# What happened to my Retroarch? Pls help **URL:** \ **Category:** Firmware and Apps\ **Tags:** retroarch\ **Created:** [October 3, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652 "2019-10-03T04:10:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/1 "2019-10-03T04:10:26Z")
![IMG-1905](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/2X/a/aa80eb4175051d2719c147a3e7a0332f25161b28.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Rebusmind](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/rebusmind/32/2713_2.png) [@Rebusmind](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Rebusmind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/2 "2019-10-03T04:34:41Z")
It’s probably the config that’s causing this. There should be a backup file in the RetroArch folder, so you have to SSH there and replace the broken one. ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/3 "2019-10-03T05:09:26Z")
Do you know where the back up file is exactly? ![Screenshot%20(3)](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/2X/4/4f56a78d4fd8bf1f7668ce0d9754468c2a30cc48.png) ---
**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/4 "2019-10-03T13:25:47Z")
can you see the file named `retroarch.cfg.bak` or just download from `https://github.com/clockworkpi/GameShellDocs/blob/master/retroarch.cfg` and scp to **~/.config/retroarch/** ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/5 "2019-10-03T22:14:29Z")
Do I just copy the website things? ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/6 "2019-10-03T22:38:18Z")
Also what do you do when you find the file? ---
**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/7 "2019-10-04T00:59:33Z")
you can rename `retroarch.cfg.bak` to be `retroarch.cfg` ---
**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/8 "2019-10-04T01:02:59Z")
if you still can not see the launcher show up , maybe the easiest way is to re-flash the tf card again os image v0.4 download url [https://mega.nz/#!NJVRCCYK!KjSsNSJb\_higD-M26xYxq\_wHgjWBkyae32AWkC-cw2E](https://mega.nz/#!NJVRCCYK!KjSsNSJb_higD-M26xYxq_wHgjWBkyae32AWkC-cw2E) ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/9 "2019-10-04T01:45:22Z")
I’m not sure where the retroarch.cfg.bak is ---
**Author:** ![Rebusmind](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/rebusmind/32/2713_2.png) [@Rebusmind](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Rebusmind)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/10 "2019-10-04T03:27:50Z")
As guu wrote, it should be under `~/.config/retroarch`. ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/11 "2019-10-04T04:52:52Z")
![Screenshot%20(5)](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/2X/8/8c909db8cf95be5096125f62031bbab04c7d63aa.png) Is it called remaps? ---
**Author:** ![Rebusmind](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/rebusmind/32/2713_2.png) [@Rebusmind](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Rebusmind)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/12 "2019-10-04T06:03:41Z")
No, it should be right in the RetroArch folder, not in a sub-folder. ---
**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/13 "2019-10-04T09:52:41Z")
the full path is `/home/cpi/.config/retroarch` `~/.config/retroarch` equals `/home/cpi/.config/retroarch` ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/14 "2019-10-06T04:08:38Z")
![Screenshot%20(6)](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/2X/7/779907d57ec6b642f58775b4109e477933904217.png) It was already named retroarch.cfg. Can I just restart the whole thing? If yes, where do I download that os image v0.4 url ---
**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/15 "2019-10-06T05:24:13Z")
[https://mega.nz/#!NJVRCCYK!KjSsNSJb\_higD-M26xYxq\_wHgjWBkyae32AWkC-cw2E](https://mega.nz/#!NJVRCCYK!KjSsNSJb_higD-M26xYxq_wHgjWBkyae32AWkC-cw2E) ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/16 "2019-10-06T15:24:05Z")
Where do I put the dowloaded content? ---
**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/17 "2019-10-07T00:42:39Z")
you are on windows ,right ? pull out the sd card from gameshell, then insert it into PC, but **DON’T FORMAT IT** , windows will notice you that the card can not be recognize blah blah blah , just ignore, the use [https://www.balena.io/etcher/](https://www.balena.io/etcher/) to flash the downloaded img file into the sd card windows will assign the sd-card a new Disk character , like **D:** or else, just check it in the My Computer and remember it **be careful** in etcher, select the downloaded img file as source, and select the new Disk character as target drive NEVER choose the **C:** ,it’s you windows system disk. then flash it after finished, pull out the sdcard from PC ,re-insert it into GameShell, then boot up GameShell All done. the whole process is just a `Restore factory settings` good luck ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/18 "2019-10-07T22:36:33Z")
So I shouldn’t format it? Windows is telling me that I need to format the disk to F: before I can use it. ---
**Author:** ![Quokka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Quokka](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Quokka)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/19 "2019-10-07T22:37:39Z")
Thanks for the help. I’m really just confused with what’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652/20 "2019-10-08T03:22:26Z")
don’t format , format will wipe out everything on that card [Next page](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/what-happened-to-my-retroarch-pls-help/4652.md?page=2)