es_systems.cfg empty!

medicalengineer

@edmaul69 the es_systems.cfg is completly gone. Cannot find it on the Pi...

medicalengineer

I've located the es_systems config file, but it is empty, so i have to write it manually.
I'm home safe for now. Everything seems to work. But now it's time to get Kodi working with my RetroPie.
Any useful exp?

3lric

/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

How were you able to find it to see it was empty, but not the location?

Anyway, the location above is where it belongs.

medicalengineer

@3lric After hours of searching i found it by at: /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
I opened it just to find instructions how to write the systems manually.

BuZz

that file will override the /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg - if you have a full config file in /etc/emulationstation and you don't want to manually "manage" it yourself - remove the one in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

medicalengineer

@BuZz uhm. I could have another look at it, but I didn't see any es_systems file in that directory. It is up and running with the es_systems i manually typed in some systems, and then updated trough RetroPie-Setup menu.

BuZz

it should be unless it was removed/deleted. If you update all installed packages from the retropie-setup menu it will be recreated with the correct systems. You don't need to keep another copy unless you want to manually manage it.

DrMaxwell

Or someone could just upload the file for you to mv into the directory and solve your problem.

BuZz

@DrMaxwell The file is dynamic - differs depending on what a user has installed.

DrMaxwell

@BuZz said in es_systems.cfg empty!:

@DrMaxwell The file is dynamic - differs depending on what a user has installed.

es_systems.cfg is dynamically generated now? So, if I install say lr-mess, then every machine supported by the mess core will be generated in the es_systems.cfg as a system?

edmaul69

@BuZz this reminds me, somehow my roms changed to root and not home. I had to give user pi permissions to /home/pi/ to be able to move back to that but the es_systems.cfg in /etc/ keeps setting the roms in root. Not a big deal because i manually manage my systems in opt but would like to fix it if possible.

BuZz

@DrMaxwell No. I didn't say that. But if you have only 2 emulators installed, only the relevent systems will be set in that file.

BuZz

@edmaul69 Not sure what you mean - start a new topic perhaps ?

DrMaxwell

@BuZz I guess I hadn't noticed; I spend too much time editing the es_systems.cfg to know what was originally there, but it's good to know, thanks.