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General / Re: Games not starting with Retroarch, config files wrong?

« on: September 07, 2017, 06:18:15 AM »

Hi mc2programmer!

Thx for your input! I downloaded the cores through the retroarch menu and the default path was ~/.config/retroarch/cores, so that was correct.

I got it to work though. Changed these lines in my config and added the last one:

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args                 -L home/trag0z/.config/retroarch/cores/mame_libretro.so "[romfilename]"
rompath              home/trag0z/roms/mame
workdir              /
So I guess the problem was that $HOME and ~/ did not work in the config file. I also had to specify the working directory because otherwise I would have to cd to / in the shell before running attract.

Now I have to fix some stuff in my layout and my arcade cabinet will be good to go!

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General / Games not starting with Retroarch, config files wrong?

« on: September 05, 2017, 05:50:09 AM »

Hey there!

I set up a system on an old PC using Arch Linux, Retroarch and Attract Mode. Retroarch runs fine but when I try to start a game in Attract, nothing happens. I played around a lot with the emulator config files, but I can't get it to work.

This is my mame.cfg file:

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.1-52
#
executable           retroarch
args                 -L ~/.config/retroarch/cores/mame_libretro.so "[romfilename]"
rompath              $HOME/roms/mame
romext               .zip
system               Arcade
info_source          thegamesdb.net
artwork    flyer           $HOME/emulators/mame/flyers
artwork    marquee         $HOME/emulators/mame/marquees
artwork    snap            $HOME/emulators/mame/videos
artwork    wheel           $HOME/emulators/mame/wheels

If I try to run a game in Attract, the output in the terminal just says:

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*** Running: retroarch -L ~/.config/retroarch/cores/mame_libretro.so "/home/trag0z/roms/mame/pacman.zip"So, no errors? (There are error messegas before that, but they're just about images missing in my layout)

If I type the same command into the terminal, the game works fine:

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retroarch -L ~/.config/retroarch/cores/mame_libretro.so "/home/trag0z/roms/mame/pacman.zip"
So, I'm kinda lost here. Tell me if you need more information or something, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Trag0z