funny that i came to retropie forum to post the same thing, lemme explain what i am going through

i have just switched from ES to AM for these reasons...

easy to filter game by number of players or catagory (a win for me) custom favorite sub menus ( games to play with wife and kid menue and another to play with friends for example) easier to theme game display (getting the number of players and game description on screen is satisfying)

with that, i noticed that scraping usually a pain for these type of info (i believe the box art and video preview is easier to find at the moment)

my problem is i have not find a single rom manager to easy manage different type of system roms (on PC) that can pull info from the internet direct and save them directly to gamelist and romlist directly

i use to have the same problem years ago with my movie collection, till i found this app,
https://www.mediacentermaster.com/

if anyone has a suggestion or willing to work on this, it will make alot of gamers happy

I was looking for a WIP-Section too yesterday :)
AFAIR something like this does exist, but wasn´t able to find it here nor on the Homepage.

@BGallagherLA Please do not post here, and then 10 mins later open a ticket on the issue tracker. When opening a ticket it says

For ideas and enhancements, please also post to the forum first, to see if it is something we would consider and to see if other users would find it useful.

The current carbon theme doesn't show this info - there are themes that do however.

Yeah, basically that. I feel daft now; I actually searched google for the terms "retropie randomizer" and all I got was stuff about splashscreens.
Thanks though, I'll give the kid mode rom roulette a try later and see if it's functional. Does anyone know if we CAN bring this feature to the normal ES mode with a script or something?

I know this is an old thread, but I'm replying here because it's the first "open" result on a related Google search.
I wrote a quick script that I'd like to share for quickly parsing the above into a user-readable format

Sample output:

Status: 0x50005 Undervolted: Now: YES Run: YES Throttled: Now: YES Run: YES Frequency Capped: Now: NO Run: NO

Script:

#!/bin/bash #Flag Bits UNDERVOLTED=0x1 CAPPED=0x2 THROTTLED=0x4 HAS_UNDERVOLTED=0x10000 HAS_CAPPED=0x20000 HAS_THROTTLED=0x40000 #Text Colors GREEN=`tput setaf 2` RED=`tput setaf 1` NC=`tput sgr0` #Output Strings GOOD="${GREEN}NO${NC}" BAD="${RED}YES${NC}" #Get Status, extract hex STATUS=$(vcgencmd get_throttled) STATUS=${STATUS#*=} echo -n "Status: " (($STATUS!=0)) && echo "${RED}${STATUS}${NC}" || echo "${GREEN}${STATUS}${NC}" echo "Undervolted:" echo -n " Now: " ((($STATUS&UNDERVOLTED)!=0)) && echo "${BAD}" || echo "${GOOD}" echo -n " Run: " ((($STATUS&HAS_UNDERVOLTED)!=0)) && echo "${BAD}" || echo "${GOOD}" echo "Throttled:" echo -n " Now: " ((($STATUS&THROTTLED)!=0)) && echo "${BAD}" || echo "${GOOD}" echo -n " Run: " ((($STATUS&HAS_THROTTLED)!=0)) && echo "${BAD}" || echo "${GOOD}" echo "Frequency Capped:" echo -n " Now: " ((($STATUS&CAPPED)!=0)) && echo "${BAD}" || echo "${GOOD}" echo -n " Run: " ((($STATUS&HAS_CAPPED)!=0)) && echo "${BAD}" || echo "${GOOD}"

@BuZz sorry. I have been watching too much it's always sunny in Philadelphia

I know this is an old thread, but just starting to look into Amiga emulation on my Pi3 and it looks to me like UAE4ARM is now officially part of libretro (https://github.com/libretro/uae4arm-libretro). Any chance this could get added to the setup script, or has anyone had any experience with it to advise any reason not to try it?

I installed libretro-puaue recently and it seems to work OK for the few games I have tested, but I found it has a big drop in frame rate when running many games as .hdf files instead of .adf files. Not sure if it's entirely due to my game config file settings or if uae4arm is more optimized but wanted to give it a shot.

@Wolfieee
If the first start is slow and it isn't your NAS - then try to use subfolders for the ROMS. I made a test with RetroPie 2.3 in former times.
10.000 ROMS for 3 systems, and the Pi was up (from the terminal to a manuel starting ES) in 7 seconds

I put 18.500 ROMS to annother system (so 28.500 files in total), new the Pi needed 2minutes and 50seconds to start the ES from the terminal bash.

I divvided the roms in Subfolders A-Z and every subfolder was marked as a new system the starting time was 28 seconds :)