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Able to change names to games for NEOGEO? (scraper from Steven Selph?)

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    najkks
    last edited by 15 Oct 2016, 23:53

    well i dont really need all the artwork..

    just want the gamenames to clean up a little :)

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      meleu @najkks
      last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 00:05

      @najkks sorry, I misunderstood your request. I thought you were having the real rom filename.

      Well... the only way I can think to achieve what you want is manually edit the metadata...

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        najkks @meleu
        last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 00:10

        @meleu

        yes.. for example the gamelist.xml - right?

        im in the Rpi now using winscp.. but where can i find the xml-file?

        ive read about a "hidden" folder called "pi" - but i cant find it

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          najkks
          last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 00:15

          ive downloaded an XML-creator..

          it creates the xml-file that i need to change the Name of neogeo-games

          but the question is, where do i put the file to make changes take effect?

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            meleu @najkks
            last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 00:39

            @najkks there's no need to create it from scratch, you can edit the gamelist.xml files.

            Answering your question: for neogeo ES will check three places for a gamelist.xml in the following order, using the first one it finds:

            • ~/RetroPie/roms/neogeo/gamelist.xml
            • ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml
            • /etc/emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml

            more info about the emulationstation gamelist.xml files can be found here:
            https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/GAMELISTS.md

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              najkks @meleu
              last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 01:15

              @meleu

              thanks

              but i have to scrape the folder first? (neogeo for example)

              when scraping, is the artwork etc taking up much space on sdch-card?

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                najkks
                last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 07:51

                well.. ive scraped all night, for about 5 hours!

                it still missing pictures for all of these consoles: NES, SNES, N64, NEOGEO, Megadrive etc..

                why is this?

                and also.. ive checked the gameslist in the directories you mentioned, but there's only one (in emulationsstation/gameslists/neogeo/
                well theres one file per each console - but they only contain about 5-10 of the games availible for editing!

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                  meleu @najkks
                  last edited by meleu 16 Oct 2016, 08:12

                  @najkks said in Able to change names to games for NEOGEO? (scraper from Steven Selph?):

                  but i have to scrape the folder first? (neogeo for example)

                  No. I suggested it to avoid creating entries from scratch.

                  when scraping, is the artwork etc taking up much space on sdch-card?

                  I don't think so (if you have 32GB). But to be honest I didn't measure it...

                  it still missing pictures for all of these consoles: NES, SNES, N64, NEOGEO, Megadrive etc..

                  why is this?

                  It create entries only for those games that it found metadata for.

                  and also.. ive checked the gameslist in the directories you mentioned, but there's only one (in emulationsstation/gameslists/neogeo/

                  It is expected. I just listed the files where emulationstation searches for metadata (in that order). But usually the file is at ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml.

                  Tip: copy ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml to ~/RetroPie/roms/neogeo/gamelist.xml and then edit the last so the first is your "backup".

                  well theres one file per each console - but they only contain about 5-10 of the games availible for editing!

                  It depends on the number of games that the scraper found metadata.

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                    najkks
                    last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 08:16

                    hmm okey, because before i scraped i could not find the xml-file in any of the directories you mentioned!

                    should i create i manually?

                    is there a way to "unscrape" so that i get rid of all downloaded artwork? i dont really need them

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                      meleu @najkks
                      last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 08:37

                      @najkks

                      should i create i manually?

                      It's up to you. ;-)

                      is there a way to "unscrape" so that i get rid of all downloaded artwork? i dont really need them

                      You can delete the gamelist.xml files to get rid of metadata.
                      But to delete the downloaded artwork files you have to delete some directory below ~/.emulationstation/. I think it is named image but I'm not in home now to check it. Check an <image> entry in one of those gamelist.xml, there's a path to the artwork file there.

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                        najkks
                        last edited by najkks 16 Oct 2016, 08:48

                        well.. ive got about 3000 games now.. so is there a way to create it automaticly but without the artwork?

                        or is it possible to create it so that i might be able to change the names for just the NEOGEO-games? :)

                        thats the only directory where the name of the games are kind of screwed up

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                          meleu @najkks
                          last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 08:56

                          @najkks Details here (I should have shown it to you before, sorry):
                          https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper#steven-selphs-scraper

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                            najkks
                            last edited by 16 Oct 2016, 08:59

                            okey.. so if i delete the "downloaded images" folder all the artwork should disapear?

                            or should i leave the folder and just delete its content?

                            still. strange that i cant find the xml-file with more than 5-10 games, dont u think?

                            because i have about 300 - 900 games per console

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