How do I make a gamelist?

[Nicky_S14]

Hi,

I would like to make a list of all the games I have in my system, there are others doing it but I can't seem to find anywhere where there is a tutorial for this. Could someone please guide me through making a gameslist for systems such as PSX, etc. ?

If so it would be extremely appreciated!!!!

Thank you

[Clyde]

@nicky_s14 This console command sequence will list all the <name> tags in the arcade gamelist.xml file and store them in a file named "gamelist.txt" in the same directory. You only have to change the cdcommand to the rom directory in question.

cd /home/pi/Retropie/roms/arcade  # change into the arcade rom folder
cat gamelist.xml | grep \<name\> | awk -v FS="(<name>|</name>)" '{print $2}' | sort -o gamelist.txt

Explanation: The second line is a sequence of four commands divided by the "pipe" | character which relays the output of the former command as input to the following command.

• cat lists the contents of the gamelist.xml
• grep relays only the lines that contain "<name>".
• awk relays only the part between "<name>" and "</name>"
• sort sorts the list alphabetically and (-o)utputs it into gamelist.txt

[Sano]

@mitu did a great script that exports your gamelists to Excel :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16319/gamelist-excel-export-script