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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

        Former dev - Please reply with @substring so that i am notified when you answer me
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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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