Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54] [found how to reproduce]

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Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54] [found how to reproduce]

Post by m1k3ol »

I dunno if I'm overlooking an option, but I already surfed through all the options...

are the "gray" game/rom icons not displayed anymore on the rom paths?, it shows up on the small list on top (icons with numbers of files, like 9green,7 yellow and 3 gray for example) but not on the romalisting of the rom path itself (only green and yellow shows up)

-maybe- it is a problem of the data file itself since it was meant to be used on offline listing or clrmamepro, but at least the files should be on the list displayed as "other" or "unknown" isn't it?
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Re: Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54]

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Hi

They should be displayed, I have no problems with that. Check if the 'gray file' filter is enabled (gray button pushed on the left side tool bar)
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Re: Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54]

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I double checked that :P, been using romcenter since the winkawaks emulator was on the 1.36 version (or older) :P

this is the best tool for me....


strange thing is....it looks to be solved....out of the blue O_o

only thing I've done so far was getting a new external drive (1.5tb) and moved everything there (files and romcenter included), I had to re-add the rompath again and it just started displaying the gray "unknown" files correctly (as always)......dunno if maybe the old drive was the problem or not....but it is fixed so I think it was something wrong on my hardware....


thanks alot for the help ;), it's nice to see how much this tool has been advancing throughout the years....excellent work!

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Re: Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54]

Post by m1k3ol »

(sorry for double post, intended for clearer reading)


wut?, I was able to reproduce the bug!

turns out, it only happens when I have multiple rom paths for the -same- database....

the database loaded is one for virtual console files for the wii.

I have them split according to file type, all folders are under a main folder, like this:

(drive root)
-Virtual console
--C64
--Gen
--N64
--NeoGeo
--NES
--SMS
--SNES
--TGX-16
--VC Arcade

I load the database, and then add each rom path separately under it

gray icons (unknown) stops showing up on the rom path list (but not on the info bar on top, marking 1, 2, 3, etc.) after all paths are added.....this doesn't happen if I load fewer paths (I got the gray icons properly on the first 2 paths added, for example)

hope this helps :), looks like it was not my hardware after all :P
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Re: Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54] [found how to reproduce

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I will check that for next version
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Re: Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54] [found how to reproduce

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I can't reproduce with your paths.
Maybe a filename has a strange character in it which break the file browser before the end of the list...

- Locate the folder which produce no grey icon and try to load only this one in rc.
- If you still have no grey icons, backup the folder, delete all files correctly displayed (green/yellow/red), keeping on the folder only files not displayed.
- Then search the filenames for non-alpha characters
- You can try to remove these char to see if it helps.
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Re: Gray Icons not displayed? [3.54] [found how to reproduce

Post by m1k3ol »

ok, just tested today, the folder giving the problem is the second one....thing is, I removed the path and just readded it again....everything was fixed even though I re-added it....there's not a single "weird" character on the names that is not on other folders (like, an ' on "robotnik's", unless that character is not ment to be there)


weird...but working again....

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