Switching emulator in RetroPie 4.1?

pamput

Hi everyone,

Maybe this is a silly question, but I have tried everything in my power. What's the correct way to switch emulator for a system?

I would like to try some alternatives for the SNES, but everything I try it ends all the time running the snes9x. I read somewhere that you are supposed to keep pressing the X button when the game is booting, but this seems to be ineffective.

Any idea?

Thanks!

mediamogul

@pamput

When a game is launched, you'll see the runcommand launch window for a few seconds. During this time, you can press any keyboard key to invoke the menu where the default emulator can be set. Alternatively, you can press whatever the first button is on your controller as well. It may not be immediately obvious which button is seen as being first, as it's really up to the controller's manufacturer. It should also be noted that this only works with what the system sees as being the first controller, so you may have to rearrange the USB order to get it to work properly.

pamput

This is really odd. I think I understand what you mean when you say launch window. Is it like a yellowish small box at the center of the screen? I think I saw it for a couple of times when I first installed the RetroPie but now it's not there anymore :\

mediamogul

@pamput

It should definitely still be there unless it's been disabled.

pamput

Thanks, this makes a lot of sense.

It never occurred to me that Runcommand was the actual component responsable for running the games. I'll check when I'll be back home from work, but it sounds reasonable.

If I would have landed on that wiki page I would have saved myself a lot of headache :)

Thanks

Windall

i have a question..... when i loaded games for NES on the flash drive,it blinked for about 30secondsand stopped but it took about a minute and a half to put them on the flash drive when i rebooted no extra menu or games showed up?

BuZz

@Windall Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Your question has no relation to this topic - read the link above and start a new topic please.

Windall

@BuZz i tried but it said i needed at least one tag and i didnt know what that meant

BuZz

@Windall where it says it there is a text box (under the edit box) for entering a tag. A tag is like a keyword to describe your post. eg controller for a controller related post (you can use multiple tags).