Artwork/Icons for Ports Not Saving

mediamogul

As a troubleshooting measure, try altering the information of an item outside of the Ports menu and then restart ES to see if it's applied.

Muddyhardcore

@mediamogul
Ok I was able to change the artwork and description for the one Game Boy Color Rom I have and it was still applied after restarting emulationstation station

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

Very bizarre. When I get a chance, I'll try to alter an item in the Ports menu of my setup.

Muddyhardcore

@mediamogul
I did try using that Universal XML scraper a while ago to do this. Could that have created a file that can't be overwritten?

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

I'm not familiar with that scraper, but it's a consideration if nothing else pans out.

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

Alright, mine is saving as it should. Let's try removing your current gamelist.xml from the equation first. While in Emulation Station, drop to the command line by pressing 'f4' on your keyboard. From there type:

cp /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml.bak

Press 'enter', then type:

emulationstation

Press 'enter' and once Emulation Station fully launches, try applying information to one of the items in the Ports menu and restart ES to see if it then persists.

Muddyhardcore

@mediamogul

No unfortunately that didn't work. I tried it twice incase I made a typo.

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

Looking at the log might help. To do that you'll need to familiarize yourself with SMB or SFTP so that you can copy the log contents of /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_log.txt and post it here.

Muddyhardcore

@mediamogul
Can I do that using WinScp?

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

Yessir.

Muddyhardcore

Says I don't have enough privileges to attach the file

Muddyhardcore

es_log.txt

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

We might be getting somewhere. Now post the contents of /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml. You can also use pastebin if it's easier.

Muddyhardcore

@mediamogul
It's blank

Muddyhardcore

From /home/pi when I open the .emulationstation folder I'm then brought to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

From there /gamelists/ports gameslist.xml and gamelist.xml.bak are both blank

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

To quote the big book of mechanic clichés, there's your problem. Exit out of Emulation Station completely and then copy the following into your /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml.

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

You can also delete /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/gamelists/ports/gamelist.xml.bak. When you restart ES, you should be good to start adding info. I don't know why it wouldn't have added that information when it created a new file.

Muddyhardcore

@mediamogul

It worked!! Thank you so much! Now I just need to remove kodi as it's own system and my setup is complete

mediamogul

@Muddyhardcore

Nice!