"Could not initialize texture from memory, invalid data" while looking for media. Jrassa build

[dxzdxz1]

I might be in the wrong place, I don't know if I should post this here or on Jrassa's EmulationStation Github issues page, but I will try here first.

First of all, Hi everyone, I'm Deivid. Hope you guys can help me. I will start this thread with my setup and config, and then I will tell the issue.

Setup:

I have a PC and a Local Server.
I'm trying to setting up EmulationStation on my PC.
My roms are on the Server.

Config:

I have my EmulationStation folder at D:\EmulationStation and I keep everything here (except the roms).
My roms are at D:\EmulationStation.emulationstation\roms but the roms folder actually is a symlink to a network folder (that I keep at \ \MICROSERVER\roms)

The issue:

While I can play my games with this config without issues, none of the media is being recognized.
I receive an error saying "Could not initialize texture from memory, invalid data"
But the strange thing is, on the log, I can see that the folder that EmulationStation tries to reach is wrong. It's showing up like this:

Could not initialize texture from memory, invalid data!
(file path: D:/Games/Emulators/EmulationStation/.emulationstation/UNC/MICROSERVER/roms/supergrafx/media/images/1941 - Counter Attack (Japan).png, data ptr: 0, reported size: 0)

Notice the /UNC/MICROSERVER in the middle?

I don't know why this is happening. EmulationStation can find the gamelist.xml on .emulationstation/roms/supergrafx just fine, but while parsing the contents on gamelist.xml, it tries to load the media content from this wrong location.

My setup (with more details):

I keep all the emulators on:

D:\EmulationStation\.emulationstation\systems\

My es_systems.cfg file loads the roms with this line (using retroarch as an example):

<command>.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -f -L .emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\<emulatorlib.dll> "%ROM_RAW%"</command>

The gamelists and media are kept inside on:

D:\EmulationStation\.emulationstation\roms\<system>\gamelist.xml
D:\EmulationStation\.emulationstation\roms\media\<images|mix|videos>\<gamename>

My gamelist.xml loads the roms and media files looking at these paths:

<path>./1941 - Counter Attack (Japan).pce</path>
<image>./media/images/1941 - Counter Attack (Japan).png</image>
<thumbnail>./media/mix/1941 - Counter Attack (Japan).png</thumbnail>
<video>./media/videos/1941 - Counter Attack (Japan).mp4</video>

Again, the rom loads onto the emulator just fine, the description loads too. Is just the media that isn't showing up.

This is clearly a bug. I can 'solve' if I map my Server 'roms' folder to a drive letter on my PC and then change the <path> line on es_systems.cfg, but it would be so much better if I could just keep everything as default. Change paths on es_systems.cfg, gamelist.xml, etc breaks the portability of my EmulationStation setup :(

Is there anything that I can do except mount a drive letter of the the network folder and change all my config files?

Is this the right place to post a bug report or should I go to Jrassa's github?

Thank you in advance :)

[dxzdxz1]

Ok, So I got this figured out.
The thing is, when boost library was removed two years ago, it removed the ability to navigate on UNC folders too.

I thought that this was really strange since EmulationStation can still loads the gamelist.xml on my Server but couldn't load anything else, but, I found a pre 2.7.4 build (that still has boost library) and now everything works :)

Right now I'm running a really old 2.6.4 build. If anyone here has a 2.7.3 build saved, please share with me, I would really appreciate.

Thanks again