SNES ROM not loading

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

I’m a newcomer to the world of raspberry Pi and I’ve recently, with limited linux knowledge, started this little project of getting a SNES emulator to run on my Pi 2B with retropie.

I’ve installed all the software through the methods described here: https://supernintendopi.wordpress.com/

I have emulationstation up and running, and my ROM (In this case DonkeyKongCountry.smc) is visible. However when I try to launch it, it fades to black, as though it tries to start up the ROM, but after a few seconds I end up back on the ES ROM screen.

I’ve found the following logfiles: /tmp/runcommand.log reports:

RetroArch [ERROR] :: parse_input :: –menu was used, but content file was passed as well.
RetroArch [ERROR] :: rarch_main_init :: Fatal error received in: “parse_input()”

~/.emulationstation/es_log.txt reports:

lvl2: req sound [basic.launch]
lvl2: (missing)
lvl2: Attempting to launch game…
lvl2: /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ snes /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/DKC.smc
lvl2: Creating surface…
lvl2: Created window successfully.
lvl2: Added known joystick Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver) (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)
lvl2: Added known joystick Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver) (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)

I’m quite new to all this and I can’t figure out what’s causing the ROM not to load.

Is this a known issue? Do you guys have any idea how I can fix this? I’ve tried googling around but I havn’t found anything solid that can help me out. One thing I’ve tried is Chmod 777’ing everything that is related to the SNES emulator in /opt/retropie, but that didn’t seem to fix it.

If I didn’t give enough info please let me know and i’ll replay ASAP.

If you guys could help me fix this i’d be very grateful!

[Floob]

The guide you have followed is pretty dated now (although it seems updated in some areas).

I would be tempted to use either 2.6 or 3 beta 4, both found in the downloads area and write that image. Can you try this?

– Download RetroPie 3 beta 4
https://www.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/retropie-project-sd-card-image-for-raspberry-pi-2-beta/

– Extract the image and write it to your MicroSD with Win32DiskImager
– Boot up the Pi, which will configure your controller.
– Quit Emulation Station and expand the filesystem (sudo raspi-config)
– Write your rom file across and try again?

[InsecureSpike]

if after floods method don’t help, then change emulators, there after after roms that don’t run on some emu’s

[Anonymous]

I would prefer, if possible, not to use a pre-made OS, as my raspberry pi currently already runs some other applications (like ZNC) that I would not like to lose.

[petrockblog]

You may have updated retropie-setup without updating everything else – you will need to run a full binary install, but there are some things that may require manual work if upgrading with the script. you can always just rm -rf /opt/retropie and reinstall and it should work.

[Anonymous]

[quote=100952]You may have updated retropie-setup without updating everything else – you will need to run a full binary install, but there are some things that may require manual work if upgrading with the script. you can always just rm -rf /opt/retropie and reinstall and it should work.

[/quote]

Hold on, Could you clarify at bit further as to what exactly you mean? Should I run an apt-get upgrade/update, remove /opt/retropie and then re-run the retropie -setup script? Is that what you mean by binary install? Should I get another binary version of retropie somewhere?

Sorry if i’m questions sound stupid, I’m learning here :p

[petrockblog]

The original issue was a bug in recent retroarch which is now fixed. re-installing retroarch from menu 5 should resolve it.

[Anonymous]

[quote=101065]The original issue was a bug in recent retroarch which is now fixed. re-installing retroarch from menu 5 should resolve it.

[/quote]

This did indeed fix the issue!

Now I just have to deal with some DPAD issues on the XBOX controller and i’m good to go, I can probably figure that out on my own, thanks so much! :)

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