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Gladiator 2 corrupting ROM archives on 2nd sdcard #490

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@locastan

Knulli build version

gladiator-ii 2025/09/02 21:58

Your architecture

Anbernic_RG_CubeXX

Issue description

On my CubeXX setup for 2 sd cards, I have had several occasions where Knulli overwrote roms that are stored in zip or 7z archives with what I assume is metadata. (I see only OS related xml code in the archives after this happened when I open them with a hex editor).

My 2nd SD card is formated exFAT (via Knulli internal formatter), so I can access and organize it from windows.

First time this happened was after scraping with knullis scraper. Second time after I wiped and restored the 2nd sd card again, I stayed away from scraping. Still happened again after updating the games lists then.

Only zip and 7z archives were affected by this. Games stored in their platform specific rom file format did not get overwritten with metadata. (Although this could be because they were added at a later time and thus written to a different block on the card.)

I have seen several other ppl. having problems with games no longer working after scraping/reading games list on reddit. Some users also claim their sd card being completely broken and unuseable after that, which hasn't happened to me yet.

Hope this helps in some way to find the issue, because Knulli is such a pretty and user friendly OS. I'd like to keep using it. :)

Detailed reproduction steps

Can't tell really at this point, as it seems to randomly happen at some point during scraping or updating games list.

Details of any attempts to fix this yourself

Only way to fix it again, is rewriting all the roms with original backed up files.

Details of any modifications you have made to Knulli.

None, flashed latest release and updated to current patch version via wifi.

Logs and data

You'd have to tell me what you need and where to find it.

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