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lower / disable your overclock (have a google – sdram/core of 450 might be more stable)

what PSU are you using ?

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Sounds like a horrible waste of development time imho.

If you don’t want it to wait for your video, read https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/splashscreen

you need to remove the code that waits for omxplayer.

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once you have written retropie, you need to resize it after booting using raspi-config – Did you follow https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation ?

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you didn’t include the output from dmesg.

I can see that you do have free space though – maybe ES is choking on a faulty image or data or something.

there should be a log in /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_log.txt or so which might have more details.

you are much better off using sselph’s scraper though of course.

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After you get the error – please post the output of

df -h
free
dmesg

(from a terminal – via ssh for example)
Please post them to a site like pastebin.com or similar. Thanks.

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you shouldn’t need to chmod them at all if you copied them over with the pi user. 777 is actually wrong for these files, since they are not executables. better would be “644” for user rw, and r for group / all

That’s why I asked for the output of ls -la so I can check the files/permissions as maybe they are owned by root or something.

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there is a dispmanx backend without gles you can try (–enable-dispmanx)

There is no finished opengl for the rpi yet (still in development).

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I’ll consider adding it as an option, but for now if you must use NTFS, you can enable it by doing the following

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
sudo sed -i "s/hfsplus/hfsplus ntfs fuseblk/g" /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

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That probably won’t work out of the box. It might if you install ntfs-3g, but that is likely the problem.

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please can you paste me the output of ls -la ~/RetroPie/roms/snes

also have you tried some alternative roms ?

Please run it via ssh, and so you can c&p the output rather then taking a photo :)

the CRC32 would suggest the files are empty, or they were unable to be read or something.

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there should be at least something in /tmp/runcommand.log after failing to launch – you sure you checked the correct file ? Switch to pocketsnes and then check the log.

you can also drop to a terminal and try

/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --verbose -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pocketsnes/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg ~/RetroPie/roms/snes/SNESROMFILE

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yes – two posts up.

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Are you talking about from ES or from within RetroArch?

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retropie-setup already does delete some old / unused folders in many cases where paths change, but in cases where those folders may contain configuration files, it doesn’t as that would not be helpful.

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just to rule it out, have you tried with another PSU ? Just want to make sure it’s not something weird relating to that (which just happens to be triggered by the newer kernel etc).

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it doesn’t.

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odd that upgrading the kernel on 3 would break it, but downgrading kernel on 3.2.1 wouldn’t make a difference.

Without this hardware though it’s going to be hard to advise further.

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I know it works, so it must be an issue on your set up. Double check your usb stick has a single partition formatted as fat32 or ext4 with a folder in the root called “retropie” and plug it in to the pi. then from a terminal do “cat /var/log/syslog” – when it’s working it should have some lines like

Nov 17 11:55:25 retropie usbmount[2282]: executing command: run-parts /etc/usbmount/mount.d
Nov 17 11:55:26 retropie usbmount-01_retropie_copyroms-[2327]: Attempting to create directory structure for ROMS in '/media/usb0/retropie/roms' ...
Nov 17 11:55:29 retropie usbmount-01_retropie_copyroms-[2327]: Syncing roms ...
Nov 17 11:55:29 retropie usbmount-01_retropie_copyroms-[2327]: Syncing configs ..

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sounds like there is a kernel issue with your controller. You can use rpi-update to downgrade the kernel on the newer retropie image – might be worth googling for your controller and the kernel version in case it’s a known issue. Which controller are you using ?

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uname -a

from a terminal (as written in brackets in previous post)

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nothing has changed in ES that I know would cause this. I will need to see your configs though (and the contents of ~/.emulationstation – ideally the configs from the working image and the non working image.

do you have different kernel versions on the images (uname -a) – if so does the old image still work fine if updating (sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade) ?

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post (via pastebin.com or similar)

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg

if ES is moving on its own, it sounds like your controller may be sending presses through. You could test with “jstest” from a terminal to see if the joypad is sending presses when you are not using it.

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Did you create the folder with a capital “R” ? it should be all lowercase.

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did you try dosbox ?

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you give little detail. EG Folder structure etc ? Did you check the instructions on the wiki ? https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/How-to-get-ROMs-on-the-SD-card (noting – Starting with RetroPie 3.0 you first need to create a folder called retropie on your USB stick and then follow the above steps.)

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There is no solution. It’s a GPU/firmware issue. I guess some acceleration is lost when everything is rotated.

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menu 5 of retropie-setup – you might want to backup/ remove the configs first so you get the defaults (/opt/retropie/configs/mame-mame4all or so)

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re-installing it wont fix it if the problems are due to his alsa changes. But you should change the config back to test if that fixes it.

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Just re-install from binary and you get a slightly older version that works.

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it must have somehow bypassed the wordpress plugin then that manages the donations on the donations page – https://www.petrockblock.com/donations-2/ (did you donate via another route or ?) I can only see that not the actual donations that end up in paypal (not my paypal account). Nothing to worry about though.

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Can’t see any donation from you btw – you sure you donated on this site ? :)

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Where did you look for the runcommand.log file ? did you check /tmp/runcommand.log ?

(Need to check this right after it fails – don’t reboot)

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We did a massive reorganisation from 2.6 to 3.0 – there is no will to do another I’m afraid. Also where there is a single console it might not look as pretty “gce-vectrex” etc.

Anyway, whether it’s an improvement or not I am afraid it isn’t going to happen at least any time soon. sorry.

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You will loose autoconfiguration of retroarch by doing that – you should reinstall emulationstation from binary to restore the script hook for triggering controller configs.

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after you quit ES, press a key when it first returns to terminal, and it will drop to a command prompt.

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