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    SegaCD emulator cannot find BIOS Directory

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      RobotLimeLtd
      last edited by RobotLimeLtd

      I was having trouble getting the SegaCD emulators to work, and what it boiled down to was the following entry in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg:

      system_directory = "default"

      Whenever I tried to launch a SegaCD title in verbose mode, I got the following in the log:

      RetroArch [WARN] :: SYSTEM DIR is empty
      ...
      RetroArch [libretro ERROR] :: Missing BIOS

      Now, I was able to fix it by changing the value of system_directory to "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS", but I'm wondering why it doesn't have the correct path in the first place?

      UPDATE: Ok, I put everything back how it was and tried again... the verbose log output said this:

      RetroArch [INFO] :: Environ SYSTEM_DIRECTORY: "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/segacd/".

      I'm not sure how I had previously get "SYSTEM DIR is empty", but it seems that the latest version of Picodrive is expecting the BIOS files to be in the same directory as the roms.

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