Added Roms not showing up

DavidL

so after I first got retropie up and running a through on a couple snes roms to see if everything was functioning I did this with the flashdrive method. after everything checked out I loaded the flash drive with every rom I have and loaded it onto retropie. everything worked perfectly except the newly added snes games didn't show up. They did transfer to the correct location on the sd card (retropie/roms/snes) but they just aren't being listed by emulation station. any ideas besides formatting throwing on a fresh image on the sd?

All roms are uncompressed and all verified to work on my windows version of snes9x

I'm running a pi 3 model b with retropie 4.0.2 installed with a pre made image from retropie.

edmaul69

@DavidL did you scrape the previous roms you put on?

DavidL

I did not scrape them.

skorpien

Just a question, did you copy them into sub folders in the snes directory? I know from experience that roms won't show up in ES if they're nested.

meleu

@DavidL First, the dumb question: did you restart emulationstation after loading the .../roms/snes directory with roms?

Now, something more appropriate: did you turn on the "parse gamelists only" option?

If this option is ON AND you didn't scrape your roms, the games won't be shown in ES.

Here is how to access this option:

es_menu

es_options

@skorpien

I know from experience that roms won't show up in ES if they're nested.

I use subfolders and everything works fine.

skorpien

@meleu said in Added Roms not showing up:

@skorpien

I know from experience that roms won't show up in ES if they're nested.

I use subfolders and everything works fine.

Interesting... Maybe it's just the emulator I was using? It was the Commodore 64 emulator. Thanks though, I just assumed they were all like that. Apologies for spreading misinformation.

DavidL

The system has been restarted after the snes roms were loaded.

None of the new roms are in subfolders, one of the original 2 snes games was in its own subfolder but the new one went directly into the roms/snes folder

The parse gamelist setting is off.

I ran the scraper this morning just for kicks and oddly enough I now have one of the newly added roms (F1 roc) showing up in my only subfolder (secret of mana)... F1 roc is most defiantly not located in that folder.

Now I'm completely baffled

dankcushions

@DavidL

you should show us the current directory structure on your pi, via command line or a screenshot of it via FTP or samba or whatever.

DavidL

Hopefully this is what your looking for. as you can see there isn't any other games in the secret of mana folder. Even though it shows "F1 Race of Champions" there. I would post a screenshot of that but I haven't setup screenshots on the pi yet.

DavidL

well looking at my own screenshot figured it out. if I add the file extension (.smc) and reboot it shows up.

still doesn't explain the F1 game showing up in the secret of mana folder though. oh well

DavidL

If anyone has a good idea how to add the appropriate extensions to all of these quickly I'd be interested

herb_fargus

@DavidL bulk file renamer. Also you should just find a normal set. No need for all the bazillion variants. Look up the different types of romsets and what they mean.

meleu

@DavidL
Take this bonus:

(But first take this warning: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!)

To append .smc to every file that has no extension in a specific directory:

find /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -name '*.???' -exec mv '{}' '{}'.smc \;

Edit: We are here for learning, right? Trying to explain what is happening on that command.

-maxdepth 1: do not go to subdirectories.
-type f: look for regular files only.
-not -name '*.???': ignore files ending with a dot followed by 3 chars.
-exec mv '{}' '{}'.smc \;: execute the command mv with the found files to append .smc to them.

Nightfire

@herb_fargus

just to add, here's a couple nice programs that integrate into the context menu that both do batch renaming (I like Lammar better for the renamer). Some roms may not want to work cause there are 2 common file extensions (SMC // SFC), but you'll want to select all roms without a file extension and then 'add suffix' of .sfc OR .smc

Lammar Context Menu
http://www.wedev4you.com/Pages/Products/LammerContextMenu#tab3

FileMenu Tools
http://www.lopesoft.com/index.php/en/filemenutools/download

DavidL

Yea at first I was thinking every rom had a .srm file that also didn't have an extension. again by just looking at the darn file I realized how dumb I was being. After sorting out just a few .srms I batch renamed the rest. Transferring them to retropie now. fingers crossed.

Thank you guys, I'm sure I'll be back with more dumb questions soon

giantkiller

@meleu Dude! You nailed this one. Alot of people are missing this.

captnyesterday

@meleu said in Added Roms not showing up:

@DavidL
Take this bonus:

(But first take this warning: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!)

To append .smc to every file that has no extension in a specific directory:
find /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -name '*.???' -exec mv '{}' '{}'.smc \;
Edit: We are here for learning, right? Trying to explain what is happening on that command.

-maxdepth 1: do not go to subdirectories.

-type f: look for regular files only.

-not -name '*.???': ignore files ending with a dot followed by 3 chars.

-exec mv '{}' '{}'.smc \;: execute the command mv with the found files to append .smc to them.

New to all of this and made an account simply to thank you for this bit of advice above (not just the instruction, but the explanation) . Sorry if this is a thread or necro, I tried to PM you, but couldn't figure it out ;)

meleu

@captnyesterday after 1 year I'm glad to know somebody used it. You're welcome. :-)

thenotwellman

Thanks! Nice and clear and helpful. Appreciate it.

foxyplayzmeow jr

Well go to retropie,then go to file manager,now go to retropie,roms,(the console where you added roms),and check if they are there...if you have the roms in archives,that means the console deleted the direct access,to go to roms again,go to a snes game plsy it and click select and x at the same time,this will open a menu,push b and select settings,video,video filter,then select /,home,retropie,roms and the console,then select the game,select browse archive and select game file.

I got the same problem,i made that,but now the problem is that my disk is write protected...and if i use a new usb,the archives aren't there...