Reply To: Roms not Starting

[dustinarden]

I’m having the same issues as above.

This is a fresh install and everything worked just fine. All my ROMS launched and worked as they were expecting. However I followed the steps to “pretty” up emulation station by scraping for box art etc as outlined in the A-Z guide that is available on the internet. I let that run overnight as it took it a long time to scrape through all the ROMS.

When i came back everything looked great but all of a sudden the ROMs wouldnt launch. Everything else works great. The USB SNES controller I have used to work in the ROMs, it works in the menus, etc.

I’m capable of reading error logs and general troubleshooting in linux and with scripts and other components of emulationstation / retropie however i’m honestly stumped as to where to even start the investigation … i’m not seeing log files in /var/log that look relevant .. i’ve searched a few directories but i’m not sure where to start looking for error messages as to why the ROM’s and or Emulators are not launching.
When i select a ROM the screen fades away as I would expect prior to launching the ROM but then you see some terminal activity in the background and then it dumps you back to emulation station.

any help to get me started troubleshooting would be great.
Thanks.