Gengal - Gamelist XML Generator
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@EctoOne Okay, this has now been implemented in the form of a "suffix mode". You can either press F5 or select it from the new "Tools" option. That should give you what you need!
I think it's self explanatory (especially with the preview option), but let me know if you get stuck.
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@Jax Awesome, works great. But i think there's one Bug. When not using Suffix Mode, i only can enter 4 letters in any of the subfolder textboxes.
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@EctoOne Whoops, well spotted. Fixed now if you want to redownload.
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Just to clarify.. This doesnt scrap art, it uses art you have?
Thanks
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@BORIStheBLADE1 said in Gengal - Gamelist XML Generator:
Just to clarify.. This doesnt scrap art, it uses art you have?
Thanks
No it doesn't scrape, at least not yet. Might do it in the future, but it's not what I needed it for at the time so it doesn't have the feature at the moment.
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Hi @Jax !, thats a ultra good program but in mi opinion for be perfect you need to apply one thing more in the suffix mode:
1- the option for edit the suffix you like not predefined like in version 1.11.
2- an option to chose the 3 folders , at this moment marquee and cover shares folder in suffix mode obliged.With that i think is perfect program! thanks a lot!.
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Any chance of an upload somewhere else? I can't for the life of me get the link to work.
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Probably a REALLY stupid question but I tried to scrape my roms today with sselph, universal XML and the built in scraper and none of them found any of my Atari 2600, NES or SNES roms. Will this create an XML file that will allow universal xml to find them and scrape them or do I need something else? I am still very new to this :P
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@jax How do I use it to update an existing xml? I only see the option to add my ROM folder.
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@thewinterdojer If you want to update your xml with videos/marquee i think you need to use suffix mode from the tools menu or press F5. I'm not sure tho, so make a backup of your xml first.
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Curious what is going wrong here. Whenever I try to update the xml, it spits out this weird garbled mess of a filepath. I've tried it on numerous ones thus far and it all looks like this...
<image>./boxart//hompRetroPiromn6007 - GoldenEye (USA).png</image>
<video>./snap//hompRetroPiromn6007 - GoldenEye (USA).mp4</video>I'm THIS close to being able to solve being able to fix a lot of gamelists with this tool, but this little bug is preventing me and I can't figure it out.
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I cannot open the .exe , I double click on it but nothing happens :(
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Hi Jax!
Wow! Great program!
I'd like to suggest an option to add.
Would it be possible to create an .xml that truncates the region code from the game list within EmulationStation?
While my rom sets include the region code... Ducktales (USA).zip... the gamelist currently displays Ducktales (USA).
I'd like my game list within EmulationStation to display the title without the (USA)... just plain Ducktales
Thanks for your hard work and giving us something that DRASTICALLY makes our lives easier!
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@lukeslens I ran into this myself tonight. I'm guessing your gamelists use absolute paths. Gengal appears to be able to only write out relative paths.
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Random question...So this will create the gamelist.xml files...but it will not include the ratings, number of players, type of game, game description, etc...right? If not...is there a way to add those informations to the xml files?
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@psibash you mean like a scraper? Something like the built-in one, sselph's or universal xml scraper? For my understanding this editor is to "fix" entries in scraped xml files.
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Ah yeah i understand since it can update existing gamelists. Thanks for the reply! :)
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This tool is great, so good it updates rather that recreates the gamelist.xml, thanks for all your hard work.
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The tool does not work for me. When i try opening it i get an error. Windows 7 64bit. Tried rebooting and still no luck. Any help would be appreciated as i've downloaded all my artwork to pc and when trasnfering to folder emulationstation doesnt pick it up. I need to create a new xml gamelist file so it knows where to look for artwork from XML Scraper V2. Thanks alot and looking forward to some replies
Error relates to a signiture problem. I am not sure why or how I can get around it. Thanks
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@jax Thanks for putting this together, it's been very helpful.
Would you consider adding the ability to filter by extensions and scanning sub-directories? This might be helpful for folks who are using subfolders in the ROM folder for things like genres. In my case, I have as many of the "All Killer, No Filler" roms for Arcade games in the Arcade main rom directory and everything else is in a subfolder. Images \videos\marquess for all arcade roms remain in \roms\arcade\images. This appears to be the default with selph scraper.
This app has been really great. Thanks for all the hard work - it's saved hours and hours of time for me in experimenting with different images in themes and making my system look great. Thank you again!
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