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    • alphatoanantA
      alphatoanant
      last edited by

      @mattrixk, was wondering if I could ask for your help on getting this up and running. I figure I am missing something silly on my end but am stumped on what to try next =)

      Essentially when I try to run any of the .bat files I get the following error:
      "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application"

      My current setup...

      • Win10 Pro Version 1607
      • Emulationstation folder setup at the root of my c drive (C:\Emulationstation)
      • contents of https://github.com/mattrixk/es-toolkit/releases/download/v1.1/ES_Toolkit_v1.1.7z copied directly into the above folder
      • installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable from the URL supplied in the above zip (x86 and 64bit versions)
      • made sure I have what I believe the expected DLLs in place

      I figured it would be helpful to show you what I have done so I recorded the following video:

      Hoping you have run into something similar and can nudge me in the right direction. No worries if not. Thank you for simply just putting this toolkit together. My best.

      My RetroPie Themes:
      Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
      Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
      TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @alphatoanant
        last edited by herb_fargus

        @alphatoanant wish everyone provided such useful videos for debugging. from Google (and personal experience) 0xc000007b error usually comes from mixing up 32bit environment with 64bit one.

        My guess is it may be from the dlls. Might be 32 bit and need to be 64 bit or vice versa, im pretty sure that the emulationstation I included was the 64 bit version, but now that I think of it, I included the build from jdrassa and it's possible he compiled it for 32 bit

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        • mattrixkM
          mattrixk @alphatoanant
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          @alphatoanant I'm glad @herb_fargus was able to give you an answer of sorts, because I don't know anything about it. Sorry. I'm guessing it's probably something to do with you running windows on a virtual machine, which is why it was asking for those dll files, but as I said, that's just a guess.

          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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          • alphatoanantA
            alphatoanant
            last edited by

            Thank you @herb_fargus; good find. I'll start digging on the 32bit/64bit mixup possibility and post back what I find.

            My RetroPie Themes:
            Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
            Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
            TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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            • alphatoanantA
              alphatoanant @mattrixk
              last edited by

              @mattrixk figured that might be possible as well (using a VM). I may have a access to dedicated box I could try this out on. Going to take a shot at that as well. Thank you!

              My RetroPie Themes:
              Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
              Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
              TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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              • mattrixkM
                mattrixk @alphatoanant
                last edited by

                @alphatoanant You're welcome and good luck.

                My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                • alphatoanantA
                  alphatoanant @herb_fargus
                  last edited by

                  @herb_fargus you were spot on! I was using the 64bit versions of vcruntime140 and msvcp140 dlls. I sourced 32bit versions of them and am able to boot now.
                  Thank you!

                  My RetroPie Themes:
                  Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                  Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                  TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                  • herb_fargusH
                    herb_fargus administrators @alphatoanant
                    last edited by

                    @alphatoanant I'll perhaps have a chat with @jdrassa on his windows builds. I don't know if there is any benefit to 64 bit in this case but it's at least good to know what we include.

                    Glad you got it sorted.

                    If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                    Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                      jdrassa @herb_fargus
                      last edited by

                      @herb_fargus I could look into updating the build script to build for 64 bit if there is demand.

                      Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                      • herb_fargusH
                        herb_fargus administrators @jdrassa
                        last edited by

                        @jdrassa I personally have no preference on the matter. Would there be any benefit to 64 bit? Or would it just confuse things more because of the diff dlls?

                        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                          jdrassa @herb_fargus
                          last edited by

                          @herb_fargus I doubt there would be much benefit, but I may look into it at some point.

                          Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                          • alphatoanantA
                            alphatoanant @jdrassa
                            last edited by

                            @jdrassa and @herb_fargus once I sorted out the dlls the 32bit version works well. So maybe sticking with that could be ok as long as we have the info here about making sure a user has 32bit versions of the dlls available. If that works I can record a quick step by step and post it into this thread if the question comes up again no problem.

                            Or is it possible to include the 32bit vcruntime140 and msvcp140 dlls in the zipped bundle? Not sure if there are legal issues with doing so; if not that could help too.

                            My RetroPie Themes:
                            Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                            Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                            TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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