Retropie Metadata Editor

GrislyGrizzly

That was the problem I was having! Thanks for clarifying the other day, amadeus!

amadeus

@j1ggy
Hi, i deployed today a new Release: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.4.0

In this new version, it is now checked whether the image/cover directory exists. If it is not, it is created automatically.

Regards,
amadeus

j1ggy

Wow, that's some amazing response time. Thank you!

Aksen

Hey @amadeus ! I really like the idea of this tool but unfortunately it wont work for me because I keep my images in:
\retropie\roms[console]\downloaded_images\

but the metadata editor wants to look in a solid directory with the console wildcard at the end:
\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\downloaded_images[console].

Would it be possible to add an option for those like me? I would really love to use this tool!

kmssd

How do you use this program? When I click connect, it starts to load information but crashes at NES.

amadeus

@Aksen: i will think about it....need sometime for it :-)

amadeus

@kmssd
Can you send me or post some more information about it? Is there any error message or a stacktrace?

kmssd

@amadeus There is a long error code, I would probably have to message to you some way. The short version says,
String cannot be of zero length.
Parameter name: oldValue.

amadeus

@Aksen
Today I released Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.5.0
In this Version the Image Path is more generic, it works with a placeholder for the current system.
Work find on my Retropie Environment. Maybe you will test it in yours and give me a short feedback :-)

Please take care to update also the Local Image Path, otherwise EmulationStation will not find the Image.

Aksen

@amadeus said in Retropie Metadata Editor:

@Aksen
Today I released Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.5.0
In this Version the Image Path is more generic, it works with a placeholder for the current system.
Work find on my Retropie Environment. Maybe you will test it in yours and give me a short feedback :-)

Please take care to update also the Local Image Path, otherwise EmulationStation will not find the Image.

Alright! I've run it and I got an error:
http://pastebin.com/CftTfAFm

Here's a screenshot of how I set it up:
http://imgur.com/Ixq3omw

I think it's because I'm pointing it to a rom directory that is on a computer, not a pi. I like to get clean, prepped rom directories that I can archive on my NAS or give to friends, and I've tended to do my metadata/images cleanup there before I deploy to a pi. That's why I keep the images and metadata in roms subfolders.

I don't have my raspberry pi with me, so I can't test that until tonight. I made a small roms folder with ./nes/ and ./snes/ and scraped with universal xml scraper. RetropieMetadataEditor.exe finds my roms, gamelist, and images! and then I get the error and it stops before moving past NES

amadeus

@Aksen
Can you pls send/pastbin your gamelist XML of NES? I guess the Releasedate or Lastplayed Timestamp is not in the format yyyyMMddTHHmmss... that causes the exception.
I have to think how to handle different Timestamp Formats... i thought, the Format of the Timestamps is stable.

amadeus

@kmssd
I Need a Stacktrace to analyse this exception. Maybe you can Pastbin it like Aksen?!?

Aksen

@amadeus said in Retropie Metadata Editor:

@Aksen
Can you pls send/pastbin your gamelist XML of NES? I guess the Releasedate or Lastplayed Timestamp is not in the format yyyyMMddTHHmmss... that causes the exception.
I have to think how to handle different Timestamp Formats... i thought, the Format of the Timestamps is stable.

Here's the gamelist.xml in question!

http://pastebin.com/UJqHL7du

LiqwdE

@amadeus

Downloaded the program today. Running Windows 10. I can SSH into the pi fine. I can Winscp into the Pi fine. But when I hit connect to retropie it shows runs the initialization but finds no roms. Im missing something.

Also, Will you be implementing more systems? I could really use this for Daphne, PC, and Scummvn =)

Nismo

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Nismo

@amadeus finally this version support video?

kmssd

@amadeus I think this is it, http://pastebin.com/AAp7vb7i

amadeus

@Nismo
Nope, sorry but video tags are not supported at the moment.

amadeus

@LiqwdE
Roms for which systems are not found?

To your system request:

ScummVM is already supported
PC is not supported at the momen
What is 'Daphne'? I can't found it on Systems in Retropie page

amadeus

Hi folks,

here is a new release of RME: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.6.0

This one...

Fixed an error when parsing a timestamp with the value '00000000T000000' (THX to Aksen)
Fixed an error that occurred when a file without extension was found in the "rom" folder. (THX to kmssd)

I would be glad about a short feedback from you, whether the bugs were fixed - or not. ;-)

Regards,
ama