ES not loading gamelist.xml

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ES not loading gamelist.xml

nerdwad opened this issue 12 years ago · 9 comments

Hello - Apologies if this has already been fixed, but I couldn't find anything searching.

I've been making custom changes to my gamelist.xml to clean up title names, etc and all has been going well so far. However I powered on my Pi earlier and launched ES to see a version that I had modified earlier today. My new changes aren't being picked up. ES sees the gamelist.xml file because when I remove it from the directory I get the standard out-of-the-box list. Any ideas why this would happen?

Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2013-05-31T07:52:19.000Z

Try to do it again. If it doesn't work your SD card might be broken... I had that problem recently.
There's for example http://www.heise.de/download/h2testw.html which can test if your card works ok. This mostly seems to happen with class 6/10 cards and overclocking.

Answer 2 · 2013-05-31T09:42:03.000Z

Hmm.. ok I'll check it out. Thanks!

Answer 3 · 2013-06-02T05:59:31.000Z

I think something got corrupted at some point, I re-imaged my SD card and everything is cool now. I'd say it is safe to close this issue.

Thanks!

Answer 4 · 2013-06-03T15:47:58.000Z

Hi, I was having this same problem, too. I was editing my gamelist.xml file by FTP'ing it over to my PC laptop and working in Dreamweaver...BAD IDEA!

I started opening the XML directly from file manager inside X. Edited with Leafpad and never experienced the issue again. I think its safe to say a corruption occurs when saving in a PC environment and sending back to a Linux one.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5 · 2013-06-03T16:00:11.000Z

This might be an issue with line endings... If you encounter this when copying config files from Windows->Linux first change the line endings to Unix in an editor (Leafpad/Notepad++/PSPad). This should probably be fixed in code too though...

Answer 6 · 2013-06-03T16:02:50.000Z

Hmm.. I've been doing all my editing in Notepad++ on a Windows box (FTP off and back on) and this seems to work fine.

Answer 7 · 2013-06-03T16:06:31.000Z

If it is a problem with line endings, I think the problem would lie within PugiXML - but it looks like the XML specification doesn't care about line ending style.

Answer 8 · 2013-06-03T16:12:14.000Z

I think something got corrupted at some point, I re-imaged my SD card and everything is cool now. I'd say it is safe to close this issue.

Did you use the same config files again after reinstalling? Are they working now? Then it might have been a SD card corruption issue.
I had this a while back where I could edit /boot/config.txt, but changes weren't saved. Shortly after that my SD card broke conpletely... :/

Answer 9 · 2013-06-03T16:18:01.000Z

Yes I did use the same and yes they are working fine now, thinking I had the same problem here.