RetroArch for PS Vita FIX Playlists, thumbnails, directory won't scan, SOLUTION/FIX

and I have not seen this solution posted online anywhere so I'm going to finally do this and hopefully this will help you guys out so okay first of all your playlists they work I mean sorry your games work your app is updated then this is what we're going to do if you've tried the other Solutions online you're going to go on your PC and you're going to install retro Arch on your PC the PC version so just click I won't put a link in the description because it's fairly obvious you just Google retroarch and go to Retro arch.com you I just downloaded the Windows 10 version myself this one right here installer 64bit if you have Windows 10 just do this one and then once it's installed you need to create a ROMs folder on your computer which uh imitates which is the exact same as the one on your vaita retro Arch basically so you probably already did your ROMs on Vita from a backup on your computer but if you didn't just make sure you have the same file of ROMs on your computer you can just go to VI to Shell and copy and paste it onto your desktop and then what you can do is you have it like this your ROMs folder and then you have all of your folders of your game consoles and then I can confirm that when you go into your directory with the game consoles if you just have a list of all the emulator files it should work perfectly like that you don't need to have them in dotzip format you don't need to have special file folders or anything it's just drop them all in the folder that you're going to use as your directory and it should work I won't create a guide as to how to install a retro Arch or the ROMs or anything like that because you can find all of that online easily especially in the links I will provide so you installed retro Arch on your computer you have a ROMs folder open up retro Arch on your computer and now you're going to first of all go to online updater download the cores that you're going to use on your vaita or whatever just download your cores update installed cores update assets update overlays and most importantly update databases this one is very important make sure you click update databases and wait for it to finish once it has done so you are going to uh scan the directories on your computer so do it the same way you would on your vaita go scan directory and then find your ROMs folder scan a directory like I'll do genesis right [Music] now um okay I think I clicked the wrong folder uh let me try that again sorry guys let me just double check here that should work oh I didn't install the the cores yet I just assumed that you would okay [Music] um Genesis Genesis Genesis just do this one for now okay and then you don't actually need all of the cores on your computer that's not important it's just so you can test that the games work basically so scan the directory okay there we go now if we scroll down you see it created a playlist with Mega Drive Genesis even though these are the exact same ROMs that it wouldn't create a playlist for on the Vita so that means that if the same ROMs that won't be created on a playlist on your Vita will be created on a playlist on the PC version of retro Arch that means that your ROMs are good that retro Arch can read them but that the database that is comparing them to is bad because yeah so basically what we're going to do now is take the good database that works in the PC version of retroarch and replace the bad database on the vaita version of retro Arch that won't create playlist so if you've confirmed that the same ROMs on your veto will turn into playlists on PC but not Vita like it did for me then you're going to open up v [Music] shell sorry for the quality of this video I wasn't planning on making a YouTube channel I just thought this was is important and helpful open up v shell and then you're going to find the files of the Retro Arch that is installed on your PC the files for the PC version of retro Arch so for me that's going to be under retro Arch windows 64 and then database you see that right inside of retro Arch is a database folder there's two folders inside of that database folder what you're going to do is go into to v shell find your uh root folder on your Vita shell wherever you have like your stuff installed It's usually the uxo and you're going to go to data retro Arch see that database folder click on that and now what you're going to do is highlight the two folders inside of the windows retroarch database folder replace oh okay drag them over to the vaita retroarch database and replace these two with these two once it's finished doing that exit out of [Music] Vell go back to Retro Arch and now with the better database try to scan the directories again and for me this finally made it work

Channel: Viva La Vita

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Keywords: retroarch, vita, vita retroarch, vita retroarch fix, retroarch playlists

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 04 2022