How can I create a log file to see what is going wrong?
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How can I create a log file to see what is going wrong?
From time to time some of my games are not working (at the moment I am not able to run megadrive games, I’m just taken back to the game selection screen). How can I create a log file to later go back and see what happened?
Re: How can I create a log file to see what is going wrong?
Afraid I don't have an easy answer to that one. I've disabled or sent all logs to ram to preserve the SD card.
If you plug in a keyboard before powering up you could exit all the menus and see if running from the command line gives you an error message that will help. This command should be what you need:
/home/pi/.config/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /home/pi/.config/retroarch/cores/lr-picodrive/picodrive_libretro.so -c /home/pi/.config/retroarch/picodrive.cfg /boot/roms/consoles/megadrive/[your_rom_and_its.extention]
Console games in general will need to be unzipped and without any spaces in the filenames. Some consoles need a bios, but Megadrive / Genesis isn't one of them. If you need to rename your games to replace spaces with underscores I recommend using a bulk/batch renaming program to automate the process.
If you plug in a keyboard before powering up you could exit all the menus and see if running from the command line gives you an error message that will help. This command should be what you need:
/home/pi/.config/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /home/pi/.config/retroarch/cores/lr-picodrive/picodrive_libretro.so -c /home/pi/.config/retroarch/picodrive.cfg /boot/roms/consoles/megadrive/[your_rom_and_its.extention]
Console games in general will need to be unzipped and without any spaces in the filenames. Some consoles need a bios, but Megadrive / Genesis isn't one of them. If you need to rename your games to replace spaces with underscores I recommend using a bulk/batch renaming program to automate the process.
