Can't change emulator

[jmaxime89]

Hi everyone !

I got my Pi this week and I setuped it since three days now. I’ve got to say everything works so well, there is just one things I can’t accomplish : I can’t change to Pisnes. Let me explain myself :

I type

cd RetroPie-Setup

then

sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

I then install Pisnes through binary

Then I open this file with winscp

home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

and I put the hashtag in front of the retroarch command line in the super nintendo section

I also do this here

/home/pi/RetroPie/debug

and I remove the hashtag in front of the command line concerning pisnes (I also remove the “alternatively” in front of the COMMAND=

Now my problem is whenever I start a snes rom through emulationstation it seems to boot, then the screen goes black with a white dot in the middle and the emulationstation screen comes back.

When I read everything about how to switch emulators it seems soo easy but I really can’t get it to work.

I also tried to put roms in the pisnes\roms folder but it’s not working.

Thanks a lot for your help and Petrockblock : You are a genius for putting all of this together for all the noobs !

[kitchuk]

The directory for the roms should be pi/home/RetroPie/snes/roms and not debug.

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[jmaxime89]

Sorry it wasn’t clear, my roms are all in

pi/home/RetroPie/snes/roms

All of my roms shoes in emulationstation, I just can’t start them and when I revert it back to retroarch they all start

Thanks for your very fast answer !

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you’ve have configured es_systems.cfg correctly.
Is anything showing in the terminal if you exit out of emulation station?

[jmaxime89]

Yes ! it shows this :

No ROM file header found.
“The 7th saga” [bad checksum] HiROM, 16Mbits, TYPE : ROM+RAM+BAT, Mode: 21, TV: NTSC, S-RAM: 8Kb, ROMid: ???? Company: ??

[Anonymous]

Just quickly, try a different snes rom.
If that works then you got a bad 7th saga rom dump.

If not, more questions –

Did you install PiSNES using the retropie script? Or did you download the binary and extract it?

I used the binary from here: https://code.google.com/p/pisnes/

[jmaxime89]

none of my roms are working whereas they all work using pocketsnes,

I used the retropie script. If I need to write a command then a path could you write to me exactly what I need to type so it will exclude all of the mistakes I can make.

Thank you very much !

[Anonymous]

Well from the terminal it looks like PiSNES is trying to load the rom.

If you try another rom what does it come up with in the terminal?

[jmaxime89]

Same thing :

No ROM file header found.
“Donkey kong country” [bad checksum] HiROM, 16Mbits, TYPE : ROM+RAM+BAT, Mode: 21, TV: NTSC, S-RAM: 8Kb, ROMid: ???? Company: ??

[Anonymous]

Its probably going to be easier to do this via chat.

https://chatstep.com/#retropie
password is 123

[jmaxime89]

Thank you infinitely !!! I still can’t believe it !

[Anonymous]

No worries, seems like the version pulled from the retropie script is a bit buggy.

[jmaxime89]

Can you show me now how to map my snes controller on pisnes ?

Thanks again !

[jmaxime89]

I also see that megaman X3 don’t work on pisnes, is there a way to make it work or should I just go back to pocketsnes since I play those games often ?

[Anonymous]

It would seem that it doesn’t support a few games, like megaman X3, so just edit out the es_systems.cfg under the Snes section and add the # :)

I can try help with the SNES controller, I need 45 minutes or so before I can chat again though.

[jmaxime89]

Okay ready when you are, I am not in a hurry !

Edit : There is no way to boot these games using pocketsnes I guess ? and still use pisnes for all of the others ?

[Anonymous]

I don’t believe so, can’t find anything inside emulationstation that could support per-rom emulator config.

If the game doesn’t run, you may find that it was released on another system, so you could use a rom for a different emulator, thats the best I got.
Yeah sorry about yesterday, crashed out in the end. Still having issues with the SNES controller?

[jmaxime89]

UPDATE :

instead of using mame4all pi I tried imame4all and I could play with 4 players but this emulator is so laggy it was unplayable. So if it gives anyone an idea please help me !

Also it’s odd in the emulator carousel there is ES_config and I can’t run anything in there. Not even the basic input or the retroarch gui. it says permission denied but I did a chown on this folder and when I check in winscp it says owner : pi. It’s reallt strange.

Thanks very much, once again !

Sorry wrong thread, I apologize

[bucketbot27]

Can you share what the solution was. I am having the same problem.

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