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@jca, if I were you, I'd get rid of that symlink setup. All folders should be on the SD card, except games and docs that can stay on your external drive if you want. Once you have that, the default downloader.ini options will install "games" files on your external drive for each system that already has its folders there (same as what the ...

held wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 1:13 pm It still leaves the scripting argument.

USB external drive also overlays the SD card with the updaters, the same as in the firmware.

If nothing helps so far, please install this launcher too and run this one instead: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theyp ... nsecure.sh

Downloader: - Version 1.6 released. - The minimum python version required is now 3.9 instead of 3.5 (MiSTer OS has python version 3.9 since September 2021). - PC Launcher was added. It allows users to run Downloader on a PC. (Code that used Linux utilities has been substituted with code using native python libraries. This makes Downloader cross-pl...

Good evening José, Thank you for bringing us this huge milestone! Every module seems to have been "up-tuned", and the script runs faster than ever. However, there's something strange going on with the bios_db sequence; upon first run yesterday, it has deleted the bios files from my ..fat/games/PSX folder specifically, but doesn't downloa...

The documentation notes downloader has to be activated to update to 2.0. How can the downloader be activated? When you go to the Settings Screen by pressing up during the countdown, it will ask you to activate it. If it's not asking you it means you already activated it. The upgrade to Update All 2.0 only happens within MiSTer, not with the update...

Download this file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theyp ... ate_all.sh
Then replace it at Scripts/update_all.sh

There was a time window of 5 minutes that installed a buggy launcher, and it seems you got unlucky. Should not happen anymore.

You can consult the terms for the filters here: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Distribution_MiSTer
Make sure it matches first with that list.

Hey, could you please show your downloader.ini file?
It would also be useful to see your logs at Scripts/.config/downloader/downloader1.log

Palettes are in by default, but you can remove them by adding the term "!palettes" to your filter. Thanks for the support!

The documentation says in the root, and that's correct.

Thanks for the explanations. This weekend I discovered another strange thing which I suspect is due to the update script itself. On the first post of this thread I mentioned that I found "duplicate" jtcores like jts16b_20220422.rbf and jts16b_20220428.rbf. I manually deleted the old ones. This weekend I had to check something in _Arcades...

It is what I thought but theypsilon "corrected" me: you only have to do it once. "This is not true, after you have !cheats in the filter, you may put the Cheats folder there and it won't ever get removed." i did exactly that and the cheats where removed... You need to do this for that. So, if you already have a Cheats folder an...

I wonder if that was caused by the repository putting things in the wrong place. That's most probably the case. Whenever there is something "strange" on update_all or downloader regarding JT cores, please check these repositories first: https://github.com/jotego/jtcores_mister https://github.com/jotego/jtpremium Update All & therefor...

Downloader 1.5 has just been released: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Downloa ... ANGELOG.md

Downloader: - Version 1.5 released. - Added support for Storage Priority Resolution: External Storage will be used for installing new files under certain conditions. More info in the options section. - Added base_path as a database-scoped option. - Added routine for fixing certificates when they are not working correctly. - Added support for PDFVi...

Stupid Dufus wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:51 am To confirm, there's currently no way to disable downloading cheats using update_all without renaming the cheats directory before and after running it.

Is that correct?

No. If you don't want cheats at all, just disable them in a filter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxls-yGtvI

Downloader works the same as rsync for incremental changes, that's not the issue. The real problem is that changes are not being incremental, because all game zips are always different binary-wise between releases. There is an issue in the creation of the game zips in gamehacks server. I'm working to solve that there with rimsky82.

Good to know, thanks. Another question: Each time I run the update all script it downloads and unzips Cheats, mainly NES and SNES. Are they real updates? Yes, the cheats are updated very often. This is the source (you can see the update dates right there): https://gamehacking.org/mister/ I plan to buffer the updates for the cheats so they only get...

No, every time you want to update MISTer without updating the cheats you will have to do the same things as you did the first time. You can improve things by renaming the Cheats folder to something else before the update and renaming it back to Cheats after the update, no need to make a backup. IMHO the downloader is deeply flawed, it should not d...

I can see a lot of people having trouble in here, so I'm going to drop a file that works for me that people should be able to edit to their preference. [MiSTer] base_path = '/media/fat/' base_system_path = '/media/fat/' allow_delete = 2 allow_reboot = 2 update_linux = true parallel_update = true [distribution_mister] filter = essential all_filters...

Hello, I was using update_all, but I am trying to switch to the new downloader. When I run the downloader.sh, I get a python3 not found error. I am also one of the people that get a black screen whenever I update, so I have to revert to an older version of the MiSTer app. Any assistance would be appreciated, thanks. It seems that your Linux versio...

Not sure why !arcade-pong doesn't work for you, looks like it should. I think the reason 280z-zzap isn't working is because it's part of the Space Invaders core. You'd have to do !arcade-spaceinvaders. Edit: Can confirm that !arcade-pong removes the RBF for pong, but appears to leave the MRA file out there. So it's still in the list and you can se...

Any way to filter out Jotego's arcade alternative cores? I can filter out the mainstream mister arcade cores no problem, but not Jotego's. In which section of downloader.ini did you put the filter? [mister] or [distribution_mister]? I tried to use the new downloader: " Running MiSTer Downloader START! Reading file: /media/fat/downloader.ini R...

You now can filter what and what not to install thanks to a new feature in Downloader 1.4

Here is the documentation: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Downloa ... filters.md

Downloader: - Version 1.4 released. - Added support for custom download filters: Users can now avoid installing files that they are not interested in. More info here: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Downloader_MiSTer/blob/main/docs/download-filters.md - Fixed makedirs errors. - Improved backup handling when a file is downloaded but the hash is wro...

I've never had any problems with my MiSTer or with Update_all, but tonight I ran update_all, and when it was finished it restarted and now I just get a blank screen. I don't have a desktop pc so I'm pretty limited in what I can do from home, so I guess I'll have to bring my SD card to a friends house and load an older version somehow? Or will I ne...

I don't know what changed in the bootloader, maybe Sorg could help you wth that, but if you get always the same error with any SD, it could mean that there is some hardware problem in your setup.

Ok I just did a fresh install using Mr. Fusion 2.3, ran wifi.sh, renamed _samba.sh to samba.sh, power cycled (no problem), copied downloader.sh to mister, ran downloader.sh, system hangs on power cycle. By looking your log file I didn't see anything weird. Then I've tried to do the exact same steps 2 times without issues (well, except running wifi...

Sounds like some filesystem error, maybe related with case-sensitiveness, what is the exact name of the NeoGeo directory in your usb device?
There have been changes on NeoGeo bioses recently, so that could explain why the error is happening now.