[brickiemart]

I did try a restart and no change in the behavior. I sent you an email with the requested image. Again, many thanks!

[brickiemart]

I had tabs to show the file structure. but they were removed when I submitted the post. Here is the content of the .magicbox folder with four “_” replacing each tab.

.magicbox folder has the following in it
____Games (Folder)
________Data (Folder)
____________e2e706….(Folder with randoming looking name)
________________Temp (Folder)
________________avatar.png
________________config.xml
________autofill.xml
________backupConfig.xml
________collection.xml
________cross_settings.xml
________global.xml
________last_start_games.xml
____.nomedia

[brickiemart]

Thanks again for the reply and link. I will check it out.

I did a fresh install of Magicbox, the paid version. Here is what I did and what I experienced.

Fresh Install from Google Play Store (I’m in the US and apparently we block the huawei sign-up process)
Grant permission to access photos and videos.
Welcome screen appears.
Games Folder selection is prompted.
I select a newly created folder, MS-DOS on the device’s main storage area.
I give Magicbox permission to access files in that folder.
Next, I select game layout and settings location.
I select a newly created folder, .magicbox on the device’s main storage area.
I select modern icons.
I close help and unselect “show at startup”
I add a game, Civilization in a Civilization folder in the MS-DOS directory.
The game appears in Magicbox as a selectable item.
Launching game (civ.exe) causes Magicbox to crash.
I relaunch Magicbox, no game is present to start. Icons have reverted to non-modern icons. Help screen appears again.
In the .magicbox folder the following is present:

.magicbox
Games (Folder)
Data (Folder)
e2e706….(Folder with random looking name)
Temp (Empty Folder)
avatar.png
config.xml
autofill.xml
backupConfig.xml
collection.xml
cross_settings.xml
global.xml
last_start_games.xml
.nomedia

I tried adding Civ two additional times and there are two new folders in the DATA folder after doing so. The game does not remain in Magicbox after adding it. I can paste the contents of any file if needed. Thanks again for the help! Hopefully other users will get some support from this.

[brickiemart]

I can add and play a game. It will remain as long as the session for Magicbox is up. When I reboot Magicbox, it is all gone. I will try the version on the huawei store. Thank you for the reply!

An idea for a work around, I use an emulator frontend on Android called Launchbox. It has been a good workaround for launching roms on the SD card to an emulator (usually retroarch). It supports adding custom emulators to pass the game file to. It asks for the following for the following fields when adding a custom emulator:

Custom Emulator Package Name
Custom Emulator Activity Name
Custom Emulator Rom Path Key

Is there any Magicbox documentation that states what some of these items could be?

Thanks Again!

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