Messed with Retroarch (Cheats) and now ROMS load with long black screen

[mgrabow]

Pi3b
Emulation Station V2.8.4RP
Retropie 4.5.2
Rasbian 9.4
Retroarch 1.7.6

I have been running 13 classic arcade games on this system since about 2018. We wanted to enable cheats on a few of the games. In going through Retroarch it is very confusing with the disappearing (not visible) menus and its been a few years so I needed to relearn from some notes I took.

After I updated my cheats in Retroarch I was following some instructions to load the cheat files and I remember selecting some option but I can not find it or recall exactly what is was. I think it was something to do with loading cheats on start up.. n Also in my notes was loading a core to get the cream menu to show up so I am not sure if that was the cause of the issue.

Now when I load a game, I am no longer prompted during the initialization to change the configuration (where you can select different emulators and such). The games load, then the screen goes blank and eventually comes back.

I have tried resetting the defaults in retroarch, replacing the retroarch.cfg with the bak file. I tried updating retroarch. I guess I am looking to learn more about the loading cheats in retroarch to possibly undo this startup issue with my games

[Folly]

@mgrabow

Depending on which libretro core you use, when enabling cheats, your setting is probably stored as a core option in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg .

Something like this (depending on which core) :

mame_cheats_enable = "enabled"

Try to set your, similar, line on "disabled" to disable the cheats.