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      Ken Tipton
      last edited by

      Pi Model or other hardware: (3B+)
      Power Supply used: Raspberry Pi Supplied
      RetroPie Version Used 4.7.11
      Built From: (Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website,
      USB Devices connected: Dragonrise controller

      Hello,

      Would like help with new issue. For some reason all games stopped working on my retro pi. I can choose a game it will start to load and get to the splash screen where you can press A to change emulator then it will default back to the selection screeen. I have went through every emulator to see if that is the issue and went back to known games that used to work. It is all games. This just came up and was working fine a couple of days ago.

      Any help would be greatly appreciated.

      THank You
      Ken

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        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Did you change any settings in the runcommand launch menu ? Video resolution/emulator ?
        Any errors in the /dev/shm/runcommand.log log file ?

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          Ken Tipton @mitu
          last edited by Ken Tipton

          @mitu I didn't change anything that I know of. definitely not on purpose. How do I look at the runcommand,log

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @Ken Tipton
            last edited by

            Use the File Manager entry in the RetroPie system or log in via SSH and use less /dev/shm/runcommand.log to look at the file. For the former method, you'll need a keyboard attached to the Pi, the latter needs another PC on the same network.

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              Ken Tipton @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu said in No Games will load:

              less /dev/shm/runcommand.log

              there is no folder inside of SHM it is empty

              /dev/shm/ nothing in here

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @Ken Tipton
                last edited by

                @ken-tipton The log file doesn't exist before running a game. Run a game to reproduce your error, then look the file up.

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                  Ken Tipton @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu ok there are now 3 files in there

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                    Ken Tipton @mitu
                    last edited by

                    @mitu video_refresh_rate = "60"

                    arcade
                    lr-mame2003
                    /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/asteroid.zip
                    /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/asteroid.zip"

                    Parameters:
                    Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/asteroid.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
                    /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1285: 1678 Segmentation fault /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/asteroid.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

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                      mitu Global Moderator @Ken Tipton
                      last edited by

                      @ken-tipton said in No Games will load:

                        /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1285:  1678 Segmentation fault      /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/asteroid.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

                      This looks like a bad ROM. If it worked before, then try re-copying the ROM file and see if it starts working again.

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                        Ken Tipton @mitu
                        last edited by

                        @mitu it was working fine. If I go to Retrorarch and look at past games played and launch from there is loads. but any game I try and run from main menu will not load

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                          Ken Tipton @mitu
                          last edited by Ken Tipton

                          @mitu

                          arcade
                          lr-mame2003
                          /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/dkong.zip
                          /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/dkong.zip"

                          Parameters:
                          Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/dkong.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
                          /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1285: 2456 Segmentation fault /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/dkong.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

                          looks like same error

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator
                            last edited by

                            As I said, try copying again the ROM archive file and see if it works. You can get more info by enabling verbose logging from the Runcommand launch menu.

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                              Ken Tipton @mitu
                              last edited by

                              @mitu thank you will try again in the morning. Your help is greatly appriciated

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                                Ken Tipton @mitu
                                last edited by

                                @mitu

                                says it is corrupt and missing files don't know what happened or why all my games are like this

                                [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003] Opening ROM file: 035145.02
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] 035145.02 NOT FOUND
                                [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003] Opening ROM file: 035144.02
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] 035144.02 NOT FOUND
                                [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003] Opening ROM file: 035143.02
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] 035143.02 NOT FOUND
                                [libretro INFO] [MAME 2003] Opening ROM file: 035127.02
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip
                                The zipfile seems to be corrupt, please check it
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] 035127.02 NOT FOUND
                                [INFO] [Environ]: SET_MESSAGE: Required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Required files are missing, the game cannot be run.
                                [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] readroms failed
                                [ERROR] Failed to load content
                                [INFO] Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds.
                                [INFO] Unloading game..
                                [INFO] Unloading core..
                                [INFO] Unloading core symbols..
                                [INFO] [Core Options]: Saved core options file to "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg"

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator @Ken Tipton
                                  last edited by

                                  @ken-tipton said in No Games will load:

                                  says it is corrupt and missing files don't know what happened or why all my games are like this

                                  Corrupted SD card maybe ?

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                                    Ken Tipton @mitu
                                    last edited by

                                    I have banged my head on this one. If I go to retroarch and go to history and select a game I previously played from there. (in this case Astroids) it loads fine with all previous high scores intact. if I go from game menu I get nothing

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator @Ken Tipton
                                      last edited by mitu

                                      @ken-tipton Are you sure you're loading the same .zip file ? The previous log shows the file is empty:

                                      [libretro ERROR] [MAME 2003] Error in zipfile asteroid.zip: Empty file
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                                        Ken Tipton @mitu
                                        last edited by

                                        @mitu yes I am. I looked in the folder and as you said it was empty. I don't know why it was empty. I looked at the one on my desktop and it had 4 txt files in it. every time I would drag it to the Raspberry Pi and look in the folder it would be empty. I then deleted the folder completely from both the PI and my computer and downloaded a new rom and loaded that to the PI. The files stayed in the folder that time but still failed to load.

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                                        • IanDaemonI
                                          IanDaemon @Ken Tipton
                                          last edited by IanDaemon

                                          @ken-tipton Power fluctuation? Like a loss of electricity during a storm or a brown-out? Maybe something got corrupted (or hardware suddenly failed) without you knowing.

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                                            Ken Tipton @IanDaemon
                                            last edited by

                                            @iandaemon just checked and all other emulators work as they should it is only my arcade folder utilizing MAME games.

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