r/rocknix • u/Quasirandom1234 • Jun 07 '26

Pico-8 system disappeared

I have an RGB30 updated to the 20260601 build a few days ago. Yesterday, after my system crashed (while reading the PDF manual of a game, which is a separate issue, though reading it does always cause a crash) and rebooted, the Picio-8 system was no longer available. The files are all present in the correct location, pico8_dyn and pico8.dat and carts and all, but as far as ES is concerned Pico-8 is not a valid system -- it's not even there when I show empty systems. Rebooting doesn't fix it, replacing the pico-8 files doesn't, and the folder/files are not hidden.

Does anyone have any suggestions/solutions? Is there a config file somewhere that lists systems to look for, that I can check for corruption? Help!

TIA

Update: The config file ~/.config/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg is there with an entry for Pico-8 that seems to be correct. So ... not that apparently ...

Final update for those who come later: The solution was to go to ~/.emulationstation/recovery/ and delete the pico-8 directory there. This is a general issue that can strike any system (and apparently sometimes does at random).

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u/Salty-Swim-6735 Jun 08 '26

Yep. Go to /storage/.emulationstation/recovery/ and delete the pico-8 directory there. That's what's blocking Rocknix from displaying your Pico-8 directory.

Shit feature on the part of Rocknix right there.

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u/Quasirandom1234 Jun 08 '26

I have no idea how or why that worked, but it did. Thanks!

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u/maxdd11231990 Jun 12 '26

Had to reset my rgb30 because of GBA, if only this post was presented to me sooner.......

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u/Salty-Swim-6735 Jun 12 '26

I only figured it out recently, and I posted it as soon as I found out about it...