@mitu Thank you so much again. This is why RP community is second to no one! Finally I made it... with no luck. I don't want to bother you. I will assume custom collections won't work for me. Thanks!!

@Clyde said in [Solved] How to rename a Custom Collection?: You both just told me the same solution in different ways. It's good to know both. Yeah, I noticed a little later that we posted about a minute within each other. Of course he got there first, so now I owe him a Coke.

@ballboff said in Collectors, how big is your stash of Pi games?: I don't see the point of this. Scrolling through that many games isn't fun. Take the gamecube for instance, out of the 600 games released, there are only say bout 5 or 6 that are playable. Wait, what? 5 or 6 playable games on the GC? Er no! However I do agree that having too many on the Pi is a pain. I've tried to hand curate my collection down to a more reasonable 64GB, and personally I think that's a good limit for the Pi. Any more and it's overkill for me, plus it slows Emulationstation down too. I'm currently trying to manually curate my MAME collection and it is proving hard work, but it has to be done. There are too many obscure puzzle games and mahjong games, clones and many other games that don't work and will never work on the Pi. They have to go. I've got it down to about 1700 right now and I think I'm nearly done. Hope I am anyway! Be nice to just download a finished set but everywhere you look it's complete set or nothing. I do support the idea of going much further with a more focused setup, say a few dozen titles for each system comprised of games that you know you'll want to play, but I do like the discover-ability of having a nice large MAME set. Like for example, this morning in fact I discovered a marvellous 1983 game I'd never played or even heard of before and it is truly superb - Blaster. Rather than feeling like a retro game it plays more like a modern take on a retro game. Absolutely superb gameplay, and without a good set I would never have found it.

@sexbeer Awesome, I'm glad it worked out.

@mitu said in Custom collection does not seem to exist?: @djaay OK, so you get the error from Emulationstation or from your editor ? The content seems ok. I get the same 'validation' errors with my ES configuration file - which is fine. Just for the "heck" of it...i tried loading it in a C# parser and tried to parse the doc (XMLDocument)...and it complained about "multiple root nodes". I´m not an XML specialist...or anything, but i´m not sure this is actual a valid XML markup. But even so, it works in ES. But i noticed it first when my editor (Notepad++) complianed when i tried to save it.

@stephendm I'm glad you now have everything running as you wish. The spurious dot/period originates from the command I gave in an earlier post that creates a copy of es_systems.cfg , which I copied from the documentation, which I initially wrote so the error is on me. I cannot edit the wiki at the moment but I will fix once permissions are restored.

@nightshadowpt said in "All Games" Collection adds a platform tag to the title - Can it be removed?: it could be done by editing a config file as many other things in the Pie. The areas you're referencing are generally related to the emulators, ports and other elements that we often don't maintain. Backend settings for the RetroPie fork of Emulation Station have been discussed in the past and the general consensus so far has been that the developers find it to be a bad practice. Is there a way to put it in as a request for the next versions? You can start a thread over in the 'Ideas and Development' section of the forum. If it gains any traction there, it's possible that a developer may take a crack at adding it. However, the change would still have to be approved by the lead maintainers.

@douga said in Best of Games for Kids up to 12 Years (collections, themes): Scott Adams text adventure Nice, i like the Idea for Text Adventures, but my Games are also Playable with multi-language support or without any language. For german and other non-english User are the Games playable. The Adams text adventure are only in english and hard to play for kids and Users with bad English Skills for an text Adventure.

@cacrlhungus74 Sure, we'll keep an eye out for it. If you want to send over any of the other logs from your pi when you have the chance, please do so and I'll gladly take a look. Do trim syslog to have data for only the specific day/session of the issue - no need to send me all the historic logs from your pi :) In regards to reinstalling, you're referring to the ubuntu one, right? If you'd have a spare SD card lying around, and would want to do the same from a fresh RetroPie 4.4 image with no updates and see how it goes, that could help as well. Thanks!

@pjft Would it be possible to write a batch script or something that could be run once to simply and easily categorize large quantities of roms without duplication? My idea is something that works like this. It 'feels' like it would be easy for someone who does these sorts of things, but I know nothing so I could be very wrong. in '/roms/nes' you make the directory 'Top 50' (or subcategorize by genre, etc.) You move your top 50 roms from '/roms/nes' to /roms/nes/Top 50' You put the 'categorize_roms.bat' into '/roms/nes/Top 50' and run it The .bat file would then take all the roms in the folder, move them back up to '/roms/nes' and replace them with symlinks to each rom in the subfolder. Obviously replace .bat with whatever kind of script you prefer - I'm working with limited knowledge here. Is this doable?

@thelostsoul I used the scrip for your genesis custom collection.... 2 files are missing.... Sonic Blast .... This file is not in my collection, so impossible to find DECapAttack ... That's an error in writing, so no chance to discover oUTPUT OF LOG https://pastebin.com/9L9D3iU6

@clyde that is indeed a phone induced typo :)

@arambecker No my approach would be a bit more. A tool to find duplicates. As I said in my first post. If you have selections of several regions. Maybe 1000 roms it would be usefull to search for a gametitle and to select duplicates. Game 1 (J) Game 1 (U) Game 2 (JUE) Game 3 (J) Game 3 (E) You already programmed delimiter so there needs "just" to generate an automatic search term. That's not the way your script is intended to work and I think it will need a heavy rework. But this would be usecase, too ROM Names > Automatic generated search term Game 1 (J) > Game 1 ( Game 1 (U) > Game 1 ( Game 2 (JUE) > Game 2 ( Game 3 (J) > Game 3 ( Game 3 (E) > Game 3 ( Maybe @meleu can say more to this? Welcome on board :)

@beest It's hard coded into ES at the minute. I'm afraid you are going to have to edit the source and compile a custom version. It would be nice to have the option though. It obviously depends on your individual use-case but you could tell similarly named games apart from the box art.

@ridgekuhn The automatic collections don't have a dedicated folder or configuration file, they're created based on the existing game information/metadata, stored in the gamelist.xml file for each system.

To create "genre" grouped roms, I'd duplicate an existing system (e.g. Arcade), rename it to the "genre" you like, replace system logos and place the roms in a dedicated folders. Edit runcommand for the different roms accordingly. Sure there are more clever ways to do that but this is quite easy and quick.

@alturis I'm not fully sure about the theming aspects of it, and how that's structured. The custom-collection theme folder has the theme settings for all the custom collections that will be grouped under the "my collections" err... collection, as sub-folders. You won't be able to further customize them there - there is a single theme/layout for each ES "system". If, however, you're looking to add specific custom collection artwork, add them to the root of the theme. Look at some of the other custom collections (mario, kids, shmups) in that theme for a good example. These will show at the main carousel level, though, not inside the "My Collections" folder.