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    hide roms in emulation station

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      FoxPie
      last edited by

      hello! it is possible to hide or something the unwanted roms from the emulation station list?
      example:

      i have the two cps3 versions of jojo's bizarre adventure. the parent rom (jap) and the euro one. i'm not interested in viewing the parent in the list.
      it is possible to hide it?

      any other solution is accepted!

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      • vbsV
        vbs @FoxPie
        last edited by

        @FoxPie
        Would moving it to a subfolder be a solution?

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        • Lyle_JPL
          Lyle_JP
          last edited by

          Does the emulator you're using allow you to use non-merged roms? If you can "complete" your clone, you might be able to simply dispose of the parent.

          Also, if your game list is stable (you're no longer adding things or scraping), you can put Emulation Station in "Parse Gamelists Only" mode, and then edit your gamelist.xml to remove the reference to the romfile, without actually removing the romfile.

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            FoxPie
            last edited by FoxPie

            both solutions seems ok. just a question? what do you mean by "complete your clone" ? how can i do that?

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            • Lyle_JPL
              Lyle_JP @FoxPie
              last edited by

              @FoxPie This link should tell you everything you need to know about parents and clones, non-merged vs. split romsets, and how to use clrmamepro to create either:
              https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

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                backstander
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                @FoxPie
                I've heard you can hide roms from the Child friendly version of EmulationStation:
                https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Child-friendly-EmulationStation

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                • mattrixkM
                  mattrixk @FoxPie
                  last edited by

                  @FoxPie: I use the Child-Friendly version that @backstander mentioned. I use it mainly so I can set favourites, but you can also use it to hide certain roms. For example you can hide all the shooty/gorey/horror games so you can leave your kid with the system without worrying they might find something you don't want them to play.

                  One thing though, if you have the system set to kid-friendly mode, you won't have access to most of the system settings. This is so the kid can't accidentally mess up your system by playing with the settings. This also stops your drunk friends from doing the same.

                  My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                    FoxPie
                    last edited by

                    woah, this is great! thank you everyone

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