@meleu said in EmulationStation Sort Name and Display Name:
@cafarellidigital as a workaround (while this feature isn't implemented) you can use subfolders and symbolic links to the ROMs.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't like the idea of using subfolder or links like that (not for me, at least), though I did think of another workaround (that's possibly insane).
Essentially you would number every game in the order you want them to appear, and insert that number at the beginning of every game name in the gamelist.xml. Then you'd modify the font you're using to make numbers invisible and take up almost no width space. Then for titles that actually need numbers, substitute an unused character for those numbers and use those characters in the gamelist.xml for numbers you want to see. It's ridiculous, but it's a way to get what I want. The only problem is that, obviously, it's not very open to new games being added, and everything needs to be manually edited.
The gamelist.xml would look something like this:
<game>
<path>./Mortal Kombat.bin</path>
<name>22 Mortal Kombat</name>
...
</game>
<game>
<path>./Mortal Kombat II.bin</path>
<name>23 Mortal Kombat II</name>
...
</game>
<game>
<path>./Mortal Kombat 3.bin</path>
<name>24 Mortal Kombat #</name>
...
</game>
<game>
<path>./Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.bin</path>
<name>25 Ultimate Mortal Kombat #</name>
...
</game>
With the "#" symbol being replaced with "3" in the font, and the 22, 23, 24, 25 being invisible in ES.
It's a lot of work, but it's the only workaround that I can think of that would give me the result I want.
