Removing 'unknown' and 'Players:' under games screenshots in ES menus

[weirdocollector]

Hi!

I've created a gamelist.xml file fore my C64 rom collection, where every single game is represented as follows:

	<game>  
		<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/c64/100 Meter Dash (USA).T64</path>  
		<name>100 Meter Dash (USA)</name>  
		<desc></desc>  
		<image>/home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/c64/100 Meter Dash (USA).png</image>  
		<rating></rating>  
		<developer></developer>  
		<publisher></publisher>  
		<genre></genre>  
		<players></players>  
 	</game> 

When I enter the C64 section of ES, the images associated to each game are displayed correctly, but under each screenshot are always shown the strings 'unknown' and 'Players:'.

How can I remove those strings, in order to display just the screenshot for each game ?

I've had a look at the ES docs, but nothing is noted on this issue.

Thanks a lot for any help.

[synack]

@weirdocollector Use a theme that doesn't show the meta data, such as carbon-nometa.

[weirdocollector]

@synack said in Removing 'unknown' and 'Players:' under games screenshots in ES menus:

@weirdocollector Use a theme that doesn't show the meta data, such as carbon-nometa.

Thanks !

Isn't there a solution that allows to show metadata only in chosen systems' menus ?

If i understand correctly, if I use a nometa skin, I'll lose the meta I've already set for other systems.

[synack]

@weirdocollector said in Removing 'unknown' and 'Players:' under games screenshots in ES menus:

Isn't there a solution that allows to show metadata only in chosen systems' menus ?

I'm not aware of any automated solutions, but you can build your own theme set manually by combining pre-existing themes, some with meta data and some without. I don't know if this is the best way to achieve the desired results, but it works for me. Carbon theme example below, with the assumption that you want meta data for most systems, but not C64:

1. Ensure you have both the meta and non-meta version of Carbon installed, and it wouldn't hurt to make a back up in case my directions are not perfect.

2. Copy the Carbon (meta data enabled) theme into a new theme folder: carbon-custom

sudo cp -R /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon-custom

3. Copy the C64 directory from the no-meta theme into the custom folder

sudo rm -rf /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon-custom/c64
sudo cp -R /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon-nometa/c64 /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon-custom/c64

4. Copy the overall no-meta theme configuration into your custom folder, naming it: custom.xml

sudo cp /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon-nometa/carbon_red.xml /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon-custom/custom.xml

5. Edit the c64 theme file in your custom theme directory

sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon-custom/c64/theme.xml

6. Change the top of the XML to point to custom.xml instead of carbon.xml

<theme>
    <formatVersion>3</formatVersion>
    <include>./../custom.xml</include>

7. Within ES, select carbon-custom as your theme. If you get a white screen, just restart ES.

[weirdocollector]

@synack

Thanks a lot!

I'll have a try at this !