Drastic unable to launch games

mitu

@locdamn Can you start the desktop and then run manually DraStic from a terminal (xterm) ?

cd /opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic
/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nds/Pokemon SoulSilver.nds"

See if any errors are reported in the terminal.

locDAMN

@mitu said in Drastic unable to launch games:

/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nds/Pokemon SoulSilver.nds"

Am i missing something ?

When i did the cd then i am doing

/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nds/Pokemon SoulSilver.nds"

got is a directory then i did

/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nds/Pokemon SoulSilver.nds"

and literraly nothing happened

mitu

@locdamn said in Drastic unable to launch games:

/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nds/Pokemon SoulSilver.nds"

That's the correct command - isn't anything shown on the terminal ? Is the command finishing immediately ?

What's the output of

file /opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic

locDAMN

@mitu Well got empty and as you can see

it is empty yes.. Do i need to remove and re-install from binary ?

mitu

Do you have enough free space on your disc/sdcard ? I see every installed file from DraStic is an empty file.

locDAMN

@mitu Yup still 10Gb remaining

mitu

@locdamn Then re-install and see if the correct files are created. If not, then provide the installation log from $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs - it should be the last log file created.

locDAMN

@mitu ended up a bit fast

Log started at: Wed 24 Feb 10:44:30 GMT 2021

RetroPie-Setup version: 4.7.9 (ab88a0b6)
System: rpi4 (armv7l) - Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) - Linux retropie 5.10.11-v7l+ #1399 SMP Thu Jan 28 12:09:48 GMT 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux

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Installing dependencies for 'drastic' : NDS emu - DraStic
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Installing (binary) 'drastic' : NDS emu - DraStic
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Downloading https://files.retropie.org.uk/archives/drastic-2.5.0.4.tar.gz to /tmp/tmp.d1JCn0zEl5/drastic-2.5.0.4.tar.gz ...
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drastic/system/
drastic/system/drastic_bios_arm7.bin
drastic/system/drastic_bios_arm9.bin
drastic/game_database.xml
drastic/drastic_logo_0.raw
drastic/drastic
drastic/drastic_readme.txt
drastic/usrcheat.dat
drastic/drastic_logo_1.raw
/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic /home/pi

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Configuring 'drastic' : NDS emu - DraStic
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'/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/game_database.xml' -> '/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/game_database.xml'
'/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/system/drastic_bios_arm7.bin' -> '/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/system/drastic_bios_arm7.bin'
'/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/system/drastic_bios_arm9.bin' -> '/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/system/drastic_bios_arm9.bin'
'/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/usrcheat.dat' -> '/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/usrcheat.dat'
'/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/drastic_logo_0.raw' -> '/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic_logo_0.raw'
'/opt/retropie/configs/nds/drastic/drastic_logo_1.raw' -> '/opt/retropie/emulators/drastic/drastic_logo_1.raw'
/home/pi

Log ended at: Wed 24 Feb 10:44:33 GMT 2021
Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 3 secs

mitu

@locdamn said in Drastic unable to launch games:

https://files.retropie.org.uk/archives/drastic-2.5.0.4.tar.gz to /tmp/tmp.d1JCn0zEl5/drastic-2.5.0.4.tar.gz

Looks ok, the file is correct and the unpacking works. Are the emulator files still empty ?

locDAMN

@mitu I did a clean remove / reboot then install / remove and now packages are here i'm gonna launch from xterm again

locDAMN

@mitu OK, ffs this is finally working !!!!

Maybe it was cache when i uninstall/install without rebooting but now files are here and not empty.

games are launching too

Big thanks to the time you gave to me