N64 not showing up even with ROMs loaded? [solved]

[rogers017]

I have loaded several NES, SNES and Neo Geo roms and everything has been great so far. However when I put roms into the n64 folder on my pi it doesn't bring up the emulator on the main screen at all. I have verified that they are in the correct folder and still zipped. Anything else that I need to do?

[Malman35]

I am assuming you are using retro pie. If so then I've had the same problem. I think it has to do with BIOS or something but I don't know for sure. If it does have to do with that then I would appreciate someone telling me and rogers017 how to install the bios or whatever you have to do.

[GTR2Fan]

Have you checked here already?

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki

I'm guessing you probably have as it's the first hit in Google when searching for "RetroPie ROMs", but I thought I'd post the link anyway.

[rogers017]

Yes, I am am using retropie and Raspbian Jessie. I forgot to put that in there. Long story short i was using Wheezy and everything was fine but somehow corrupted the card and used Jessie and retropie on a new card.

[gman98]

I'm using Jessie and the latest version of Retropie and my N64 roms show up ok, they have a .7z file extension

[Lickwidsoap]

Make sure you extract, Accepted File Extensions: .z64 .n64 .v64, not just the .zip

[pie_noob]

Extract the files (don't leave them compressed). I had the same problem.

[usury]

I know this is an old thread, but this information may be useful for someone searching for a solution in the future.

The libretro core for N64 (lr_mupen64plus) will play zipped file (*.zip). I don't know whether the stand-alone emulator will.

However, you must edit the emulationstation config file

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sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

Locate the section for n64 and examine the "extension" line

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  <system>
    <name>n64</name>
    <fullname>Nintendo 64</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/n64</path>
    <extension>.z64 .n64 .v64 .Z64 .N64 .V64</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ n64 %ROM%</command>
    <platform>n64</platform>
    <theme>n64</theme>
 

Change "extension" to include .zip and .ZIP

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  <system>
    <name>n64</name>
    <fullname>Nintendo 64</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/n64</path>
    <extension>.z64 .n64 .zip .v64 .Z64 .N64 .V64 .ZIP</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ n64 %ROM%</command>
    <platform>n64</platform>
    <theme>n64</theme>
 

Now restart emulationstation from the UI. Zipped games appear in the N64 menu and are launchable.

[Jaime15]

Will the zip extension thing work if I'm using retro pi 3.6 on raspberry pi 3

[Jaime15]

I have same problem but I'm not using raspbian jesse or whatever, I'm on retropie on raspberry pi 3

[mcnutts]

Jaime15,
I am using retro pie for my rps 3 and changing that little bit of code worked perfectly for me. I was really dreading having to unzip 200+ roms. As a noob it took me even more google searching to figure out where exactly I was suppose to be typing.

[enigs]

@usury thank you SO MUCH I figured I was having a similar issue because my N64 roms were in .7z files but I didn't want to go through all the extra steps to either delete them or extract them on the Pi, so, I went into the config and added .7z and .zip just for good measure and that cured it!