Retroarch's assets need update after upgrading to Batocera 5.26

Andearoid

Hello,

I updated my Batocera 5.25 to 5.26. And at the Retroarch launch, I get a message asking me to update “assets” because some of them are missing. Assets are graphical files like fonts, icons, etc to display Retroarch’s theme menus.

Last time I get this message I used the internal Retroarch update menu. And it was solved. Very easy. But this time the Assets update option said “Downloading assets.zip - task failed”.

I seen in newest Batocera’s releases some Retroarch options are now locked (like loading personalized cores).
So what should I do to update Retoarch’s assets properly now ?

Andearoid

Oké. So here is what I did :

To know where is my assets folder, I take a look in my \\BATOCERA\share\system.config\retroarch\retroarch.cfg config file.
There, I can see : assets_directory = “~/.config/retroarch/assets”

This means my assets netbios path is : \\BATOCERA\share\system.config\retroarch\assets

Then I downloaded the Batocera iso file from : https://updates.batocera.org/x86_64/stable/last/batocera-5.26-x86_64-20200527.img.gz

I extracted batocera-5.26-x86_64-20200527.img.gz archive on my hard drive with 7Zip.
Go to the extracted folder and extracted the vfat.img with 7Zip too.

In the \vfat\boot folder I found a file called batocera (1.13Go) and extracted it with 7Zip again.
It creates a folder named “batocera~”.

New Batocera 5.26’s assets are there : batocera~ \usr\share\libretro\assets

Finally to update my assets manually, I compared my folder content \\BATOCERA\share\system.config\retroarch\assets with the batocera~ \usr\share\libretro\assets folder content. And merge newer (add+replace) files to my assets folder.

I also did a merge with assets from the Retroarch dev repository at Github.
You can download it here : https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets/archive/master.zip

Andearoid

Today I rollbacked my Batocera 5.26 to 5.25 (I did a ghost of my hard drive with HD Clone before upgrading to 5.26^^). Then I upgraded my 5.25 to 5.26 again, and I was able to update Retroarch’s assets with its internal update option. Like I did before ?!! Seems the server (or link) providing the assets.zip was down. And the process failed.