No Games/Emulators showing
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Hello. Please have mercy on me, I am brand new to RaspberryPi, RetroPie, and Linux. I'm using a brand new RaspberryPi 3B. I installed RetroPie 4.1-rpi2_rpi3 on an SD card, inserted into slot and booted. Everything appeared to be working fine. I went to Manage Packages and installed everything under Manage Core Packages and Manage Main Packages. I rebooted the machine and no games appear in the main page. The only thing I can do from there is enter configuration page. I'm frustrated. My 11 year-old son, who I bought this for his birthday, is frustrated. I'm here hoping someone will kindly tell me what I have done wrong or what I have left undone. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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@heinric1 you need to add game roms before many emulators will show on the main screen.
Read through this: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/ and follow the guide specifically the part on transferring roms, an you'll be fine.
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I have this problem too and i have roms on it
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Thanks for insight!! Ok, I downloaded one rom and followed the instructions on tranferring it to the Retropie. When I look through the directory the file appears in the rom folder. It's Ms. Pacman for Atari2600. When I reboot the system, still nothing shows up.
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@markyh444 I have added several roms now for 3 or 4 differents systems (emulators). Still can't do anything after rebooting system.
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@heinric1 Have you checked to see if you have parse gameslists only turned on? I think this skips updating the XML file that lists the games in ES.
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facepalm why didn't i think of that
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@markyh444 That was the issue. I had gone through so many menus and tried changing so many different settings to try to get things running, that I must have turned on the parsing and forgot to turn it back off! I have quite a few games up and running now, my son is going crazy! I switched from using SD card to transfer files to using an SFTP link using WinSCP. It's awesome! Thank you very very much for your help!! It got me going when I was about ready to quit trying. Got it working at about midnight last night.
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@heinric1 No probs mate, glad I could help.
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nope even when I turn OFF the gamelists thingy
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oh wait i had to restart
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