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Hello,
I am at a frustration point after trying a variety of things.
Running the verticalSD configuration with the kickman selection of games.
I removed a BUNCH of games from the emulator rom folders on the sd card, using windows 10.

I have the arpicade set to generate rom list when booting up.
the attract mode menu still contains all of the games i deleted, such as Alpine Ski for example.

I have gone into attract mode settings and run the generate rom list for each emulator.
I have also gone into the arpicade menu and run the arcade rom scan.
rebooted many times over.

What am I missing here?
thank you in advance.

I figured it out from a snippet in another thread.

hit escape until arpicade exits back to the command prompt
sudo nano /home/pi/.attract/romlists/allGames.txt
use control-K to delete all necessary rows of games you want removed from the attract mode menu
ctl-x then S to save
sudo reboot

weird that running the game list won't remove items from the list, only add them?????

I still have trouble with the p1-p2 press taking me out of a game back to menu, seems very flakey.
i've been doing tab to get to general settings then mapping UI Cancel to esc or p1+p2

That is the second time this week someone has had trouble with games not being removed from the menu. Although both on different builds. You should definately not have to do it the way you have.... (although it will work)

In the file /boot/run.sh do you have all 3 rom scanning lines active? There's a line to scan arcade games, a line to scan console games, and a line to combine the lists into the all games list. If you only scan the arcade roms and do not combine the lists the All Games list will not be updated - same from the service menu, you have to combine arcade and console games to update the all games list.

If that's not it I'm confused. If you have games being added to the list but not removed I'm confused. I assume you safely removed the SD card from your Windows box after deleting files (if you don't they can come back like zombies due to the way SD cards work).

*depending on what version of ARpiCADE the Kickman set is using* - For 3.82 the game exit command the default is hold P1 start for 2 seconds. Through the hotkey system only P1 commands can be used although you can set up using combinations of p1 and p2 buttons manually in some of the emulators (not all so I don't recommend doing it that way). Unless you're trying to add a combo that is not possible through the hotkeys system (like using p2 buttons as you are...) I strongly recommend just editing the hotkeys via /boot/hotkeys.ini - this advice may be useless depending on which version of ARpiCADE you have.

Hope that helps.