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    Any time I boot any settings and select games my RetroPie turns black

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      abg038 @mitu
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      @mitu Oh sorry. WhenI turn on my raspberry pi it goes straight to Emulationstation and I just gave up on figuring out how to get back to the desktop. And for the previous question the ”it didn’t work” black screen didn’t fix and for the “would that affect the settings menu“ I meant would having a game that doesn’t work with the emulator make the settings not work too

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        mitu Global Moderator
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        Ok, is there any game working at the moment, after the update ?
        What's the RetroPie version that's reported in the RetroPie-Setup script ?

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          abg038 @mitu
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          @mitu I forgot is there a way to check

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            abg038 @abg038
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            @abg038 hey my ds game fixed but my menu still isn’t working

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              abg038 @mitu
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              @mitu wait is there a way that i could accidentally download the ds emulator software into all the games because my game super Mario 64 lets me use the mouse in the edges and I’m pretty sure it didn’t do that before

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
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                @abg038 said in Any time I boot any settings and select games my RetroPie turns black:

                my ds game fixed but my menu still isn’t working

                What menu are you referring to ?

                that i could accidentally download the ds emulator software into all the games because my game super Mario 64 lets me use the mouse in the edges and I’m pretty sure it didn’t do that before

                I don't think so. Do you have a mouse attached ?

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                  abg038 @mitu
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                  @mitu yes I do have a mouse attached and the RetroPie “system” in the middle of all of your other systems

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                    abg038 @abg038
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                    @abg038 sorry maybe I should call it the configuration menu I guess

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                      abg038 @abg038
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                      @abg038 and to be clear all of the options in the configuration menu don’t work

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator
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                        Exit EmulationStation and check if you still have enough disk space - this should be printed immediately after exiting, in the welcome message shown.

                        From the command line, after you exited EmulationStation, run

                        cd RetroPie-Setup
                        git log -n 1
                        

                        and post the output.

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                          abg038 @mitu
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                          @mitu It won’t let me quit Emulationstation

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                            mitu Global Moderator @abg038
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                            @abg038 How come ? You can choose 'Exit EmulationStation' from the EmulationStation menu (accessible with Start) or just using F4 on a keyboard directly.

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                              abg038 @mitu
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                              @mitu when I click quit Emulationstation it brings me to the black screen

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                              • mituM
                                mitu Global Moderator
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                                The 'black screen' is probably the command terminal, where you should run those commands. Can you show a picture of it ?

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                                  abg038 @mitu
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                                  @mitu but I doesn’t show the welcome thing and only shows my mouse I’ve tested and I can’t type anything

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                                    abg038 @abg038
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                                      abg038 @abg038
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                                      @abg038 it won’t let me send a photo

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                                        mitu Global Moderator
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                                        Resize it be under 1Mb, or upload it to imgur.com and provide the link.

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                                          abg038 @mitu
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                                          @mitu 8569BF87-9E70-4061-AA43-33350D63549A.jpeg

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                                          • mituM
                                            mitu Global Moderator
                                            last edited by mitu

                                            Does this happen even after you start EmulationStation (on reboot) or just after you're starting the game (and get booted out) ?

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