Gameslist still showing deleted games

[Steams71]

oops, sorry.
my es_settings.cfg

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bool name="BackgroundJoystickInput" value="false" />
<bool name="CaptionsCompatibility" value="true" />
<bool name="CollectionShowSystemInfo" value="true" />
<bool name="DrawFramerate" value="false" />
<bool name="EnableSounds" value="true" />
<bool name="ForceDisableFilters" value="false" />
<bool name="LocalArt" value="false" />
<bool name="MoveCarousel" value="true" />
<bool name="ParseGamelistOnly" value="false" />
<bool name="QuickSystemSelect" value="true" />
<bool name="ScrapeRatings" value="true" />
<bool name="ScreenSaverControls" value="true" />
<bool name="ScreenSaverOmxPlayer" value="true" />
<bool name="ScreenSaverVideoMute" value="false" />
<bool name="ShowHelpPrompts" value="true" />
<bool name="ShowHiddenFiles" value="false" />
<bool name="SlideshowScreenSaverCustomImageSource" value="false" />
<bool name="SlideshowScreenSaverRecurse" value="false" />
<bool name="SlideshowScreenSaverStretch" value="false" />
<bool name="SortAllSystems" value="false" />
<bool name="StretchVideoOnScreenSaver" value="false" />
<bool name="UseCustomCollectionsSystem" value="false" />
<bool name="VideoAudio" value="true" />
<bool name="VideoOmxPlayer" value="true" />
<int name="MaxVRAM" value="220" />
<int name="ScraperResizeHeight" value="0" />
<int name="ScraperResizeWidth" value="400" />
<int name="ScreenSaverSwapImageTimeout" value="10000" />
<int name="ScreenSaverSwapVideoTimeout" value="30000" />
<int name="ScreenSaverTime" value="300000" />
<int name="SubtitleSize" value="15" />
<string name="AudioCard" value="default" />
<string name="AudioDevice" value="PCM" />
<string name="CollectionSystemsAuto" value="favorites" />
<string name="CollectionSystemsCustom" value="" />
<string name="GamelistViewStyle" value="video" />
<string name="OMXAudioDev" value="alsa:hw:1,0" />
<string name="PowerSaverMode" value="disabled" />
<string name="SaveGamelistsMode" value="on exit" />
<string name="Scraper" value="ScreenScraper" />
<string name="ScreenSaverBehavior" value="random video" />
<string name="ScreenSaverGameInfo" value="never" />
<string name="SlideshowScreenSaverBackgroundAudioFile" value="/home/pi/.emulationstation/slideshow/audio/slideshow_bg.wav" />
<string name="SlideshowScreenSaverImageDir" value="/home/pi/.emulationstation/slideshow/image" />
<string name="SlideshowScreenSaverImageFilter" value=".png,.jpg" />
<string name="StartupSystem" value="" />
<string name="SubtitleAlignment" value="center" />
<string name="SubtitleFont" value="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf" />
<string name="SubtitleItalicFont" value="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansOblique.ttf" />
<string name="ThemeSet" value="CarboZoid43" />
<string name="TransitionStyle" value="instant" />
<string name="UIMode" value="Full" />
<string name="UIMode_passkey" value="uuddlrlrba" />

[mitu]

Stop EmulationStation, then remove/rename the customized es_systems.cfg from the folder and then restart EmulationStation - see if anything changes.

[Steams71]

removed the file as requested and restarted ES. No change, still showing deleted files and not creating new lists...

[mitu]

@Steams71 Then maybe it's a permission issue - are your gamelist.xml files writeable by the pi user ?

[Steams71]

Checked permissions on them all, pi user has full access to read and write..

edit, I have also reset permissions via the resetromsdirs tool in setup..

[mitu]

Then I'm out of ideas.

[Steams71]

sadly, me too :( never had anything like this before.. Really annoying because, apart from that I love the the new pi 4 retropie. I'll keep plugging awaym, see if I can fix it, but it's looking like I might have to start over again..

[BuZz]

@Steams71 I'm not sure I see the problem. If you have a gamelist XML with some entries. And you add more files. They are not supposed to get added automatically to the gamelist unless you scrape them or add meta data for them manually.

So they will only show up with parse gamelists only off until you do that. That setting should be off unless you have everything you want scraped and need to speed up startup.

[nightbirdmedia]

I'm having an issue on mi pi 4 ver 4.6 when it comes to deleting games too.

I notice that when I deleted games from emulation station in my dreamcast and playstation systems it appeared to remove the game but when I connect my pi to a network the games are still there for some reason.

[BuZz]

@nightbirdmedia Please start a new topic and provide details of set up.

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first