Some Xbmc4Gamers game shortcuts not working

[hastings298]

Usually they have a blank icon and the name looks like e.g. PGR2 [!] (i.e Project Gotham Racing 2) and when I go to the install folder and launch the .xbe manually it launches correctly, the issue also extends to identifying the artwork, as the games with this problem all have .xbns etc and seemingly the correct artwork.

If I try to launch these 'blank' games from the Games menu the screen just goes blank for a minute and loads back into Xbmc.

Any idea what's causing this? Thought I had a number of bad rips but turns out the shortcuts just aren't working for some reason

[Incursion64]

On 10/31/2022 at 9:02 PM, hastings298 said:

Usually they have a blank icon and the name looks like e.g. PGR2 [!] (i.e Project Gotham Racing 2) and when I go to the install folder and launch the .xbe manually it launches correctly, the issue also extends to identifying the artwork, as the games with this problem all have .xbns etc and seemingly the correct artwork.

If I try to launch these 'blank' games from the Games menu the screen just goes blank for a minute and loads back into Xbmc.

Any idea what's causing this? Thought I had a number of bad rips but turns out the shortcuts just aren't working for some reason

Couple of basic things to check -

1) is the xbe file in your game named default.xbe or has the name been altered?

2) Is that game duplicated on the drive, for example, if have F/Games and G/Games sourced, but you have 2 copies of the same title, it can do funny things like what you describe.  

3) The artwork installer is looking at the default.xbe in the folder, it pulls the title ID from that file, than marries that to the zipped up artset for that game. A common reason that this wouldn't work is either of the 2 reasons listed above, or you have a weird prototype version of the game that doesn't have a title ID that matches up with any art set.