The rom scraper only checks the name, it doesn't check the CRC value of the game. I would recommend getting a different copy of the game. NES is my favorite and I have been able to run just about everything that I have thrown at it.

i too have this exact same problem. none of my roms work. they did before. but not now. let me know if you figure anything out redwing.

nope. still same.

@mholgatem: maybe you have a modified dev version of 0.8b5? If you have an empty sdcard try to flash the official release and retry. I have tried it on 2 different raspis (B / B+) with picade and traditional mouse/keyb/hdmi monitor. On both the same result. It doesn't work....

@the_rest_of_the_piplayers: does someone tried nes with a newly installed 0.8b5? Does it really run?

thanks in advance!

also, check the permissions of /home/pi/pimame/emulators/fceux/fceux and make sure that they are at 775

@tearexairz - hmm... according to documentation, that should be equivalent to 'auto'. have you tried setting them to your actual resolution settings?

@mholgatem i did. get the same results....

i did the work around like mentioned in the other thread and it works!!!! but its lame to have to esc out and startx then play. maybe these findings can narrow down the problem.....

Indeed, and the most interesting fact is: we all use the same hardware.... :)
So what are the differences between us and you (supposed that we all are using the same os-image):

- System configuration (which is not made in my case)
- Raspian updates / upgrades
- HDMI / Line-out settings
- Micro-SD r/w speed or size
- CPU overclocking
- "Strange" USB Devices
_ ???

Hello,
I have exactly the same problem. I've tried different ROM. When I run the game,
for less than a second, there is this on the screen:

Starting FCEUX 2.2.1
"File path"

PRG ROM: 2x 16kib
CHR ROM: 4x 8kib
ROM CRC32: xxxx
ROM MD5: xxxx
Mapper #: 1
Mapper name: MMC1
Mirroring: Horizontal
Battery-backed: No
Trained: No

Power On


Then, all the parameters vanishes.
Starting FCEUX turn into Yellow and the file path into red for less than a second and all my screen turn into black.
Piplay crash but my raspberry answers to ssh/ftp connection.
(I have the last version of PIPLAY 0.8 beta5)

Hope that could help to solve this...

they changed the emulator from advmess to fceux in 8.4... advmess worked fine for me. is there anyway i can reinstall it? im building a cabinet and it wont have a keyboard, so this is kinda killing it for me.

Hi Shea, thank you.
regarding to tearexairz question, you can downgrade by just getting an older image from sourceforge. But running a cabinet I'd probably just leave out NES (unless fceux is working) as the sound is rather bad.

Same problem as Guts1012: Controller (xbox clone) works for snes and sega genesis, but not for nes. Whichever button I press, no influence on games (Mario et friends ....) Keyboard input works for nes, too.

Thanks for that cool project :-)

@raspradio Ok figured out controls took some troubleshooting. You need to go to /pi/.fceux fceux.cfg file. In that file you can set the gamepad.0 or whatever number you want to joystick. Just type out joystick. Then on the file look for gamepad.0 buttons and map them to your joystick. Mine took some troubleshooting because I couldn't get directional buttons to work. I wound up loading fceux on a unbuntu computer I have. Using the GUI interface I mapped the controller to the program. Then used it's config files to find out the correct directional inputs. Good luck!!!