Reply To: First time user, some issues, HELP!

[Anonymous]

Yeah you got all the commands correct so that should work fine.

PiSNES runs great, just doesn’t support as many games as the retroarch emulator. It is installed with the standard image and should work fine, otherwise you can download the binary version and install it yourself.

Its relatively easy to switch emulators.

Emulationstation is the GUI that displays all the emulators, when you start a game it will issue a command to the emulator to load and to load that specific rom.

You can edit the emulators that emulationstation runs by editing es_systems.cfg
this can be found here > /home/pi/.emulationstation/

If you scroll down that file to the Super Nintendo then it should have a couple of COMMAND=/home/pi......... lines, the # at the front stops that command from being issued, so only the one without the # tag will run. All you have to do is remove the # from the pisnes command line, and then add # to the original command line.

So it should look like this :

DESCNAME=Super Nintendo
NAME=snes
PATH=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes
EXTENSION=.smc .sfc .fig .swc .SMC .SFC .FIG .SWC
# COMMAND=/home/pi/RetroPie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 4 "/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch -L /home/pi/RetroPie/emulatorcores/pocketsnes-libretro/libretro.so --config /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg   %ROM%"
# COMMAND=/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/snes9x-rpi/snes9x %ROM%
COMMAND=/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/pisnes/snes9x %ROM%
PLATFORMID=6

Then save es_systems.cfg and reload emulationstation, now it will boot pisnes for snes roms.