No ROMs load on Pi4

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I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4, and no ROMs load from any system. I looked around and found some issues similar to this, but they've all been some sort of BIOS problem (the emus i use require no BIOS), or are just unresolved. When booting up SM64, I managed to take a picture of what looks to be an error message:

awk: run time error: negative field index $-1
        FILENAME="-" FNR=1 NR=1
awk: run time error: negative value assigned to NF
        FILENAME="-" FNR=1 NR=1

Does anybody know what's going on?

dankcushions

@__ please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, including a log

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Pi Model or other hardware: 4B
Power Supply used: CanaKit RPI4 power supply
RetroPie Version Used: 4.6
Built From: PiNN
USB Devices connected: Mouse, Controller, Touch Input
Controller used: DualShock 4
Error messages received:

awk: run time error: negative field index $-1
        FILENAME="-" FNR=1 NR=1
awk: run time error: negative value assigned to NF
        FILENAME="-" FNR=1 NR=1

Guide used: USB method on https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/
How to replicate the problem: Add any ROMs via the USB method USB method on https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/ and try to boot them. The screen will fade to black, an error message will be displayed, it will try to load the ROM, it will fail and fade back to the ROM selection screen.

(also, I can't seem to find the logs. something with PiNN, maybe?)

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turns out all i needed to do was update the retropie-setup script