Tutorial: Handheld and Plug & Play systems with MAME

Folly

When downloading the gamelists I noticed 2 error messages.

INFO: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/all_in1/media/emulationstation/arcade10.png [Exists]
<stdin>:238: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).
<stdin>:239: DeprecationWarning: Parsing dates involving a day of month without a year specified is ambiguious
and fails to parse leap day. The default behavior will change in Python 3.15
to either always raise an exception or to use a different default year (TBD).
To avoid trouble, add a specific year to the input & format.
See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/70647.

INFO: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/all_in1/media/emulationstation/techni4.png [Exists]
<stdin>:233: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).

Can you have a look at those 2 files ?
Perhaps you can just open them and save them again to get good datetime tags in the file.

DTEAM

@Folly

Can you please try again. I replaced both files and the gamelist.

Folly

@DTEAM

For both files it seems to be fixed, however I now get the error on arcade10.mp4.
Might be that that one also has bad datetime tags.

DTEAM

@Folly

I deleted all the files and uploaded them again. Can you try it again please.

Folly

@DTEAM

I tried again (updating all) and still have this one error message :

INFO: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/all_in1/media/emulationstation/arcade10.mp4 [Exists]
<stdin>:238: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).
<stdin>:239: DeprecationWarning: Parsing dates involving a day of month without a year specified is ambiguious
and fails to parse leap day. The default behavior will change in Python 3.15
to either always raise an exception or to use a different default year (TBD).
To avoid trouble, add a specific year to the input & format.
See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/70647.
INFO: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/all_in1/media/emulationstation/arcade10.png [Exists]
```.

DTEAM

@Folly

It's a problem with Google Drive when you do the download and not the file itself. I'll try delete it again and copy it again. Do you remember the bug with Google Drive, To replace a file, we must delete it and upload it and not just overwrite it. Probably it's something like that. It's not the first time you have problems with the date time

Folly

@DTEAM

Yes I remember.
Though it seems you fixed it for the other files, makes me wonder ...

I looked at the date and time of the file and noticed when I copy the file to somewhere else something changes in the date and time,
You might want to try and copy the file to another location and then add that file to the gdrive, for instance.

I will try tomorrow evening again, perhaps that will also make a difference, I remember that we have had some issues with that also before.

DTEAM

@Folly
You can test it again. For some reason, that file was not replaced

Folly

@DTEAM

I checked and the error now goes up to the file ablpinb.png, very strange.
arcade10.mp4 seems to be ok now.

Might be that all files above arcade10.mp4 need to be addressed to get rid of the error message.

I read that if you use the touch command, on the file, that it will update the date and time.
I used this command for updating all files ;

for f in *;do touch $f;done

I placed a compressed file here (will delete it later again):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1s3Yw1tR-vcIsHJDy882MAVUX9Ny_d229?usp=sharing

Can you update the all_in1 folder with my patched files ?

DTEAM

@Folly

Done with your update, you can try it again

Folly

@DTEAM

I updated the 7z file again as I did not touch the gamelist.xml and the folders.
I had the error message at the beginning and the end.
Can you do it ones again ?
Hope it will work otherwise I do not know what to do next.

I will check it tomorrow again.

DTEAM

@Folly
I re-uploaded it

Folly

@DTEAM

The error at the end is gone.
The errors at the beginning are sadly still there.
I think we should leave it to rest for a while.
When the time comes we can have a second look.