No games launching currently (please help); everything worked the last time system was shutdown

wtstreetglow1

Hello all,

Hoping someone can help me get my setup going again. Everything was working fine the last time I turned the system off.

Now, no games are launching for any system.

All of my front end looks to be working properly, all artwork and menus are navigable and functioning.

However when I click to launch a game, it goes to the run command screen as if it is going to launch and then it goes to a black screen and returns back to the emulations station game selection screen.

It almost as if it can’t find the games/ rom files or something.

I am using retropie 4.8 on a pi 4 and have all of my games on an external hard drive connected directly to the pi.

As previously said, all was working fine the last time I shut down and now it’s as if it can’t any games.

I went to retropie setup and enabled usb rom mount again but after the restart, still no luck. I took my usb ssd to a windows pc and everything is still there and looks normal on the ssd.

Can I get some help on troubleshooting this situation, I don’t really have a clue what else could have caused this.

mitu

@wtstreetglow1 said in No games launching currently (please help); everything worked the last time system was shutdown:

It almost as if it can’t find the games/ rom files or something.

Well, are the games there or not ? You can use the File Manager entry in RetroPie to browse any folder on the system, including the ROMs folders.

I went to retropie setup and enabled usb rom mount again but after the restart, still no luck. I took my usb ssd to a windows pc and everything is still there and looks normal on the ssd.

Wasn't enabled before or did you use another method to add the external disc ?

Run the following commands and post the output:

systemctl status usbmount*
mount

Can you also post a verbose log from a game that fails to launch ? Use pastebin.com for the log file's contents.

wtstreetglow1

@mitu said in No games launching currently (please help); everything worked the last time system was shutdown:

Well, are the games there or not ? You can use the File Manager entry in RetroPie to browse any folder on the system, including the ROMs folders.

Yes, everything looks good on the ssd still.

@mitu said in No games launching currently (please help); everything worked the last time system was shutdown:

Wasn't enabled before or did you use another method to add the external disc ?

It was, and all was working fine, but I did it again (hit the enable script) because I didn't know what else to do.--> I looked at the external drive again after this, all still looked good.

Currently, I have disabled usbromservice. Moved a single game over to the pi sd card, tested, and it also did not launch when trying to be ran directly from the sd card.

---> UPDATE: It has something to do with those blessed shaders we last talked about in another thread.

I had a setting set on retroarch config of use "this shader" for all cores.

I disabled load shaders and all is working again.

We were talking about this in another thread-- How do I know which shaders are supported?

The other thread:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/34887/can-t-get-shader-shader-presets-that-i-have-uploaded-to-pi-to-show-in-ui/8

Honestly like you said in the other thread, I don't need that many because half of them won't even work due to performance issues.

Thank you @mitu for everything you have helped me with. I'm sorry for crying wolf on a mistake I created.