Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 for some reason most of my games on launchbox say unavailable...I tried making sure it is connected to the right emulator and I re synced the folders but have no luck. When I try to click on the game a small window pops up and says The ROM file you've specified does not exist. Which is not true I have all the files and everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 When a game gives you that warning right click the game in LB and edit it. Go to the Launching tab and confirm the path listed there is indeed the path of the rom. If not you need to correct it. If this ends up the case you may need to do it for all roms in the platform. You can bulk edit the path for all of them in the platform by selecting all games and then going to >Tools >File Management >Update Rom Path… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 Thank you for the response it seems to be doing it for all my games except a handful of them (recently downloaded ones) but it is happening for all the console ones...all my pc games (steam epic gog ) are fine but my gamecube...xbox..ps2 and etc is still giving me that message....and I didn't change anything so I wonder why it did this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 25 minutes ago, Retro808 said: When a game gives you that warning right click the game in LB and edit it. Go to the Launching tab and confirm the path listed there is indeed the path of the rom. If not you need to correct it. If this ends up the case you may need to do it for all roms in the platform. You can bulk edit the path for all of them in the platform by selecting all games and then going to >Tools >File Management >Update Rom Path… Also what happens if your suggestion does not work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 6 minutes ago, Gamer Steph said: Also what happens if your suggestion does not work? Did you recently update LB at all? Are your games on a drive on the pc or a network (NAS drive)? Can you confirm if what I mentioned is the case? Also can you open your \Launchbox\Data\Platform folder and share a pic of the contents of that folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 7 hours ago, Retro808 said: Did you recently update LB at all? Are your games on a drive on the pc or a network (NAS drive)? Can you confirm if what I mentioned is the case? Also can you open your \Launchbox\Data\Platform folder and share a pic of the contents of that folder? So I tried the above method of making sure the path to the roms are correct and still no luck....so I took a picture of the contents of the folder and this is all that was in it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 For some reason it keeps telling me a server issue when I try to attach a screen shot. But there are 3 files MS-DOS.xml SONY PLAYSTATION 2.XML WINDOWS XML Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 (edited) Here is what shows in the folder only I Edited July 17 by Gamer Steph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 1 hour ago, Gamer Steph said: Here is what shows in the folder only I Something is odd here. In an earlier post you said the issue occurs with Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2. However, in that image you do not have a Gamecube.xml nor an Xbox.xml file showing. That \Data\Platforms folder should contain xml files for all platforms you imported games into LB. 9 hours ago, Gamer Steph said: Thank you for the response it seems to be doing it for all my games except a handful of them (recently downloaded ones) but it is happening for all the console ones...all my pc games (steam epic gog ) are fine but my gamecube...xbox..ps2 and etc is still giving me that message....and I didn't change anything so I wonder why it did this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 So for some reason maybe they got deleted or some how the directly got changed to a different folder...so how would I fix this? Because it is also affecting all my other console like snes nest sega dream cast atari etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 8 minutes ago, Gamer Steph said: So for some reason maybe they got deleted or some how the directly got changed to a different folder...so how would I fix this? Because it is also affecting all my other console like snes nest sega dream cast atari etc. If those files are moved or deleted from that LB folder those platforms will not show up in your LB when you open. If they got moved to another folder it was not done by LB as that is the root folder LB uses for those files. Do you have 2 different builds of LB? Can you open LB and post a pic of LB interface (make sure it show the whole screen). Also right click on the Gamecube platform and edit it. Then show a pic of the Folders tab. Then pick a Gamecube game and right click on it and edit. Show a pic of the Metadata tab and the Launching tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 1 minute ago, Retro808 said: If those files are moved or deleted from that LB folder those platforms will not show up in your LB when you open. If they got moved to another folder it was not done by LB as that is the root folder LB uses for those files. Do you have 2 different builds of LB? Can you open LB and post a pic of LB interface (make sure it show the whole screen). Also right click on the Gamecube platform and edit it. Then show a pic of the Folders tab. Then pick a Gamecube game and right click on it and edit. Show a pic of the Metadata tab and the Launching tab. Ok once I return home I will try this. I dont believe I have 2 builds of LB I use the same app I always use. And it is strange when I open LB it still shows all my consoles and handheld on the left side and all the game I uploaded and everything the only thing it just says unavailable where it would say install or play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 5 hours ago, Retro808 said: If those files are moved or deleted from that LB folder those platforms will not show up in your LB when you open. If they got moved to another folder it was not done by LB as that is the root folder LB uses for those files. Do you have 2 different builds of LB? Can you open LB and post a pic of LB interface (make sure it show the whole screen). Also right click on the Gamecube platform and edit it. Then show a pic of the Folders tab. Then pick a Gamecube game and right click on it and edit. Show a pic of the Metadata tab and the Launching tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Is your rom drive and internal or external drive? Reason I ask is in your platform the games folder points to a G Drive and the actual game for Mario Sunshine is pointing to an F Drive. That's not so much an issue as for the game to run LB just needs to point to the correct folder/rom file. The folder the platform defaults to can actually be different. I am still also perplexed that you have all those platforms in your build but your \Data folder does has only 3 platform xml files. What drive is your LB installed to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 18 minutes ago, Retro808 said: Is your rom drive and internal or external drive? Reason I ask is in your platform the games folder points to a G Drive and the actual game for Mario Sunshine is pointing to an F Drive. That's not so much an issue as for the game to run LB just needs to point to the correct folder/rom file. The folder the platform defaults to can actually be different. I am still also perplexed that you have all those platforms in your build but your \Data folder does has only 3 platform xml files. What drive is your LB installed to? So if i am correct my LB is installed on my local disk C and all my roms and emulators are on a external Hard drive (G) the seagate Hub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 7 minutes ago, Gamer Steph said: So if i am correct my LB is installed on my local disk C and all my roms and emulators are on a external Hard drive (G) the seagate Hub Well if your roms are on the G drive then the issue is your are not actually pointing to the correct file. For example the Mario Sunshine image. It is pointing to an F drive. You need to correct the file path as I previously mentioned. 34 minutes ago, Gamer Steph said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 3 minutes ago, Retro808 said: Well if your roms are on the G drive then the issue is your are not actually pointing to the correct file. For example the Mario Sunshine image. It is pointing to an F drive. You need to correct the file path as I previously mentioned. ah ok i see the problem i think is that i recently got another external harddrive and when i connected to my pc the Seagate Hub (G) uuse to be the (f) drive but it change to the G drive....so im sorry how can i make the changes o\again at once with out having to do each game at a time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 27 minutes ago, Retro808 said: Well if your roms are on the G drive then the issue is your are not actually pointing to the correct file. For example the Mario Sunshine image. It is pointing to an F drive. You need to correct the file path as I previously mentioned. so, I have decided to delete each console and then re important the roms and it seems to fix the issue instead of me doing it all at once but i have a question does that delete any save data for the games I might have played? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 28 minutes ago, Gamer Steph said: so, I have decided to delete each console and then re important the roms and it seems to fix the issue instead of me doing it all at once but i have a question does that delete any save data for the games I might have played? Save data is usually in the emulator folder. So it should not affect it. Also there were steps in my second post how to bulk edit each platform to correct the rom path. You have to do it platform by platform. Easy to do and is just a few clicks. That is the safest way to do it. You can manually edit the platform xml but you are susceptible to mistakes or corrupting the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Steph Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 3 minutes ago, Retro808 said: Save data is usually in the emulator folder. So it should not affect it. Also there were steps in my second post how to bulk edit each platform to correct the rom path. You have to do it platform by platform. Easy to do and is just a few clicks. That is the safest way to do it. You can manually edit the platform xml but you are susceptible to mistakes or corrupting the file. ok i will re read the post and do it that way thank you for all your help....one final question...I had deleted my OG Xbox and want to re important them but i forgot how to do it since the games don't show up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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