you have scraped, so if you add any new roms it will not look for them unless you turn this back off. it is off by default.

also - are you aware any es_systems.cfg in /home/pi/.emulationstation will override the retropie-setup generated /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg - you probably dont want that unless you are happy to maintain it manually.

DeadAggressor

That fixed my issue. All the emulators are now showing up, thank you very much for the help. Thank you all for your assistance with this matter.

bmulligan

I did a lot of searching for the answer to this. Glad it's still here.
I must have tweaked this setting a while ago and forgot about it.

TobyKanobie

@bmulligan

The image includes Raspbian, thats the OS. Then the RetroPie scripts are on top of that.
But yes, there isnt an X window system pre-installed on the image.

I'm not sure why they arent showing up for you, unless its a permission related issue.
Are they all accessible by user pi?
Did you follow these steps exactly?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setu

From your previous comment. If I where to accidently change permissions how would I go about fixing it? My problem is my emulators aren't showing up. All my files are in order but I have noticed my /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
does not update automatically when I install a new package I have to do it manually. It worked for nds but can't seem to get it to work for snes. But I do remember accidently messing with permissions before hand at some point.