ROMs do not import into Debian 10 "Buster"

[eduardomozart]

Mupen64plus-qt do not imports ROMs after selecting a directory through "ROMS Directories" from GUI into Deepin 20 (based on Debian 10 "Buster"). I tried the mupen64plus-qt version from Debian repositories (1.1.2), latest stable (1.1.4) and development releases (1.14-git:f1ea589).

After adding a directory into "ROMs directory" from the Settings and click on "Ok", it do not import any ROMs and when I go back into settings the "ROMs directory" list is empty.

I'm not sure, but maybe this issue is related to #57?

The only workaround I could find so Mupen64plus-qt start scanning my ROMs would be editing it's config file directly (''/home/leo/.config/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-qt'') and set the ''roms'' key from ''Paths'' section manually (e.g. ''roms=/home/leo/Games/Nintendo - Nintendo 64 (N64)''). So I had to open the "Settings" from Mupen64plus-qt. If I click into the "OK" button, it clears the "ROMs directory" list, but if I press the "X" close button to close the "Settings" window, it starts importing the ROMs normally.

[dh4]

Let me know if the commit I just pushed fixes the issue. If so, I'll go through the process of creating a new Debian release when I get a chance.

[eduardomozart]

Hello @dh4, thank you for your fast response! I compiled the modified version and it worked normally - the ROMs directory isn't being excluded anymore when opening and changing the Settings through Mupen64plus-qt UI. I noticed two small issues:

• The command qmake into my system was using qt4 by default, I had to run it using qmake -qt=qt5 for it to use the right version
• Now the ROMs are being found and added to the list normally. I only noticed that I cannot cancel the "Loading ROMs..." progress bar. When I click into "X", it closes it and come back again, so I cannot really abort the "Refresh list" command.
• One tip to improve the user experience: after loading and finding valid ROMs, it could change the "View" mode to "Grid" instead of keeping the default ("None"), because the impression for users using Mupen64plus-qt for the first time is that the ROMs wasn't loaded.
• I couldn't reproduce the #52 report. It only scan ROMs when the "ROMs directory" is changed and when the "Download Game Information (thegamesdb.net)" is checked (it only hides the cover art if it was already downloaded if this option is unchecked after being checked) - if I close the Settings changing another options or not changing any option at all it doesn't refresh the list. The ROM scanning is slow for a big ammount of ROMs (it gets even more slower when the "Download Game Information (thegamesdb.net)" option are checked and the information aren't on ''/home/leo/.local/share/mupen64plus-qt/cache_v2''), but I know it's an opensource project and time working to improve it maybe hard to.

Thank you for adding support for ZIP files. I know it just extracts the ''*.n64'' file from zip to a temp folder, but it's a pretty neat feature for Mupen64plus and make loading ROMs compatible with Parallel64 (RetroArch). It would be amazing updating the Debian repo to a newer Mupen64plus-qt build so the Game information from the TheGamesDB would be starting working again into Debian repo build.

Thank you for still working on this project, it's amazing. The only feature I really miss is allowing configuring joypad controls from UI. M64Py allows this.

[dh4]

Thanks! Glad that fixed it. I think your 2nd and 3rd bullet points are good suggestions. I'll try to add those features/fixes when I get a chance!

[Mavarice]

@dh4 By the way, the version in apt is still pulling 1.14.1 which has this bug

mupen64plus-qt is already the newest version (1.14-1).