.conf extention ignored by gamelist.xml

[winterelf]

Hi,

I have gamelist.xml in my .roms/pc folder, and I added the following line:

	</game>
		<game>
		<path>./bumpy.conf</path>
		<name>Bumpy</name>
		<desc>The first game in the Bumpy series is, just like its sequels, about a head that can bump a lot. You control whether the head shall bump left or right, and how far up it will bounce, in a similar fashion to Mappy. You have to move across a series of bouncy platforms and pick up all items on the screen. Once all items are collected, the exit will appear so that you can go on to the next screen.</desc>
		<image>./boxart/Bumpy.jpg</image>
		<video>./snaps/Bumpy.mp4</video>
		<rating>0</rating>
		<releasedate>19890301T133410</releasedate>
		<developer />
		<publisher />
		<genre>Platform</genre>
		<playcount>1</playcount>
		<lastplayed>20210317T202716</lastplayed>
	</game>

This .conf file in the <path> is ignored by es which in this case, doesn't show me video snaps. But, if I change the filename bumpy.conf to bumpy.zip , and also update the gamelist.xml to use this .zip , now it shows me the video snaps.
Seems like gamelist.xml has an issue with the fact that I provide .conf file as the game path.

Is there any way to fix that so that .conf file will work in the path and es will show the video?

[winterelf]

Update:
Please ignore the below information, it is wrong.
end update.

Well I did a little test, I changed the path to be foo.zip and left the file bumpy.zip as is. now it shows me the video, this means someplace else gamelist.xml file exists.

found out that
~/.emulationstation/gamelists/pc/gamelist.xml
had this file, with bumpy.zip
after I deleted this file and restarted, but i still get video on this game.

in /etc/emulationstation there is no gamelist.

Where can I find it?

[sleve_mcdichael]

@winterelf said in .conf extention ignored by gamelist.xml:

in /etc/emulationstation there is no gamelist.

Where can I find it?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#gamelistxml-edits

If you use the built in ES Scraper your gamelist.xml will be in

~/.emulationstation/gamelists/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml

If you use another scraper (Steven Sselph's scraper or Lars Muldjord's Skyscraper) you can choose whether your scraped data goes in

~/RetroPie/roms/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml

Or

~/.emulationstation/gamelists/[SYSTEM_NAME]/gamelist.xml

[winterelf]

@sleve_mcdichael sorry, my test were wrong... I am confused now, I put other video for bumpy and it actually changed, this means that my thoughts at first are right... gamelist.xml ignore .conf file as a game extensions for PC

[sleve_mcdichael]

@winterelf said in .conf extention ignored by gamelist.xml:

this means that my thoughts at first are right... gamelist.xml ignore .conf file as a game extensions for PC

.conf should be included: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PC/#roms

Accepted File Extensions: .com .sh .bat .exe .conf

Have you modified your es_systems.cfg file?

What hardware are you on & how did you install RetroPie?

[winterelf]

@sleve_mcdichael my es_systems.cfg file has the following config for PC:

<system>
  <name>pc</name>
  <fullname>PC</fullname>
  <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc</path>
  <extension>.bat .com .conf .cue .dosz .exe .ins .ima .img .iso .m3u .m3u8 .vhd .zip .BAT .COM .CONF .CUE .DOSZ .EXE .INS .IMA .IMG .ISO .M3U .M3U8 .VHD .ZIP .sh</extension>
  <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ pc %ROM%</command>
  <platform>pc</platform>
  <theme>pc</theme>
</system>

The .conf file is running the game, it just doesn't show the video snap. I am not sure why. only when I change the file name to .zip instead of .conf , and edit the <game> path to be the .zip file instead of .conf (in gamelist.xml) it will show the game video snap...
I use rpi4 with 4gb and I am using prebuilt image from arcadepanks.

[jamrom2]

@winterelf 3rd party builds are not supported by this forum.

If this were a build direct from this forum, the above fix would have worked. The file extension list in the es_system.cfg is the only change you need to make to allow a file to be shown in the game list of each system. It will just show without meta data until it is scrapped. This is also how it shows any images or videos. Once ES reads that file extension in that list, it knows what to do.

So who knows why your build is not doing that. You'll have to ask the team that created it.