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    amadeus @amadeus
    last edited by 10 Feb 2017, 20:58

    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
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      Dukafleed @amadeus
      last edited by 10 Feb 2017, 23:35

      @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

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        Dukafleed
        last edited by 10 Feb 2017, 23:46

        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

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          backstander @amadeus
          last edited by 10 Feb 2017, 23:52

          @amadeus
          Actually Attract Mode is an alternative front end to EmulationStation:
          https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/93/attract-mode-with-retropie-alternative-to-emulationstation

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            amadeus @Dukafleed
            last edited by 11 Feb 2017, 21:22

            @Dukafleed
            sorry, but unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the knowledge to implement support for attracted mode or thegamesdb.net in RME. I do not even manage to get NeoGeo or MAME Roms on my Retropie to run... ;-)
            Perhaps someone else has interest in implementing these features? If so, then do not hesitate to get a codeplex account and write me a mail. I will add you as developer to the rme project.

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              Nismo @amadeus
              last edited by Nismo 2 Nov 2017, 21:29 11 Feb 2017, 21:29

              @amadeus Can we expect video and marquees tags support in the future? Thanks for this great tool.

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                amadeus @Nismo
                last edited by 11 Feb 2017, 21:56

                @Nismo
                Because i dont use video or marquees tags in my retropie installation, I have no way to test it. I will only implement the features (in the future) I collected on the Feature Request List.
                The same here as I already wrote to Dukafleed: Maybe someone other has interest to implement it? Feel free to contact me.
                Sorry, but my child and my job consume most of my time... :/

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                  Nismo @amadeus
                  last edited by Nismo 2 Nov 2017, 22:02 11 Feb 2017, 22:02

                  @amadeus Almost can you make the editor doesn't delete videos and marquees entries if they exist? Thanks again.

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                    amadeus @Nismo
                    last edited by 11 Feb 2017, 22:10

                    @Nismo
                    Can you pastbin me a XML sample?

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                      Roxsteady
                      last edited by 11 Feb 2017, 22:13

                      You guys are incredible

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                        Nismo @amadeus
                        last edited by Nismo 2 Nov 2017, 22:27 11 Feb 2017, 22:19

                        @amadeus Of course:

                        <game id="37996" source="screenscraper.fr">
                            <path>./Alien Brigade (Europe).zip</path>
                            <name>Alien Brigade (Europe)</name>
                            <desc>Alien Brigade is a side scrolling shooter....</desc>
                            <image>./images/Alien Brigade (Europe).png</image>
                            <rating>0.8</rating>
                            <releasedate>
                            </releasedate>
                            <developer>Atari</developer>
                            <publisher>Atari</publisher>
                            <genre>Action</genre>
                            <players>1</players>
                            <video>./videos/Alien Brigade (Europe).mp4</video>
                            <marquee>./marquees/Alien Brigade (Europe).png</marquee>
                          </game>
                        

                        I hope this helps. I tried the feature request webpage you send to me but it's difficult to me to understand how it works.

                        Regards.

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                          amadeus @Roxsteady
                          last edited by 11 Feb 2017, 22:22

                          @Roxsteady
                          Who is why incredible?

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                            amadeus @Nismo
                            last edited by 11 Feb 2017, 22:24

                            @Nismo
                            No problem and thanks for the sample XML, I already added it to the request list by myself.

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                              Nismo @amadeus
                              last edited by 11 Feb 2017, 22:25

                              @amadeus Thanks to you for this great piece of software.

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                                amadeus @Nismo
                                last edited by 12 Feb 2017, 22:08

                                @Nismo
                                Latest Release of RME supports a simple Read-Write-Support for Video- and Marquee-XML-Tags.
                                Now it is prevented that tags are deleted, if they already exist in the XML.
                                You can also update the content in RME.

                                Would be nice, if you could test it and give me a short feedback.

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                                  Nismo @amadeus
                                  last edited by 12 Feb 2017, 22:57

                                  @amadeus great job mate, i'm a litle busy at this moment but i'll try as soon as possible.

                                  Thank you very much for considering my request, and for the fast update.

                                  Regards.

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                                    EctoOne
                                    last edited by 20 Feb 2017, 02:45

                                    Can you add support for amiga? uae files to be specific. You can set it up to to start games with those straight from Emulation Station (seen here. At the bottom).
                                    As of now i continue to batch rename them to zip, rename the amiga folder into neogeo and do it from there. After that i replace zip in the gamelist.xml with uae.

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                                      fabio78
                                      last edited by 23 Feb 2017, 15:27

                                      So helpful, and works beautifully. Thank you!

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                                        amadeus @EctoOne
                                        last edited by amadeus 25 Feb 2017, 11:08

                                        @EctoOne
                                        Sorry for the long delay. I was very ill and needed some time to recover.

                                        I added a New Release to Codeplex.

                                        CHANGELOG

                                        • Cleanup the gamelist.xml (remove unused <game>-nodes)
                                        • Button 'Restore Default Settings'
                                        • Added support for Amiga
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                                          EctoOne @amadeus
                                          last edited by EctoOne 25 Feb 2017, 14:16

                                          @amadeus No problem, i hope you're better now. Thanks for updating but it seems you forgot to add the support for Amiga .uae files. And when i think of it, you should also add support for .sh files, because of the "+Start UAE4Arm.sh" that comes by default to start the Amiga GUI.

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