Missing game inside emulation station

[magostinelli]

Hello, I have last version of retropie (updated from retroie setup).

I want to play a nes game: North & South, but there isn't inside the emaulation station menu.

Inside gamelist.xml (nes) I have:
<game id="1979" source="theGamesDB.net">
<path>./North & South.zip</path>
<name>North and South</name>
<desc>Chaaarge!!! The bugle is calling you to the battle field, and your troops are awaiting your orders. Demonstrate your brilliant strategy skills: move entire armies, surround the enemy, attack forts, intercept gold laden trains, and thus re-write the history of the American Civil War!</desc>
<image>~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/nes/North & South-image.jpg</image>
<rating>0.6</rating>
<releasedate>19900921T000000</releasedate>
<developer>Seika</developer>
<publisher>Kemco</publisher>
<genre>Strategy</genre>
<players>2</players>
</game>

I also have the rom file:
pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/nes $ ll North*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 109K Dec 24 2016 North & South.zip

Maybe the problem was the "&" in the file name?

[TMNTturtlguy]

@magostinelli the path in your gamelist does not match the redicolouse and long rom name. The path needs to match the rom name exactly.

[magostinelli]

The path name is right, it's genereted by the scraper (sselph), the same that has added all other roms.

With vi editor I see:
<path>./North & amp; South.zip</path>
(I added a space because the forum convert the & amp; in &)

[TMNTturtlguy]

@magostinelli said in Missing game inside emulation station:

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/nes $ ll North*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 109K Dec 24 2016 North & South.zip

According to your post your rom name is pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/nes $ ll North*-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 109K Dec 24 2016 North & South.zip

So the rom name does not match the gamelist path. Did you enter the rom name incorrectly in your post?

[edmaul69]

@magostinelli , @TMNTturtlguy is correct. You need to rename your rom to North & South.zip or change the gamelist to match the ridiculous stupid long name you have your rom named for whatever reason.

[dudleydes]

He he. The "ridiculous rom name" is the output from the ll command. I'm not familiar with the command. I assume it's a variation of ls -l.

With markdown, it should read

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms/nes $ ll North*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 109K Dec 24 2016 North & South.zip

@magostinelli It doesn't matter if you have & or & in your gamelists. I have both and the roms appear fine either way. The other suggestion I would make is to check that Parse Gamelists Only setting in ES is set to Off but that shouldn’t matter as you have an entry in your gamelist. It's worth a try. You will need to restart ES for the setting to take effect.

[magostinelli]

@dudleydes I confirm that ll is and alias of ls -l.

@TMNTturtlguy, @edmaul69 the file name is: North & South.zip

I will try with Parse Gamelists Only, just for a test.

[BuZz]

@magostinelli said in Missing game inside emulation station:

The path name is right, it's genereted by the scraper (sselph), the same that has added all other roms.

With vi editor I see:
<path>./North & amp; South.zip</path>
(I added a space because the forum convert the & amp; in &)

You should use a code block - http://commonmark.org/help/

[pjft]

I wouldn't be shocked if it's indeed the "&" in the name. Have you tried renaming the file and retesting?

[magostinelli]

There is nobody that has this rom and can do a test? I'm the only one with this problem?

[pjft]

@magostinelli Have you tried renaming it?

[magostinelli]

@pjft No, I'm out from my house, I will try this evening. With rename, i must change the gamelist.xml file manually, because I think that the scraper doesn't detect the rom if the file name is different.

[pjft]

If it's not in the gamelist, it will show up in ES, but without metadata.

Did you scrape it in the command line or in ES?

[magostinelli]

@BuZz said in Missing game inside emulation station:

sselph

I use sselph scraper, this evening I will do the test.

[pjft]

@magostinelli ES also uses sselph's scraper, hence the question.

If you don't want to manually edit the gamelist to see if there's anytihng there that might be causing problems to ES, my best bet would be renaming it, seeing if it shows up in ES, and then go from there.

[retrorod]

Hi , has the rom inside the zip file got the same name 'North & South'

[magostinelli]

Renamed the file and now it's working!
So the bug was the "&" in the name.

There are some other tests I must do?

[pjft]

Not really. Just avoid names with a "&" then. It's a tricky character.

Best.

[magostinelli]

I think it's a retropie/emulationstation bug, I want to report it to the developer. How it's possible?

[pjft]

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/issues