Can someone tell me whats possibly wrong with this gamelist.xml?

rapidfire

at the bottom of this post is a snippet from a gamelist.xml for the zxspectrum.
it contains many entries and all are setup the same.

problem is the description gets displayed, but no image does despite it having the correct name and being present in the correct folder.

all other gamelists are fine.

is the gamelist malformed? should there be "" around the jpg name or something?
whats wrong with it and why wouldnt any themes be displaying the image?

<gameList>
<game id="44482" source="ScreenScraper">
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/zxspectrum/007 - Licence to Kill (1989)(Domark)[128K].z80</path>
<name>007: Licence to Kill</name>
<desc>A "James Bond" action/arcade game based on the movie with the same name. Your aim is to avenge the death of Felix Leiter, who was killed by the drug baron Sanchez.

Technically the game consists of several different vertical scrolling action sequences. In each stage you must fly, drive or walk through a preset terrain. While doing that, you have to shoot enemies, avoid their shots and collect items (mainly ammunition). Some levels rely more on shooting, while others test your reflexes.
</desc>
<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/zxspectrum/007 - Licence to Kill (1989)(Domark)[128K]-image.jpg</image>
<marquee/>
<video/>
<thumbnail/>
<rating>0.5</rating>
<releasedate>19890000T000000</releasedate>
<developer>Quixel</developer>
<publisher>Domark Software, Inc.</publisher>
<genre>Race, Driving</genre>
<players>1</players>
</game>

mediamogul

Try changing:

<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/zxspectrum/007 - Licence to Kill (1989)(Domark)[128K]-image.jpg</image>

to

<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/zxspectrum/007\ -\ Licence\ to\ Kill\ \(1989\)\(Domark\)\[128K\]-image.jpg</image>

Edit: The code block isn't displaying the path I'm typing correctly, but there should also be backslashes in the square brackets the same as the regular ones. Better yet, just rename the image to something simpler like license-to-kill.jpg and change the path accordingly.

rapidfire

@mediamogul said in Can someone tell me whats possibly wrong with this gamelist.xml?:

Try changing:
<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/zxspectrum/007 - Licence to Kill (1989)(Domark)[128K]-image.jpg</image>
to
<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/zxspectrum/007\ -\ Licence\ to\ Kill\ \(1989\)\(Domark\)\[128K\]-image.jpg</image>
Edit: The code block isn't displaying the path I'm typing correctly, but there should also be backslashes in the square brackets the same as the regular ones. Better yet, just rename the image to something simpler like license-to-kill.jpg and change the path accordingly.

unfortunately that didnt work

is the following line necessary in gamelist.xml?

<?xml version="1.0"?>

because its missing on the zxspectrum gamelist.xml

mediamogul

@rapidfire

is the following line necessary in gamelist.xml?

It is indeed.

chipsnblip

try this:

https://pastebin.com/ckAmehAJ

screech

@rapidfire said in Can someone tell me whats possibly wrong with this gamelist.xml?:

<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/zxspectrum/007 - Licence to Kill (1989)(Domark)[128K].z80</path>

If you can launch the game (with this path) normally, the picture will work without "\"

Weird that <?xml version="1.0"?> is missing....

can you save your gamelist (like renamming it with a .sav for exemple) and try to rescrape ?

What I think happen : You have an empty gamelist.xml File in this folder, and you "update" it... so UXS haven't "recreate" a new file with the <?xml version="1.0"?> header.

It may be false ^^ it's just what I think... Keep me in touch ;)

Edit : Oh and can you check the extension... no reason that Happend but maybe you have a PNG in your image folder and the path says it's JPG....

estefan3112

@rapidfire said in Can someone tell me whats possibly wrong with this gamelist.xml?:

<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/zxspectrum/007 - Licence to Kill (1989)(Domark)[128K]-image.jpg</image>

I have a similar issue with one single image in a gamelist and terminal tells me that it has some problems (probably it is too big) -> just replace the img path with a working path of another image and you know that something is wrong . Might be that the image exceeds the maximum width, for example. Good luck!

rapidfire

it seems the problem was created because there were 2 gamelist.xml files.

one in the normal gamelist folders, and one was in the rom folder. no idea how one was created in the rom folder. deleted it and stuff seems out now after rescraping using the emulationstation built in scraper.