Atari ST games not launching (Hatari Retroarch)

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I set a couple of platforms and am having issues with the Atari ST - when I start the games, it goes to blank screen then a generic desktop. I did add the tos in the correct folder.

I found out that when launchbox starts a game, the file for the game is blank in the Hatari menu (I am using that core within Retroarch) - see pictures 1 and 2. If I click on the file - see picture 3- and reset the Atari (not restarting hatari), game starts as expected.

Any idea why the file name passed to the Hatari core in retroarch is blank?

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note that goldrunner.st is in goldrunner.zip

[JoeViking245]

11 hours ago, SFX said:

note that goldrunner.st is in goldrunner.zip

As an experiment, can you extract goldrunner.st from the zip and point the games application path to the st file and then try launching?

According to this, single file games should load straight to the game. But theirs weren't zipped.

 

  

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that worked. any advice on how to unzip all the game files easily?

[JoeViking245]

8 hours ago, SFX said:

that worked. any advice on how to unzip all the game files easily?

You might be able to just..., in the Associated Platforms section for the emulator, for that platform, check the box Extract ROMs.

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It was checked - and I did uncheck it so it lets Hatari unzip and it worked... So I'm going to go with that.