Arcade cores not working after upgrade [Solved]

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Arcade cores not working after upgrade [Solved]

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After issues with the update script and recovering using the downloader script none of my arcade cores work anymore.

All cores give : "File Not found" errors. E.g.:

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82s123.6e
File Not found
All other cores work fine. Any ideas how to fix this?
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Re: Arcade cores not working after upgrade

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Found the cause, the Downloader script messes up the Arcade cores on my MiSTer. Running the Update script fixed it.

Just to check it was the Dowloader script I ran it again -> arcade cores files not found. Run the Update script -> arcade cores back.
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Re: Arcade cores not working after upgrade [Solved]

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where to find the update script?
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Re: Arcade cores not working after upgrade [Solved->Recurred]

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So I found my trusted update script using mister_updater.sh now to be deprecated. It refers to the downloader script. Which I updated and used and messed up all my arcade cores again.

None of them work anymore, all give an error message that a file can't be found.

Eg. for Arkanoid

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games/mame/arkatayt.zip/ic75.13
ic75.13e not found
I downloaded the Downloader script from Github and used the default downloader.ini file.

Any ideas how to fix this now I can no longer use the update script? I don't care about filtering stuff out, I just want my arcade cores back :cry:
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Re: Arcade cores not working after upgrade [Solved]

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It is very difficult to help when you give as little information as possible.
Do you run everything from the SD card?
Do you have a USB drive?
Did you look at the log file after running the downloader?
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Re: Arcade cores not working after upgrade [Solved]

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jca wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 9:39 pm It is very difficult to help when you give as little information as possible.
Do you run everything from the SD card?
Do you have a USB drive?
Did you look at the log file after running the downloader?
It's a pretty vanilla setup. Everything runs from an SD card, no USB drives. I can't find anything related to mame zip files in the log file.

The folder games/mame was empty.

Based on that finding I have searched this forum. Not sure if I found the root cause or a workaround, but installing and running the Mister Mame scripts solved the issue. I did not have mame download scripts on my MiSTer, apparently I never needed them the past 2 years until today.
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Re: Arcade cores not working after upgrade [Solved]

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These days you should use the update_all script, at least for the big updates. It incorporates the Downloader and all the other important ones.
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