[ernisius]

Mine too – Thanks

[ernisius]

I would be interested to hear if anyone has got more than 15 emulators on the ES main menu.

I don’t know if i am looking for a configuration issue that is only specific to me or if there is a bug in ES,

or perhaps I’m expecting too much from the RPi 512MB memory

[ernisius]

I just tried various memory splits
384 doesn’t work at all, neither does 128.
192 is better, I can configure 16 emulators instead of 15.

I also tried another 2 memory cards and got exactly the same problem

So unless anyone can say otherwise I think it is down to the number of emulators.

[ernisius]

Thanks for the link to sd cards, I had thought all cards worked pretty much the same, so I will try some alternatives.
I am running 2.3 + update and upgrade.

I tested with another 16gb class 10 card
The problem is very consistent. I add 15 menuitems and it works ok, if I then add another one I just get a black screen with menu, select and choose at the bottom. It doesn’t appear to matter which emulator I add.

The retroarch emulators return to the menu when I quit but others such as vice, atari800, atarist crash the pi on exit.

I would be interested to know if others have added all (or at least more than 15) emulators.

[ernisius]

Thanks, but I am using a 16gb kingston class 10 card, and I did expand the fs.

[ernisius]

Tried again with the latest raspbian and the latest retropie source based install and get the same problem.

Am I the only one with this problem?

[ernisius]

Just saw your other post, so I guess you already know about the wad files.
So here is something you could try, this is what I do to troubleshoot.

Get the raspbian wheezy image http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest.
and write it to a new sd card. then you can use this to test emulators independently,
for prboom
sudo apt-get install prboom
mkdir doom
cd doom

copy the doom.wad file to the doom directory you just created
make sure your working directory is doom.
type prboom

You may want to download putty to access the pi from a pc, it makes it easier and you have access to the command line when ES is running

[ernisius]

Well first you need to get some doom wad files, these are not included in retropie.
They need to be copied to RetroPie/roms/doom. then when you run emulationstation you can select the doom wad you want to run and it should work.(don’t select the prdoom thats already there, it doesn’t do anything).

The easiest way to get the roms copied onto the pi is to insert a blank formatted usb memory stick into the pi usb with emulationstation running. It will create a rom folder on the usb stick, with sub directories for all emulators.
Remove the stick and plug it into a pc, where you can copy the wads ( or any other game roms ) to the appropriate folder. plug the usb back into the pi and it will automatically copy the roms to the correct folders for you.

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