Lost "RetroPie" Menu Icons

hansolo77

Oh noes! I don't know what I did, but whenever I go into each emulator, they all have their proper images/etc. When I first started out, before I added any ROMs, I did have images/icons for each menu item in the "RetroPie" menu. Now they're gone. When I look in my SD card, there is a path to "/home/pie/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons" and there ARE images in there. But they don't show up when I'm in that menu. It might have happened when I was scraping for metadata. Is there any way to fix this and get those back?

hansolo77

Solved it...

I had to go in through the Setup menus, and uninstall the retropiemenu "core". Then reboot, close out of RetroPie manually using F4, then in the setup menus again I re-installed the retropiemenu "core". Another reboot, and it was back.

meleu

@hansolo77 it seems to be a problem with the retropiemenu gamelist.xml.

As you can see here, emulationstation will look for the retropie menu gamelist.xml in the following order, using the first one it finds:

/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/gamelist.xml
/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml
/etc/emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml

If you are sure that the images are in the /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/, the <image> entries of your gamelist.xml have incorrect path.

meleu

@hansolo77 oh! yes, reinstall the retropiemenu package should solve it! :-)

edmaul69

@meleu there is a fourth. Mine is in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml

BuZz

On retropie /home/pi/.emulationstation is a symbolic link to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

hansolo77

All I know is, when I looked at the contents of the gamelist.xml (I think it was the one in "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml") all it has was like a generic place holder FOR a gamelist. Something like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList />

It's all fixed now. :) It has all the stuff that looks like metadata included in it now.

BilboIII

@hansolo77 how?

hansolo77

@BilboIII

Um....

@hansolo77 said in Lost "RetroPie" Menu Icons:

I had to go in through the Setup menus, and uninstall the retropiemenu "core". Then reboot, close out of RetroPie manually using F4, then in the setup menus again I re-installed the retropiemenu "core". Another reboot, and it was back.

BilboIII

@hansolo77 what was the command you used

hansolo77

@BilboIII :) Sorry...

When you have Emulation Station loaded, hit F4 to exit to terminal. Then do this:

cd RetroPie-Setup/
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

That will "change directory" into the RetroPie-Setup subfolder. Then it will "do as a super-user" the script located in that directory called retropie_setup.sh. Hope that helps.

BilboIII

@hansolo77 nope
all I get is "-bash " errors

BilboIII

@BilboIII Nevermind
fixed it you need to do

cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup

thanks man

BilboIII

@BilboIII but the pictures aren't back though

hansolo77

Did you uninstall the RetroPie core, then reboot, then reinstall the core, then reboot?

BilboIII

@hansolo77 yes I did the menu one or is there another one?

hansolo77

It should just be the RetroPie Core that you need to uninstall and reinstall. When you uninstall it, it should remove the "RetroPie" menu item from within Emulation Station after you reboot.

BilboIII

@hansolo77 ok I just did the uninstall retropie

hooperre

Thanks @hansolo77 and everyone for providing this simple fix to a mildly obnoxious problem.

hansolo77

So you got it back to working? That's awesome!