[RESOLVED] BBC Micro ROMs won't show up in EmulationStation's gamelist

Hello,

Problem: my BBC Micro ROMS won't show up in EmulationStation after I execute the "Update game list" command. It seems like ES does not scan the appropriate folder.

Details:

• My ROM collection is placed on a remote windows network drive.  I am using symbolic links to point to the appropriate network destination.
  
• I put the ROMs in the bbcmicro folder.  
  
• My BBC Micro ROMs have .zip extension.
  
• Apparently all other system's ROMs are updating correctly.
  
• There is no gamelist.xml file in the bbcmicro ROM folder.
  

What have I tried so far (without success):

• Doublechecked the symbolic link.
  
• Use unzipped ROMs with the *.ssd extension instead of zipped ones.
  

My system:

• OS: Windows 11
  
• Retrobat version: 5.2.0.stable
  
• All required BIOS files are present. Missing BIOS check ends up with "No missing BIOS files" result.
  

If I run Batgui\Gamelist Editor\BBC Micro, I get the following error:

Code:


Error at line 1 of Méthode ChargeListeJeux process.
A fatal error occurred on the 'DocumentXML' element (of 'xmlDocument' type) and prevents from using it.
This error occurred at line 22 of the 'Constructeur de la classe cPlateforme' process.
The XML document has not been loaded.

System error details:

Row 8, Column 31: EntityRef: expecting ';'

Row 9, Column 29: EntityRef: expecting ';'


----- Technical information -----

Project : BatGui

WL call:
Process of 'Méthode ChargeListeJeux' (cPlateforme.ChargeListeJeux), line 1

What happened?
A fatal error occurred on the 'DocumentXML' element (of 'xmlDocument' type) and prevents from using it.
This error occurred at line 22 of the 'Constructeur de la classe cPlateforme' process.
The XML document has not been loaded.

Error code: 40057
Level: fatal error

System error message:
Row 8, Column 31: EntityRef: expecting ';'

Row 9, Column 29: EntityRef: expecting ';'

Dump of the error of 'wd240xml.dll' module (24.0.110.0).
Additional information:
EIT_PILEWL :
Méthode ChargeListeJeux (cPlateforme.ChargeListeJeux), line 1
Constructeur de la classe cPlateforme (cPlateforme.Constructeur), line 25
Bouton gauche relâché (WM_LBUTTONUP) de ZR1_Plateforme (FEN_GameListEditor.ZR1_Plateforme), line 17
Clic sur BTN_Gamelist_Editeur (FEN_Menu.BTN_Gamelist_Editeur), line 2
EIT_DATEHEURE : 29/04/2023 16:19:30
EIT_TYPE_WDFILE : <4>
EIT_IDCODE : <458752>

Help


Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hello
Have you try to "ungroup" MESS game collection ?
If not, they should still appear in Mess system.

Yes, it does not appear under MESS section.

OK, in the meantime I have figured out the solution.

Somehow, in the :\RETROBAT\emulationstation\.emulationstation\ folder a separate es_systems_bbcmicro.cfg file appeared. I have deleted it, and everything works fine.

So you better check the others es_systems customs that you got, a lot of them shouldn't be necessary within the V5 version of Retrobat.