Went to make a backup with Windisk 32 Imager, now my sound doesn't work. Suggestions?

ChristianG

@TMNTturtlguy Very cool. I guess Ill do the video previews first. This seems like something good to figure out how to do.

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy What file should I look for in your theme to change each game's rating? I was trying to figure this out myself to no avail.

Thanks,

Chris

TMNTturtlguy

@christiang the ratings are in your gamlist, not within the theme.

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy Is there an easy way to default to a photo of the game if the video preview is not available? Lets say in the snes folder? Also what resources do you use to get game videos?

Thanks,
Chris

TMNTturtlguy

@christiang the theme is set to default to the scraped image if no video is available.

I use screenscraper.fr and emumovies.com

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy Ok cool. I am finding the games without videos just showing blank. I imported a game list with the videos and box art to stick in each rom category folder. So in snes I put a boxart, cartart, flyer, marquee, snap and wheel folder with the related documents in them. Is it the gamelist that I put in the snes folder that is directing Emulation station on what to show or is it a file in your theme I have to adjust to not show blanks. For whatever reason I am not able to figure out what to do here because the theme isn't defaulting to scraped image if no video is available.

Thanks for the advice once again.

Chris

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy I think I need to just spend some time looking through the game list file. I can see why it takes a long time to setup a machine now!

TMNTturtlguy

@christiang in your gamelist you have to add the correct path to each image and each video. You can't just put images in folders, they won't work.

Right now you can only have one image, one video, and one marquee, so not all your graphics in the folders will show. You can path the <image> tag to a screen shot or boxart, path the <video> to the snap folder and the <marquee> to wheel art. Each game in your list has to have the exact path and exact file name for the image you want to show.

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy What are Hyperspin rom naming conventions. I downloaded all of the data from ETA Primes link ( video previews and associated game lists) for a bunch of systems. . So it all works but i guess my names are scraped with different rom naming so I have to physically edit a lot of the rom names to match the videos. Is there a way I can scrape everything so it has Hyperspin naming for the roms and everything matches up without all this editing?

Thanks!!

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy Ok i am reading on this now. More stuff to learn :)

TMNTturtlguy

@christiang There are scripts and settings and ways to do it, and it depends on how many games you have. I don't have a ton of games, I do not see the sense in having a bunch of games i will never play, but that said i still have maybe 350 or 400 total games on about 16 systems. I have found that I spend more time trying to get scripts or batch rename or other things to work than just being board and modifying them manually. I usually create 2 windows on my desktop and just double click, ctrl C and then go to the other window, double click and ctrl v to rename the gamelist to match my rom name, or my art name. It is not fun, but it is accurate and gets the job done.

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy Thats so funny man. I think everyone arrives at that too. I was sitting up till 1 am last night with two windows open changing file names.

Here is a quick question if you know it.

Which gamelist does emulation station default to. I am finding initially before adding the videos and new gamelist, it was defaulting to a gamelist in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes etc.

Then I put a snap folder with the videos and the gamelist associated with it directly in the snes rom folder. Now that gamelist takes precedent. Is this normal or am i getting this understanding all wrong.

Thanks,

Chris

TMNTturtlguy

@christiang if the folder is located in the same folder as the roms, I believe that is the file that is used by ES. You can have the list in either location, but I recommend you only have it in one spot. I keep my lists with my Roms and I run my roms off of a USB, so that is my preference.

ChristianG

@tmntturtlguy Very cool. I didnt realize until now u can just scrape the videos and roms together with Steven Selph's Scraper. This seems pretty fool proof and simple. I am going to give it a try today. I was just scraping the roms before. Just saw the video option.

Thanks...