Recalbox don't show GBA games

[Alvin]

@costal
Did you try the "Refresh Gamelist" Option from
Main Menu -> UI Settings ?

[Scavy]

@costal you should have a gamelist in the folder. It's the problem.
Do you have an other sd card ? Could you try to reinstall RCB on this card and retest ?

[Alvin]

@scavy
How many Games can a Recalbox-Gamelist for a single System handle ?
Maybe over 1500 Games are too much or it takes some Time to make a Gamelist out of these Files.

@Costal
I hope you got a Backup of all your Files.

1. Delete all Gamefiles in the GBA Folder of your Recalbox
   NOT the Readme.txt, NOT the Gamelist.xml (if there is one), and NOT the Folders (for Example "Media" or "Downloaded_Images) inside the GBA Folder.

2. Refresh the Gamelist
   Look here
   https://wiki.recalbox.com/en/basic-usage/file-management
   how it's done:

To make the additions appear:
• Update the list of games:
o EmulationStation menu with START.
o UI SETTINGS.
o UPDATE GAMES LISTS.
• Restart your Recalbox:
o EmulationStation menu with SELECT.
o Select RESTART.

3. Copy about 10 Games in the GBA Folder
4. Refresh the Gamelist again.
5. Look if the Games show up
6. If this didn't work reset your Recalbox to "Factory Settings"
   https://wiki.recalbox.com/en/basic-usage/features/reset-to-factory-settings
   and try again

By the way:
We don't know what kind of Files you've downloaded from which Source (and you shouldn't tell us because it's against the Rules of this Board) but maybe the Problem lies within the ROMs.
They maybe work great with mGBA but simply not with Recalbox.

[Alvin]

@costal said in Recalbox don't show GBA games:

@costal
update about skraper, I was using it wrongly, so that was my fault, but still, no GBA roms showing in recalbox, only the pre loaded (those that come with the installation)

@costal said in Recalbox don't show GBA games:

@scavy

I looked here and I'm not in gamelist only, even tried to reload the game list
And there's no gamelist file in the "roms/gba"

That seems strange to me.
If the preinstalled GBA Games show up there must be a Gamelist.xml File, because if there is none these Games wouldn't show up.

[Scavy]

@alvin said in Recalbox don't show GBA games:

How many Games can a Recalbox-Gamelist for a single System handle ?

there's no known limit.
I tested more than 7000 roms on a system (c64 lol), it works.

[Costal]

@alvin

Your last guess probably is the correct one, that's pretty weird, but even with 5 games, they don't show up, I'm going to try get the roms from another... source... and see if they work now

(And many thanks for everyone trying to help-me🤍🤍🤍)

[Costal]

@alvin

Yeah, I thought a about that as well (I'm gonna try post some images so I can show you better)

[Costal]

Roms look like this, needed to use a screenshot because my camera photos were larger than the 2mb forum cap

[Costal]

"No items matching the search" don't ask-me how it's showing the pre-installed games...

[Costal]

"R:" is my share partition

I'm going to send 2 more images showing the recalbox system

And if any of you want me to send a picture of any screen that might be helpful, don't be shy to ask

[Costal]

The storage usage

And the gameboy section