Gamelist Excel export script

Used2BeRX

@mitu BTW... figured I should show you an example of what the synopsis.txt files look like. This is for Mario in Some Usual Day.txt, same game as the example above:

Mario in Some Usual Day
Original Title: Super Mario Bros. 3
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: NES Gamepad
Genre: Action / Platformer
Gametype: Hack
Release Year: 1990
Hack Release Year: 2005
Developer: Nintendo R&D2
Publisher: Nintendo of America Inc.
Hacked by: JaSp
Version: 1.1
Players: 1
_________________________

Some usual day isn't so usual after all. This game features enemies from Zelda, Metroid, and Kirby, new power-ups, and a brand-new secret coin system. And yes, that is a fire-ball-chucking Raccoon Mario below. This is a complete hack of Super Mario Bros 3, featuring 4 new worlds and 1 secret world! All worlds are filled with new levels, new graphics, new asm mods and more!

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/53/
http://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/super-mario-bros-3

Mario in Some Usual Day.txt is the same name as the <xtrasname/> tag in the gamelist.xml. All media for this game such as the rom, synopsis, artwork, etc. will have this exact file name.

mitu

@used2berx Here it is

https://gist.github.com/cmitu/2f1a0dab4e5086b8fca99b081677b6ec

Installation instructions are the same as my initial script, needs the python module mentioned there in order to work.
You can run it with -h to see the usage, by default reads a gamelist.xml from the running dir and exports to gamelist.xlsx there, but you can change the paths via parameters.
Note that the gamelist fragment you posted has some structure errors - mismatched tags or missing closing tags. You need to validate the XML structure before running the export, since it will error out otherwise.

You can add more tags (see line 120) to be parsed and added to the export. I think I covered most of the ones in your example, but you can freely add more.

Used2BeRX

@mitu Thank you so much man. :)

I don't think I'll have a chance to really dive into this and test it for about two more weeks. Because of the nature of the cart work I'm doing and the way that I have to have my current compatibility spreadsheet that I use to do all of my work off of, I absolutely have to finish them before I can move on to anything else. Works's been getting in the way of it this week, but I will have some free time next week to hopefully finish that up and move on to this so I can give you feedback, and ask you any questions I might have about being able to add any missing tags myself in the future.

Once this is all in place I hope @meleu has some free time to put the other tags in his script that will make converting from synopsis.txt to gamelist.xml to spreadsheet and all the way back again without losing any data a snap.

Please bear with me until I can get the time to properly devote to this. :)

Oh... and yeah. It looks like I forgot to add the </desc> tag when I was doing some manual edits to the file above. I wanted to make sure I added all the tags I could currently think that we'd need... even the ones that meleu hasn't put in the script yet. I didn't see any others that were missing the closing tags. We shouldn't have any problems with this once the script is taking care of this and I don't have to manually edit anything in the gamelist.xml.

papinist

I was just thinking about how to have an excel game list.. and voilà! :)

However since I'm really a noob with linux commands, I'm having an error and no xlsx file at the end.

'''
pi@retropie:~ $ python export.py /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/export_list.xlsx
2018-09-09 12:03:13,223 INFO Emulationstation systems file used: /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "export.py", line 584, in <module>
systems = parse_systems()
File "export.py", line 261, in parse_systems
gamelist = et.parse(gamelist_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1182, in parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 657, in parse
self._root = parser.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1654, in close
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0
'''
(sorry I can't remember the 'code' character everytime..)

mitu

@papinist Can you run the script with the -d flag (debug) to find out which gamelist file has this error, then upload the gamelist.xml somewhere so I can take a look ?

papinist

sure, here it is:
https://pastebin.com/QsT8qVjA

thanks for the help!

mitu

@papinist OK, so the problem seems to be the gamelist for the nds system (/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nds/gamelist.xml), can you add it to pastebin.com also so I can take a look ?

papinist

Actually, every time I exit from emulationstation to terminal, I got two errors regarding nds (see attached pic).
I am not sure what the problem is - this is a pre-made image that I edited to suit my needs - it has background music that I removed (this is probably the third error regarding autostart.sh), and many systems that I simply deleted from roms folder (and also image\video previews), but I only have this error regarding nds.

I don't have nds folder in 'roms' so I haven't a gamelist.xml to get!

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EDIT: The gamelist.xml at the path reported in that error is a blank file.

mitu

@papinist said in Gamelist Excel export script:

EDIT: The gamelist.xml at the path reported in that error is a blank file.

Remove the file, this should get rid of the error in the export and also the error in Emulationstation. Btw, your disk is really low on free space, you should do something to free up space so you don't get into other errors.

papinist

You are always the man, @mitu : it worked! Thanks so much!
Now I'm looking at the numbers and they are a bit off - total games 7850 in xlsx, but 7917 in emulationstation.
I see that Daphne is missing completely (12 games), and every sistem is missing something.
Also I have to admit that I didn't read the last page, maybe you have already explained this.

Re: space. Do you think it's low? This is a closed system, I have no plans to do updates in future (it is meant for a little boy) so I thought that 1.4 gb was enough!

mitu

@papinist said in Gamelist Excel export script:

Now I'm looking at the numbers and they are a bit off - total games 7850 in xlsx, but 7917 in emulationstation.
I see that Daphne is missing completely (12 games), and every sistem is missing something.

I don't think the script will correctly count the systems where the game is an actual folder. If you could add the daphne system gamelist.xml to pastebin.com, I could take a look to see why it's not read correctly. A log file from running with the -d switch can also help to determine where's the error.

Note that the export will check if the ROM is present, so if you have the Parse metadata only option checked, then you'll see more entries than you might actually have on disk.

Attach the gamelist.xml for a system that's not exported and tell me which entry/entries are not appearing in the export, I'll take a look.

papinist

This is daphne's gamelist.txt https://pastebin.com/uRFWiKnC

As example, ES reports 63 games for Atari 7800; Checking roms folder it has 63 roms; xls reports 57 games.

(how can I attach a file here? This message editor is really difficult to use)

mitu

@papinist said in Gamelist Excel export script:

how can I attach a file here

I meant upload it to pastebin.com. You can only attach images and the gamelist is too large to paste it inline.

papinist

Understood!
Atari 7800 gamelist.txt https://pastebin.com/wusbd0DJ

mitu

@papinist OK, so the Daphne export was missing because folders where not counted as valid ROMs. This should be fixed now, if you re-download the script it should work.

For the Atari part, the gamelist you uploaded has 58 game entries, of which 1 doesn't have a name tag, so the export is correct. Do you have a gamelist.xml file in the ROMs folder (atari7800) ? If you run the script with the -d parameter, it should print the path of the gamelist used for export.

[..]
2018-09-09 DEBUG  Analyzing system: Atari 7800 ProSystem (atari7800)
2018-09-09 DEBUG  Gamelist for atari7800 is read from /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari7800/gamelist.xml
2018-09-09 DEBUG  Found 57 game(s) for Atari 7800 ProSystem atari7800
[..]

papinist

the gamelist.xml I uploaded is the one from roms folder - I recall some setting somewhere where you choose to have them in roms folder on under emulationstation.. Maybe I have some mess in this setup :-|

However gamelist.txt in that path (/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari7800/) is almost blank:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gameList />

mitu

@papinist said in Gamelist Excel export script:

the gamelist.xml I uploaded is the one from roms folder - I recall some setting somewhere where you choose to have them in roms folder on under emulationstation.. Maybe I have some mess in this setup :-|

The export script will gladly accept both paths and is really reading the gamelist from the ROMs folder (as it's the 1st path tried). However, as I said, your gamelist.xml file only has 57 valid entries, so the export is ok as far as the gamelist.xml content is concerned. Do you have turned off saving of metadata on exit in Emulationstation ? That would explain why you have 63 ROMs in that folder, but the gamelist.xml has less.

papinist

No, that option is ON, and "parse gamelists only" is OFF.

Your fix is working, now it correctly reports 12 daphne games.

I don't know why games are mess in gamelist than in folder, since I never added roms myself.. :-O
(I added games reported by ES on the right)

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mitu

@papinist Unless I have the gamelist.xml to see how it's structured, I can't tell why the difference comes up.
But if it's the same situation as the atari7800 system, then there's nothing I can do - it seems the gamelist.xml does not contain all the entries ES counts.

papinist

Thank you @mitu, you already did an enormous work!

I'm really a beginner with retropie, so I don't know why ES and folders have different numbers compared to gamelist :)

thanks again!