Closed transcendtient closed 12 years ago
transcendtient
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12 years ago I finally found out you're referencing an es_system.cfg file in a different location than Emulation Station does. Why is this? This means you need the file in ~/.emulationstation and in /home/pi/.emulationstation. Is this because I installed RetroPie as root?
transcendtient
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12 years ago Started scraping a library of 4000+ roms in 4 systems so here we go!
elpendor
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12 years ago I'm not sure I follow you. The scraper checks ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg.
This means you need the file in ~/.emulationstation and in /home/pi/.emulationstation.
Assuming you're using the default "pi" user, ~/.emulationstation and /home/pi/.emulationstation are the same folder.
but when I try to scrape roms I get no roms detected.
This tells me its not a config file problem at all. If that were the case there should be a warning about not having access to it.
Could you:
Also, why are you using the root user?
transcendtient
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12 years ago No, they're different locations for me. I'm positive of this as I had to copy my config file from my ~/.emulationstation folder to the /home/pi/.emulationstation folder.
The file in ~/.emulationstation was the file Emulation Station was using (ill post in a sec)
The file in /home/pi/.emulationstation was the default file, which was looking in the default locations which is /home/pi/RetroPie/roms (I overwrote this file with mine so I don't have it)
I'm new to linux and hate typing sudo in front of every command, so I roll as root. The RetroPie install was done as root, updates are as root, I'm scraping as root right now.
The output is : ASCII text
NAME=Nintendo Entertainment System PATH=/mnt/ROMusb/nes/ EXTENSION=.nes .NES COMMAND=retroarch -c /home/pi/RetroPie/cfg/nes.cfg %ROM% PLATFORMID=7
NAME=Super Nintendo Entertainment System PATH=/mnt/ROMusb/snes/ EXTENSION=.smc .SMC COMMAND=retroarch -c /home/pi/RetroPie/cfg/snes.cfg %ROM% PLATFORMID=6
NAME=Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator PATH=/mnt/ROMusb/mame2/ EXTENSION=.zip .ZIP COMMAND=retroarch -c /home/pi/RetroPie/cfg/mame.cfg %ROM% PLATFORMID=23
NAME=GameBoy Color PATH=/mnt/ROMusb/gbc/ EXTENSION=.gbc .GBC COMMAND=retroarch -c /home/pi/RetroPie/cfg/gbc.cfg %ROM% PLATFORMID=41
I've placed my roms on a thumb drive and have been able to load games directly from Emulation Station (so my cfg is formatted correctly), but when I try to scrape roms I get no roms detected.