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MisterTea / EmulationStation

A flexible emulator front-end supporting keyboardless navigation and custom system themes.
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ES attempts to find the system 'nes' even if the systems config file is empty #1

Closed shagia closed 8 years ago

shagia commented 8 years ago

Not sure if this is a user issue or just a issue with the software, but it seems that ES keeps trying to find a directory pointing to "~/roms/nes" instead of any other directory listed. Assuming it's coming from the es_systems.cfg file, I've tried editing the file and I've actually found nothing pointing at that directory. Even removing the 'nes' system tag from the cfg file brings up the same error, so I'm a bit confused.

I've done a couple of clean installs only to get the same error even when following the instructions, thinking I might have been misreading something, but even then, same issue.

Debug terminal

MisterTea commented 8 years ago

Can you post a copy of your .emulationstation/es_systems.cfg file?

shagia commented 8 years ago

Yes, I can!

I've tried pushing it to different directories, also got kinda confused on what's the correct 'slash' to be using which is why I started wondering if it's just my illiteracy possibly causing this, but even with the default es_systems.cfg file that comes with 2.0.2, I continue to get the same error. It doesn't even seem to look in the other 'system' paths assigned.

MisterTea commented 8 years ago

You must have another es_systems.cfg file somewhere on your hard drive. Are you using the bat file to run ESMAME? The bat file sets your home directory correctly so that it will find the .emulationstation folder inside ESMAME and not create a new one in your personal home directory.

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Yes, I can! https://0x0.st/XJG.cfg

I've tried pushing it to different directories, also got kinda confused on what's the correct 'slash' to be using which is why I started wondering if it's just my illiteracy possibly causing this, but even with the default es_systems.cfg file that comes with 2.0.2 https://github.com/MisterTea/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v2.0.2, I continue to get the same error. It doesn't even seem to look in the other 'system' paths assigned.

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shagia commented 8 years ago

So I looked at my mistakes, and yeah, I had another es_systems.cfg file in my home directory on my C: drive. Deleted the last traces of ES, but the problem continued. One thing I didn't mention though, is that I'm running ES with elevated privileges, because not doing so just doesn't launch it for some reason, not even the version that comes with ESMAME launches. I turned off privilege elevation maybe assuming that ES is just looking in the wrong directory, but now ES just doesn't launch. It leaves an unfinished log in the folder though, it wasn't doing that with elevated privileges.

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Nov 24 2015 - 16:29:05 lvl2: Setting local directory to J:\Games\ESMAME/locale/lang lvl2: Locals set... lvl2: Creating surface...

This might not be your problem since this was happening with ES by itself.

MisterTea commented 8 years ago

After you ran it again, did it make a new es_systems.cfg file? On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:42 PM shagia notifications@github.com wrote:

So I looked at my mistakes, and yeah, I had another es_systems.cfg file in my home directory on my C: drive. Deleted the last traces of ES, but the problem continued. One thing I didn't mention though, is that I'm running ES with elevated privileges, because not doing so just doesn't launch it for some reason, not even the version that comes with ESMAME launches. I turned off privilege elevation maybe assuming that ES is just looking in the wrong directory, but now ES just doesn't launch. It leaves an unfinished log in the folder though, it wasn't doing that with elevated privileges.

lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Nov 24 2015 - 16:29:05 lvl2: Setting local directory to J:\Games\ESMAME/locale/lang lvl2: Locals set... lvl2: Creating surface...

This might not be your problem since this was happening with ES by itself.

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shagia commented 8 years ago

Sadly, it didn't. It only seems to just write new logs.

MisterTea commented 8 years ago

The new log ends at "creating surface"? What happens after that, crash? On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:05 PM shagia notifications@github.com wrote:

Sadly, it didn't. It only seems to just write new logs.

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shagia commented 8 years ago

Yeah, it just crashes. When running the launch.bat file, all I really get is just this, and nothing else. The terminal dismisses it's self afterwards.

Using the debug command does the same thing but Windows catches it.

MisterTea commented 8 years ago

Yeah if you are dying on creating surface, it means that your graphics card doesn't support a high enough version of OpenGL. You need a more modern graphics card :-( On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:19 PM shagia notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah, it just crashes. When running the launch.bat file, all I really get is just this, and nothing else. The terminal dismisses it's self afterwards. https://0x0.st/Xy6.png

Using the debug command does the same thing but Windows catches it. https://0x0.st/Xyl.png

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shagia commented 8 years ago

Ohhhhh, that's a bit gutting. No worries, thank you for helping out with my issue!