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Gamemaker installation problem

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    pyterj
    last edited by 13 Aug 2018, 09:54

    Hi everyone i have follow the instruction of the official github page https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/GameMaker-Games and i can run the script , but when im going to install it , it appears this message
    tar (child): MalditaCastilla.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    and i dont know how to fix it, please help

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      mitu Global Moderator
      last edited by 13 Aug 2018, 10:42

      It looks like the site which hosts the games downloaded by the GameMaker games has changed and the installation fails because of the missing files. It looks like the hosting site has some sort of browser check and doesn't allow the automatic download attempted by the script.
      We'll see how we can fix that.

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        herb_fargus administrators @mitu
        last edited by herb_fargus 13 Aug 2018, 13:43

        @mitu

        It looks like the hosting site has some sort of browser check and doesn't allow the automatic download attempted by the script

        Sounds about right. When Id asked them originally about it they wanted people to get it from their site so we never included it in the setup script. Which in my mind doesn't make sense since the only people who would play these games come from our community but I digress.

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          mitu Global Moderator @herb_fargus
          last edited by mitu 13 Aug 2018, 13:47

          @herb_fargus I see. I was going to modify the Wiki script to send a browser User-Agent with the wget download command, but in this case I better not.

          @pyterj Unfortunately it seems the download site doesn't allow direct download of the games, so you'll have to find a way to install them yourself. Sorry about that - as @herb_fargus said, there is a reason this script is not included in RetroPie proper and we can't get around that.

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