Reicast goes black on start and retroarch crashes

I downloaded the core reicast and configured the bios, but I do not use it, the screen is black and the sound of the bios screen is heard but nothing else, from there retroarch stops working. Debian jessie, retroarch 1.4.0

I had the same problem a while ago.

Turn the setting called something like “Shared hardware context” either on or off. Just change it from whatever it is now lol Sorry I can’t be more specific, working from memory on that one.

It’s in Settings > Core and has to be ON.

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Thanks for the answer, I already had that option activated, unfortunately the error persists.

Are you sure the bios files are in the correct folder? I thought I had them correct and kept getting a black screen then crash. if you’re on a ubuntu based operating system it should look like this

/home/Your User Name/.config/retroarch/system/dc/dc_boot.bin /home/Your User Name/.config/retroarch/system/dc/dc_flash.bin

I had them in

/home/Your User Name/.config/retroarch/system/dc/data/ because that was how I had to set it up for Android Reicast standalone emulator.

Hope this helps some.