Emulationstation doesn't find my ROMS (PSX)

k3001993

Hello. Thank you if you're reading this and want to help me.

First, a bit of context. This is what I did so far:

Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian
Installed and configured retropie
Added two ROMS in the correct folder. Both are .bin so .cue is mandatory. One of the games already had it. The other one I generated it.
Downloaded psxonpsp660.bin (PSX BIOS) and added it in to the BIOS folder. I did this only because the documentation literally says "It should be considered mandatory to manually install an official BIOS.".

Some photos:

I'm stuck here. When running the emulationstation command it can't find any system because there are no games. So I checked it and discovered that the default installation of retropie includes all the systems I want inside the es_systems.cfg file. The path is correct. Good.

Here is some lines of the es_log.txt to help us troubleshoot this:

Aug 10 23:26:14 lvl1: Error - folder with path "/root/RetroPie/roms/psx" is not a directory!
Aug 10 23:26:14 lvl1: Warning from theme "/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/psx/theme.xml"
(from included file "/etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/psx/../carbon.xml")
could not find file ""
Aug 10 23:26:14 lvl1: System "psx" has no games! Ignoring it.

I also was a bit curious about the BIOS so I went to the retropie documentation again and looked at the PSX libretro database but couldn't find my game code SCES-01495 because it's a spanish ROM but SCES-01493 (Deutsch) and SCES-01492 (French) are there.

Both of my games are spanish ROMS.

Does that mean my ROM is not supported and that's why it doesn't run?

Also, my "pi" user can't access the rom folder so maybe there's an error about user permissions in my roms/psx folder. Should I give my user access to the folder? The command to run emulationstation runs perfectly and it prompts you to NOT run it being root or using sudo so I don't think that's the problem.

Thanks for ANY help.

k3001993

Just checked the permissions just in case. My user has permissions to all files but NOT to the root directory.
Looks fine to me but I'm not a Linux expert so please tell me if I'm missing something here.

Thanks again.

dankcushions

i presume you're running a manual install of retropie.

did you install a psx emulator (or do a basic install via retropie-setup)? that should have set up the directory for you, however i guess it's too late now.

what happens if you run retropie-setup > config > resetromdirs ?

k3001993

@dankcushions Nothing, apparently.

proof

I have discovered the following config file:

/opt/retropie/configs/psx/emulators.cfg

With this inside:

lr-pcsx-rearmed = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed/pcsx_rearmed_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"
default = "lr-pcsx-rearmed"

But I guess it has nothing to do with my games/BIOS problem and it's working as intended.

k3001993

I tried adding one game from the list, SCUS-94227 Medievil (USA) but still no luck. I'm running out of ideas.

dankcushions

it's nothing to do with the emulator. you're not that far yet.

try running:
sudo chown -R pi:pi /root/
(or just the RetroPie-related folders)

by the way you should exit out of the desktop before launching emulationstation.

k3001993

@dankcushions Yes!!! That made it. I needed permissions to the /root folder. Both of my games appear correctly.

Thanks!

supppp

@dankcushions said in Emulationstation doesn't find my ROMS (PSX):

sudo chown -R pi:pi /root/

how do I do this I have a similar problem and I am fairly new to retropie

BuZz

You should not install RetroPie for the root user - you should run it under sudo from another user account to install for that user. Once installed it should be run under that user.

I do not recommend changing the ownership of /root to a non root user also as a workaround. That's a bad idea imho.

BuZz

@BuZz woops. Didn't realise I was replying to an old thread.

BuZz

@supppp please read the pinned support topics and open a new topic providing the details requested.