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

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      yserra
      last edited by

      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.

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        mitu Global Moderator @yserra
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        @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.

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          yserra @mitu
          last edited by 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.

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            yserra @yserra
            last edited by

            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.

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