Lr-Handy (Atari Lynx) doesn't run games, saying "not an lr-atari800 system"

yserra

Hi all,
I just updated my RetroPie to the latest release 4.7.4
I'm on a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB RAM), with games on an external USB hard drive.

When I run any Atari Lynx games, it fails and return to Emulation Station.

For instance, with the game "BatmanReturns.lnx", the log file /dev/shm/runcommand.log, says:

pi@retropie:/dev/shm $ more runcommand.log 
atarilynx
lr-handy
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atarilynx/BatmanReturns.lnx
Not an lr-atari800 system.
Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-handy/handy_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/atarilynx/retroa
rch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atarilynx/BatmanReturns.lnx" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

As far as I know, lr-atari800 is the emulator I use for Atari 8-bit games.

mitu

@yserra said in Lr-Handy (Atari Lynx) doesn't run games, saying "not an lr-atari800 system":

Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-handy/handy_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/atarilynx/retroa
rch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atarilynx/BatmanReturns.lnx" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

The emulator executed is lr-handy, not lr-atari800. The message

Not an lr-atari800 system.

is from your own runcommand-onstart script, not from the stock runcommand.

yserra

@mitu said in Lr-Handy (Atari Lynx) doesn't run games, saying "not an lr-atari800 system":

is from your own runcommand-onstart script, not from the stock runcommand.

Thank you for your answer.
Actually, yes, I created a runcommand-onstart script following this tutorial to have lr-atari800 automatically configured depending on the Atari 5200/XL/Pal/NTSC game I run.

So I understand now why this is written and I understand it has no connection at all with the lr-handy issue (I just realized it writes 'Not an lr-atari800 system' with every emulator, except, of course, lr-atari800). Many thanks for this.

So I guess I should investigate elsewhere to find out why my Atari Lynx games don't run anymore.

yserra

This is issue is now resolved.
The solution was as simple as replacing the lynxboot.img BIOS with a copy that prints the good MD5.
Thanks again.