Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, nearvanaman said: I got the above error when copying over GBA games. To workaround, I just cancel the copy, rename the file (took out the languages listed in the file name) and it then worked. Happened with multiple GBA files (very verbose names it seems). But just wanted to raise in case you want to put in some helpful error handling. Thanks. Thanks for the report. I've actually solved this already for the next desktop beta (basically I just truncate the file names automatically if the paths get too long). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Just now, Lamaman1971 said: Sorry to be a pest - one observation from last night I had we with respect to MAME. On my launchbox I use MAME 2.01 and the consequence of that is that the export to Android dumps a bunch of ROMS which are not going to work with android Retroarch - at least thats my experience so far. So to use the export you probably need to ensure you are using an older version of MAME that has compatible cores in Retroarch. Does that make sense? This is all speculation as I havent gotten Arcade stuff working yet. That is correct; that's also why the Export to Android feature yells at you that it won't work, because Android requires a really old ROM set for MAME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 8 hours ago, Skidda420 said: I'm unable to get any emulator to play on Nvidia Shield. I have all the cores in retroarch, I go to launch through launchbox it will open retroarch but then it just hangs there on a black screen. No matter the platform, I get this error (I'm sure it's something on Retroarch's end, not positive) I have also scanned these games into retroarch from the same folder location that LBA uses and they launch from within Retroarch without a hitch. *scratching my head* I also tried launching PSP through LBA using PPSSPP gold and get "an error occurred while trying to load the game/emulator: Unable to find explicit activity class {org.ppsspp.ppssppgold/org.ppsspp.ppssppgold.ppssppactivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?" error. Per PPSSPP, it may unfortunately be broken when it comes to launching games directly. I keep searching the web for a solution that actually works, but I keep running into dead ends. For example: https://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?tid=16517 If anyone has any details on a method that actually works to launch PPSSPP or PPSSPP Gold directly to a game, please let me know. As it stands, I'm finding topics for both Arc Browser and Hyperspin for Android that suggest that it's broken for both, at least according to forum topics that I've found. Anyone know of a frontend that it's actually working for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 @Jason Carr It's when I boot the actual game, not lb. Attached is a screenshot of the error. I've tried new, SNES and genesis and get this error ALTHOUGH N64 boots fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Kmetz7547 said: @Jason Carr It's when I boot the actual game, not lb. Attached is a screenshot of the error. I've tried new, SNES and genesis and get this error ALTHOUGH N64 boots fine I see. That suggests that perhaps the ROM file is missing. Can you check to make 100% sure that the ROM file for that game actually exists on the SD card? The next version I put out will confirm this before attempting to extract the file or launch the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Oh I'm 1000% sure it's on my sd card.. and when I move it all back to phone directory they load fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Just now, Kmetz7547 said: Oh I'm 1000% sure it's on my sd card.. and when I move it all back to phone directory they load fine. Sometimes copying things to the SD card doesn't work properly; I've seen that myself. So you definitely need to make sure that it shows up on the SD card. You'll need to go to the actual folder and look for the file. What is the path to the file on the SD card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 This is my sd card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 This shows the path.. on sd card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Let me know of theres anything else you need man. I dont mind helping at all.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 In my experience the app and game both have to be on the SD card or they won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, Kmetz7547 said: This shows the path.. on sd card That folder size of 66.57mb is to small for the claimed 781 snes roms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 @Kmetz7547 Okay, all I can figure then is that it's some kind of file permissions issue. What device are you using? Also, does it make any difference if you move the actual app to the SD card or back to the internal storage? 1 minute ago, DOS76 said: In my experience the app and game both have to be on the SD card or they won't work. In my testing, I'm able to run the app from my internal storage and the data from the SD card on my S10+, all without issues. But I don't know if that works across all devices. I need to do some more testing with some other devices on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 1 minute ago, neil9000 said: That folder size of 66.57mb is to small for the claimed 781 snes roms. Those are NES, not SNES, so that 66 megs is about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 They are there guys.. I dont know how else to prove this, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Jason Carr said: Those are NES, not SNES, so that 66 megs is about right. Ha ha my bad, i totally read that as Super Nintendo Entertainment System, whoops. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 I'm using the note 10+ , just an fyi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Just now, Kmetz7547 said: I'm using the note 10+ , just an fyi Odd. Why are the files .7z.zip files? That could potentially be the issue. Doesn't make sense that it would be if those exact files work from internal storage though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmetz7547 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Not sure man. They run fine from phone storage and on my pc... just not from sd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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