es_systems.cfg empty!

meleu · 5 Sept 2016, 19:24

@medicalengineer yeah! It can be installed but you lost the es_systems somehow. If you reinstall you'll get this file again (I hope).

medicalengineer · 6 Sept 2016, 06:04

@meleu I tried to install it again. No success :( In the process of installing Emulationstation it does not mention something about es_systems.cfg.

edmaul69 · 6 Sept 2016, 06:09

@medicalengineer do you have a file named es_systems.cfg.bak in /etc/emulationstation/ ? If so delete es_systems.cfg and rename the other one. (Remove the .bak)otherwise i believe you need to delete es_systems.cfg file then reinstall emulationstation.

medicalengineer · 6 Sept 2016, 09:29

@edmaul69 the es_systems.cfg is completly gone. Cannot find it on the Pi...

medicalengineer · 9 Jun 2016, 12:19

I've located the es_systems config file, but it is empty, so i have to write it manually.
I'm home safe for now. Everything seems to work. But now it's time to get Kodi working with my RetroPie.
Any useful exp?

3lric · 6 Sept 2016, 11:21

/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

How were you able to find it to see it was empty, but not the location?

Anyway, the location above is where it belongs.

medicalengineer · 6 Sept 2016, 11:34

@3lric After hours of searching i found it by at: /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
I opened it just to find instructions how to write the systems manually.

BuZz · 9 Jun 2016, 13:56

that file will override the /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg - if you have a full config file in /etc/emulationstation and you don't want to manually "manage" it yourself - remove the one in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

medicalengineer · 6 Sept 2016, 17:14

@BuZz uhm. I could have another look at it, but I didn't see any es_systems file in that directory. It is up and running with the es_systems i manually typed in some systems, and then updated trough RetroPie-Setup menu.

BuZz · 9 Jun 2016, 18:25

it should be unless it was removed/deleted. If you update all installed packages from the retropie-setup menu it will be recreated with the correct systems. You don't need to keep another copy unless you want to manually manage it.

DrMaxwell · 6 Sept 2016, 18:00

Or someone could just upload the file for you to mv into the directory and solve your problem.

BuZz · 6 Sept 2016, 18:35

@DrMaxwell The file is dynamic - differs depending on what a user has installed.

DrMaxwell · 6 Sept 2016, 19:10

@BuZz said in es_systems.cfg empty!:

@DrMaxwell The file is dynamic - differs depending on what a user has installed.

es_systems.cfg is dynamically generated now? So, if I install say lr-mess, then every machine supported by the mess core will be generated in the es_systems.cfg as a system?

edmaul69 · 6 Sept 2016, 21:05

@BuZz this reminds me, somehow my roms changed to root and not home. I had to give user pi permissions to /home/pi/ to be able to move back to that but the es_systems.cfg in /etc/ keeps setting the roms in root. Not a big deal because i manually manage my systems in opt but would like to fix it if possible.

BuZz · 7 Sept 2016, 11:09

@DrMaxwell No. I didn't say that. But if you have only 2 emulators installed, only the relevent systems will be set in that file.

BuZz · 7 Sept 2016, 11:10

@edmaul69 Not sure what you mean - start a new topic perhaps ?

DrMaxwell · 7 Sept 2016, 23:18

@BuZz I guess I hadn't noticed; I spend too much time editing the es_systems.cfg to know what was originally there, but it's good to know, thanks.