Added ROMs and old ROMS disappeared

Littlezero · 23 Mar 2019, 17:10

Hello everyone,

I am running the Pi 3 with an old xbox 360 controller and now the latest version of RetroPi (v4.4). I was running the older version of RetroPi and normally added games to my Pi through a USB stick. I wanted to add a few more games and decided to use the Network to transfer the files over to make it a few less steps. All of the new games for the Game Boy Advance showed up, but all my old games do not appear. The files are still there and I tried backing them up and then deleting them and transferring them back over the Network. This, and also upgrading to the latest version of RetroPi via a complete format and install did not solve the issue.

I can still only see the new games. My only guess is something happened to the actual files and there might be a permission issue?

Anyway, I hope someone might have an idea of what I can do to get my old files to reappear. Thank you so much.

mitu · 23 Mar 2019, 17:23

@Littlezero If you're fearing a file permission issue, you can always reset the ROM folders' permissions using the RetroPie-Setup menu: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#reset-ownershippermissions-of-homepiretropie-roms.

What extensions are the non-appearing ROMs ? Can you give an example - system and ROM ?

Littlezero · 23 Mar 2019, 17:31

@mitu As far as I can tell, it is only my old Game Boy Advance games. I just double checked the file extension names and noticed the new games all end with .GBA and the old ones that are not appearing end with .srm and .state. Is it possible that I have the saved game files and for some reason the .GBA game file was erased?

Littlezero · 23 Mar 2019, 17:41

@Littlezero -SOLVED-

So what I thought were the Game files ended up being the saved game files. I am not sure what I did but when I transferred the new games over I somehow deleted the old games. If this happens to anyone else, you can get your old saved game data back. I had my save files backed up and just started the game up and allowed the game to remake that file without my saves. I then moved my old save file over, making sure it matched the name and file extension type exactly and it worked.

Thanks and hope this helps.

mitu · 23 Mar 2019, 17:42

@Littlezero .srm and .state files are not ROMs, as you have discovered.