Error loading game .pdx from another drive

SDK Bug Reports
#1

I have my game (.pdx folder) on a different drive than Playdate SDK, when I try to open it either by dragging on the simulator or Ctrl+O I get "Load failed:" with no message.

I tried loading it from SDK\Disk\Games and I got "Load failed: Games".

FInally I tried to load just from the root of the same drive where SDK lives. And I got a proper message about my EventHandler not being properly exported.

When I fixed the issue with EventHandler I succesfully loaded it from SDK drive but when I try to load it from another drive I still get "Load failed:"

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#3

Thanks for the report, this will be fixed in the next release.

Can't launch games on a freshly installed Playdate Simulator
#5

Hi, I've been having the same problem. After updating to the newest SDK (1.9.2), the problem persists but the error message has changed:

19:07:27: Loading: Failed
update failed: "(null)" was built with an old version of the SDK.

The device firmware has introduced an incompatible change since this PDX file was compiled.

PDX version: 0
Firmware is compatible with 10000 and up.

Please update and try again. Thanks!
19:07:27: Update failed, simulator paused.

(The same PDX loads fine after moving it to the same drive as the SDK)

#6

The fix for this issue hasn't made it into the SDK just yet. The next feature release will contain it, thanks for keeping tabs on it. :slight_smile:

#7

Hi, even after updating to latest version(1.9.3) I am still having the same problem.