Various issues on a new Retropie

Skum1988

Hi all

I am a total noob and I recently got a rap pi 4b and I setup retropie on it

Via SSH I transferred some of my roms to Retropie however I have big issues with some systems

For Amiga I created an Amiga folder with my roms adf files but when I start Ambierry I am not sure if my roms are detected and I don't see anything
For Atari no emulator appears and my rom doesn't show up
For Dos games I also transferred the files from my pc folder and while I can see the MS DOS emulator I have no idea how to run my games (not even sure they are detected)
For Jaguar games nothing shows up in RetroPie despite having a jaguar folder with roms
for PCengine only 2 of my 19 games are playable (the rest will be displayed but games won't boot)
for 3do my games do not show up in RetroPie

It's a lot of questions but I wish someone could help me with those systems as I cannot run any game on those for the rest of the systems the games appear and are playable

korn16ftl3

I would recommend rom transfers via usb ALWAYS I’ve never had this method fail and you can’t put things in the wrong place. It’s entirely automated.

I advise reading the documentation on how to transfer via usb and following those instructions to keep things simplified and fool proof as possible

mitu

@Skum1988 the majority of your issues are related to missing ROMs/folders. You don't need to create manually the folders for your ROMs - they are automatically created by RetroPie when the emulator for the system is installed. The fact that you manually created the folders means that:

the emulator for that system is missing
.. so the folder for the system is not configured in EmulationStation, so the ROMs don't show up.

I'd advise to make sure you have an emulator installed for the systems you want to play and - after you install it - restart EmulationStation. Each emulated system has its own documentation page in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/ which explains what emulators are available for the system, what extra files are needed (BIOS mainly) and what ROM/game extensions are supported.

For Dos games I also transferred the files from my pc folder and while I can see the MS DOS emulator I have no idea how to run my games (not even sure they are detected)

If the emulator is correctly installed, then the .exe /.com file used to start the game (or to install it) should appear in the PC system folder and can be used to launch it.

Last, but not least, when opening a support post, please try to include the information asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your post.

@korn16ftl3 transferring games via SSH/File shares is just as safe as the USB transfer and it's even easier/faster.