RetroPi doesnt see ROMS

mrast

Hi,
My SD card died with all my roms on it, luckily i backed them up.

I re-installed RetroPi onto a new SD card and copied the whole 28GB Roms directory (inclusing saves) into /RetroPie/roms

However none of my games show in Emulation Station

Anybody able to point me in th eright direction please?

Many Thanks

sirhenrythe5th

Did you do the same thing with the image on the dead SD-Card?
Installed the official Retropie from this page and copied the roms over in their folders?

mrast

I dont know i was given the original SD card from my brother in law who never played on it

I installed RetroPie onto the new SD card from here https://retropie.org.uk/download/ its a Pi3

sirhenrythe5th

It is hard to say without knowing what was on the image of your brother-in-law.
Problem sounds like missing emulators for those roms as there are a lot that you wont find on the base Image and have to install them yourself.
Did your Brother-in-Law create this image by himself?
He would be the best person to answer these questions then.
If it was a prebuilt one (i could imagine that because he never used it...): these are not supported here.

As far as you are buliding your own image now we could try this: what roms for which systems are we talking about?

mrast

He isnt tech savvy at all so id say for sure he didnt do it himself and brought it prebuilt

I mainly played on the nes/snes and megadrive games

sirhenrythe5th

I have no idea.
As far as we are talking about regular roms for those systems they belong into the folders "roms/nes", "roms/snes" and "roms/megadrive" (or Genesis) and should show up in ES.
Are you sure you really copied the roms into these folders?

Clyde

Are there files named gamelist.xml in the subdirectories of roms (e.g. roms/nes/gamelist.xml)?

If not, is the option "Parse Gamelists Only" checked in Emulation Station (ES) under "Main Menu" > "Other Options"?

With that option checked but no gamelist files in either the rom directories or in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/, no games will be shown in ES.

If you have no gamelist files, maybe they were located in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/ instead of the rom directories on the old sd card.

mrast

@Clyde said in RetroPi doesnt see ROMS:

Are there files named gamelist.xml in the subdirectories of roms (e.g. roms/nes/gamelist.xml)?

If not, is the option "Parse Gamelists Only" checked in Emulation Station (ES) under "Main Menu" > "Other Options"?

With that option checked but no gamelist files in either the rom directories or in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/, no games will be shown in ES.

If you have no gamelist files, maybe they were located in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/ instead of the rom directories on the old sd card.

Thankyou Clyde.

So i went into RetroPie Setup, updated script and installed all emulators

Copied roms back over to \retropie\roms again but still they wernt showing

Checked option "Parse Gamelists Only" which was turned on.
Turned it off, reloaded ES and i have my games back!

Thankyou once again

Clyde

@mrast Glad to hear that. Did you check ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/ on the old card for any gamelist.xml files that you could copy over to the new system? (You could then set "Parse Gamelists Only" again.)

Mind that .emulationstation is a hidden directory, as all files and directories are whose names start with a dot on Linux.