Just getting blank screen

[jeremy0203]

So I wanted to check out AM and see what it had to offer. But when I start it up I just get black screens on all my monitors. No buttons do anything and I can alt tab to a console window saying creating config file which I can see if does in the folder but nothing ever moves past that. Am I missing something?

[akafox]

welcome to the forums. I am writing a help but I have not got it all finished. Sounds like you have not generated a list yet. Also I am going to assume that you are on windows? I am also assuming that you are setting up MAME. If I am wrong on either one let me know please.

It's quick and dirty but it works:
 
1. Press the TAB key to go to the configuration menu
2. At top of the list choose (press the enter key) emulators
3. Choose your emulator
4 Tell it where your executable is
(ex. windows: C:\mame\mame.exe
Linux: /usr/games/mame (or just mame))
 MAC OS $HOME/mame/mame64)

5. command arguments type

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[mame]6. tell it path to your roms
(ex. windows: C:\mame\roms
Linux: $HOME/.mame/roms
MAC OS: $HOME/mame/roms)

7. set your rom extension to .zip (or leave as is)
8. skip to info source select mame (you can't type press up or down)
9. skip down to generate collection/rom list press enter...
10. wait
11. press the esc key twice

you should now have a list

default controls are as follows:
up arrow moves list up
down arrow moves list down
enter or left ctrl key selects game/choice
TAB key enters configuration menu
esc key quits game or backs out for menus or quits attract mode

if not let me know I'll help you if you have any problems

[jeremy0203]

I am on windows yes. But I have pressed every single key on the keyboard(including tab) and nothing happens, no menus or anything

[jeremy0203]

Looks like it is an issue with me having multiple monitors. Disabled extra monitors and I can see the menu then. Is there some setting I have to change?

[akafox]

Raygun will know more about that than I will. I think that was a feature added to the newest release. Maybe some bugs to be worked out still?  I'm sure ray would like your help troubleshooting that if you are up to it. Glad you got it working though! I might have caught that you using multiple monitors had it not been 2 in the AM

[jeremy0203]

Sure if there is any info needed to get it worked out just ask.

[Evilish]

I have the same problem. I updated attract mode and on reboot everything goes black. More in depth info follows.

I have a raspberry pie 3. Im new to this so i got a 128 gb card with everything pre loaded. We started using emulation station. Wanted to try out attract mode. Didnt prefer it and while trying to change it back to es accidentally hit update Attract mode and waited an hour for that to finish. Then finally it completed and i rebooted. So raspberry has a cool boot animation. Attract mode plays random arcade sounds over the top of it. That still happens however the sound stops and the screen goes black and i dont know how to interrupt the boot to get to a terminal to set it to boot to emulation station. I tried what akafox suggested. No joy. In window you can hit f2 for example and you can get into the boot. Is there something similar in raspbian or attract mode to interupt the boot sequence and get to the terminal?

Any other suggestions would be great. Thanks.