Simplest way to combine Mame & FBA folders into Arcade folder?
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@mitu when I'm moving the files from mame-libretro folder to arcade folder, am I also moving the sub folders (downloaded_images, mame2003)?
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I have managed to move all of the roms and scraped images from mame-libretro and fba into the arcade folder. I modified the emulators.cfg file in both the /opt/retropie/configs/arcade and /opt/retropie/configs/all/ folders so the roms all launch with the correct emulator. I re-scraped and all of the images now show up for each rom. I added a new launching.jpg to /opt/configs/arcade/ so it just displays a generic arcade rather than a specific emulator. Two things have now happened:
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Collections containing games from the mame-libretro and fba folders no longer display those games (CPS 1, 2 & 3, etc)
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There does not appear to be a gamelist.xml file in the arcade folder
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Fixed collections by manually editing the config files in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/collections
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@benjaminjay said in Simplest way to combine Mame & FBA folders into Arcade folder?:
There does not appear to be a gamelist.xml file in the arcade folder
That file is created by the scraper, the internal Emulationstation scraper does not save the
gamelist.xmlin the ROMs folder, but in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system_name>`. -
For some reason my Neo Geo games are showing up in my merged arcade list even though the roms are in the Neo Geo folder... I deleted the gamelist.xml in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/arcade and scraped but it didn't write a new file in that directory...
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@benjaminjay Are you using a 3rd party image or did you built your system starting from the image from retropie.org.uk/download ?
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@mitu not 3rd party but it's been a while since I messed around with this so I'm fuzzy on some of the details
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@benjaminjay If there is no
gamelist.xmlin the~/.emulationstation/gamelists/arcadefolder, check if you haven't got thegamelist.xmlin the ROMs folder. Also, check if you have enabled "Parse Gamelists Only" in Emulationstation. -
@mitu There is no gamelist file in either of those directories. "Parse Gamelists Only" was not enabled.
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@mitu turns out some of the neo geo roms were duplicated in the arcade folder... simplest explanation right? lol
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