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      FrankBennedetto
      last edited by

      This app is a godsend! Thanks so much for all your hard work, @amadeus! :)

      I am having a problem, though. When I click "Connect To RetroPie," and it runs its scan, it says it finds 0 files for the Genesis/Mega Drive.

      "Initialize System Mega Drive
      ...Roms found: 0
      ...IGNORED"

      I have over 700 ROMs in that folder. There's a gamelist.xml file in there, and scraped images in a subfolder. I checked the .xml file for any open tags and found none. I also checked the permissions on the folder and files, and they're identical to other folders and files that are working fine.

      As far as I can tell, it should be working. Any thoughts?

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      • RoxsteadyR
        Roxsteady @LiqwdE
        last edited by

        @LiqwdE Did you recently do the scrape? Same happened to me. I first had to reboot system after scrape then go into the Genesis rom menu in emulationstation. Once I did that, I ran the app and it found all the images/data.

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        • daeksD
          daeks
          last edited by

          Is it possible to mirror the release? Seems that codeplex has some issues :(

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          • amadeusA
            amadeus @daeks
            last edited by

            @daeks
            For me, CodePlex works fine.
            But you can dowload it also here

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            • RoxsteadyR
              Roxsteady @amadeus
              last edited by

              @amadeus will you be adding FBA support in the future?

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              • SkittleBrau79S
                SkittleBrau79
                last edited by SkittleBrau79

                @amadeus Thank you so much for making this app... it's made my life much easier.

                In addition to the tool you have to clean up unused images, i'd love to see a tool to remove any <game>...</game> sections of the gameslist.xml where the rom no longer exists... essentially cleaning that XML file and making it "current" to the roms folder.

                I can't speak for others, but my XML is full of metadata from games that I deleted the rom set long ago.

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                  amadeus @Roxsteady
                  last edited by

                  @Roxsteady
                  I'm not familiar with fba, but can you not use the arcade folder for your roms?
                  Because the arcade folder is already supported.

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                    Arcuza
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                    @amadeus Do you think it's possible to do a web based version of your application? What exactly are you doing over SSH? Anything else than reading and writing to the gamelist.xml? That would support more client types like mobile, tablets, chromebooks and so on.

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                      amadeus @FrankBennedetto
                      last edited by

                      @FrankBennedetto
                      Put your roms in the megadrive folder - not in the genesis folder... maybe this fix your problem.

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                        amadeus @SkittleBrau79
                        last edited by

                        @SkittleBrau79
                        I added your request to the Feature Request List

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                          amadeus @Arcuza
                          last edited by

                          @Arcuza
                          Of course you could make a web based version, but I am missing the time for this.
                          RME did nothing over SSH - it just and only use the samba (?) shares of retropie to read the rom folders, read and update the gamelist.xml and read, show and update the images.

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                            FrankBennedetto @amadeus
                            last edited by

                            @amadeus The genesis folder isn't a folder, but a symbolic link that points to the megadrive folder.

                            I ran a Wireshark to see if I could see if maybe the app was looking in a different location or something else was tripping it up. I'm not terribly proficient with Wireshark, but I can see the app finds the ROM files (and can see various file names whizzing by), and it's even reading the XML file, as I can see the contents being transmitted.

                            Is your app storing any configurations outside of its own folder (i.e. in the registry)? Just wondering if a "clean install" would help. After I noticed this issue, I upgraded and got rid of my old install, just didn't know if there were traces elsewhere.

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                              amadeus @FrankBennedetto
                              last edited by

                              @FrankBennedetto
                              RME only stores data in stores data only in the application configuration xml file (RetropieMetadataEditor.exe.config.xml) and need no installation.

                              • can you open \retropie\roms\megadrive in your explorer from the same machine, which runs RME? Did you see your roms?

                              • how a your rom files named? can you tell me a sample with exact casing?

                              • which version of RME did you use? 0.1.11.0 BETA is the latest I think.

                              Sorry, traces or logs are not written. Only the stuff you can read in the textbox...

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                              • SquilenatorS
                                Squilenator @amadeus
                                last edited by Squilenator

                                @amadeus Do you have plans to make this work only with emulationstation+retroarch for the windows pleb like me?

                                Edit: Sry, it actually works, my bad.

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                                  FrankBennedetto @amadeus
                                  last edited by

                                  @amadeus I decided to delete all of my ROMs (plus images and gamelist.xml) and add just one ROM. Scraped it, and loaded up ES to make sure it was there. Same result. The file name was this:

                                  3 Ninjas Kick Back.gen

                                  I'm using the latest version (0.1.11.0). And yes, I can see the ROMs if I navigate to the folder in Windows Explorer.

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                                    backstander @FrankBennedetto
                                    last edited by backstander

                                    @FrankBennedetto
                                    Hmmm...files ending with .gen doesn't show up as a supported extension for the Megadrive/Genesis emulators on the RetroPie wiki:
                                    https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Genesis-Megadrive

                                    Not to say those emulators don't support it but it isn't documented on the wiki and I'm sure @amadeus used these wikis to know what files to look for.

                                    I'd recommend changing the extension to .smd .bin or .md and then test RME.

                                    update
                                    I looked in the EmulationStation es_systems.cfg file and under Megadrive it is configured to look for files with the .gen extension! So @amadeus will need to update his program to see files ending with .gen in the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive folder.

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                                      FrankBennedetto @backstander
                                      last edited by

                                      @backstander Son of a gun. That did it.

                                      Every single one of my files is .gen. They're recognized by ES, every scraper I've used (ES, Sselph, and UXS), and play just fine. It was only RME that didn't seem to like them. I renamed the file to .bin, scraped it without issue, and RME found the file.

                                      I'll restore everything back with new names and should be in business. Thanks a ton!

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                                      • amadeusA
                                        amadeus @backstander
                                        last edited by

                                        @backstander
                                        you are totally right: I used the wiki documentation to know, what files rme has to look for.
                                        I will add .gen as accepted extension for megadrive in the next release.

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                                        • RoxsteadyR
                                          Roxsteady @amadeus
                                          last edited by

                                          @amadeus Actually, good point. I moved everything over to Arcade. THX

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                                            Dukafleed
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                                            thanks god for such an app, i really like the idea of managing my roms in PC rather in retropie

                                            as some guys mentioned, merques and video preview are a good future achievment, and i will be happy to help you with testing any giving time.

                                            thank you

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