Hey guys! trying to run the update_all script on my mister, however it's not ever allowing me to enter the options menu (Despite pressing up on the keyboard) - is there a way to preemptively configure the script to fetch roms?

Or, is there a way I can run the update_all script on my pc and transfer the files over to the sd card when I'm done? https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Downloader_MiSTer/blob/main/docs/pc-launcher.md <- ive tried running this python script but no luck.

Some help would be very appreciated, thanks everyone

I've run Update_All plenty of times (last in November), but it's not working now. In the log under Downloader I keep receiving this error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Shadow_Masks'.

Mamegetter is not finding any new MRA's even though there should be (I'm a patreon with Tejada).

When it gets to the Linux update it again ends with

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Shadow_Masks'

Then it tells me update has failed and review the log files.

My root directory on the SD Card does have a folder 'Shadow_Masks'. Any advice?

First my cores stopped working. Arcade cores seemed to still work but console cores would show garbage on the screen when I load any ROM. So then I reinstalled MiSTer on my SD card from scratch and ran "update all", and it runs and the cores appear in the menu, but whenever I try to run a core it complains that files are missing. I've tried the whole process twice and get the same results. I'm assuming this is probably a bad SD card, but in that case it's odd that the MiSTer still boots and works otherwise. And although it could still be bad, I got the SD card from the Sandisk store on Amazon, and the product has a full 4.8 star rating with over 100k reviews, so it's not just some random card I got on Aliexpress. Anyone ever seen anything like this?

edit: It's not the SD card. I tried the installation process with a different card and got the same results.

Been putting it off for years, because the Mister was doing everyhing I wanted, but, if the internet archive may go offline for good, I'd kind of like to nuke it, start fresh, and run update_all to get all the arcade stuff up and running.

On this day, 10/28, is it working?

Thanks!

I have always been hesitant to run Update All for months and months. Today I decided to finally plug my Mister with the ethernet cable and after running the script.... the list of Cores has been cut down by more than half. I'm approximating more than half due to how quickly I reach the bottom of the list of Cores when scrolling down.

NES, Playstation, Genesis, etc, gone. Strangely, when I put the SD card into my PC, the folders are present. They don't appear when using my Mister.

Any advice or suggestions?

EDIT: Correction, the GAMES folder still has each folder named after the missing consoles, but the "_Console" folder itself only shows the short Core list.

What should I be seeing and how long?

I see/have seen MANY zip files loading. Some have one dot below them and others have more like 5-20, etc. How do I know if they are successful?

I am about an hour into it and it keeps going. But, is it actually working with Archive.org being read-only right now?

Every question I ask is after researching, I swear.

Noob me thanks you!