Post subject: Bizhawk won't start anymore
Citan
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Joined: 2/12/2017
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I was playing a SNES game on Bizhawk (DCK2). After turning it off, I later tried opening it again and stopped working. Note that this occured after recording footage of the game. Will I have to download another version?
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See if your Anti-virus software has deleted any .dll files from Bizhawk. I know Norton loves to do that, despite me telling it over and over again that they're trusted files; so I keep on having to restore them.
Citan
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I did a full scan / file deletion with System Mechanic right before it happened. I don't think you can recover them though.
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1. you can recover deleted files depending on how you deleted it and what OS/filesystem you use. for example https://www.piriform.com/recuva 2. if you have any error dialog that pops up after starting BizHawk, post it here. 3. Since you mentioned antivirus, it could deleted .dll files from the dll directory. Here's my dll directory list of files:
7z.dll
BizHawk.Bizware.BizwareGL.dll           BizHawk.Bizware.BizwareGL.GdiPlus.dll
BizHawk.Bizware.BizwareGL.OpenTK.dll    BizHawk.Bizware.BizwareGL.SlimDX.dll
BizHawk.Client.ApiHawk.dll              BizHawk.Client.Common.dll
BizHawk.Common.dll                      BizHawk.Emulation.Common.dll
BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.dll             BizHawk.Emulation.DiscSystem.dll
bizlynx.dll                             bizswan.dll
blip_buf.dll                            cgc.exe
CSharp-SQLite.dll                       ELFSharp.dll
ffmpeg.exe                              ffmpeg_readme.txt
freetype26.dll                          GongShell.dll
gpgx.wbx.gz                             ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll
Ionic.Zip.dll                           libc.so.gz
libco.so.gz                             libdarm.dll
libgambatte.dll                         libgcc_s.so.gz
libgcc_s_seh-1.dll                      libpng16.dll
libquicknes.dll                         LibretroBridge.dll
libsnes.wbx.gz                          libspeexdsp.dll
libstdc++-6.dll                         libstdc++.so.6.gz
libvbanext.dll                          libwinpthread-1.dll
lua51.dll                               LuaInterface.dll
mgba.dll                                mupen64plus-audio-bkm.dll
mupen64plus-input-bkm.dll               mupen64plus-rsp-hle.dll
mupen64plus-video-glide64.dll           mupen64plus-video-glide64mk2.dll
mupen64plus-video-GLideN64.dll          mupen64plus-video-rice.dll
mupen64plus.dll                         Newtonsoft.Json.dll
ngp.wbx.gz                              [nlua]
octoshock.dll                           OpenAL32.dll
OpenTK.dll                              OpenTK.GLControl.dll
pcfx.wbx.gz                             PeNet.dll
picodrive.wbx.gz                        sameboy.wbx.gz
SDL.dll                                 SlimDX.dll
snes9x.wbx.gz                           ss.wbx.gz
System.Data.SQLite.dll                  uzem.wbx.gz
vb.wbx.gz                               Virtu.dll
wrap_oal.dll                            zlib1.dll
4. if you don't have any error dialogs, try (backupping, and then) deleting your config.ini file
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