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    • Substring
      Substring @Seramis last edited by

      @rockaddicted does that remind you something ?

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      • Seramis
        Seramis @Substring last edited by

        @Substring not really... . Should it? Seems that you know what is wrong? If I may ask you kindly to enlightening me? :-). By the way I have worked myself through the N64 compatability list and I have added quite a few entries. Nice community here.

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        • Seramis
          Seramis last edited by

          To be clear: The roms don't disappear! Only the favorites do. I can still play all SNES roms. They only don't get stored as favorites. All other games in all other emulations do.

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          • Substring
            Substring @Seramis last edited by

            @Seramis That was inteded to rockaddicted, he has a better memory than me 😉
            thanks for your contribution on N64 ! We do have a nice community, yes, thanks to all of you 🙂

            Now regarding your problem ... No idea, though it reminds me something (that's why i asked for rock's help)

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            • Seramis
              Seramis @Substring last edited by

              @Substring ah OK, I thought I have misused the search function. Well it is not so terrible. I could delete some SNES games not worth playing, but I was intending to give some full fledged out recalboxos to dear friends and family members and maybe they will miss this or that game afterwards and I thought it would be nice if they just had everything and can do their own favorites. Maybe I should clone the SD card and set up a new system to see if I can reproduce the issue?

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                Substring @Seramis last edited by

                @Seramis Have you manually edited any file inside recalbox ?

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                • Seramis
                  Seramis @Substring last edited by

                  @Substring Nope. It is also up to date.

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                  • Substring
                    Substring @Seramis last edited by

                    @Seramis @Acris just suggested me that your gamelist.xml could be corrupted ... SO :

                    • save the gamelist.xml file inside your roms/snes folder
                    • stop ES (either by pressing F4 on a keyboard, or by SSH : /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation stop)
                    • delete the gamelist.xml
                    • restart ES

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                    • Seramis
                      Seramis @Substring last edited by

                      @Substring I'll give it a try and report back tomorrow. Thanks.

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                      • voljega
                        voljega Banned @Seramis last edited by

                        @Seramis are you using the standard theme or a custom one which you installed ?

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                        • Seramis
                          Seramis @voljega last edited by

                          @voljega Everything is standard, I didn't change a thing.

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                          • Seramis
                            Seramis last edited by

                            As I am not a hundred percent sure about how to save the gamelist, I made a copy of my sd- card. Reporting back in a few minutes, maybe we can solve this issue for everyone if it may happen again.

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                            • voljega
                              voljega Banned @Seramis last edited by

                              @Seramis a copy isn't gonna show anything if the problem comes from a broken system

                              To save your scrape, just copy the gamelist.xml files and thge downloaded_images folders.

                              If you want to save roms alobg with ith, juste copy everything in roms.

                              Also don't forget bios and saves golders if you have some of those

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                              • Seramis
                                Seramis @voljega last edited by

                                @voljega That is true indeed, but if I mess up, I can start over.

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                                • Seramis
                                  Seramis last edited by

                                  Ok first of all I really have to thank you. This totally solved the issue. However, as a non linux person, but capable of helping myself and intrinsically interested in media, I am going to point out in detail what I have done so that other people can follow this step by step:

                                  1. I downloaded putty here: http://www.putty.org/
                                  2. I typed "recalbox" in my browser to get to the overlay. I searched for the ip adress there (because it is easy).
                                  3. I started putty and gave the program the ip adress.
                                  4. Login: "root" Password: "recalboxroot" (you might want to change this yourself aftewards)
                                  5. I typed "cd .."
                                  6. I typed "ls" giving me the following directions: bios extractions lost+found roms screenshots
                                    cheats kodi music saves system
                                  7. I typed "cd roms"
                                  8. Again "ls" amstradcpc gamegear mastersystem nes scummvm wswan
                                    atari2600 gb megadrive ngp sega32x wswanc
                                    atari7800 gba moonlight ngpc segacd zx81
                                    atarist gbc msx o2em sg1000 zxspectrum
                                    cavestory gw msx1 pcengine snes
                                    fba lutro msx2 pcenginecd supergrafx
                                    fba_libretro lynx n64 prboom vectrex
                                    fds mame neogeo psx virtualboy
                                  9. "cd snes"
                                  10. "ls" It threw out all my games and at the end of it the bad "gamelist.xml"
                                  11. As I did a cloned copy of my sd-card I felt brave and hit "rm gamelist.xml" which will delete said list.
                                  12. I made sure it is deleted, doing "ls" again. It is gone then.
                                  13. I typed "/etc/init.d/S31emulationstation stop", because Substring said so.
                                  14. I typed "reboot"

                                  Outcome: The gamelix.xlm repaired itself. I did neither copy my roms, nor copy the gamelist.xml. I figured it might repair itself, if it´s gone. It worked out fine. I think you can clone your sd-card first if you are not so brave.

                                  Anyhow: Issue solved, maybe it should be pinned unter "Favourite List Disappearing" instead? Because it will work with all roms.

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                                  • paradadf
                                    paradadf Staff @Seramis last edited by

                                    @Seramis i suppose you stoped EmulationStation before deleting the gamelist, but thanks for the step by step guide.

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                                    • Seramis
                                      Seramis @paradadf last edited by

                                      @paradadf I didn't, but it worked anyhow. I messed with the order but the system doesn't seem to care about it.

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                                      • Nachtgarm
                                        Nachtgarm last edited by

                                        The easy way would've been

                                        1. Start your recalbox
                                        2. make sure it's online
                                        3. access the share via your Network Neighboorhood
                                        4. Go into /roms/snes
                                        5. delete the XML file
                                        6. restart the system via ES

                                        🙂

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                                        • zz4032
                                          zz4032 last edited by

                                          Had the same problem and fixed it by deleting gamelist.xml and creating it again.

                                          But one thing I noticed is a warning that comes when restarting ES:

                                          /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation stop

                                          /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation start

                                          lvl0: System "favorites" is missing name, path, extension, or command!

                                          Maybe that might help finding out why it happened.

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