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    Missing game inside emulation station

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      magostinelli
      last edited by

      @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.

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      • BuZzB
        BuZz administrators @magostinelli
        last edited by

        @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/

        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        • pjftP
          pjft
          last edited by

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

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            magostinelli
            last edited by

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

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            • pjftP
              pjft @magostinelli
              last edited by

              @magostinelli Have you tried renaming it?

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                magostinelli @pjft
                last edited by

                @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.

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                • pjftP
                  pjft
                  last edited by

                  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?

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                    magostinelli
                    last edited by

                    @BuZz said in Missing game inside emulation station:

                    sselph

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

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                    • pjftP
                      pjft @magostinelli
                      last edited by

                      @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.

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                        retrorod
                        last edited by

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

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                          magostinelli
                          last edited by

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

                          There are some other tests I must do?

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                          • pjftP
                            pjft
                            last edited by

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

                            Best.

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                              magostinelli
                              last edited by

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

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                              • pjftP
                                pjft
                                last edited by

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

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                                • HexH
                                  Hex
                                  last edited by

                                  @magostinelli kindly check my comments on github

                                  Sent from 20,000 leagues under the sea.

                                  Powersaver Emulation station : https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
                                  ES dev script : https://github.com/hex007/es-dev/blob/master/es-tests.sh

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