Retropie Metadata Editor

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.

amadeus

@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.

Arcuza

@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.

amadeus

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

amadeus

@SkittleBrau79
I added your request to the Feature Request List

amadeus

@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.

FrankBennedetto

@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.

amadeus

@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...

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.

FrankBennedetto

@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.

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.

FrankBennedetto

@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!

amadeus

@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.

Roxsteady

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

Dukafleed

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

Dukafleed

i noticed one small silly issue,
i downloaded the first version to tryit out, i make my own changes to rom path and such
then i deleted it and downloaded a latest version, i noticed that my prev changes still stick

you should include a "default" setting so if we screw up you can fix it, and
you should allow a way to include (defualt path ) and (custom path)

another thing that most current users have Gamelist inside rom folders along with boxart and media
so a SNES rom folder will include boxart,merques, snaps, flyers(usually same as boxart) <----those are in folders each and then roms and gamelist

i would be great to be able to ready from gamelist and from romlist (attract mod) and away to copy info from one to another

attract mode romlist are not in system roms but in .attractmode\romlist

waiting on your commend

amadeus

@Dukafleed
Look on your Computer in Folder C:\Users<YOUR LOGIN NAME>\AppData\Local\RetropieMetadataEditor and delete the folder and files you find there. The configuration you made will be gone. But a Button „Restore Default Configuration“ ist a good Idea. I will note it on the Change Request List.

I will make the Path Gamelist dynamically – like the Path Images already is. I guess, this will help the people which hold their gamelist on another path as the dafault location.
I really dont understand what you mean with „attracted mode“ and romlist. I never heared of it before, but Im also not so familar like with retroipie and stuff like the other people her. I jsut download and use it. Is there any documentation about this attracted mode and the romelist?

amadeus

Latest Release: Retropie Metadata Editor v0.1.12.0

CHANGE LOG

Added .gen as supported Extension for SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis
Path Roms in the configuration is now more generic
Path Gamelists in the configuration is now more generic

Dukafleed

@amadeus
thank you for the quick response,
regarding retropie, the gaming environment is based on Emulation station, the current update uses gamelist.xml for metadata .. this file are "now" located inside each systems rom folder

for example SNES gamelist will be inside ...pi\home\roms\snes as gamelist.xml
also i like to explain that with the new theme updates in Emulationstation, you can view games metadata, game video snap (few seconds of gameplay as an mp4), game margue(game logo) and game artwork(poster) all within the system rom "like Snes"
now were done with basic emulation station and into attract mode

attract mode is a new front of emulationstation (new way to view game system and roms) meaning the retropie will boot directly to attract mode (not emulationstation) and from there, i would pick my game system and then my game and play as if i was in emulationstation.....
attract mode uses the same rom collection and folders..with art work, video snaps and game logo but it does not pull the game info from gamelist.xml but, it uses something call romlist (Atari 5200.txt - Microsoft MSX.txt and so on) those romlist are location in pi\home.attract\romlist
those romlist files are similar in database structure to gamelist.xml and should be easy to understand if you pull the data from those to an excel file..

more about attract mode here http://attractmode.org/docs/Readme.html

sorry for the long post

Dukafleed

also, i would like if you add a new feature in the "Editor" to be able to automaticly "pull or update" game meta from http://thegamesdb.net/ using filename or hashtag or with a simple manual seatch by ID or by name ID
thegamesdb.net API is the right place for your next stage