Reply To: Newbie Question – Losing Signal When Choose NES Game

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[quote=21903]Hi Everyone. I lurked around this forum and it’s been very helpful. I followed these instructions to setup Retropie on my raspberrypi:

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192

I want to introduce my 3 year old to old NES games. Everything went well until I tried to play a game on NES. As soon as I choose any of the four NES games I’ve installed I lose my signal and I can’t do anything except press some buttons to eventually get back to the prior screen. I can choose any of the preinstalled systems (Apple, IBM) w/no issue but when I choose NES games it loses signal.

My setup is via HDMI to a year old Panasonic plasma TV.

I’ve read some things on here that describe issues w/signals but most seem to discuss component video which I’m not using.

I’m just not sure where to start and while I’m comfortable following step by step instructions such as on Lifehacker I know my limitations and w/out seeing something right on point I don’t want to do damage to the raspberrypi that I can see is SO CLOSE to letting me have some fun times w/my son playing NES together.

Help is appreciated.

Thank you.

Gabe

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Hi, firstly try a different rom to rule out the rom being the issue. If that doesn’t work edit es_systems, copy es_systems.cfg from /etc/emulationstation/ to /home/pi/.emulationstation/

Then edit in terminal:
nano /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

Navigate to the NES section, change runcommand from 4 to 2. Ctrl x and y to save. Then reboot.