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    PSX Gamelist issue- Really Appreciate the help here!!

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      Pie Guy
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      Hello gang!!

      I was hoping that I could get some guidence here... I have searched and read just about every link to this problem online that there is and I still cant solve my problem.. But I have done my homework before posting this.

      I installed a new PSX game last night and after doing so... I noticed that my PSX game previews did not work anymore...

      All I had left was a list of games but no box art or descriptions...

      I went into the PSX rom file after reading other similar situations and decided to delete the game... but in doing so i accidentally deleted the gamelist.xml file...

      So, after more reading... I decided to rescrape using Steve and I now have box art and descriptions but no video preview... all my other consoles still have video..

      After rescrapping there still isn't a gamelist.xml file in my psx folder....

      Side note, i deleted my N64 gamelist file too... whoops... learning here
      Any ideas??

      Also, my sd card is 100% full with only 1.6 gb left of space

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        mitu Global Moderator
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        Please add some info about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

        If your disk is at 100%, then clear up some space first before attempting to re-scrape your games. I assume you're using Steven Selph's scraper to add artwork to your game (which you called Steve). Where are you looking for the gamelist.xml files ? Are you running the scraper from the command line or from the RetroPie-Setup's interface ?

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          Pie Guy
          last edited by

          Steven Selph's scraper- Yes

          gameslist.xml located in File Manager- Retropie- roms-psx "I deleted the file from here" and rescrapping does not repopulate them

          I ran scrapper from setups interface

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            Pie Guy
            last edited by

            I'm trying to loacte all the system info that you are asking for ...

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @Pie Guy
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              @Pie-Guy By default, the scraper will create a gamelist.xml in the Emulationstation config folder (~/.emulationstation/gamelists/psx), but if you're at 100% disk capacity, it might not be able to write it.

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                Pie Guy
                last edited by

                That makes the most sense... TY for that.. in trying to figure out all of this i did a package update last night and now I have to enter ssh log in credentials everytime I start the game sysytem...

                It used to just load when powered on and take me to the console menu.. any thoughts??

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator @Pie Guy
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                  @Pie-Guy Let me guess, you followed some advice to install the lightdm package to solve the auto-login problem ?

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                    Pie Guy
                    last edited by

                    No, maybe?? i just serched around online... lol

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                      Pie Guy
                      last edited by

                      I just selected update current packages vs install... it looks like I just did a standard update... its not that big of a deal... just a difference that I noticed

                      Before I start deleting games... is there some game systems that have notably bigger files than others? I can start with those...

                      Anyways, I really appreciate the help here... means alot

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @Pie Guy
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                        @Pie-Guy said in PSX Gamelist issue- Really Appreciate the help here!!:

                        Before I start deleting games... is there some game systems that have notably bigger files than others? I can start with those...

                        The CD based games ? PS1/Sega CD/PCEngine CD. Copy/backup them to your PC.

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                          Pie Guy
                          last edited by Pie Guy

                          So, I freed up 5g worth of space... tried to rescrape and it did not add a gameslist.xml file back in the rom folder

                          retropie/rom/psx it is still deleted... I have now deleted 8 games to the one psx game that i installed so that there is way less space then prior to install of the new psx game..

                          Do I need more than 5g of free space?

                          Or do I need to manually enter a gameslist.xml file back into that folder?

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                            Pie Guy
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                            non of the psx games will play either

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