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2 years ago I'm experiencing the same issue. I went through and verified all the paths and file extensions and it never finds anything besides arcade games.
I briefly considered it might be a permissions thing but I'm not sure that's even possible given that the games all live in a fat partition, which doesn't support Linux permissions (that I know of). Then again the MRAs that it does find all live on that partition too so that seems pretty unlikely in general.
mrchrisster
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When all cores are installed on my SD Card, SAM exclusively launches cores that are not listed in the compatibility list (and which are not listed in the ini settings file). having deleted every unused core in an attempt to avoid this, I've found that SAM will attempt to launch a game three times, throw an error every time, and eventually quit. First it prints this line about a thousand times: "xargs: printf: terminated by signal 13" Then it prints this error message: "ERROR: Failed 1/2/3 times. No valid game found for core: gba rom: Trying to find another rom..." If I change the settings ini so it only has one available core, after three of those error messages it just gives me a fatal error: no available cores (or something to that effect). I've adjusted just about every setting in the ini file, updated my MiSTer, and have reinstalled MiSTer SAM several times, and nothing has ever worked. I know a few other people who also have had no luck getting SAM to work - unsure if their issues are the same as mine, but we all REALLY want to be able to use SAM if possible (especially cuz other folks we know had no issue getting SAM working). I appreciate the help!