Can't load NES ROM. Fades to black and then back to menu.

[TheVrolok]

Only output from emulationstation is (without the periods):

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Log file is:

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Jul 21 2015 - 19:40:05 lvl2: Creating surface... lvl2: Created window successfully. lvl2: Added known joystick USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0) lvl2: Checking available OpenGL extensions... lvl2: ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING lvl2: Loading system config file /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg... lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml"... lvl1: File ""/home/pi/games/ROMs/NES/1942 (U) [!].nes"" does not exist! Ignoring. lvl2: req sound [basic.launch] lvl2: (missing) lvl2: Attempting to launch game... lvl2: ~/games/RetroArch/retroarch -L ~/games/RetroArch/cores/libretro-fceumm.so /home/pi/games/ROMs/NES/1942.nes lvl2: Creating surface... lvl2: Created window successfully. lvl2: Added known joystick USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0) lvl2: Added known joystick USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)

I don't even know where to start with no actual error messages.

This is on my RPi2 with Raspbian (not RetroPi), compiled ES from the RPI-standalone tutorial on the site. RetroArch runs the game fine outside of ES, if I just run "~/games/RetroArch/retroarch -L ~/games/RetroArch/cores/libretro-fceumm.so /home/pi/games/ROMs/NES/1942.nes" it starts up no problems.

[joolswills]

Doesn't look like an ES issue to me. Try with full paths without the tilde ~

[TheVrolok]

No change. Appreciate the assistance, though.

[joolswills]

post a log again please - (via pastebin or similar)

[joolswills]

and your emulationstation config please.

[TheVrolok]

http://pastebin.com/x18LuVyT

[joolswills]

and

/home/pi/games/RetroArch/retroarch -L /home/pi/games/RetroArch/cores/libretro-fceumm.so /home/pi/games/ROMs/NES/SMB3.nes

def works from console?

If you can't get this sorted btw you could just use retropie (you can customise/trim it down as needed).

[TheVrolok]

Yep, copy/pasted it to make sure. Maybe something from the manual compile? I don't have much else on the RPi, wouldn't be hard to format/stick RetroPi on to get it working and then add the other things I'm using (LAMP stack, etc.).

[sub-atomic]

This is happening to me too on Windows 8.1. No error messages in log. My config:

<system>
        <name>nes</name>
        <fullname>Nintendo Entertainment System</fullname>
       <path>C:\Games\RETRO\Nintendo NES</path>
       <extension>.nes .NES .fds</extension>
       <command>C:\Games\RETRO\Emulators\RetroArch\retroarch.exe -L C:\Games\RETRO\Emulators\RetroArch\cores\nestopia_libretro.dll "%ROM_RAW%"</command>
       <platform>nes</platform>
       <theme>nes</theme>
    </system>