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    • hiulitH
      hiulit @MadHorse
      last edited by

      @madhorse your Daphne and Amiga game lists would be enough, I think.

      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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        MadHorse @hiulit
        last edited by

        @hiulit said in [SCRIPT] RetroPie Limit Last Played Games:

        @madhorse your Daphne and Amiga game lists would be enough, I think.

        No Problem,
        This is the Daphne Gamelist and this is the Amiga Gamelist

        Thanks a lot for helping me test the script, btw!

        Thanks to you for your work and for helping us to Limit the Last Played list :)

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        • ClydeC
          Clyde @hiulit
          last edited by

          @hiulit said in [SCRIPT] RetroPie Limit Last Played Games:

          @madhorse whooops, it's getting tricky! Haha!

          In my head, I heard your words in the voice of the first Doctor Who. Especially the laughter! šŸ˜„

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          • hiulitH
            hiulit
            last edited by hiulit

            Retropie Limit Last Played Games v2.1.1 is out!

            CHANGELOG

            Fixed

            • Issue with duplicate game names but different <lastplayed> tags in gamelist.xml. Now the script takes both the game name and its <lastplayed> tag to avoid duplicates. If there are more than one game with same name and <lastplayed> tag, the script won't work.
            • Escape game names with single quotes in gamelist.xml.
            • Escape ampersands (&) in gamelist.xml.

            @MadHorse all your issues should now be fixed! :P

            EDIT: Until you find more, hehe! ;)

            My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

            • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
            • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
            • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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            • M
              MadHorse
              last edited by

              AND THE WINNER IS @hiulit :D

              You did it man, I made some fast test with the new version and it's working perfectly, it' s awesome.
              Now, because I'm a BAD guy, i tried to trick the script and made a gamelist with 2 exactly duplicate games, same name and same date, obviously the script gave an error, and then it completed the work.

              Anyway, if someone has messed up the gamelist.xml so badly is what I-(he) deserve :)))

              You are the best, thank you for your hard work, i love your script.

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              • M
                MadHorse
                last edited by

                Hi @hiulit I'm here again, unfortunately for another bug.
                Usually in the gamelist.xml the & character is written as &amp;, probably there is something tricky with the escape of & because after you execute the script, it will transform it to &amp;amp;, if you execute it another time you will get &amp;amp;amp;
                I'm so sorry to bring you bad news.

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                • hiulitH
                  hiulit @MadHorse
                  last edited by

                  @madhorse Hey! Yeah, totally my bad... Such a noob thing to do :( Or in this case, NOT to do..

                  I only check for unescaped & because in one of your gamelist.xml there were a lot of them and the software that parses the xml, which is xmlstarlet, was crashing because of that. So I assumed that scrapers would always add the unescaped & and I didn't take into account that it was possible for some scrapers to have the escaped version &amp;.

                  I'll fix it asap.

                  Thanks for the heads up! ;)

                  My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                  • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                  • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                  • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                  • hiulitH
                    hiulit
                    last edited by

                    New RetroPie Limit Last Played Games 2.1.2 is out!

                    @MadHorse if you could give it a try.... hehe! ;) Thanks!

                    CHANGELOG

                    [2.1.2] - 2018-09-20

                    Fixed

                    • Escape special characters function.

                    Added

                    • Validate XML function.

                    My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                    • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                    • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                    • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                    • M
                      MadHorse
                      last edited by

                      @hiulit hi, I made a quick test and now the & and &amp; aren't changed, great work.
                      I will do some more test hoping to not find more bugs, I don't want you to hate me :)

                      Thank you very much, you and your script are awesome

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                      • hiulitH
                        hiulit @MadHorse
                        last edited by

                        @madhorse Cross fingers :P

                        You are very welcome. I think you and I are the only ones using this script, haha!

                        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                        • ClydeC
                          Clyde @hiulit
                          last edited by

                          @hiulit With me as an uninvolved onlooker. :)

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                          • hiulitH
                            hiulit @Clyde
                            last edited by

                            @clyde haha, of course! ;)

                            My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                            • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                            • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                            • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                              MadHorse @hiulit
                              last edited by

                              @hiulit said in [SCRIPT] RetroPie Limit Last Played Games:

                              @madhorse Cross fingers :P

                              You are very welcome. I think you and I are the only ones using this script, haha!

                              Hahah, maybe, probably because many peoples don't know about it :)

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                              • ClydeC
                                Clyde @MadHorse
                                last edited by

                                @madhorse Well, at least this thread will appear in the "unread" list every time a new post is posted here. :)

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                                • hiulitH
                                  hiulit @Clyde
                                  last edited by

                                  @clyde @MadHorse Shhhh.. don't say it out loud or we'll get banned for bumping posts xD

                                  My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                  • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                  • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                  • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                  • cyperghostC
                                    cyperghost @hiulit
                                    last edited by

                                    @hiulit @Clyde

                                    I like Raspberry Bumber, with white chocolat it's the best

                                    The smell of

                                    • Freedom
                                    • Independence
                                    • New Sources
                                    • New Horizons

                                    Bumber BAR

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                                    • ClydeC
                                      Clyde @cyperghost
                                      last edited by

                                      @cyperghost You, sir, are my kind of silly. šŸ˜†

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                                      • hiulitH
                                        hiulit
                                        last edited by

                                        New minor version of Retropie Limit Last Played Games 2.1.3 is out!

                                        Changelog

                                        [2.1.3] - 2018-12-23

                                        Fixed

                                        • Files permissions.

                                        Added

                                        • Debug mode dialog when using the script via the EmulationStation's RetroPie menu.
                                        • Debug mode text in script's title when debug mode is on.

                                        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                        • hiulitH
                                          hiulit
                                          last edited by

                                          New minor version of Retropie Limit Last Played Games is out!

                                          Changelog

                                          [2.1.4] - 2019-02-14

                                          Fixed

                                          • The script won't ask anymore to restart EmulationStation (if it's running) when debug mode is on.

                                          My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                          • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                          • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                          • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                          • cyperghostC
                                            cyperghost @hiulit
                                            last edited by

                                            @hiulit The script can be improved by using joy2key. So you can rearchange the key input for joypad to make the checkboxes work ;)

                                            I've a small example of how to do here: Midnight Joy [Scriptlet]
                                            In this small script I rearranged the key input to make use of Midnight Commander with joypad ;) It might be usefull for this script,too ;)

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