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    • amadeusA
      amadeus @LiqwdE
      last edited by 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
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      • amadeusA
        amadeus
        last edited by

        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

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          LiqwdE @amadeus
          last edited by LiqwdE

          @amadeus

          Daphne is a laser disc emulator. Dragons lair, space ace, etc.. it's currently in the experimental packages. Works good though.

          Not detecting any system currently. Does this require samba shares to be running?

          The github wiki shows all the emulators down the right side of the page.

          https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation

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          • RiverstormR
            Riverstorm @amadeus
            last edited by

            @amadeus said in Retropie Metadata Editor:

            What is 'Daphne'? I can't found it on Systems in Retropie page

            https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Daphne

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              LiqwdE @amadeus
              last edited by

              @amadeus

              Don't know if it's required, but installed samba shares. \retropie and signed in. Now it sees my roms, so woohoo.

              But, it's not seeing MAME. Is there a specific mame folder? Cause there are several

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                kmssd @amadeus
                last edited by kmssd

                @amadeus Well I'm smacking myself in the head. You found that I had a file without an extension. The program does run past the scanning but now when I browse the gamelists I get this error,
                The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect, see http://pastebin.com/SKwKkk3x

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                • amadeusA
                  amadeus @LiqwdE
                  last edited by

                  @LiqwdE
                  The current Version v0.1.6 only supports the arcade folder. So maybe place your mame roms there.

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                    Aksen @amadeus
                    last edited by

                    @amadeus Hey there, I just got around to trying 1.6.0 and I'm getting the same error:

                    System.FormatException: The DateTime represented by the string is not supported in calendar System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar.

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                    • amadeusA
                      amadeus @kmssd
                      last edited by

                      @kmssd
                      Hmmm... this is a strange error. It orrured during one of your images is open to determinate the dimension of it. Maybe this cause in a corrupted or bad file. Can you identify the game and images on which this happened? A Workaround could be to delete this image. Otherwise I could implement a try-catch-block to catch this error.

                      Regards,
                      ama

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                      • amadeusA
                        amadeus @Aksen
                        last edited by amadeus

                        @Aksen
                        The Rom 720 degress contains a release date '19890000T000000' this is not a valid date (for .NET)
                        I guess best solution is to implement datetime parsing in a try-catch-block. Gimme some time for a fixed version.

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                        • amadeusA
                          amadeus @amadeus
                          last edited by

                          @amadeus
                          Today release: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.7.0

                          CHANGELOG

                          • Remove System 'Mame'
                          • Add System 'Arcade' (THX to Erik)
                          • Add System 'MAME libretro' (THX to Erik)
                          • Add System 'MAME4All' (THX to Erik)
                          • Add try-catch to datetime parsing
                          • Add try-catch to GetSize() of image
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                            EctoOne
                            last edited by

                            Thanks for this program. It makes managing gamelists so much easier on a PC before moving them to the Pi. But could you please add support for zip files for some, if not all, systems? For me it can't find roms for gb, gba, gba, gamegear, mastersystem, megadrive and sega32x. I guess it's because zip is not mentioned in the MainForm.cs for these systems. That's at least my guess when I took a quick look at the source. Also it would be nice if you could copy the Playstation Portable line and set it up for PSX. :)

                            Thanks again.

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                              Aksen @amadeus
                              last edited by

                              @amadeus Version 0.1.7.0 fixed my issue :) I can now get through the scanning phase and into the bulk of the program. Thanks!

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                              • daeksD
                                daeks @amadeus
                                last edited by

                                @amadeus I tried that version as well but got several encoding issues during the parsing of the gamelist. Is there a way to automatically open all files UTF-8?

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                                  LiqwdE @amadeus
                                  last edited by LiqwdE

                                  @amadeus

                                  Everything looking great on 1.7.
                                  No problems here for me.

                                  EDIT: Not seeing Atari 7800 roms

                                  So what are the chances of adding the PC (pc engine is available, 2 different ones) and Daphne rom folders?

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                                  • amadeusA
                                    amadeus @EctoOne
                                    last edited by

                                    @EctoOne
                                    Ich will add support gor PSX soon.
                                    The (general) support for .zip is a problem... i cant found .zip in the list of supported extensions of the most emulators. This is why . zip is not supported.

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                                    • amadeusA
                                      amadeus @daeks
                                      last edited by

                                      @daeks
                                      Can you send/pastebin an example for an "encoding issue" please?

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                                        Nismo @amadeus
                                        last edited by

                                        @amadeus most emulators have zip support, even if you didn't see it on supported file extensions...

                                        Most of my roms are in zip or 7z format.

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                                        • amadeusA
                                          amadeus @LiqwdE
                                          last edited by

                                          @LiqwdE
                                          Indeed there is an error with atari 7800 system (bad folder name) - I will fix it soon.
                                          Also support for PC and Daphne will be available soon, but kkep in mind:
                                          RME has no support for subfolder, this means the roms / startfiles for PC-Games (.bat, com, sh...) must there in the root of the system folder.

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                                          • amadeusA
                                            amadeus @Nismo
                                            last edited by

                                            @Nismo
                                            Is there some documentation about this somewhere? I dont want it add "blind" to the code....

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