Snes roms won't load.

siphil

Hi, I'm a complete novice with the raspberry pi so thanks in advance for any help. Just got retropie set up on my pi 3 and a few mega drive and snes roms up and running. Thought I would install the other snes emulators to compare performance but once I did that the snes rooms would no longer load and just get stuck on a black screen. Now I'm lost as to how to get snes working again.

mediamogul

@siphil

First, a riddle.

What's black and blue, yet hardly ever read?

Hint: ˙ǝƃɐd ʎɹǝʌ sᴉɥʇ ɟo doʇ ǝɥʇ ʇɐ s,ʇI

siphil

@mediamogul hi yes I did look at the rules. It was late though so I may not have taken them in that well! Long day! Info wise like i said im on pi 3, version of retropie was the latest 1 on the retropie site i think. I'm not really sure The snes emulator that was included I'm not in front of the pi right now. I know it had the year at the end of its name if that's any help 2010. Sorry if I'm missing something info wise I'm going to have another look at it later. Thanks again in advance.

markyh444

@siphil But have you read the link though? It says to read the wiki and search for answers in the forum as well. I doubt you've read the wiki as how to install and configure all the emulators is well documented there. Please adhere to these rules as you agreed to them when signing up to the forum.

siphil

@markyh444 I have had a good look for answers myself but I have very little spare time on my hands. As I said I'm a beginner with retropie so thought asking people in the know would be easier. Forget it though. I've never posted in a less welcoming forum. I would have preferred no answers to the condescending replies I've received.

BuZz

@siphil To be fair you haven't helped us to help you. You have given us little more information than "it doesn't work" - how can we help you ?

I have no idea:

which version of RetroPie you are on - when you say the latest on the site we have had people who have got an older version, or who have updated it (it's not just locked to the download image version - it's a rolling release). A version number like 4.1.5 etc would help
which snes emulator you are using - there are about 5 snes emulators shipped with retropie. Which is currently set to run ? you say 2010, but are you sure that is the one currently "configured" or the last one you installed as its switchable https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand
the filename of the rom you are trying - you may have the wrong file format.

The sticky topic clearly states to provide us with this information and you really made no effort to do so.

you want us to spend our free time to help you - but you don't seem willing to spend your time to aid us to do that. That's not reasonable.

mediamogul

@siphil said in Snes roms won't load.:

I've never posted in a less welcoming forum.

As for my particular involvement in your welcome, it was meant in general good humor and not at the expense of your mistake. With the basic information that is requested at the top of every page, just about any user on here is always happy to help when we're able.

siphil

@BuZz the snes emulator was snes9x2010. As I said I. My post I didn't have the info to hand at the time. I also never said that it just wasn't working what I said was that after I installed another snes emulator the roms no longer loaded and I just had a black screen. All I really wanted was to see if I was missing something simple thats all. Unpleasant replies seem out of order to me.

siphil

@mediamogul fair enough. Anyway a fresh install of retropie sorted the problem. I've got all an all new problem now but I think I'll just try work it myself from now on.

BuZz

@siphil No-one is being unpleasant to you. You have made no effort to provide the information we need. If you are not in front of the rpi, come back when you are - and when you have time to provide the requested information.

You didn't say the snes emulator was snes9x2010 - you said it ended in 2010 and were vague, but I still don't know if you are really using that emulator. I still have no idea about which rom you are trying to load - and I still don't know you are actually using 2010 - have you confirmed that via runcommand? If you installed other emulators your default might have changed.

You could get a log from /dev/shm/runcommand.log after launching fails (via sftp) and post that to give us an idea of why it is failing. You can launch it in "verbose mode" via the runcommand configuration.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand

markyh444

I fail to see how my answer was condescending. And you confirmed what I thought anyway as you said you didn't have time to read the wiki.

At the least fill in the details as to what you're running in the link. It's just a bullet-pointed list. That way we know how you're build is setup and will be in a better position to help you.