[SOLVED] Can't save favorites games

[mozvillat]

Hi !

If i add a game to the favorites menu (Y), i found the game since reboot.
After reboot, i've always find a game i deleted and don't find the new ones !

How can i solve this issue ?

Regards !

[mitu]

Did you change any of the EmulationStation settings for metadata saving/loading ?
Post your settings (from $HOME/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg) in the topic, surrounded by code blocks (```).

[mozvillat]

@mitu said in Can't save favorites games:

.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bool name="BackgroundIndexing" value="false" />
<bool name="BackgroundJoystickInput" value="false" />
<bool name="CollectionShowSystemInfo" value="true" />
<bool name="DisableKidStartMenu" value="true" />
<bool name="DoublePressRemovesFromFavs" value="false" />
<bool name="DrawFramerate" value="false" />
<bool name="EnableSounds" value="true" />
<bool name="ForceDisableFilters" value="false" />
<bool name="IgnoreLeadingArticles" 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="false" />
<bool name="ScreenSaverVideoMute" value="false" />
<bool name="ShowHelpPrompts" value="true" />
<bool name="ShowHiddenFiles" value="false" />
<bool name="SlideshowScreenSaverCustomMediaSource" value="false" />
<bool name="SlideshowScreenSaverRecurse" value="false" />
<bool name="SlideshowScreenSaverStretch" value="false" />
<bool name="SortAllSystems" value="false" />
<bool name="StretchVideoOnScreenSaver" value="false" />
<bool name="SystemSleepTimeHintDisplayed" value="false" />
<bool name="ThreadedLoading" value="true" />
<bool name="UseCustomCollectionsSystem" value="true" />
<bool name="UseFullscreenPaging" value="false" />
<bool name="VideoAudio" value="true" />
<bool name="VideoOmxPlayer" value="false" />
<int name="MaxVRAM" value="1000" />
<int name="ScraperResizeHeight" value="0" />
<int name="ScraperResizeWidth" value="400" />
<int name="ScreenSaverSwapMediaTimeout" value="10000" />
<int name="ScreenSaverSwapVideoTimeout" value="10000" />
<int name="ScreenSaverTime" value="600000" />
<int name="SystemSleepTime" value="0" />
<string name="AudioCard" value="default" />
<string name="AudioDevice" value="Master" />
<string name="CollectionSystemsAuto" value="favorites,recent" />
<string name="CollectionSystemsCustom" value="" />
<string name="GamelistViewStyle" value="automatic" />
<string name="LeadingArticles" value="a,an,the" />
<string name="OMXAudioDev" value="both" />
<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="start &amp; end" />
<string name="SlideshowScreenSaverBackgroundAudioFile" value="/home/pi/.emulationstation/slideshow/audio/slideshow_bg.wav" />
<string name="SlideshowScreenSaverImageFilter" value=".png,.jpg" />
<string name="SlideshowScreenSaverMediaDir" value="/home/pi/.emulationstation/slideshow/image" />
<string name="SlideshowScreenSaverVideoFilter" value=".mp4,.avi" />
<string name="StartupSystem" value="" />
<string name="ThemeSet" value="showcase" />
<string name="TransitionStyle" value="fade" />
<string name="UIMode" value="Full" />
<string name="UIMode_passkey" value="uuddlrlrba" />
<string name="VlcScreenSaverResolution" value="original" />

[mitu]

Ok, the saving option is fine. Are you sure there's no some permission issue with the gamelist.xml file(s) ? Can you check the gamelist files for the system(s) where the favorite games are and see what permissions are set on the gamelist.xml file(s) ?

The gamelist.xml file(s) are in either the ROM folders for each system or in $HOME/.emulationstations/gamelists.

[mozvillat]

@mitu

There isn't permissions issue (perhaps with the retropie folder, which is chown by root:root)... I can try to chown to pi:pi ??

drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 amstradcpc
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 10 janv.  2022 CPS1
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 10 janv.  2022 CPS2
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 10 janv.  2022 CPS3
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 dreamcast
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 fba
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 fds
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 12 janv.  2022 gameandwatch
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 gamegear
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 gb
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 gba
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 gbc
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 gc
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 mame-libretro
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 mastersystem
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 megadrive
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 n64
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 neogeo
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 nes
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 ngp
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 ngpc
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 pcengine
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 ps2
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 psp
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 pspminis
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 psx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1 févr. 13:37 retropie
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 saturn
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 sega32x
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 segacd
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096  1 févr. 13:38 snes
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 supergrafx
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 tg16
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi   pi   4096 20 déc.   2021 ultrastardx

I tried to set a psx game in favorite.
If i go to $HOME/.emulationstation/gamelists/psx and 'cat' the gamelist.xml's file i've got a lot of thing.
But in my favorites menu, there is just 1 game (ace armstrong in pspminis, but i want to delete it).
If i delete it with the on screen menu, after a reboot, it came back ??!!!
And in gamelist.xml of pspminis's folder, i have red bull X-Fighter !!

Gamelist can be in another place ?

Edit : i try to remove and add another game in favorites, if i use keyboard it's OK.
Tonight, i will try with my gamepad (last tries are with gamepad).
Is it possible a misconfiguration with the gamepas block favorites add ?

[mitu]

@mozvillat said in Can't save favorites games:

If i delete it with the on screen menu, after a reboot, it came back ??!!!

The proper way to 'delete' a game from the favorites is to toggle the Favourite flag with Y - just like you flag it as a Favourite. The Favorites folder is not a system per-se, but a collection with all the games that have the favourite flag toggled.