That’s what I thought. II tried a bunch of things with no luck. Thanks

@mitu said in Custom Collections Not Showing Games/Roms: If your collection ROMs are not part of an existing system, they won't show up. So if you created a roms/cps1 folder and put the ROMs there, then created a collection with the filenames of those ROMs, that won't work. EmulationStation needs to know that roms/cps1 is a system, you probably had - in your previous build - cps configured as such. If that's not your exact setup, then you should post the configuration files for EmulationStation's system list and the custom collection you've created. And it would be nice if you added the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, just to know what version of EmulationStation/RetroPie we're talking here. @mitu Thank you for your reply and I apologize for missing the other information. As soon as you mentioned the es_systems.cfg file was the moment I realized "yup, that's not there". All is good with this build now. Arg I knew it was going to be something silly.

@jodiefoster said in Custom Folder Question Help Needed Urgent: i looked into the .dat and no information is their about region such as usa or bra or ita. can you give me more info regarding this I was under the impression that some .dat files contain also country info, I guess you'll need to filter them normally - via clrmamepro or similar programs. You can use symlinks instead of creating empty files - they don't take up space and they appear as regular files.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

Also, you might have to enable the collection first. If the file does not appear when it should, go to Main menu of Emulationstation by pressing Start. Go Game Collection Settings, head over to Custom Game Collections and enable or disable every single one you want. On my setup the FTP does not work, but Samba does. Samba must be enabled. In Linux (not sure if its the same as in Windows) connect via smb://retropie/ in file manager. Then you can operate there as if it would be a normal folder on your desktop pc. Then I chose "configs" subfolder after connection, go to all > emulationstation > collections. Put there any collections you want, but it have to be named like "custom-NAME.cfg", where NAME will be the part shown in Emulationstation. And then, don't forget to enable it.

@mitu I think that is in the end my only option, if I want a single Arcade menu option. I really wanted avoid this.

@sscalley Thank you! This was exactly my issue as well, although I was using a pre-made image from somewhere else that had the same permissions issues. For me, since my gamelist.xml files were in the roms directory, I needed to do the following: cd ~\retropie\roms sudo ./ -name 'gamelist.xml' -exec chown pi:pi {} \; Worked great!