Any idea why RA crashes immediately when I try to SCAN a ROM folder?

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

I am unable to add a rom directory since retro arch crashes the instant I select a folder for it to scan. I originally thought it was because too many files were in the folder. So I grabbed a hundred and put them in their own folder. Tried that, still crashed immediately. What could cause this?

Windows 10, retro 1.3.2

edit: it may be worth noting that regardless of what folder I am in, RA says there are no files. Meaning if I browse to my rom folder, it says there nothing in it. The files are 7z. I tried extracting a rom and placing it in the folder, still says no files are present.

#2

Try going to the option Menu file browser in settings and turn the filter off. That should fix the issue of retroarch not seeing your files.

#3

I just completely deleted retroarch… and downloaded it again… except this time when I opened it it looked like a completely different program… I am kind of confused. Did I maybe somehow have an old version? I don’t think I did… but… its working now so… ok.

The first one I downloaded looked like it was built on an 8bit engine, this one looks like its using playstation xmb

#4

that’s just a different menu (think: theme).

I don’t think scanning works with 7z archives.

#5

yep… I see that. I extracted all the files… any way to get RetroArch to scan subfolders? Everything is setup like Rom > snes > game 1 folder, game 2 folder, game 3 folder, etc…

#6

the built-in scanning isn’t recursive, no. You can try one of the separate playlist utilities, though, like retroinvader (there’s a thread about it in this subforum). The other option is to use 7-zip’s “extract here” functionality from the right-click context menu.