Double "Sonic CD" titles showing in Sega-Cd Gamelist

bullethead

I've been fiddling with the Sega-CD lately. Got my BIOS
and have been loading ROMS into the folder. Sonic appears twice. I have a BIN, CUE and SRM file in the ROM folder. When I look at the metadata for each file, 1 is listed as the BIN, 1 as the CUE and both can be started and the ROM plays fine.

I haven't tried removing either file as I thought both were needed for the ROM to work.

Kinda perplexed how that would happen, would like to get rid of the "double". Thanks!

Pi Model: 3
Power Supply used: Canakit
RetroPie Version Used : 4.4
Built From: Manual build from RetroPie
USB Devices connected: n/a
Controller used: DS4

mitu

Are you sure you're using the default RetroPie image ? By default, the .bin files are not counted for the segacd system, only the .cue.
Did you modify the es_systems.cfg file ?

bullethead

Yes, it's the default and I made no modifications. I added 21 other ROMS last night and the only one that doubles up is Sonic.

I even deleted the 3 files (.bin, .cue .srm), re-downloaded, unzipped and got the same result.

Granted, I now know why the system was a failure. The games are pretty harsh graphically. I could just hide one but its annoying me that its happening. I'll take some pictures when I get home tonight.

mitu

@bullethead The default excludes .bin files, so I don't see why your .bin files are counted.

bullethead

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@mitu Her's pics of the ROM folder, how you see it in the ES game list and the metadata. I'm at a loss. Other than compressing into a chd.

mitu

@bullethead The screenshots are just confirming what you said before, but the problem is not the files - it's your /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg file. Edit the file and remove the .bin extension from the segacd system so it looks like

  <system>
    <name>segacd</name>
    <fullname>Mega CD</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/segacd</path>
    <extension>.iso .cue .chd .ISO .CUE .CHD</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ segacd %ROM%</command>
    <platform>segacd</platform>
    <theme>segacd</theme>
  </system>

You probably have the .bin extension added to the extensions node.

quicksilver

@mitu he was saying that only the .bin for Sonic CD is showing up though. Why wouldn't the other .bin files also be showing up if it was related to es_systems.cfg?

mitu

@quicksilver Good point, it seems I skipped over that :).
@bullethead do you have the Parse Gamelist Only option turned on in Emulationstation ?

lostless

I know that sometimes using Steven Selph's Scraper that the shaper will add metadata to the cue and bin, causing 2 entries in EmulationStation. It’s one reason I avoid using it on cd based systems. Maybe that’s the problem?

bullethead

@mitu I'm not familiar with that option. It is off. What does it do?

bullethead

@lostless I re-scraped all ROMS with Selph's and it did double Sonic and Bari-Arms. It is the 1st time I had scraped all of the ROMS for Sega-Cd. Looks like you are on the right track. Anyway to fix it?

mitu

You can manually edit the gamelist.xml file and remove the entries for the .bin files. You can find the file either in the ROMs folder (segacd) or under \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists\segacd(if you're using file shares).

edmaul69

@mitu shouldnt it be /opt/retropie/.. not //retropie/...

bullethead

@mitu said in Double "Sonic CD" titles showing in Sega-Cd Gamelist:

the gamelist.xml file
The gamelist.xml file was in the ROMs folder (segacd). I opened in Notepad and changed .bin to .cue, saved, rebooted and only 1 ROM was listed! Thanks!!!

mitu

@edmaul69 /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation (via SSH/SFTP) is the same as \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation (when accessed via File Shares) and the same with /home/pi/.emulationstation (when accessed again via SSH/SFTP).

edmaul69

@mitu gotcha