Emulation Station will not boot after update

ExiledSenpai

@mitu I don't know how to get to the command prompt. It looks like I'm in command prompt right now, but it won't let me type anything in.

mitu

@ExiledSenpai Press Enter or Ctrl+C and see if you get a command prompt; otherwise, enable SSH and login via Putty.

ExiledSenpai

@mitu This is a fresh install via PINN (not an img flashed on) a raspberry pi 3 b+ if that helps. I don't know how to enable SSH because I can't boot emulation station. Though, it SHOULD be noted that I can transfer roms from my windows machines via \retropie

Is there anyway for me to get to the command prompt via some sort of recovery mode boot?

Ctrl+C didn't work by the way.

mitu

@ExiledSenpai A fresh 4.4 image install would not have this error, it would only occur if you updated in the last 12-18 hours. There are instructions on how to enable SSH on the page I mentioned. You don't have a /boot partition ?

ExiledSenpai

I did not flash on an image, I installed it via Pinn. I did update it in the past 12-18 hours. The boot partition that shows when I insert the SD card in to my windows machine is the PINN data I put on it.

mitu

I don't know how PINN works. Try this

download the latest binary package from https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/stretch/rpi3/supplementary/emulationstation.tar.gz.
extract the resources folder from the archive
copy the folder to \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation and see if the boot works.

ExiledSenpai

PINN is an enhanced version of NOOBS with more OS options. Thanks. Ill give this a try and report back.

ExiledSenpai

Now, in addition to the previously mentioned error, I have this error:

lvl0: Error parsing XML file "/home/pi/ .emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml:"!

No document element found

mitu

@ExiledSenpai Then I'm out of ideas - you could mount the RetroPie installation partition from another OS booted from PINN and enable SSH or unpack the archive in /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation.

ExiledSenpai

@mitu Is there a way I can look at the retropie partition on the SD card directly on a windows machine with some sort of software maybe?

mitu

@ExiledSenpai Probably yes, but I'm not sure if there's a free(ware) version of such software that will allow you to write on it. But if you have PINN, doesn't this mean you also have another OS installed for multi-boot (Raspbian or other distro) ?

ExiledSenpai

I has installed multiple OS's initially, but then realized they partitioned out equal amounts of my SD card equally. So I reformatted my SD card and did again. Why do it with PINN if I'm only installing 1 OS? I wasn't sure if I was going to install 1 or 2 OS going in.