Dolphin not recognizing iso's

[Fyredrake]

I just downloaded and compiled the newest Dolphin for Linux and it is not recoginizing any of my iso's that it was using just fine previously. Can anyone help?

[Shonumi]

By not recognizing, do you mean the games don't show up in Dolphin's built-in browser, or that they fail to launch whenever you try to get an ISO to play? For the first, you may need to add the games back into Dolphin's paths. Click on the Config button and go to the Paths tab, and you should see where you need to add the directory that contains your ISOs. Dolphin, on Linux at least, stores all of its settings in "your_home_directory_here/.dolphin_emu". It's possible that you did something to remove that directory altogether if your problem is that games won't show up in the browser.

For the second case, that your games fail to launch, does Dolphin report that the files aren't valid? If you go to "File -> Open" and browse to the ISO, what specifically does Dolphin do then? If it refuses to play games via this method, you may have a serious issue on your hand (data corruption). From the command line, just run the md5sum command (pretty much standard for all Linux distros) on each ISO and compare the generated hash (a series of numbers and characters) with those of verified working dumps from sites like GameTDB or Redump.org. If your hashes don't match up with theirs, then you should redump your games until they do match.

[Fyredrake]

What I mean by "Not Recognizing" is, Yes it reports that it can find no iso's. The path to their location is fine. I have even tried re-establishing the path but doing the search, when I get to the folder containing my iso's they are all "greyed" out meaning they are unusable or unrecognized.

[ExtremeDude2]

"Greyed out" makes it sould like they are hidden files, maybe dolphin can't open those

[Shonumi]

(12-13-2012, 11:03 PM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: "Greyed out" makes it sould like they are hidden files, maybe dolphin can't open those

Hidden files on Linux are regular files with a period in front of them, like ".mysecrets.txt"; it doesn't actually affect how a program opens the file, just helps the program decide whether to display it or not. In Dolphin's case, it doesn't make a difference if your ISOs are hidden or not, tried it myself just now.

(12-13-2012, 07:44 PM)Fyredrake Wrote: I have even tried re-establishing the path but doing the search, when I get to the folder containing my iso's they are all "greyed" out meaning they are unusable or unrecognized.

This sounds like expected behavior. Your ISOs (and every other file for that matter) should be greyed out. This due to the fact that you are selecting the directory itself, not the individual files within it. Click the spoiler to see what I'm talking about.

Spoiler: (Show Spoiler)

Clicking "Open" at the bottom will add the directory you're looking at into Dolphin's paths.

[ExtremeDude2]

Oh, I didn't relise he was using linux :p

[Fyredrake]

Ok, I just tried it again for the Umpy-billionth time and this time it worked. It is giving me my list again. Thanks for all your help.

[hdawg]

(12-13-2012, 03:07 PM)Shonumi Wrote: By not recognizing, do you mean the games don't show up in Dolphin's built-in browser, or that they fail to launch whenever you try to get an ISO to play? For the first, you may need to add the games back into Dolphin's paths. Click on the Config button and go to the Paths tab, and you should see where you need to add the directory that contains your ISOs. Dolphin, on Linux at least, stores all of its settings in "your_home_directory_here/.dolphin_emu". It's possible that you did something to remove that directory altogether if your problem is that games won't show up in the browser.

For the second case, that your games fail to launch, does Dolphin report that the files aren't valid? If you go to "File -> Open" and browse to the ISO, what specifically does Dolphin do then? If it refuses to play games via this method, you may have a serious issue on your hand (data corruption). From the command line, just run the md5sum command (pretty much standard for all Linux distros) on each ISO and compare the generated hash (a series of numbers and characters) with those of verified working dumps from sites like GameTDB or Redump.org. If your hashes don't match up with theirs, then you should redump your games until they do match.

What do I do for the second case if I am on windows? Whenever I try to open an iso, I get a bunch of errors saying unable to resolve address _____ and they keep popping up when I x them out

[Shonumi]

As I said (almost 7 years ago), your games may have serious data corruption issues. Your best bet is to check the MD5 hash, which will tell you if your dumps are not 1:1 copies of the original discs. Dolphin can now do this automatically for you. Download the latest development revisions and right-click the game in Dolphin's built-in browser and go to Properties -> Verify, make sure the Redump.org Status Calculate box is checked, then click the Verify Integrity button.

If you get any errors, that means your dump is bad in some way. The solution is to redump your games using something like the CleanRip homebrew app.

For future reference, please do not necropost. If you have further issues with your games running in Dolphin, please be sure to make a new thread.